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February is delivering a packed slate of must-watch television. Critic Dheepthika Laurent reviews the French release of “Heated Rivalry”, which brings a steamy, taboo-breaking hockey romance to new audiences, as well as the Netflix show that revisits the legacy and controversies of “America’s Next Top Model”. Legal drama fans can dive into a high-stakes new season of “The Lincoln Lawyer”, with Mickey Haller facing his toughest case yet – his own.

The recent crackdown in Iran has left more than 7,000 people dead, including at least 200 children, with documentation slowed by internet shutdowns and restrictions on expert access. Shiva Amelirad, representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers Trade Association, explains how the regime’s control over schools and discussions affects students and teachers, and the psychological impact of the violence.

Romane Miradoli won silver in the Super-G at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. At 31, the French skier claimed her first Olympic medal – the first for a French woman in Alpine skiing in 24 years. She was beaten by Italy’s Federica Brignone, who triumphed just 10 months after suffering a serious left leg injury.

Indian farmers and trade unions staged a day of nationwide strike and protest over a recently announced trade deal with the United States.  While the government says measures to safeguard the country’s agriculture sector have been put in place, farmers worry the agreement will lower barriers for US farm products. 

In this episode of arts24, we meet Ghanaian-Dutch visual artist Joel Quayson, who won the 2025 Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents, one of the most closely watched awards in contemporary photography. Born to Ghanaian parents and raised in the Netherlands within a devout Christian household, Quayson’s work is shaped by the tension between faith, cultural heritage and queer self-expression. That deeply personal conflict lies at the heart of his prize-winning video “How do you feel?”, now on view at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP).

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. As a veteran Middle East negotiator under Republican and Democratic administrations, Mr. Miller argues that power, perception, and pressure shape outcomes more than goodwill or ideology. Today, Netanyahu’s influence is diminishing, and Trump is cornered by his own rhetoric. The US-Israel dynamic is transactional: The relationship may be functional, but it’s fragile.

In a dusty hospital basement on the outskirts of London, over 100 years of medical history lines the shelves, neatly arranged in row after row of cardboard specimen boxes. Largely forgotten until recently, it is hoped this unique archive will help unravel the mystery of the rising number of younger people getting bowel cancer. The archive contains tens of thousands of tumour and tissue specimens, some dating back to the early 20th century. Preserved in formaldehyde and paraffin wax, they come from patients treated at the UK’s national bowel hospital, St Mark’s, in northwest London. Researchers hope that examining the…

French figure skaters Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry pulled off an incredible exploit on Wednesday, winning Olympic gold in ice dancing after skating together for just a year. Cizeron, 31, and 33-year-old Fournier Beaudry, took the title ahead of reigning world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the USA after the free dance finale. Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier took bronze. For Cizeron it is a second consecutive Olympic ice dance gold after he won the title at the Beijing Winter Olympics four years ago with Gabriella Papadakis. Cizeron and Papadakis retired from competition following their fifth world title in 2022 and…

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again BUSINESS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 11/02/2026 – 10:59Modified: 11/02/2026 – 10:59 06:28 min From the show Reading time 1 min US President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of a new cross-border bridge between the US and Canada over concerns Washington has been treated unfairly over the course of the…

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again arts24 © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 11/02/2026 – 16:59Modified: 11/02/2026 – 16:59 12:18 min From the show Reading time 1 min In this episode of arts24, film critic Manon Kerjean reviews several new French releases: Alice Winocour’s “Coutures”, starring Angelina Jolie and Louis Garrel in a backstage drama about women navigating illness and industry…