menace all of us unless we can at least imagine a security architecture that includes russia. this moment of possibility expansion of nato should be a trigger for rethinking, not for simply mindly expanding. quick thought on that and then i want to ask you, macron seems like he will win in france but with a much lower margin than he did the last time, this chirac did against marie le pen s father. how trouble are you by the rise of this far right populism in france? look, if you were a swede or fin, you don t want creativity at the moment, you want security. you ve seen what has happened to the neighbors. and i think that is a fundamental point but if they qualify, they should be admitted because it s a security pact that will benefit from their commitment and it s a defensive alliance, nato, not an offensive alliance. whenever people talk about nato, quote/unquote, i remind them these are countries opting to
the culture and the language was that way. when president chirac decided to have the french elise website notjust in french but also in english, quite a lot of people were not happy, whether that was in the establishment or elsewhere, the academie francaise, possibly, or elsewhere. he pushed for there to be a global news channel. he understood that a country like france, that has a un security council permanent seat, it was essential that that voice be heard. so, ted turner, when he created cnn, the cable news network, if we cast our minds back that far, was thought to be bonkers, frankly. then bbc world then decides to do the same thing in the 90s, and we can see that as the world has become more globalized, it is essential, as one of the other guests was saying, i think it was dominic, whether it s about brexit or partygate, there is huge interest.
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when president chirac decided to have the french elise website notjust in french but also in english, quite a lot of people were not happy, whether that was in the establishment or elsewhere, the academie francaise, possibly, or elsewhere. he pushed for there to be a global news channel. he understood that a country like france, that has a un security council permanent seat, it was essential that that voice be heard. so, ted turner, when he created cnn, the cable news network, if we cast our minds back that far, was thought to be bonkers, frankly. then bbc world then decides to do the same thing in the 905, and we can see that as the world has become more globalized, it is essential, as one of the other guests was saying, i think it was dominic, whether it s about brexit or partygate, there is huge interest. a change of prime minister in the uk, for example, would mean a different
was that it must be preserved, it must be looked after, it must not have too much franglais and english words. it won t come as a surprise to you, as being somebody who s half french, half british, having been steeped in that from the word go in my life, that i actually think and i know having worked for the bbc, world service, bbc world, france 24 and reaching out to across the planet, the more we can communicate between each other s cultures, look at our politics in those countries that have free speech because, of course, that isn t true and free news and free reporting, that is not true. and if ever the internet has shown that or indeed real time reporting on ukraine or whether it s partygate as i was again this morning, yes, there was a hesitancy because some people thought that they should be custodians and the best way of keeping the culture and the language was that way. when president chirac decided to have the french elise website not just in french but also in english, quite