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Over the past year, European NATO countries have reduced their reliance on the US for weapons imports while significantly boosting their defence spending. Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney, Guntram Wolff, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, said: "any weapon we buy as Europeans from the United States is a liability both in terms of technology dependence but also in terms of missing growth and domestic ...
European NATO countries have reduced their reliance on the US for weapons imports while significantly increasing their defense spending in the past year. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Guntram Wolff, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, says that "any weapon we buy as Europeans from the United States is a liability both in terms of technology dependence but also in terms of missing growth and dome...
It's been a year since US President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs, which would change the global trade landscape. But after a year of upheaval and uncertainty, what remains of the 'Liberation Day' duties? Also in the show - soaring oil prices lead to a jump in car-pooling services in France.
Russia’s advance in Ukraine stalled in March, with no territorial gains for the first time in over two years, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Ukrainian forces recaptured small areas, signalling a slowdown in Moscow’s momentum after months of progress, raising new questions about the war’s next phase.
US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday after months of strained relations and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has asked the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement. The Guardian Washington DC bureau chief David Smith reports.
US President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday after months of strained relations and named his former personal lawyer to serve as the acting chief of the Justice Department. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth has asked the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. The Guardian Washington DC bureau chief Davi...
In tonight’s edition: Human Rights Watch reports that Burkina Faso’s government forces and jihadist groups together killed more than 1,800 civilians between 2023 and 2025. In Accra, a collapsed and unfinished school has left four people dead and nearly 30 injured, raising concerns over unsafe classrooms. Meanwhile, Belgium is pushing back against a US-backed AI firm seeking access to historic mini...
In tonight's edition, Human Rights Watch says Burkina Faso’s government forces and jihadists together killed more than 1800 civilians between 2023 and 2025. Also, a collapsed, unfinished school in Accra kills four people and injures nearly 30, raising concerns over unsafe classrooms. And Belgium is resisting a U.S.-backed AI firm’s attempt to access historic mining maps that could reveal valuable...
In his 19-minute address to the nation from the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump defended his war in Iran, which is now entering his second month, presenting the operation as a success that he said was “nearing completion.” But the President also stretched the truth about certain victories on the battlefield, and misrepresented the state of the US economy.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Donald Trump's mocking comments about his marriage did not merit a response, calling them "neither elegant nor appropriate" for the situation. But after days of tensions over US-Israeli strikes on Iran and over NATO, an apparently irritated Macron launched a broadside of his own, saying "there is too much talk" and "this is not a show".
François Picard is pleased to welcome Hélène Conway-Mouret, French Senator, Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. According to Conway-Mouret, Donald Trump’s Iran war strategy is creating incredible volatility for European security, transatlantic relations, and even domestic politics in the US. All the while, NATO withdrawal is being levied as a threat to force European compliance.
Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Ivo Daalder, Former US Ambassador to NATO and Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University, says that US President Donald Trump's address to the nation failed to convince, stressing that communication about the war "is almost a repeat of Vietnam. We're now hearing not body counts but how many targets have been hit [...] it seems like we're bombing f...
François Picard is joined from Toulouse by Thomas Pesquet, a European Space Agency astronaut, to discuss the Artemis II mission. Drawing on his experience in orbit, Pesquet says Artemis II should be seen not only as a technological milestone, but as part of a longer-term effort to expand human presence beyond Earth. He notes that space exploration combines a fundamental human impulse to explore wi...
François Picard is pleased to welcome from Toulouse in southwest France, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. As an astronaut who has experienced spaceflight firsthand, Pesquet sees the Artemis II mission not simply as a technological milestone, but as part of a broader human narrative of exploration and understanding. What fascinates him is not only how far we can travel from Earth, bu...
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. He sees Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon within a broader political and strategic framework that extends beyond immediate battlefield objectives. Sayigh argues that while military operations are visible and urgent, they are deeply intertwined with domestic pol...
Reporting from Tehran for FRANCE 24, Reza Sayah says that "today again US and Israeli forces bombed what were clearly non-military sites in broad daylight and later in the day US president Donald Trump seemed to boast about it"
Might is right... until it's not. 2026 began with US commandos grabbing Venezuela’s president with zero casualties, an operation that put the rest of the world was on notice. But now, Donald Trump's first prime time address in nearly five weeks of war worrying markets instead of reassuring them. The US president telling impacted nations to just buy more oil from him and if they’re so worried about...
The Israeli parliament's adoption of a law establishing "the death penalty for terrorists" – which in practice will only apply to Palestinians – has provoked an international outcry. The reasons for it passing are not just retaliatory, but politically motivated.
US President Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, a loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval during her role as US attorney general, replacing her with his former personal attorney Todd Blanche.
Nabil Nahas has been painting for seven decades. From his childhood in Lebanon to his career in New York, he is now presenting his latest monumental work in Venice as his country’s representative at the 2026 Contemporary Art Biennale. The artist speaks to us about his connection to the ancient civilisations of his homeland, and why he believes politicising international platforms is the wrong appr...
Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states Thursday, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to strike its neighbors even as US President Donald Trump claimed the threat from the country was nearly eliminated.
Russia is sending a second oil tanker to Cuba as the island struggles with a deepening energy crisis under a US fuel blockade, Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said Thursday. The move follows a first delivery this week amid widespread blackouts and shortages after Washington cut off key supplies, prompting Moscow to step in.
France’s hard-left France Unbowed party said several Black lawmakers received racist letters, condemning what it called entrenched discrimination. The incident follows a surge of abuse targeting recently elected Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko, underscoring concerns about rising racism in French public life.
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Wouter Dewulf, professor at the University of Antwerp AMS where he serves as Academic Director for the Master of Maritime/Air Transport Management. According to Dr. Dewulf, the current crisis facing global airlines must be understood as a convergence of geopolitical upheaval and unstable markets. The sharp rise in oil prices, driven by war, has immediately ha...
Passengers on commercial flights passing over Florida were treated to a spectacular sight Wednesday as the Artemis II space mission blasted off for the moon, with some capturing footage of the launch from plane windows.
Heavily armed and dressed in camouflage, members of Iran's Basij paramilitary force have been circulating photos of themselves patrolling the streets of Tehran with portraits of the new supreme leader since early March. The aim: to dissuade Iranians from restarting protests against the regime.
The sky turned red above the Greek island of Crete on Wednesday as strong winds blew in dust from the Sahara in Africa. It comes as Storm Erminio batters the Greek mainland.
If long-time Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban emerges victorious from this month's general election it will have consequences far beyond the central European country, analysts say. Since his return to power in 2010, Orban has repeatedly tussled with the European Union, with Polish and Irish leaders condemning his government's close links with Moscow as "sinister" and "repulsive" Tuesday after...
Journalists, news outlets, satirists and cartoonists are among the spate of citizens targeted by India’s increasingly strict laws on digital censorship. Critics say that a new set of rules will further expand executive power over the internet and signal a growing digital authoritarianism.
Tehran will press on with the Middle East war until the United States and Israel face "permanent regret and surrender", the spokesperson of its armed forces' unified command said on Thursday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. The threat followed comments by US President Donald Trump that Washington would hit Iran "extremely hard" within weeks, although Iran was "essentia...
