Showcasing some of the best Documentaries and Talk Shows
Fri 30 May 2025: The new Syrian government has had to deal with a bewildering array of internal and external challenges. How it deals with these will determine the future integrity and progress of the country. Today we welcome back onto the show historian Dr Diana Darke who told us previously that she will return […]
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Fri 30 May 2025: In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with South Africa’s former ANC cabinet minister of international relations and cooperation, Naledi Pandor. Topics of discussion include: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office. Claims of a “white genocide” of farmers in South Africa. […]
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Sat 10 May 2025: Africa is a continent rich in natural resources with a young population. African nations in theory have the potential to transform their economies. But many of them are facing mountains of debt. Africa’s external debt climbed to more than $650bn last year. More than half of African countries are either in […]
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Thu 17 April 2025: More than 10 million Muslims in India’s northeastern state of Assam are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis enabled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In line with its hardline Hindutva ideology, the party has targeted Muslims through illegal mass arrests, arbitrarily demolished their homes, mosques and madrasas and […]
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Wed 02 April 2025: When the Assad regime fell in December 2024, opposition forces opened prison doors across Syria. For many, Assad’s demise was both a shock and a moment of long-awaited freedom. Yet for those who had endured years of torture, the scars – both physical and emotional – remain. How did they survive […]
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Wed 26 March 2025: In Africa’s Ghost Reporters, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveals a shadowy influence campaign that uses fake journalists and local media to spread political propaganda, mainly in the French-speaking countries of West and Central Africa. The investigation uncovers how images of the dead have been used to create fake journalists, how middlemen […]
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Wed 12 March 2025: In this episode, Dr. Tallha Abdulrazaq joins us to explore how the new Syrian government is navigating mounting regional and internal threats—from Hezbollah’s presence on the Lebanese border, Israeli support for Druze factions in the south, and Iranian-backed SDF forces advancing from the east, to renewed tensions from transgressive remnants of […]
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Sat 08 March 2025: An exclusive interview with the military defector who exposed the systematic torture of 11,000 Syrian civilians. An exclusive Al Jazeera interview with the Syrian military defector codenamed “Caesar”. Between 2011 and 2013, he smuggled about 53,000 photos out of the Syrian government’s secret archives, nearly half of which were of […]
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Sat 22 February 2025: Will Brics nations pose a real challenge to Donald Trump’s second term in office? And how do Trump’s tariffs stack up against this rising bloc? US economist Richard D. Wolff joined us for an extended conversation on Trump, tariffs Brics, as well as the US plan to ‘take over’ Gaza. “This […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: “The Palestine Laboratory”, journalist and author Antony Loewenstein investigates how surveillance and military technology developed by Israel and tested on Palestinians is marketed abroad. He finds out how the latest Israeli technology is being used to monitor refugees and migrants in Greece and along the US-Mexico border. Loewenstein visits Mexico to […]
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