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Paris-based host of The France 24 Debate & The World This Week. Usual disclaimers.

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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
9 years
"I'm marching but I'm conscious of the confusion and hypocrisy of the situation." http://t.co/OUGTKRn7iP
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"With this scale of harassment, I'm not surprised that #AmnestyIndia decided to close its office." When I asked @pbhushan1 if it was too strong when he called the government 'fascist', he responded that it's the minimum to be said... Full interview 📺➡️
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Should #Catalonia have its independence referendum? Thursday #F24Debate on spiraling standoff between Barcelona & Madrid. #CatalanReferendum
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François Picard
3 years
The argument for international sanctions against #DanielOrtega : @BiancaJagger argues why times have changed in Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Full interview ➡️
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François Picard
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If @MAFouad sees "existential threat" for Egypt in #Nile dispute, @Mekdi_Messay counters that the same goes for Ethiopia: 70% of its water comes from the river & it's the key to developing basic necessities like power, sanitation and irrigation... #F24Debate
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François Picard
3 years
"I get death threats and rape threats every day on Twitter." @VidyaKrishnan warns that @TwitterIndia 's temporary suspension of accounts over #FarmersProtests leads to "unconstrained corporations enabling unconstrained authoritarian regimes" Full itv 📺➡️
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François Picard
3 years
Can #Myanmar 's junta 'kill' its way out of the current crisis? Wednesday #F24Debate asks if targeted sanctions work: can the international community squeeze the military's access to funds & weapons without punishing the population?
@France24_en
FRANCE 24 English
3 years
More than 500 people have been killed in the #Myanmar 🇲🇲 junta's brutal crackdown on protests against its coup to oust civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The grim toll was passed as world powers ramped up their condemnation of the military's ruthless campaign
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
7 years
Stan Beeman for FBI director.
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François Picard
4 years
Headed to the White House #Biden #f24
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François Picard
4 years
The reconversion of #HagiaSophia into a mosque comes at a time when Turkey's rivalry with #Egypt is heating up. @byzantinepower sees Libya as an excuse, not the reason of that spike in tension... More in #F24Debate
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
Such a sudden shock to lose a giant of a confrère, a mentor and a good friend: in prepping for #WorldThisWeek , Christopher would transmit the love of a good yarn based on hard facts. He always had a handle on the news cycle. No small feat when your remit is the whole planet.
@markowenf24
Mark Owen
4 years
Legendary Foreign Correspondent Chris Dickey Dies in Paris. So sad to hear this news. A brilliant journalist and a real gentleman. His appearances on our channel @france24_en were always a highlight. RIP dear friend. #F24
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@FrancoisF24
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4 years
A message for all those who are grounded (that includes yours truly) and for those who have to get out... #WorkFromHome #F24
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François Picard
4 years
"Every day, this government goes on air and says the Muslims are responsible for 'this many' infections." Health journalist @VidyaKrishnan denounces emphasis on one community while other clusters are downplayed or ignored. More in #F24Debate ...
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François Picard
9 years
"Let's dare to live together." http://t.co/0cwSRaWtg7
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François Picard
4 years
In Monday #F24Debate , @yanisvaroufakis pronounces #coronabonds dead on arrival and insists EU's already missed its window of opportunity to break out of the same crippling debt spiral as in 2008...
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François Picard
2 years
We’re in London. #F24
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François Picard
6 years
Historic pendulum swing on the cards in #EleccionesMexico but can #AMLO really reform? @JohnMAckerman @Antonio_OrtizM @romainlecour Precadio Rodriguez in #F24Debate
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François Picard
5 years
Norwegian photographer Tor Erik H. Mathiesen captured moment when the spire fell. A few thoughts ahead of a special edition of #F24Debate from #NotreDame ...
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François Picard
8 years
#PanamaPapers "Who's the Saudi King hiding money from? He already owns his country." @csdickey in #WorldThisWeek :
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François Picard
4 years
Before and after. On Day One of the loosening of lockdown in #France , hair cuts are the easy part. More on the lessons learned & the challenges ahead in #F24Debate ...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
Can #Navalny recover from Novichuk poisoning? "Yes he can and I'm living proof of that," says @vkaramurza , himself the victim of two poisonings on Russian soil. Full interview w/ journalist @anastasiaki 📺 ➡️ #F24
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Time to slip into something less comfortable. #firstdayback #F24Debate
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François Picard
4 years
Long before Trump decided to cut funding to #WHO , there were "decades of neglect" by donor nations, says @ucl 's @globalhlthtwit . "It's pretty much @BillGates alone who tries to prop up the World Health Organisation and that raises issues in itself." More in #F24Debate ...
