the former french president nicolas sarkozy is not off the hook.e had tried to get charges of a listed campaign financing through the l'oreal heiress dropped. a court today saying proceedings may continue. those stories and much more at the top of the hour on france 24. welcome back to my or welcome if you are just joining us. this is the france 24 debate. the un's general assembly in new york is where it is all happening. a lunch taking place. barack obama speaking with nato secretary-general. wondering if at that lunch we might be -- he might be shaking hands with iran's new president. with us to talk about it, francois nicoullaud of the middle east institute, former french ambassador to iran in 2001 to 2005. majid rafizadeh, joining us in washington. as is robert zarate of the foreign-policy initiative. and laurie dundon, former state department official. before the break, we heard our correspondent mentioning how there were lots of conditions in the speech barack obama made when it came to iran. there is going to be a meeting on thursday at the

havunk on the back for 2017 and nicolas sarkozy coming back. that was a gift from his bunch of cheerleaders known as the nikolai association, the nikolai comeback association and a group of people committed to his making a comeback in 2017. that photo went up on their facebook page. not his facebook page. he very humbly let them do it for him. and elsewhere in the french media today, they're talking about two meetings or that nicolas sarkozy is preparing later this month. one on the -- on september 18, giving the legion of honor to an ex party m.p. and the other meeting, perhaps more interestingly is in the south of france at the end of month in cannes, the big indian giant that owns jaguar, landrover and his first private speaking event on french soil. we don't know how much he will get for it. >> speaking abroad up until now. >> and the whole private-public role that he's -- and can you make all this money and hope to make a political comeback? and in any case one person who thinks he's not going to make a political comeback is marion lapen.

french appeals courts may have stripped nicolas sarkozy of the chance of a political comeback is ruled an investigation should proceed into accusations the former president joop the heiress of the l'oreal cosmetics giant liliane bettencourt into funding his election campaign in two thousand and seven the next leader allegedly used the mental fragility of france's richest woman who suffered from dementia court's decision may lead to a trial in the long running scandal in which sarkozy denies any misconduct. he continues to bite family budgets in portugal which is making many people find it increasingly difficult to put food on the table aid programs are also being cut making the situation in the recession hit country even worse and as the number of people in need rises local volunteer charities are coming to the rescue reports. with little other choice they wait for. this mother and her son in our reliance on the parcels hunger and shapelessness increasingly common in today's lisbon thanks bill eighty two a charity could rethink the danger to weight loss. was almost a million people in

the french appeals court may have stripped nicolas sarkozy of the chance of a political comeback it's ruled an investigation should proceed into accusations the former president the heiress of the l'oreal cosmetics. vetting koren to follow because election campaign back in two thousand and seven its leader allegedly used the mental facility approaches which is what if you're suffering from dementia the court's decision made to the trial in the long running scandal in which it was he denies any misconduct. we've got with a news team offering just over half an hour from now the meantime u.s. lawmakers slashed the food stamp program while keeping the bloated military sector intact this and other stories missing in mainstream headlines and breaking the set that's coming your way shortly. the. economic downturn the final. deal sank i and the rest because i think it will be everything. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to. leave. the but. what's up guys i'm out in london this is breaking the set so apple's new operating system and the new i phone five as

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successive french governments, not just francois hollande, his predecessor nicolas sarkozy and his foreign minister both said assad should go. is it the west that will be taken lightly by allies? >> i am not sure all the west. it will depend. i think like david cameron, he voted himself and exit from the crisis. if the congress says no, then i am not going to act. given that the world opinion is a huge majority against, as it seems in the u.k. or even in france, it will not damage so much the image. i think the risk here is a major contradiction. the legal international law to intervene because of the use of weapons of mass destruction. and then it does not want to have a vote in the u.n. >> in the u.n.? >> in the u.n., it does not ask for a vote to support intervention. >> because of the security council. >> it would be better to say we are going to intervene, but let's ask the u.n. there is a major contradiction to say everything is going to be decided by the u.s. government. >> they have been very explicit that they have given up on the security council even the repeated russian opposit

sold, because i saw it in the "new york observer", you sold olivia sarkozy's, the brother of nicolas sarkozyear, right yeah. liz: a lot of celebrity buyers coming into new york right now? >> they are. they read the news like everyone else. they're seeing all the interest in it. it is not new. i tell everyone the same thing, 18 '30s, john as store said if i could live life all over i would buy every inch of manhattan. liz: would we all. >> this hasn't changed this is how it has been. liz: does it change at all with? >> we don't know. we assume with mayor deblasio. we'll have a change of leadership here. that will affect the quality of life here and so everyone keeps an eye on that. liz: inventory so people know is very tight. everybody wants three-bedroom. there aren't many three bedrooms. tough combine so it become as tight with inventory. everybody wants to move in town because crime is down. everybody wonders change in leadership,. >> crime, quality of park, more green spaces quality of schools. those are all things families consider. liz: as we finish up, cash down. how much are people pu

and of course, the friends of nicolas sarkozy committee is up and running, even though he is investigation over his 2007 campaign. why is it in southern europe, politicians hang around a little longer it seems? >> i think there is an increasing gap between italy and france. france while was president for 14 years. he had political carriers spanning over 3, 4 decades. he was prime minister for the first time in his early 40s, i think, and then he retired in his late 70s. that is not going to happen anymore. and that respect, we are changing. there is a view of generations that has increased. as far as italy is concerned, you look at him and you think he is still alive and he could still speak in 20 years, he will be back on television, making the same kind of statement. the real question is why he decides at this point not to go to the government, which he could have done. what is the next move for him? that is the interesting question. >> he obviously has an idea behind his head. silvio berlusconi, unexpected talking point at a conference in russia, where vladimir putin was drawn on the an

september of '09 in pittsburgh, that the g-20 was used as a backdrop for then, gordon brown and nicolas sarkozy and president obama to announce about the iranian disclosures. so it can be used, obviously, with the media watching, a platform to advance. so i'm wondering if we'll see a lot of, perhaps some press conferences that will - to some of this. so it can be used on occasion. [laughs] >> again, one of the advantages of being a specialist, i do the g-20. so i don?t have to worry about important things like russia and syria so much. i totally agree with that. i mean, i think that there very well may be things on the margins, where people pull aside, certainly to talk, but possibly to say things, announce things. but i - just in a formal g-20 sense, there won't - i don't think it will be in the communique. >> my image for this summit is kind of the hold-your-nose summit, for a lot of the participants. >> that's the headline. [laughter] >> the bataan death march. >> questions? scott. >> dr. kuchins, when you said that it was a mistake for obama to make his remark about putin having one foot in