FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert breaks down what could be Putin's strategy and ultimate goal, following the proposal accepted by Ukraine of an immediate 30-day ceasefire.
François Picard is very pleased to welcome Marcos Athias Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General & UNDP Assistant Administrator. In the view of Mr. Neto, the world today is experiencing a profound crisis of development. Global development should not be understood as a secondary or charitable concern,...
Tensions in the Middle East escalated on Tuesday as the US destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels and Iran vowed to block regional oil exports. Heavy strikes hit Iran, Lebanon, and Gulf states, with civilian casualties rising. Global markets and energy supplies face disruption as the conflict ent...
The U.S. military "eliminated" 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement, as President Donald Trump warned that any mines laid in the Strait by Iran must be removed immediately. Trump previously said the U.S. had "complet...
As the Iran war continues to disrupt oil supplies from the Middle East, Paris hosted a summit aiming to boost the use of civilian nuclear energy. Announcing a plan to provide a €200 million guarantee for innovative nuclear technologies, European Commission President Usrula von der Leyen said it...
A newly released video by Iran’s Mehr News Agency - verified and geolocated by fact-checking experts - shows an American Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base next to the girls elementary school in Minab, Iran. It puts the US in the spotlight, contradicting Donald Trump’s claims that it...
Why this war of Donald Trump's choosing? As the death and destruction widen in Iran and around the region, as oil and gas markets take fright, the US president’s reasons for launching what his administration dubs Operation Epic Fury continue to vary as do the stated scale and duration....
US President Donald Trump says he's weighing lifting oil sanctions in an effort to keep energy prices down, in a move that is seen benefiting Russia and its financing of the war in Ukraine. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Sergey Vakulenko, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre, e...
Ukraine hit a "key" military factory in a missile strike Tuesday on Russia's western city of Bryansk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said after Moscow gave a toll of six dead in the attack....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that a "key" military factory in Russia's western city of Bryansk had been targetted and hit in a missile strike. Russia earlier accused Kyiv of a "terrorist" attack in Bryansk that it said killed six civilians and wounded at least 37 people,...
Reporting from Doha in Qatar for FRANCE 24, journalist Hoda Abdel-Hamid explains that the Gulf region will undergo "a complete reset at the end of this war" as a result of the relentless strikes from Iranian drones and missiles, "whether it is on the military side, rethinking the need or use of the...
New footage shows what an expert investigative group says is likely an American Tomahawk missile hitting a compound in Minab, southern Iran, metres from the school where a deadly unclaimed blast killed over 165 people at the start of the war in the Mideast. It comes as mounting evidence points t...
After the October 7th attacks, Israel spent billions housing 200,000 displaced citizens. Now, the government is determined to keep people in their homes even as war rages just across the border in southern Lebanon, while esidents say they aren’t going anywhere, no matter the risk. Our special cor...
Several cities in #Iran were targeted by fresh Israeli strikes as the US-Israeli campaign carried on in the country. US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth on March 10 warned it would be the "most intense day" of strikes in the country. ...
Russia's deportation and forcible transfer of "thousands" of Ukrainian children during the war in Ukraine amounts to a crime against humanity, a United Nations team of investigators said Tuesday. Moscow has failed to establish a system facilitating returns, focusing instead on long-term placement...
Russia has so far been the only winner from the war in the Middle East as energy prices soar and attention for its war against Ukraine has faded, EU Council President Antonio Costa has said. Late on Monday, US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the war amid repo...
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday his country would keep fighting as long as necessary, casting doubt on US President Donald Trump's insistence that the conflict would be over "soon."...
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday will be the most intense day yet of US strikes inside Iran as the Islamic Republic, its firepower diminished, vowed to fight on. US President Donald Trump, for his part, has sent contradictory signals about how long the war could last. France 24’s Do...
There is "real fear" among many ordinary Iranians that Donald Trump, who said this week the US war on Iran could be over "soon", may strike some sort of deal with the country's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, a man many see as behind some of the harshest internal repression seen in the country...
France 24's Catherine Norris Trent reports from Lebanon's Sidon, where she says waves of displaced people have been arriving as they head further north in an effort to escape Israeli strikes. Israel's military said earlier Tuesday it would soon strike Hezbollah infrastructure in Sidon and other loc...
On Europe’s eastern flank, the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – fear they could become Vladimir Putin’s next target. After several drone incursions from Russia, the three countries are stepping up their defence strategies on the ground and in the air. This report from our co...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the country's military offensive against Iran was "not done yet", saying the operation was degrading Iran's clerical leadership, despite comments from US president Donald Trump that the war could be over "very soon". France 24's Olivia Bizot ha...
US attacks on Iran will hit a new intensity Tuesday and the war will continue as long as President Donald Trump decides, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said. "Today will be yet again, our most intense day of strikes inside Iran -- the most fighters, the most bombers," Hegseth told a news conference at...
A strike hit near the south Lebanon city of Tyre on Tuesday after the Israeli military said it would target Hezbollah infrastructure there and warned residents to leave. The Israeli military had said it would also target coastal city of Sidon. France 24’s correspondent Renée Davis has the latest...
FRANCE 24's François Picard welcomes Jon Marks, author, political scientist and chairman/founder of Cross-border Information. Having followed energy markets for decades, Marks warns that we are in uncharted waters: the current crisis bears little resemblance to any previous shock....
Asked about how long US strikes in #Iran would last for, Donald #Trump assured the #war would end 'very soon'. But soon after, he threatened to escalate the conflict by striking Iran "twenty times harder" if it stopped the oil flow going through the Strait of #Hormuz....
US President Donald Trump said Monday that he will waive some sanctions on oil to boost supply and bring down prices, due to market turmoil over war in the Middle East. Trump did not specify any country or provide details on which sanctions would be lifted, but his comments came after speaking to R...
UNESCO is sounding the alarm and reiterating its deep concern about the war in the Middle East damaging priceless world heritage sites. Israeli and American bombings are causing daily damage to educational, scientific, and media infrastructure in the region. Some sites have already been damaged....
Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s football team who were visiting the country for a tournament when the Iran war began, a government minister said Tuesday. The announcement followed days of urging by Iranian groups in Australia and by US President Donald Trump for th...
With the US and Israel's war on Iran now in its second week, the strain on the Middle East's oil infrastructure couldn't be clearer. Beyond Iranian strikes on pipelines and refineries, the vital Strait of Hormuz waterway is all but shut down, creating backups for twenty million barrels of oil a day...
Iran remains mostly cut off to the world, with access to foreign press is heavily restricted and internet in the country is only working at around one percent of its usual capacity. Nevertheless, Ershad Alijani, from France 24's the Observers, has been able to exclusively interview some people from...
