FRANCE 24’s François Picard is pleased to welcome Dr. Rouzbeh Parsi, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Lund University in Sweden. According to Dr. Parsi, the current political situation in Iran should be approached with caution, too much attention is being p…

François Picard is very pleased to welcome Marcos Athias Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General & UNDP Assistant Administrator. In the view of Mr. Neto, the world today is experiencing a profound crisis of development. Global development should not be u…

François Picard is pleased to welcome Jon Marks, Author, Political Scientist and Chairman / Founder of Cross-border Information. As someone who has followed energy markets for decades, Mr. Marks warns we are in uncharted waters: the current crisis doe…

Tensions surrounding Iran are drawing renewed international attention amid reports of rising regional instability and questions about how different actors across the region could be affected. Iran’s Kurdish regions, where political movements have long…

In this edition of the Spotlight, we speak to Richard Dalton, the former British ambassador to Iran and Libya and a former consul general in Jerusalem, to unpack the first week of war and what may come next.

As civilians in southern Beirut are ordered to evacuate, ahead of an Israeli offensive, François Picard is pleased to welcome Nadim Houry, Executive Director of the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI). Mr. Houry describes the war on Iran and ensuing conflict…

François Picard welcomes Alexander Abdelilah, Investigative Journalist for Forbidden Stories who just published an investigative report on how the Iranian regime secretly acquired FindFace in 2019, a powerful facial recognition system developed by Rus…

The Republican head of the US Ovesight Committee making the journey with the rest of his panel from Washington to the sleepy Hudson Valley suburb of Chappaqua, New York, home of former US president Bill Clinton who will testify Friday over relations w…

Today in Spotlight, we speak with celebrity Chef José Andrés. The founder of World Food Kitchen talks of his Longer Tables Fund’s matching donations to support critical energy infrastructure in Ukraine, Gaza where his charity provides one million hot …

According to sources, the US envoy pledges not to ‘interfere’ in France affairs. François Picard speaks to Jeffrey Hawkins, former US ambassador to the Central African Republic and research fellow at IRIS.