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  Flavio Bolsonaro: A profile of Brazil's potential president 04.10.2026 14мин

  FRANCE 24's Gavin Lee speaks to Brazil analyst Henrique Tavares Furtado about how far-right presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro is pledging to reshape the country, and asks: who is the man behind the political persona?
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  Putin's war for the history books: Dmytro Kuleba speaks to FRANCE 24 03.10.2026 23мин

  The Bronze Horseman, the iconic equestrian statue in Senate Square in St Petersburg, was commissioned by Catherine the Great in honor of Peter the Great, the city's founder. The pedestal of the statue bears a laconic dedication: "To Peter the First, Catherine the Second, 1782". Does Putin want to be the third, Vladimir the Great? And is that ambition – expansion at any cost – the real reason behind the war in Ukraine? According to former Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, "Putin only cares about what will be written about him in history books."
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  French Unrest: Are we witnessing a new 'Yellow Vests' movement? 02.10.2026 46мин

  It's been 18 days since we first reported on isolated cases of schools protests at a high school in Rennes in Brittany, in Caen in Normandy and Villeneueve d'Asque on the suburbs of Lille. The complaints were similar in theme, overloaded timetables, staffing problems, poor facilities. It spread to Saint Denis and Creteil on the outskirts of Paris days later, one interview with the students was sen 1.4 million times on TikTok. It gathered pace, and morphed into what we've seen throughout the week, hundreds of protests, some peaceful, some with deeply distressing scenes, beyond the make shift barricades, a school in Nantes set off fire, firefighters forced out of the vehicle in Marseille and the fire engine set alight, scroll your socials itt's hard to miss some of the uglier scenes, a female police officer being attacked on the ground as youths shouted kill her. Where is it heading, and what has it become? Urban violence says the government, accusing agitators linked to the hard left exploiting geenuine concerns for political ends ahead of the election. Which La France Insoumise denies saying they favour no violent means of action.  Today in Spotlight, we discuss this with Jean Remi Girard, a teacher in Asnieres in the north of Paris, and the President of the National Union des Lycees and Colleges, covering education workers from primary schools to college, 7 until 18.
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  Egypt warned Israel of 'major' Hamas attack: 'No world where Netanyahu's not aware' (Vivian Salama) 02.10.2026 9мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Vivian Salama from Washington. An attorney and staff writer at The Atlantic, Salama has reported from more than 85 countries. Her latest investigation takes us back to September 26, 2023. As Israel's national security establishment gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and one of the country's greatest intelligence failures, Abbas Kamel, then Egypt's intelligence chief, made an exceptionally rare and discreet visit to Israel with a stark warning about the dangerous situation unfolding in Gaza.
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  'Guilty of all charges': Man City at centre of 'biggest scandal in football history', vows to appeal 01.10.2026 13мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome our sports editor, James Vasina, and Andreas Evargora, sports journalist and commentator. Evargora describes the current Manchester City case as unprecedented in scale: "This is nothing of the scale that we've seen before." The case brings together an explosive mix of pressures confronting modern sport like never before: the multibillion-euro business of football, the legal and regulatory mechanisms designed to govern it, and the increasingly complex relationship between sport, political power and international investment.
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  Ian Bremmer: 'We have passed peak Trump in terms of disruption on the global stage' 30.09.2026 11мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Ian Bremmer, the American political scientist, author, and founder and president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. According to Bremmer, we may now be entering the autumn of the "Donroe Doctrine" and the MAGA era: an "America First" isolationist approach in which President Donald Trump envisions a return to "greatness" in Gilded Age fashion. But is this the America voters had envisioned?
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  Trump 'flips & flops' with Iran between making a deal and threats to attack in ‘devastating fashion’ 28.09.2026 10мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. She describes the US-Iran conflict as a dangerous combination of military escalation, diplomatic ambiguity and political calculation. Slavin sees an absence of true diplomacy: the recent indirect contacts between Washington and Tehran, mediated by Qatar, have been too limited and too fragile to produce any serious breakthrough. For her, this amounts to "kabuki diplomacy": they half engage while positioning themselves against any appearance of compromise.
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  Non! Why the Swiss rejected stricter neutrality 27.09.2026 6мин

  A referendum has been held in Switzerland on whether Swiss neutrality should be more strictly enforced in the Constitution. Richard Werly, Europe correspondent for the Swiss publication Blick, tell us why the Swiss have voted "no".
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  Maricarmen vs the 'vultures': A 'social tragedy' mobilising Spaniards 26.09.2026 10мин

  Protests are ongoing in Madrid right now, with many demonstrators holding signs and banners that read "Maricarmen vs the vultures", "Maricarmen, you are not alone", or "Ni una Maricarmen más", not one more Maricarmen.
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  'Most powerful force is human potential': Ukraine's military prioritises new tactics, technologies 25.09.2026 10мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Kyrylo Berkal, Deputy Commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps. He sees Ukraine’s struggle centred on human potential, adaptation and will. While Ukraine is outnumbered, outgunned and sometimes outflanked, their answer is to make human initiative a weapon: giving soldiers and sergeants room to innovate, developing technology from the tactical level upward, and trying to outthink their adversary. Berkal says that Operation Vivaldi embodies that philosophy. 
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  US war on Iran: Trump will 'declare victory and go home', embracing the 'Greenland option' 24.09.2026 16мин