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François Picard
3 years
Why does #Camus still matter? Six decades after his death, The Plague became 2020's go-to novel ✒️📖 when an unforeseen pandemic hit the planet. Join us for a special year-end edition of the show devoted to the enduring appeal of the French existentialist writer... #F24Debate
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François Picard
3 years
"What we're talking about here is a system of repression." @ArthurAsseraf disagrees w/ French historians who agree with Macron's acknowledgement of the 1957 torture & murder of renowned Algerian activist #AliBoumendjel but refuse a broader apology for the crimes of colonial rule
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François Picard
2 years
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Zelenskiy's moment? Wednesday #F24Debate follows #Ukraine president's speech before U.S. Congress 🇺🇦🇺🇸
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François Picard
9 years
"I'm marching but I'm conscious of the confusion and hypocrisy of the situation." http://t.co/xNoTGF4ATH
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François Picard
6 years
Going live shortly... #deuxiemeetoile
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François Picard
4 years
How far do comparisons go? Wednesday #F24Debate asks why #GeorgeFloyd protests are resonating so loudly in France and beyond...
@MonteReports
Monte Francis
4 years
Thousands in Paris protest racism and police brutality, calling for justice in the case of #AdamaTraor é who died in police custody in 2016. His family is drawing comparisons to #GeorgeFloyd . My report for @France24_en #F24 #ICantBreathe
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
Guess we’re not in Studio B any more. #workfromhome #f24
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François Picard
4 years
What response to the beheading of a middle school social studies teacher? Monday #F24Debate pieces together the facts surrounding the murder of #Samuel_Paty , who showed Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Prophet in the context of a civics class on religion, secularism and free speech.
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FRANCE 24 English
4 years
"What happened is really awful, and we can't let it go unchallenged" 🇫🇷 Thousands of people rallied in #Paris and other French cities on Sunday in a show of solidarity and defiance following the beheading of a teacher for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed
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François Picard
4 years
Christmas Eve headline. #Paris
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
8 years
In #WorldThisWeek we look at France two weeks after #ParisAttacks & how #Hollande 's grand coalition is shaping up.
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François Picard
4 years
Ok, so we’re in Washington... #elections #F24
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
3 years
No, the #SuperLeague is not a quick fix scheme for debt-ridden football giants, says @KuperSimon . Someone else always pays when they lose money. He tells #F24Debate about the contradiction laid bare between fans & their owners⚽️ Full show📺➡️
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François Picard
3 years
Yes, it’s time for that #F24 holiday tradition... 🎄 @leelajacinto definitely in the spirit to join our annual The World This Year retrospective. Should we tell her we’ll be discussing 2020 or will that spoil the mood? #WorldThisWeek
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François Picard
3 years
Can #Ethiopia 🇪🇹 keep it together? As the fighting in Tigray morphs into a guerrilla insurgency, Monday #F24Debate asks about mounting regional rivalries elsewhere. Will next month's elections bolster prime minister #Abiy or further strain national unity?
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François Picard
3 years
How to stop a famine, how to step aside from ethnic identity politics... Strong views on #Tigray & #Ethiopia : @OmnaTigray 's Feven Girmay @GetachewSS , @CNRS ' Roland Marchal @LaetitiaBader + @MariaG_N 's exclusive feature on the food crisis in #F24Debate ⤵️
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François Picard
5 years
One million followers on YouTube! Thanks 🙏 to all. #milestone #F24
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
7 years
Le Pen: UK doing "splendidly" since Brexit. Fillon quips "They're waist deep in it." #LeGrandDebat
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
📺 That moment when @BenedictePaviot turns to see the flag at half-mast 🇬🇧⤵️ #RIPQueenElizabeth #F24
@F24Debate
The Debate – France 24
2 years
Buckingham Palace's Union Jack flag has gone to half-mast as #QueenElizabethII passed away aged 96, the Royal family is at her bedside at #BalmoralCastle . Follow out live coverage with @BenedictePaviot in London ⤵️
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François Picard
4 years
Morning in DC. #Election2020
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François Picard
2 years
It’s all fun and games until a new season of #F24Debate begins. #BackonMonday
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
From 🇷🇺 troll farms to #WagnerGroup , plenty of hype… Thanks to @SamRamani2 @NiagaleBagayoko @seanmcfate for sorting the wheat from the chaff in insightful #F24Debate ⤵️
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
It’s election night! 🇫🇷 🗳 Complete #legislatives2022 coverage in three languages. Join us from 7pm Paris time…
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
For #Estonia , the recipe for dealing with Russia's straightforward, argues @IlvesToomas in #F24Debate 🇪🇪⤵️
@F24Debate
The Debate – France 24
2 years
"Deterrence works!" Ex-President of #Estonia 🇪🇪 on the importance of unity in defence of #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Will the #EU 🇪🇺 rise to the task? Full Show 📺➡️:
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
