RFI English
Live on Live - Beijing Correspondent - Elodie Goulesque
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- Live on Live - Beijing Correspondent - Elodie Goulesque
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- 10:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Beijing correspondent Elodie Goulesque about China's changing role in the world, its globalisation drive and what was achieved as French President Macron wraps up his state visit to the country.
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- Live on Live - 3 years after Charlie Hebdo attacks - Saint Denis councillor Madjid Messaoudene
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- 10:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- #3 One Planet Summit: NGO's expectations
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Some 50 heads of state gathered on 12 December to discuss finance and climate change at the One Planet Summit organised by French President Macron. The get-together came after US Donald Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
RFI spoke to Sven Harmeling, Climate change advocacy coordinator for the NGO CARE International.
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- #2 One Planet Summit: Activists' aims
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Some 50 heads of state gathered on 12 December to discuss finance and climate change at the One Planet Summit organised by French President Macron. The get-together came after US Donald Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
RFI spoke to Maxime Combes, economist and spokesperson on climate issues for Attac France, an anti-globalisation group.
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- #1 One Planet Summit: What's at stake?
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Some 50 heads of state gathered on 12 December to discuss finance and climate change at the #OnePlanetSummit organised by French President Macron. The get-together came after US Donald Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
To understand what was at stake, RFI spoke to Benoît Leguet, Managing Director of I4CE - Institute for Climate Economics.
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- Live on Live - Muriel Poisson, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO
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- 9:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Millions of children around the world don't go to school - for all sorts of reasons. Unesco and the IIEP (International Institute for Educational Planning) have been looking at how corruption is affecting access to education. RFI's Angela Diffley spoke with Muriel Poission, an author of an IIEP report on this very issue.
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- Live on Live - historian and bike enthusiast David Herlihy
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- 9:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It's 150 years since the first mass bicycle ride took place, here in Paris. More than 100 people pedalled from Paris to Versailles on vélocipèdes – early versions of the bicycle – and the fastest among them took about an hour to finish. On Dec 10, a group of enthusiasts are setting out to do the same bike ride. One of them is the researcher David Herlihy who spoke to RFI's Angela Diffley.
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- Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI met with Mauritanian singer and ardîn player Noura Mint Seymali before her concert at Festival Africolor in Paris recently. Seymali comes from a long line of Mauritanian griots known as iggawin (traditional poets, storytellers and musicians). But since 2004 she has been mixing traditional and modern music to play an electrified desert blues.
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- Live on Live - Nick Norbrook, managing editor of The Africa Report, November 2017
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- 10:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey asks Nick Norbrook, managing editor of The Africa Report, about what's in store for the continent in 2018.
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- Golden age of Somali pop music
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- An album of Somali music released this year draws on thousands of 1970s and 1980s recordings that are held in a Somaliland archive. The 15 tracks selected for the album showcase what has been called a golden age for Somali pop music. To hear more about the music on 'Sweet as Broken Dates : Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa', you can listen to RFI's World Music Matters. (http://bit.ly/2B1O5sn). We asked the man behind the album, Vik Sohonie, where exactly the recordings on the album came from.
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- The Como Mamas' gospel
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI English met with the The Como Mamas, two sisters and their cousin from the small town of Como in the Mississippi Delta. The trio started singing in 2007 after a Daptone Records producer discovered them. Now they're touring Europe with their new gospel album 'Move Upstairs'.
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- Live on Live - 100 year commemoration of Bolshevik revolution with Oleg Kobtzeff
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- 28:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey is joined in studio by Dr. Oleg Koptzeff from the American University of Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia which led to the expansion of communist ideology across the globe in the 20th century.
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- Live on Live - Nick Norbrook, managing editor of The Africa Report, October 2017
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- 10:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey asks Nick Norbrook, managing editor of The Africa Report about problems with NGOs on the continent - and what it's like whatting with the Emir of Kano.
