this is the world this week seven days for paris based correspondents one hour this christopher dickey of the two meet the stars. happy new year itself as easter sunday of the accused in the news magazine. i mean auction also with this crank appeals courts and the atlantic. and when he died. senior chris pyne for radio france and ask your radio. will be totally wrong about some elitist or to book a good deal of it later on. during the show the world this week we can join the conversation on facebook and twitter are hushed and tw tw. this week major painted by france's president of the house for the school owns new year's press conference where he scratched his tax the rich mantra and instead offered major tax breaks and belt tightening. but i'm looking at the financial times's take up that doesn't seem to be with the nearly six hundred journalists it came for. um i thought of having an affair but i couldn't get my milk had to start says the bank's cartoon bear it's it's it's it's pretty cute this was a major policy speech. but it's not what the journalists came for. oh and in fact ther

. >> but we want to bring onboard christopher dickey, with the daily beast. and you're speaking here as the paris editor this evening, and we want to give you equal time. we have you here, and you were at masseur olan's press conference, and chris, how is it seen? how is the event of the day? it was just terribly long. >> well, you know, the press conference went on for well over two hours, and i think maybe three or four minutes in total were devoted to the questions of president olan's alleged affair with the actress. and that's all that everybody really wanted to hear about, because the other two hours and 8 minutes or so, were devoted to olan's talking endlessly about his economic programs, and the wars that he's waging in africa, and people had heard them numerous times before and there were almost no headlines in t so the question was, masseur president, would you tell us a few basic things, like what's going to happen to the first lady? you're not married to her, valerie, and you seem to have another lover, and she's in the hospital, seems to be suffer