"What he's done is demonstrate that he lives in a set of bubbles." By returning to Durham during lockdown, #DominicCummings "has thrown the spotlight on his claim to speak for the northern working class," says @Johnrashton47 . More in #F24Debate ...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
7 years
Not bad at all. New bike lane along the Seine definitely worth it. @PatrickChasse @ACatInParis
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Britain’s proclaiming a king. 🇬🇧 👑 We’re live with @ACatInParis #F24
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François Picard
3 years
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
"My life matters." @votegriffin on why it escalated in #Minneapolis and why street protest remains the way forward for now... #F24Debate
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
Could Egypt 🇪🇬 & Ethiopia 🇪🇹 really go to war over water? Thursday #F24Debate asks about the Nile dam dispute & the spillover effect for Sudan and the wider region. #GERD #Nile #Egypt #Ethiopia
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François Picard
4 years
In his address Monday night, @EmmanuelMacron called on citizens to use this period of confinement to read and focus on the essential. Nearly through Flaubert’s Sentimental Education. And if you think politics is tribal today, let me tell you about 1847 France...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
3 years
Blame it on that persistent pest @stefbeaumont . #Movember
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
@ChassNews Never understood how that became "Buddy buddy" in English.
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Bonne année one and all 🎉 May the news cycle Gods be clement and the refills fresh as together we write the next chapter...
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François Picard
4 years
"This kind of brutality goes back to slavery." Nearly three decades after police attacks on African-Americans were first caught on tape w/ Rodney King & the L.A. riots, yet @csdickey describes a deep seeded racism that endures to this day... #Minneapolis #WorldThisWeek
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
Christopher loved his adopted home city of Paris, enjoyed seeing the world through the lens of his own heritage and dearly loved his family. My heart goes out to them.
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
They’re still coming. Going live soon. #F24
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Newly-elected French presidents always asks for a mandate... and get it in legislative elections. But because @EmmanuelMacron won re-election with a sitting majority, it's more like U.S-style midterms, argues @ChamboncelLea 🇫🇷🗳️ More in #F24Debate 📺➡️
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
3 years
🚨 Breaking news, change of topic: #Chad ’s ruler of three decades killed. #F24Debate to follow developing story...
@FRANCE24
FRANCE 24
3 years
Chadian President Idriss Deby dies of injuries suffered on frontline, army says
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François Picard
4 years
No show in the studio but join us later for a virtual #WorldThisWeek where your reactions on #F24 hashtag inspire @csdickey to quote Charles Dickens... #itwasthebestoftimes
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François Picard
4 years
"Footballers, if infected with the virus, have a small chance of dying," claims #Brazil president. @JamilChade tells #WorldThisWeek how Jair Bolsonaro is pressuring for return to normal despite soaring death rate & how the likes of Seleção legend @rai10oficial aren't buying it..
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
3 years
Back in France where new Covid protocols mean that returning travelers from abroad have to self-isolate for a week. Upside: I get to enjoy from home as the inimitable @markowenf24 throws to @Sonia_Dridi & guests for #EgyptianRevolution 10th anniversary edition of #F24Debate
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François Picard
4 years
"It's a reverse migration." Coronavirus #lockdown triggered exodus away from big cities in India. @CSEINDIA 's @sunitanar sees opportunities if investment in rural areas follows. Also, sudden labor shortage means newfound pressure to pay more decent wages. More in #F24Debate ...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
How about a snap election? Thursday #F24Debate makes sense of #LizTruss ' 44 days in office. What options for 🇬🇧 Conservatives? How does the UK stop lurching from crisis to crisis?
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 months
Out of office #FRAIRL 🏉
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François Picard
7 years
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François Picard
2 years
It’s #Elections2022 Day 🇫🇷 🗳 Join us from 7pm Paris time #presidentielles2022
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
6 years
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
State media in #Poland has always been biased towards the incumbent, but never on this scale, says @Cambridge_Uni 's @StanleySBill . He points to campaign coverage that even included dog whistle anti-semitism... #F24Debate
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François Picard
4 years
"Unless you're Boris Johnson, you have to have very serious symptoms before anyone will test you." @csdickey on the need to standardize what counts as #COVID19 . More later in online edition of #WorldThisWeek ...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
10 years
In #TheWorldThisWeek , what's the signficance of Europe landing #Philae probe on a speeding comet? #F24Debate http://t.co/GHXuCjJ5YT
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François Picard
3 years
How to make 'em pay? 💰 After the biggest-ever leak of its kind, involving at least 35 world leaders, Monday #F24Debate asks if #PandoraPapers 🏝 tax shenanigans revelations can help force the hand of the high and mighty...
