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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 T...

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 impro...

Prohibition of chemical weapons wednesday 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, we will speak with paul walker of green cross international. He just won the right livelihood award, otherwise known as the alternative nobel, for his work on dismantling chemical weapons. We will also speak with professor Stephen Zunes on how the Bush Administration forced out the former head of the opcw ahead of the iraq war. Then the committee to protect journalists criticizes the Obama Administrations crackdown on journalists in its firstever report on press freedoms in your in the United States. Here in the United States. W...

There has been a breakthrough in u. S. Russian talks over syria. Those sides have agreed to a six point plan to remove and destroy syrias chemical arsenal by the middle of next year if syrian president year. Decidesyrian president to defy that agreement, sanctions could be authorized. The u. N. Now says syria will join the Chemical Weapons Convention and will fall under the treaty next month. For further analysis, we hear more from our washington correspondent in just a moment. Moments before the u. S. Secretary of state and Russian Foreign minister held a joint conference in geneva, there app...

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