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Is the world a smaller, friendlier place after agreement at the United Nations on Iran and Syria? François Picard’s panel of journalist look at the daunting challenges ahead. Also, as the Kenyan mall attack unfolds, the media obsesses with Britain’s so-called “white widow” and Qatar’s World Cup slaves.
The world this week : Canada shaken by parliament shooting, first Ebola case reaches New York City, Total CEO dies in a plane crash in Russia and Paris holds its 41st International Contemporary Art Fair edition.
In the second part of the World this Week, our guests discuss the ongoing crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border, the worldwide panic over the Ebola virus outbreak and the British anti-immigration party UKIP, which has just gained its first ever seat in Parliament.
In The World This Week: protests are ongoing in Hong Kong as its leader refuses to step down, the deadly Ebola virus comes to the United States, Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election, France's former presidential couple Jacques and Bernadette Chirac are split over the best way forward for the UMP party, and is the UK sleepwalking out of the European Union?
In The World This Week - The UK Parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour of using air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq, west Africa is at crisis point as ebola spreads, India celebrates as its orbiter successfully reaches Mars, and does size matter? iPhone unveils its biggest smartphones yet.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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