Culture and lifestyle Investigations and reports
Objectif Monde
2025
"Objectif Monde" proposes special reports and investigations into societal or geopolitical issues, taking the time to analyse the situations thanks to different specialist opinions. This TV5MONDE programme is produced with French-speaking partners (RTBF, RTS, Radio-Canada, France Télévisions) and the support of the public French-speaking media.
Culture and lifestyle | Investigations and reports
Episode 9
96 min
Canada in Donald Trump's shadow
The Canadian federal election of 2025, won by the Liberals, took place in Donald Trump's persistent shadow. But beyond diplomatic tension, the new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, will also have to tackle crucial domestic issues: cost of living, energy transition, deterioration of the health service, immigration, etc.
Episode 8
91 min
When the ice sheet stirs up greed
Donald Trump's announcement that he wants to annex Greenland, a former Danish colony, has put the spotlight on this Arctic territory, which is strategically crucial for its fossil resources and geographical position. How is the population reacting to American "advances"? Why is the country so coveted?
Episode 7
95 min
Switzerland, a laboratory for the world?
Four national languages, as many cultural regions, twenty cantons: how did Switzerland manage to build a nation and have such a high GDP? How does the country face climate change? And why does it allow assisted suicide and is about to legalize the sale of cannabis?
Episode 6
89 min
AI at the centre of our lives, its promises and dangers
Artificial intelligence: two words cropping up in every conversation and technology that already forms part of our daily lives. This revolution fascinates as much as it causes concern: it saves lives but destroys jobs. On the occasion of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, we discuss the "Global Objective".
Episode 5
94 min
Post-Brexit United Kingdom is searching for its way
Five years after Brexit, whereas the promises of funding a battered health system and restricting immigration remain largely unfulfilled, London is struggling to find its place on the international stage. Football, whisky, music, royal family and even gastronomy: the United Kingdom retains its charm all the same.
Episode 10
94 min
Are we dying for that perfect body?
Advertising, film, television, internet: the ideal of the perfect body is taking over our everyday lives. Subjected to the endless exhortations of social media, youngsters are increasingly turning to cosmetic surgery. How to explain this tyranny? It is still possible to assert a right to be different?
Episode 9
94 min
Sport, between splendour and excess
European Football Championship, Olympic Games, Tour de France... Sport is constantly in the headlines, has a mass following and generates ever more money. What future for major events with their high environmental impact? Who can still afford to fund them? Is sport developing a new world order? Investigation and debate.
Episode 8
94 min
Global rearmament
The Russian invasion of Ukraine sent a shockwave through Europe, leading most European countries to increase their arms spending. Contrary to this growing militarisation, nearly thirty countries around the world, such as Costa Rica, have no army at all. How do they view the global situation?
Episode 7
91 min
Germany, when it all falls apart!
Germany is being shaken by a series of unexpected protests as farmers, railway workers and restaurant owners demand measures to help fight the cost of living crisis and millions march against the rise of the AfD. Can the European elections make the far-right the second most-important force in Germany?
Episode 6
92 min
Ecological transition: everything still to do
How to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonise the economy? The challenge is enormous with the climate emergency demanding rapid, sustainable solutions. Energy, transport, agriculture, the petrochemical and building industries... How to make them "green", yet still retain energy and agricultural sovereignty?
"Objectif Monde" proposes special reports and investigations into societal or geopolitical issues, taking the time to analyse the situations thanks to different specialist opinions. This TV5MONDE programme is produced with French-speaking partners (RTBF, RTS, Radio-Canada, France Télévisions) and the support of the public French-speaking media.
When we meet Bijoux in Yaoundé, she has just survived another lynching. Just like Shakiro, LGBTQIA+ activist. This is the story of two people who feel like "women in a man's body" and who highlight their humanity to us at a time when homophobic and transphobic violence continues on every continent.
Local communities are engaged in conflicts that receive very little media coverage around Kisangani, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this remote province of Tshopo, the lack of a state, security and consideration for human beings has enabled a simple land dispute to degenerate into a mass massacre.
They were intended to mark the success of a transition process driven by international community engagement. This was not the case. This article highlights the limits of interventionist policies and a country's ability to reinvent its own democratic system.
Could it be that there are reptilians living amongst us? According to those who believe in this theory, lizards capable of shapeshifting into humans have infiltrated our society. Julien Robichaud embarks on an informative and humoristic adventure to investigate the idea of this hybrid race.
Could it be that two Acadian actors in the successful series "À la valdrague" suffer from linguistic insecurity? Bianca Richard and Gabriel Robichaud, from New Brunswick, set themselves the challenge of deciphering this curse and examine the state of expression of the French-Canadian language and particularly Acadian.
In Geneva, the young women of the radical collective 'Engageons les murs' denounce sexual harassment and violence. United by their refusal to be perceived as victims, their actions aim to change the paradigms of a society that they consider too conservative and patriarchal. Svetlana Rodina follows them for a year.