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- Live on Live - UK & EU Brexit Summit - Raphaela Kitson Pantano (LibDem)
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- 9:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Raphaela Kitson-Pantano, from the UK Liberal Democrats in France, to talk about divisions in Britain over Brexit and whether EU leaders can push through a deadlock in negotiations.
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- Live on Live - Trafficking in Libya - Jérôme Tubiana
- Runtime
- 10:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Sahel expert and researcher Jérôme Tubiana about his experience along the smuggling routes from Niger to Libya, whch are a focal point of the migrant crisis.
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- Chatting to Sudanese flautist Ghandi Adam
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- 2:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI met Sudanese flautist Gandhi Adam and singer Nouredeen Gibreel Yousif at Paris's recently-opened workshop for artists in exile. L'Atelier des Artistes en Exil is an artistic hub that provides the best conditions in which to develop their "nilotic groove".
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- Live on Live - 'Black women don't need to transform themselves to be accepted': Rokhaya Diallo
- Runtime
- 15:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Live on Live gets to the roots of the natural hair movement, known as "nappy" in France, which encourages women of African descent to wear their hair unrestrained - in its coiled or curly state. Amanda Morrow speaks to Franco-Senegalese writer and filmmaker Rokhaya Diallo, who's launched an exhibition of images showing Parisians of African origin who are choosing to go natural.
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- Exhibition Derain, The Radical Decade: 1904-1914
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Cécile Debray, director of the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, talks to RFI’s Rosslyn Hyams about the ‘London Series’ of paintings by eclectic French artist, André #Derain. The series of 30 works features in the exhibition she curated at the Centre Pompidou called Derain: The Radical Decade: 1904-1914.
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- LOL - Guillaume Podrovnik, director of "René Goscinny, Our Uncle From Armorica
- Runtime
- 11:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- David Coffey chats to author and director Guillaume Podrovnik, who recently released the documentary film "René Goscinny, our uncle from Armorica", about the life and work of one of France's most influential cartoon-writers.
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- Live on Live - The launch of Sputnik1 - Astrophysicist Valeria Pettorino
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- 10:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 60 years ago on 4 October, 1957, a small metal sphere was launched into orbit, giving rise to the Space Race. Astrophysicist Valeria Pettorino, with the CosmoStat laboratory at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, talks to Amanda Morrow about what the launch of Sputnik1 meant for the world.
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- Live on Live - How Brexit has hit business? - George Patterson, lawyer
- Runtime
- 11:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Brexit negotiations are as complicated as was predicted after the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. The first phase of bargaining on three key issues – the outstanding amount the UK would pay to Brussels, the rights of EU citizens in Britain and British citizens in the EU and Northern Ireland in all this - was due to be completed in October 2017. However, little apart from argumentative rhetoric seems to have emerged. How are firms who are the core of what at one time was the European Economic Community preparing in the midst of such uncertainty?
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- Guide dog week in France
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- When you're blind, having a guide dog can change your life. But less than 2 percent of France's 1.7 million blind and visually impaired people benefit. For the recent National Guide Dog Week, RFI meets Murielle, Emilie and Joba at Paris's Ecole du Chien Guide to find out more about their special relationship.
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- Live on Live - The Africa Report September 2017 - Nick Norbrook
- Runtime
- 11:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Nick Norbrook, Managing Editor of the Africa Report, to discuss the re-run of Kenya's presidential election plus how factional infighting that stands to derail the vote to succeed South African president Jacob Zuma as leader of the ruling ANC.
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- Live on Live - Tip Top Tips To Paris - Mark Gaïto
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- 10:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Alison Hird speaks to American author, Mark GaÏto, who shares his tips on getting the most out of the capital...
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- Live on Live with Ibn Warraq, Author of 'The Islam in Islamic terrorism'
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- 13:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to author and celebrated apostate, Ibn Warraq, about his latest book "The Islam in Islamic terrorism" and why he believes that the Western world has got it wrong about what lies at the root of the modern-day jihad.
