Boutros Boutros-Ghali was UN secretary general from 1992 to 1997, a period that saw genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and all of this amidst increasingly stormy relations between the US and the UN.
He joins Sir David from Paris.
Sir David is also joined by Richard Wolffe, a Washington insider and author, and Colleen Graffy, the former state department official. They discuss Barack Obama's first term as US president and whether his honeymoon is finally over.