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FRANCE 24 English
3 years
‘Pandora Papers’ reveal hidden wealth of world leaders, celebrities, billionaires
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
Join us from 5pm UK time for a special edition from London 🇬🇧 #F24 #F24Debate
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
2 years
What's #Gorbachev 's legacy? Our look back in #F24Debate
@France24_en
FRANCE 24 English
2 years
🔴 Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Take a look back at #Gorbachev 's political career and his long-lasting legacy
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
6 years
All this way for language lessons from @taoufikmjaied .
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
9 years
Wed #F24Debate : A turning point for Europe? New #Greece PM #Tsipras visits Brussels & Paris. http://t.co/GUlahA9g7k http://t.co/SStjgJoOW4
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François Picard
2 years
TikTok revolution? 🇮🇷 Thursday #F24Debate asks about the teens taking the lead in #Iran 's protest movement... #MahsaAmini
@PariesaBrody
Pariesa Brody
2 years
Iranian girls as young as high school have joined the protests. Here, they defy a Basij official, yelling "Get lost!" Our report for @Observers @FRANCE24 :
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François Picard
4 years
Inequality all the more glaring when there's a pandemic on, say @MandakiniGahlot & @SylvieKauffmann . More later in #WorldThisWeek
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
So how to pay for the response to the crisis? Employ tax-paying citizens at decent wages, says @AnnPettifor . "What this crisis has taught us that we can manage very well without football players but we can't manage without delivery drivers, nurses, cleaners." #F24Debate
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François Picard
2 years
Do monarchies still matter? Thursday #F24Debate puts #PlatinumJubilee in perspective 🇬🇧👑
@ACatInParis
Catherine Nicholson
2 years
British platinum jubilee knees-up at the UK Embassy in Paris 🇬🇧🇫🇷 #PlatinumJubilee @UKinFrance #F24
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François Picard
4 years
As Erdogan looks to shore up his electoral base, the reconverting of #HagiaSophia can be sold to religious hardliners as a "triumph of Islam over Christianity in a sort of revived clash of civilizations with the West," says @sciencespo 's @jabbour_jana . More in #F24Debate
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François Picard
7 years
Congrats @France24_es ! The launch seen from master control in Paris.
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François Picard
3 years
Returning from summer break, we take stock of what’s just unfolded, wondering if history does repeat itself: what next for Afghanistan? #F24Debate
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François Picard
3 years
“We love you”?
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François Picard
6 years
Turnout at 10am in some regions up 30% over the last presidential poll in 2012. @FRANCE24 Moscow correspondent @elenavolochine voted... and got a free concert ticket for it. #RussianElection
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François Picard
3 years
A proper deluge couldn't keep me away from my first café en terrasse in six months... Wednesday #F24Debate asks how different will city life be after six months of lockdown? #deconfinement #tousenterrasse
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Charlotte Wilkins
3 years
The mood in cafés was buoyant despite the rain #francereopens
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
3 years
What's Paris without Notre Dame? On the second anniversary of the fire that gutted the great cathedral, #F24 's Revisited takes you inside the race to restore the 850-year old landmark. Exclusive report premiers in Thursday #F24Debate ...
@cnorristrent
Catherine Norris Trent
3 years
2 years ago when I heard Notre Dame was on fire I raced to central Paris and spent the night covering the fire, unsure at first if firefighters would be able to save the 850 y.o. cathedral. Now I’ve been back filming with @MelinaHuet for a ‘Revisited’ report airing today on #f24
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François Picard
3 months
🚨 🎙️ Big changes: Join us this Friday. We’ll look back on 15 amazing years of #WorldThisWeek before handing the mantle to ⁦ @GavinLeeNews ⁩ 📺 New look for the channel, new look for #F24Debate . Join me from March 4th #waitforit
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François Picard
2 years
🇮🇶 Iraq on the brink? Tuesday #F24Debate asks about the showdown between Shia forces that pits #MoqtadaalSadr 's supporters against pro-Iran factions...
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@FrancoisF24
François Picard
4 years
As #GERD dam construction reaches stage where filling can begin, @CrisisGroup 's @wdavison10 explains how standoff brings to a head population pressure, climate change & regional rivalries. He says the dam can be part of the solution, particularly in times of drought... #F24Debate
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