More on RFI English website: en.rfi.fr
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- Live on Live - the rise of white supremacy in the US - Curtis Young
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- 11:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Live on Live speaks to communications specialist Curtis Young - former chairman of the Black Caucus at Democrats Abroad - about ever-growing divisions in the United States. Since the election of Donald Trump last year, there has been a spike in hate crimes across the country, police shootings of unarmed black teenagers, widespread accounts of police harrassment - and the resurgence of white supremacists.
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- Live on Live with political scientist Lex Paulson
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- 10:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Daniel Singleton asks Live on Live guest Lex Paulson, from SciencePo, how French President Emmanuel Macron's early days in office compare with those of US President Donald Trump.
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- How volunteers help migrants at Porte de La Chapelle
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Just before the 'Paris jungle' was emptied on July 7th, RFI met two volunteers working for Solidarithé, a group founded by four people who have helped #migrants in Calais. #PortedeLaChapelle
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- 'Your single use plastic bag could still be here in 4 centuries', says Diane Beaumenay-Joannet
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- 9:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- On July 3, International Plastic Bag Free Day, Diane Beaumenay-Joannet, from Surfrider, a European group campaigning for an end to single-use bags, tells RFI's Alison Hird why they're so harmful.
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- Live On Live - Radio Okapi Kindu - Jennifer Bakody
- Runtime
- 9:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- David Coffey speaks to RFI's Jennifer Bakody about her experience working with UN radio in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the release of her memoirs "Radio Okapi Kindu".
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- LOL - Sarah Saadoun, Human Right Watch, on Equatorial Guinea's 'kleptocracy'
- Runtime
- 11:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey speaks to Sarah Saadoun, Human Rights Watch researcher on Equatorial Guinea, to discuss corruption in the country, and the embezzlement trial of vice-President Theodorin Nguema Obiang that's underway in Paris.
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- Live on Live - French legislatives round 2 post-mortem - Anne Lebreton (LREM) & Bruno Gollnisch (FN)
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- 15:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's David Coffey hosts a special edition of Live on Live with Anne Lebreton, deputy mayor of Paris' 4th arrondissement and Bruno Gollnisch MEP from Marine Le Pen's Front National to discuss the sweeping victory for Les Républicains En Marche following Sunday's 2nd round of parliamentary elections.
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- 'World's peace score is up, but violent countries are getting more violent'
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- 12:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A new report shows the world is seeing "growing peace inequality". While peaceful countries are becoming more peaceful, violent countries are becoming more violent, says Steve Killelea, of the Institute for Economics and Peace. Interview with Amanda Morrow.
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- Live on Live - Lib Dems in France - Raphaela Kitson-Pantano
- Runtime
- 11:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow hosts a post-mortem of last week's British election that saw Theresa May's Tories lose their majority. She speaks to Raphaela Kitson-Pantano, Head of communications and PR for the Liberal Democrats in France, the only UK party that openly opposes Brexit.
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- Live On Live UK special edition 2017
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- 20:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In an special extended edition of Live on Live, RFI's David Coffey hosts a round table discussion with UK political representatives where we take a look at Britain's future following Prime Minister Theresa May's roll of the dice to bolster her mandate... that failed.
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- Cannes review #3 - 'The killing of a sacred deer' by Greek director Lanthimos
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' is from Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos who won the Jury Prize in competition at Cannes in 2015 for 'The Lobster'. Lanthimos continues to explore and reveal the darker side of human relationships in what appear to be far-fetched situations. #MovieOfTheDay
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- #Cannes2017 Live On Live with Andrea Paganini
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- 7:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Rosslyn Hyams talks to Andrea Paganini who heads the Jean Rouche centenary event. On the sidelines of the Film Festival he is celebrating the centenary of the birth of French director and anthropologist Jean Rouch born on 31st May 1917.
