Kicks off its largest ever joint military exercises with nato, set against the backdrop of the wests worst sendoff with russia in years. Also coming up this hour, is there an end insight to frances train strike . As passengers face a seventh day of disruption, management has made a new offer to unions. We will have the details in our business update. One of frances top Tourist Attractions gets a magical makeover. More on those artistic changes on the way. First, our top story live from paris. Genie at least 11 people have been killed in a new bomb attack in istanbul. The car bomb targeting a Turkish Police bus went off not far from a main tourist area this morning. Close to 40 more people are reported hurt. For more now on this, lets correspondent,a jasper mortimer. What more can you tell us about what happened there this morning echo jasper what happened there this morning . Jasper a car packed with explosives exploded. It was detonated by remote control. It was not a suicide bombing.
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
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