of france? as the country prepares to elect a new president bears record levels of apathy and delusion among french voters, a spate of terror attacks has sown in security and has sparked debate. my guest todayis and has sparked debate. my guest today is a writer and public intellectual in the grand french tradition. is france living through an age of decline? pascal, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we are talking with a french presidential elections very close, does france feel right for the sort of political shock that we ve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the united states with the victory of donald trump in the presidential election? i hope not, with all my heart i hope we won t face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. so we re doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with marine le pen. but at the present time we have two opposite candidates, marcha nt, time we have two op
Miles away. that s the west village and this is connected to the king of saudi arabia, king abdullah, the one of the richest people in the world and that s gone bankrupt and save the hospital in 300 million dollar project. that s king abdullah worth north of 20 billion dollars. and wants to show that muslim can do, quote, good works. no confirmation from the aw saudies or manhattan based lawyer. i ve been called racist, islam-afobe i was there when the planes hit the buildings and when they blew up the parking garage. this mosque was too close to ground zero, to everyone s liking, september for one group. the developers wanted it that close. moving it, a symbolic gesture