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News & Current Affairs

Objectif Monde L'hebdo

( Season 2024 )
Report, inquiry, investigation ... "Objectif Monde L'Hebdo", a television magazine by French-speaking editorialists, takes time to reflect and analyse through the expert insights and opinions provided by specialists. A TV5MONDE programme, jointly produced with RTS, in collaboration with its francophone partners (RTBF, Radio-Canada, France Télévisions).

Presented by: Dominique Laresche.
www.tv5monde.com/objectifmonde

Episodes

Episode
18
Arabie saoudite : projets XXL
Saudi Arabia: XXL projects

To host the Football World Cup in 2034 and the Asian Winter Games in 2029, Saudi Arabia is launching a mammoth project. Neom is planned to cover 170 kms and include innovative infrastructures in the middle of the desert: trading port, ski resort, an ultramodern city called The Line... Are the Saudi ambitions realistic?

Guests: Hasni Abidi, Political Analyst, Director of the Study and Research Centre for the Arab and Mediterranean World in Geneva; Christian Chesnot

Presented by: Dominique Laresche
Episode
19
Morocco: new kingdom of the cannabis industry

To try to put an end to clandestine trafficking of cannabis resin, Morocco did a U-turn in 2021 by legalising production for therapeutic and industrial purposes. In Switzerland, Lausanne is testing regulated sales of cannabis. What are the results of these two experiments?

Guests: Romain Boutilly, France Télévisions Journalist; Franck Zobel, Deputy Director and Co-Head of the Research Department at Addiction Switzerland

Presented by: Dominique Laresche
Episode
20
Lake Titicaca is dying of thirst

Will Lake Titicaca disappear? Sitting at 3,800 m above sea level between Peru and Bolivia, this large fresh water reserve is at its lowest level forcing Andeans to move to La Paz. Are lakes resistant to climate change? What can be done to limit the human impact on water resources?

Guests: Violaine Vermot-Gaud, France Télévisions Journalist; Marie-Élodie Perga, Doctor in Ecology, Professor in Limnology at the University of Lausanne

Presented by: Dominique Laresche