Author: France 24

It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year: “Anora” is Sean Baker’s most sophisticated film yet, according to critic Emma Jones. She tells us why there is lots to love in this story of a sex worker and an oligarch’s son, and why lead actress Mikey Madison is tipped for great things. We also discuss Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama “Juror No. 2”, as the 94-year-old director reunites Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette for this rumination on justice and truth. Plus, Emma tells us why Tom Hardy’s superhero caper “Venom: The Last Dance” is a fun way…

“We have no other land to go to,” a Palestinian woman responds to Israeli soldiers seeking to displace her community from their village in the West Bank. It’s one of the many moving moments captured in the documentary “No Other Land”, by an Israeli and Palestinian collective of filmmakers: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor. Yuval and Basel join us in the studio to discuss working together to collect evidence in the village of Masafer Yatta, where Israeli soldiers have destroyed homes, a primary school and the water supply since the zone was declared a military zone by…

In an interview with FRANCE 24, US surgeon Mark Perlmutter claimed that Israeli snipers are deliberately targeting children in Gaza. Perlmutter said that while he was volunteering at the European hospital of Khan Younis in southern Gaza earlier this year, he “saw two children that were shot twice”. He added: “No child gets shot twice by mistake.”

Spanish midfielders Rodri and Aitana Bonmatí were awarded the men’s and women’s Ballon d’Or award, respectively, for the world’s best football player in 2024  at a ceremony in Paris on Monday.

Volkswagen staff have sounded the alarm over plans to cut ‘tens of thousands’ of jobs, cut wages, and close three factories across Germany. The carmaker’s employee council said management had described the cost-cutting plans as necessary. If confirmed, the restructuring will mark a symbolic blow to German industry. Also in the show – France 24 reporters in Malaysia meet a former TikTok employee who has been replaced by artificial intelligence, in a controversial move by the Chinese-owned app.

English singer-songwriter Katy J Pearson has just released her third album “Someday, Now”, which sees the indie-folk artist reconnect with people around her while drawing in 1980s-tinted aesthetics. We also hear from Xavier Boyer, the singer of the indie-pop French band Tahiti 80, who are celebrating their 25th anniversary with a tenth album, “Hello Hello”. Plus we take a look at new releases by The Cure, who are releasing their first album in 16 years; and Tyler, The Creator, who is back in full form with his seventh studio album “Chromakopia”.

The Israeli army on Monday launched fresh strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Lebanese state media said, hours after telling swathes of the city to evacuate immediately as it was planning an attack on Hezbollah targets. The strikes came after an earlier Israeli raid on the city killed at least seven people and wounded 17 others, according to a health ministry statement. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in the Middle East.

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Morocco where he is expected to meet with the North African kingdom’s leaders and discuss partnerships regarding trade, climate change and immigration. It comes months after Macron changed France’s longstanding public position and backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara. The move endeared the country to Morocco and alienated it from Algeria, which hosts refugee camps governed by the pro-independence Polisario Front and has long pushed for a UN-organized referendum to solve the conflict. In the days leading up to the visit, Moroccan publications lauded the “warm reunion” and a “new honeymoon”…

Debate is beginning at the National Assembly on French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed end-of-life bill. It would create a legal framework for the terminally ill to get help to die; a highly contentious issue. FRANCE 24’s Solange Mougin tells us what’s in the bill, how changes to it are already controversial and how assisted suicide is carried out in other EU nations. 

Boeing workers have voted to continue their strike, with 64 percent of them rejecting the latest offer that included a 35 percent wage hike over four years. The strike, now running for nearly six weeks, is worsening the planemaker’s already dire financial situation. Boeing logged more than $6 billion in net loss in the latest quarter. But first, the UNDP warns that Lebanon’s economy could shrink as much as 9.2 percent in 2024 if the war continues through the end of the year.