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France continues drift to the right

Reality Check: French regional elections; Privacy or security; Venezuelan parliamentary elections; Tim Flannery; Brazil mining disaster

France: Regional elections

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France's far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen.

As expected Marine Le Pen’s far right Front National party made significant gains in the first round of regional elections at the weekend. Our Paris correspondent gives us an analysis of the results and looks at how the other parties are likely to respond to the success of the Front National.

Europe: Privacy or security

How much of our personal privacy are we willing to sacrifice in the name of national security? That’s the question Europeans are faced with in the wake of the Paris attacks. Chris Cummins speaks to politicians from the various factions in the European Parliament.

Venezuela: Parliamentary elections

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Opposition supporters celebrate a Major win in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is in a much weaker position this morning as his socialist party suffered a major defeat in yesterday’s Parliamentary elections. The conservative opposition now controls Venezuela’s National Assembly. We speak to political analyst and Venezuela-watcher, Julia Buxton.

COP21 Paris: Tim Flannnery

There’s a definite climate of hope at the COP21 climate conference currently underway in Paris. In today’s programme we speak to author and climate expert Tim Flannery: He is author of the book “Atmosphere of Hope” but warns that the world will be a scary place even if we do manage to keep global warming to 2 degrees.

Brazil: After the mining disaster

On November 5th dams broke at a mine in southeastern Brazil sending a tsunami of toxic sludge into the environment. We speak to Herwig Schuster of Greenpeace International about the magnitude of the disaster and the clean-up challenges that lie ahead.

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