So our question here today on quadriga is this crisis in france, how wounded is the grande nation . To discuss that question, im joined here in the studio by three seasoned observers and analysts. Let me introduce them to you. Beginning with pascal thibaut, who is with radio france internationale. He says the trenches of verdun have only now been filled in, but in the rest of france, the rifts are still huge. Each and every reform becomes a battle to end all battles. Also with us is malte lehming of berlins der tagesspiegel newspaper, who believes that frances economy is showing signs of improvement. Francois hollande must stay on course with his reforms and not give in to leftwing demands. And a warm welcome, too, to geraldine schwarz, a french tv journalist and documentary filmmaker who is based here in berlin. Geraldine says the unions are still powerful but fewer and fewer french people support their confrontational cause. They understand that france has to change. So geraldine, id
Heal wounds. It is time for our negotiating partners. To seize the moment power in the hands of western documents nuclear deal is elusive. And a man who accused india of influencing umpires resigns as the president of world cricket. Thank you for joining us. Fighters from the refugee camp. It was the focus of heavy fighting in 2012 when rival opposition groups move in and a government siege last year saw camp residents pushed to starvation. Stefanie dekker has more from beirut. The fighting is ongoing between i. S. I. L. And a group, a Palestinian Group affiliated with hamas. There are other groups in the camp some Al Qaeda Affiliated groups. The activists say they seem to remain neutral. It started as a turf war not a turf war, but tit for tat. I. S. I. L. Is accused of killing a leader. It kidnapped a number of fighters, and this is when i. S. I. L. Stormed the camp. They had moved the refugee camp them what used to be 160,000 Palestinian Refugees. 18,000 besieged for two years. Desp
Syrias capitol. Plus dying in droves, how canadas song bird is losing the battle against their city. The president s of crickets world body resigned after accusing india of influencing umpires. Hello, the saudi military has demade hitting a factory in yemen during its offensive on houthi fighters in the country. In an incident said to have killed 23 people. The saudiled campaign is in its seventh day. The saudi military said it was targeting ballistic miles and ammunition dumps but denied hitting a refugee camp and a factory. The information we received from the ground prove that it was alternative mortars and rockets from houthi that hit the factory. Again we know that the houthi militias are manipulating through the media in order to i think city gait the yemen my people. Were fully aware that the yemeni people are fully aware that this meant to restore sovereignty that was hijacked by the houthies. Again, it was a camp targeted by houthi militias, and again re we reiterate that we d
Accommodations, hundreds of thousand of dollars in campaign contributions, for quid pro quo. Menendez came out and reacted this week, and lets say hes making it really clear hes not going to make it easy for them. Heres what he said. Im angry because prosecutors at the Justice Department dont know the difference between friendship and corruption. They are dead wrong, and i am okay, now, heres the question is this what friendship looks like . Melgen is famous as getting the greatest amount of medicare paybacks in the country. Hes an ophthalmologist. He does all these procedures. The feds said, you improperly billed 8. 9 billion. You got to pay it back. Menendez jumped in on his behalf to fight it. He lobbied for him to be able to get a portsecurity deal in the dominican republic. It turns out, actually, the coast guard was going to give away free screening equipment to the port, and they said, no no, no, no, lets go through this Company Owned by melgen. And then, of course, there was th
It as soon the hope of introducing it as soon as possible. Lets catch up with the weather. Another unsettled weekend because we have low pressure sweeping in. Wet weather in the west will transfer to the east overnight. There will be cooler air and blustery showers blowing in from the west with sunny spells in between. The winds are a feature ending the day this evening. 4050 feature ending the day this evening. 40 50 mph gusts along with a heavy rain, spilling east. The heavier rain, spilling east. The heavier rain will be in the east by the end of the night. Further west, blustery showers with clear spells. It will be cool in the north and milder in the south. When the weather clears away from the south east through the morning and then a brighter day for many of us, lots of sunshine but also blustery showers, heavy and frequent in the north and west,
where there will be a mixture of hail in them and winter us over the high ground. And wintry weather over the high ground. This is bbc