  François Picard welcomes Scott Anderson, journalist, war correspondent and best-selling author of "King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah and the Revolution That Forged Modern Iran". For Anderson, there is a striking parallel between 1979 and 2026: Washington's persistent misreading of Iran, and the consequences that follow.
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  When climate mitigation becomes politicised: The Guardian uncovers IPCC links to Saudi oil industry 23.09.2026 11мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Eoghan Gilmartin, an award-winning investigative journalist and part of The Guardian team whose investigation examined links between IPCC authors and Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including Saudi Aramco. Their findings take us to the intersection of climate science, political and economic interests, and institutional credibility, and into the politically consequential terrain of climate mitigation: how societies decide to respond to climate change.
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  Trump admin's hardline deportation policy an 'attempt to break the global refugee and asylum system' 22.09.2026 11мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Washington Post national security reporter Adam Taylor. The Forbidden Stories consortium, involving FRANCE 24 and 25 other media outlets, has spent six months investigating the thousands of people abruptly deported from the United States to third countries, amid concerns over due process and their ability to challenge their removal. The investigation examines how the Trump administration has made deportation a major focus of both US immigration and foreign policy.
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  It's not malicious, it's indifference: Thousands of books sent to AI woodchipper 17.09.2026 13мин

  In this edition, FRANCE 24’s François Picard speaks to investigative journalist Emanuel Maiberg, Co-founder of 404 Media. As we embark on AI's uncharted waters, Maiberg has made a most unexpected discovery: the mass acquisition, dismemberment and scanning of rare books for use as training data. His investigation reveals a globalised and deliberately opaque supply chain in which books purchased through anonymous marketplaces arrive at large-scale scanning facilities, where their bindings are removed so that pages can be processed at great speed.
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  'Revolutionary change in US foreign policy: MAGA does not see itself as leader of democratic world' 15.09.2026 15мин

  For Spotlight, FRANCE 24 François Picard is pleased to welcome Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of Autocracy, Inc. According to Applebaum, the upheaval in American diplomacy and foreign policy transcends any one administration. She describes a full-fledged transformation in the way the United States exerts power, pivoting away from leadership of a democratic alliance and toward a transactional, mafia-style politics that fuses ideology, private economic interests, personal relationships and geopolitical leverage.
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  Corruption ‘endemic’ in Trump administration: 'Checks and balances only in effect at lower courts' 15.09.2026 18мин

  François Picard is pleased to welcome Andrew Weissmann, Author, Professor at NYU School of Law, and former General Counsel of the FBI. He argues that as political deception and deliberate falsehoods become normalized, and politically useful, it erodes any trust we have in our government and our institutions. Drawing on his book, "Liar’s Kingdom", Weissmann questions why political leaders are above the law in the United States, while ordinary citizens risk serious legal consequences for making intentionally false statements.
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  The 'authenticity' of Celine Dion: 'She appeals to the Boomers and the Zoomers' 13.09.2026 13мин

  In this edition, FRANCE 24’s François Picard talks to Nick Rees-Roberts, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University about Celine Dion. For Roberts, Dion’s extraordinary return to Paris reveals something larger than the enduring popularity of a global pop star. Her appeal lies in an unusual ability to bridge categories that contemporary celebrity and pop culture often keep separate: generations, languages, cultural hierarchies and even the apparent opposition between authenticity and carefully constructed stardom.
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  Sweden Election Aftermath: A hard night for the hard right? 13.09.2026 9мин

  FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee speaks to Scandinavia Correspondent Trine Villeman for some analysis on how Sweden has voted in the 2026 election.
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  Sucker Punch: How the Houthis shocked the Gulf 13.09.2026 24мин

  Who are the Houthis, what are their objectives for Yemen, and could the Iranian-backed group hold a significant part of world trade to ransom in the Bab el Mandeb Strait? FRANCE 24’s Gavin Lee speaks with Professor Thomas Juneau, a specialist on the Houthis and Iran, explains the intricate dynamics of the group, its repressive nature and the level of the threat to world shipping.
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  On Sept 12th, 'everyone was compassionate': The world needs 'to be together again' - Richard Roeill 13.09.2026 17мин

  FRANCE 24’s François Picard talks to Richard Roeill, former New York Firefighter and 9/11 First Responder. Roeill’s testimony reframes the legacy of September 11th not as a historical event confined to a single day, but as living history. The former New York City firefighter describes an anniversary that reactivates trauma, while the illnesses suffered by first responders make the consequences of Ground Zero ever-present decades later. He says that responders were misled about the dangers they faced and demands accountability and long-term healthcare for those exposed to the toxic air.