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- Cannes review #2 'Okja' by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Rosslyn Hyams tells us about 'Okja', a film produced by Netflix. #MovieOfTheDay
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- #Cannes2017 Live On Live with Una Gunjak and Rami Kodeih
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- 8:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- After 49 years, the Director's Fortnight is still going strong. RFI's Rosslyn Hyams sat down with two young people who have worked together on a short film as part of the Lebanon Factory. Rami Kodeih and Una Gunjak have made a film called 'Salamat from Germany'. It's about young male migrants who want to reach Germany and for some of whom, Lebanon is a stopover on their itinerary.
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- Cannes review #1 'Wonderstruck' by US director Todd Haynes
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Rosslyn Hyams tells us about 'Wonderstruck', a film by US director Todd Haynes. It's in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
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- Live on Live - Iran's Election Campaigns 2017 - Ardavan Amir Aslani
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- 12:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow talks to lawyer, author and Middle East specialist Ardavan Amir-Aslani about what's at stake for Iran's future ahead of Friday's presidential election.
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- Live on Live - Paris Fringe Festival 2017 - Reka Polonyi
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- 11:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Reka Polonyi, the co-founder of the Paris Fringe Festival which kicks off in the French capital tomorrow.
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- Live on Live - British elections 2017 - Colin Hay
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- 12:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- "Strength and Stability"? RFI's David Coffey speaks to UK political specialist Colin Hay about the campaigns ahead of the June 8th elections in Britain, the lack of a coherent opposition and how Brexit could trigger a united Ireland within the EU.
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- Live on Live - French Presidential Election Special Edition - Round Table 2
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- 22:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In our 2nd extended French election special of Live on Live, RFI's David Coffey is joined in the studio by Olivia Gégoire, founder of Olicare strategy group, Jacques Myard, Les Républicains MP for Yvelines outside of Paris and CEO of US Media outlet NewsMax, Chris Ruddy to get further perspective on the victory of Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen for the French Presidency.
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- Live on Live - What's 'cohabitation' in France? - Jacques Reland
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Jacques Reland is a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute in Paris. He talked to RFI's Anne-Marie Bissada about 'cohabitation', which came out of France's fifth republic.
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- #Presidentialelection2017 - French voters react after the debate Macron Le Pen
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A poll showed 63 percent of the 16.5 million viewers found Emmanuel Macron the most convincing during the debate with MarineLe Pen on French TV Wednesday night. Morning commuters at Paris’s St Lazare train station reacted to the debate and expressed their voting preference for the run-off this Sunday.
Read More :
http://en.rfi.fr/france/20170504-french-presidential-debate-may-have-changed-some-minds
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- Live on Live - The Africa Report May 2017 - Nick Norbrook
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- 11:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- RFI's Amanda Morrow hosts Live on Live's monthly meeting with managing editor of The Africa Report magazine, Nick Norbrook, starting with a brief history of the Congo River
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- Live on Live - Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula - Antoine Bondaz
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- 10:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In Live on Live, RFI's Amanda Morrow speaks to Asia specialist Antoine Bondaz about the stand-off on the Korean peninsula as an American missile defence system angers China, as well as many South Koreans.
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- Live on Live - 'Jihadists failed to swing vote': Gilles Kepel
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- 14:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Gilles Kepel, political scientist, Arabist, and recognised expert on the Middle East and Muslims in the West, particularly here in France. He holds and has held academic posts in France as well as in the USA and Britain; he is also the author of numerous books on the political and social aspects of contemporary Islam. He is interviewed by RFI’s Daniel Singleton on Live on Live. The topics range from the Jihadists’ failure to impact the polls to his living under a death threat because of his published research.
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- #Presidential election 2017: Who are Macron's supporters?
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- On April 23, Emmanuel Macron qualified for the second round of the French presidential election with 24.01% of votes. RFI met with three Macron's supporters at a rally at Porte de Versailles in Paris just after the results were announced and asked them why they had voted for him.
