French Farmers and the 'Siege of Paris

Kate Adie introduces stories from France, Ecuador, the occupied West Bank, the Thailand-Myamar border and South Korea.Firefighters across Europe have been battling wildfires this week and in the southwest of France, an area four times the size of Paris burnt outside Bordeaux. Pre ...  Show more

Kate Adie introduces stories on India's 'cockroach' protests, anger in Ukraine over army recruitment, the Iranian school bombed at the start of the war, fears over voting changes in America's deep south, and the bio-hacking phenomenon in Berlin.The Cockroach Janta Party, or CJP, ...  Show more

Adam is joined from Paris by Catherine Norris-Trent, senior correspondent for France 24, to explain what’s behind some of the worst days of violence since demonstrations began in January.Plus, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former press secretary, and the BBC’s security correspo ...  Show more

On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from Copenhagen, by Ravinder Kaur, author of Brand New Nation, to discuss the farmers' protest in India, how they've sustained momentum for a hundred days, ...  Show more

Violent clashes, arrests and deaths during Morocco’s GenZ 212 protestsWhy Senegal's fishermen are blaming a BP natural gas project for lack of fishAnd Nigeria's First Lady raises $13million for national library – but why has it taken so long?Presenter : Nyasha Michelle Producers: ...  Show more

Featuring Alexandra Wandel, Gonzalo Berrón, and Paul Adlerstein on the 1999 mass protest against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and on the giant global justice movement that mobilized unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest advocates, and various radical left ...  Show more