Le débat télévisé Royal-Sarkozy retransmis par de nombreux médias - 20minutes.fr

Le débat entre Ségolène Royal et Nicolas Sarkozy présenté en direct mercredi 2 mai par Arlette Chabot et Patrick Poivre d'Arvor sur TF1 et France 2 sera retransmis par de nombreux autres médias.

- France 24 retransmet le débat en direct avec traduction simultanée en anglais et en arabe, suivi d'une émission spéciale dans les trois langues.

- Arte retransmet le débat en direct sur internet : www.arte.tv et met cette vidéo à la disposition des internautes pendant les 7 jours suivant la diffusion.

Looks like France24 will do it with simultaneous translations in English and Arabic. I don't know if they will carry it on the web.

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How to watch France 24

LATEST NEWS: FRANCE 24 is now available on BSkyB in English on channel 517.

Starting Feb. 1, 2007, FRANCE 24 is available on TPS in France, on channel 46 in French and channel 350 in English.

And starting Feb. 6, 2007, FRANCE 24 is available in English on Noos (channel 59) and Numericable (channel 345).

How to find the channel in Zone Europe

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Arte will have it, in French and German:
Retransmission en direct du débat Royal/Sarkozy - ARTE

ARTE retransmet ce débat en direct sur Internet www.arte.tv et met la vidéo de la discussion à la disposition des arténautes pendant les 7 jours qui suivront l'émission. Pour les spectateurs allemands, une version avec traduction simultanée en direct sera disponible dès 21h.

(BTW, questions such as this one can probably better be asked in the European Salon de News, rather than a 2 sentence diary...)

According to France 24; they will be providing a live feed of the debate in French, English and Arabic.

If Royal comes across as clear headed, intelligent and commanding; she has a very good chance of winning the election as at least 25% of the voters are undecided, should be a huge turnout with the election so close, and her discussion with Bayrou will help her in addition to LePen asking his voters to abstain.

I am not sure I trust any polling coming out of the major polling orgs because you dont know whether their polling is unbiased.

Saw this too late to be useful, but they are France's best-known news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (who officiates on TF1), and the head of political reporting on France 2 (public service), Arlette Chabot, who, let's say, doesn't have the charisma of PPDA.

Neither is known for left-leaning sympathies.