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After a weekend veto of France's UN resolution to stop the Russian-backed carpet bombing of Aleppo, President Putin's trip to Paris has been postponed. But in the run-up to France's presidential election, candidates from the far-right to the far-left speak fondly of the master of the Kremlin. Why does Russia’s president so divides politicians in Britain, Germany and even the US where Moscow's accused of hacking email accounts and where the subject of Putin splits the Republican ticket.
It was clear from the outset that this campaign would upend French politics. Then with a little more than 24 hours of campaigning left a 39-year old convict targeted police on Paris' Champs-Elysées, killing an officer, injuring three, dying in a hail of bullets and stealing everyone's attention. How will this impact the election? With the top four candidates still neck-and-and neck, our panel of international journalists try to make sense of an election unlike any France has seen before.
It was a spectacle unseen in previous French presidential races. Lively exchanges but no knockout punches in a five-way candidates’ debate. The over three hour long event served up five different visions of France, but did it set the tone for the homestretch of this campaign. What are the issues that will decide an election that the whole world is watching?
After Vladimir Putin's bullseye first round win our Friday panel of journalists take aim at the daunting challenges facing the once and future Russian president. Will he reform or repress? Also, why a video posted by a little-known advocacy group out of California, calling for the capture of notorious Central African warlord Joseph Kony has gone viral across the planet.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called a parliamentary inquiry looking into possible links between her National Rally party and Russia a 'witch hunt.'
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