@marclamonthill and @RediTlhabi cut through the headlines with hard-hitting, in depth interviews. Fridays at 1930GMT on @AJEnglish.
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Why is India’s BJP fielding a candidate who is facing terrorism charges?
@mehdirhasan asks Nalin Kohli, spokesperson for Bharatiya Janata Party. 1930 GMT @ AJEnglish
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Former Malaysian cabinet minister @SyedSaddiq tells @mehdirhasan what he thinks about his country’s new “backdoor government”, led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin. Watch the full interview: piped.video/swhmkTOVt6M
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“It was AIPAC who came after me. It was AIPAC who lied on me. It was AIPAC who was deceptive. It’s AIPAC who hurt my community” US Congresswoman @CoriBush tells @marclamonthill about #AIPAC’s influence in US elections.
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/neXdc0S4Bt4
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Is it fair to call Indian prime minister Modi a fascist? @mehdirhasan asks two of the biggest names in Bollywood @Javedakhtarjadu @MaheshNBhatt. Watch on @AJEnglish, YouTube and http:/aljazeera.com/upfront Friday 19:30 GMT.
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India is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Indians scramble for oxygen, medicines, and hospital beds, @RanaAyyub tells @marclamonthill she believes the country’s political leadership is morally “dead” and “depraved.”
Full interview 1930 GMT.
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Indian journalists “are literally calling for war” between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, says award-winning author and activist, Arundhati Roy. 1930 GMT FRIDAY @AJEnglish aljazeera.com/upfront
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“The American empire is over. We're done,” economist @profwolff tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill.
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/1ih7WJrcjWg
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.@GretaThunberg tells @marclamonthill how she convinced her mom to start caring about the environment and how activism has given meaning to her life.
Full interview on @AJUpFront on Friday.
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Why won’t Pakistan publicly criticise China on its detention of millions of Uighur muslims? @mehdirhasan challenges Pakistan’s Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari. For more of the interview: piped.video/WJLYxkUN3zY
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Fri 1930GMT: @mehdirhasan goes to Rio to speak to impeached Brazilian President @dilmabr Rousseff.
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“[Europeans and Americans] understand resistance. It's just that they don't like when we do it,” author @m7mdkurd to #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill.
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/FxOnQo4hJC8
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“When the crime of crimes is being committed, you cannot wait until the dust has settled and the blood has dried to even utter the word genocide,” former UN top official @CraigMokhiber tells @marclamonthill of the UN failures on Gaza.
🔗 Full interview: piped.video/3w71C01jKcc
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ESPN suspended journalist @jemelehill soon after she said Trump is a white supremacist. Now she’s calling out the NFL. Full interview with @richellecarey: piped.video/TiywKXsIrKk
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“What number will trigger the horror that should have been triggered already of Palestinian deaths. Is it 10,000? Is it 100,000?” @4noura asks @marclamonthill.
Watch full show with @Ha_Matar & @LaraFriedmanDC: piped.video/Rsb2eUCgbCA
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In an exclusive interview with @AJUpFront, Executive Committee Member of the TPLF @reda_getachew tells @marclamonthill an independent Tigrayan state is “probably the best option there is, at this point in time”.
Full interview airs Friday at 19:30GMT.
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Are US sanctions or Tehran to blame for exacerbating COVID-19? @mehdirhasan asks Iranian political commentator Mohammad Marandi. See the full show: piped.video/tr7THkzpZI0
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Are ‘wokeness’ and call-out’ culture weakening social movements? @mehdirhasan asks Harvard professor and political activist Cornel West. Full interview: piped.video/d8KaUS3OUaI
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.@mehdirhasan - If you liked this, here are highlights of previous robust interviews on @AJUpFront.
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Arundhati Roy says Donald Trump is "the effluent of a system that went wrong", whereas Indian PM Modi is "is a system that's been coming since 1925".
More between Roy and @mehdirhasan on piped.video/Bh7M3ryozb0
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PREVIEW: Why is India detaining former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti without charge? @mehdirhasan challenges BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia. Full interview @ajenglish 1930GMT and on YouTube: piped.video/ezMQTDTHQoY
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“Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, they should be tried in the International Criminal Court,” says Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize laureate @TawakkolKarman.
Full intv with @mehdirhasan: piped.video/wDmhg6dKTmY
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Here's how @mehdirhasan challenged Trump supporters on Trump's lies, wiretapping, voter fraud, birthright citizenship, U.S. economy, and U.S. Steel.
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Islamic scholar @TahirulQadri on ISIL's ideology: "They are enemies of humankind. They are enemies of Islam."
Full episode FRI @ 1930GMT.
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On this week’s UpFront @marclamonthill challenges @DannyAyalon on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute collective punishment, a crime under international law.
Watch full show that also includes interview w/ Hamas Senior Spokesperson Osama Hamdan: piped.video/UgoUq69NZ30
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“We are supporting a system of apartheid. And I don't think most Americans understand that.” Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill about the ties between #Palestinian oppression and systemic racism.
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/LbPJPt77Vbo
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“We Europeans look down upon them as if we are superior. We're not superior. We're infinitely inferior.” Former Greek Minister of Finance @yanisvaroufakis tells @marclamonthill when discussing Europe’s role in the #Israel_Gaza_war
🔗Watch full interview: piped.video/_OAniUDMA1Y?si=4dgX…
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“If you are killing children in my name, with my money, that’s not a war to defend yourself,” documentary filmmaker @MMFlint to @marclamonthill about the US involvement in the #Israel_Gaza_war
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🔗Tap the link to watch the full show piped.video/Ud-3s0thf-c
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Former spokesperson for Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi dismisses @amnesty reports of sexual violence against Rohingya women, suggesting some are lying. Full Interview: piped.video/UWzaolPPWGc
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Angela Davis tells @marclamonthill that ties between Israeli and U.S. security forces and private companies show capitalism is “absolutely central” to the political ties between the two countries.
🔗Tap the link to watch full interview piped.video/oIVxooM5kG8 #Israel_Gaza_war
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“The language of safe and unsafe, I think, is a lot more appropriate to a kindergarten than it is to a university campus.” Pr. Rashid Khalidi tells @marclamonthill about some college students' claiming Palestinian chants make them feel unsafe.
Watch here: piped.video/1_SkF1-rDl0
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Why don’t more Bollywood stars speak out against the rise of hardline Hindu nationalism and intolerance in Modi’s India?@mehdirhasan asks @Javedakhtarjadu and @MaheshNBhatt. See more of the interview: piped.video/TFQWzcv-jFo
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Philippine Foreign Minister @alanpcayetano defends his country's drug war to @mehdirhasan. Watch the full episode Oct 6 at 19:30 GMT.
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“The siege itself is a genocide,” Former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court @MorenoOcampo1 tells @marclamonthill on Israel’s continued siege of Gaza.
🔗Watch full interview on accusations of war crimes against both Hamas and Israel: piped.video/9b8ddCxv2tg
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“We are far more intelligent, aware, educated than most people are giving us credit for.”
Indigenous climate activist @xiuhtezcatl responds to criticism young campaigners like Greta Thunberg are being used as puppets. Full episode w/@mehdirhasan 1930GMT & piped.video/Mt91-SzW6mY
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Should #Nigerian President #MuhammaduBuhari apologise for promising to stop 'medical tourism' when he has travelled abroad so many times for treatment himself?
@Mehdirhasan challenges his spokesman.
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Do some world leaders have blood on their hands for failing to contain the Coronavirus? Epidemiologist @DrEricDing explains to @mehdirhasan where governments are going wrong. Watch our full show on @AJEnglish Friday 19:30 GMT.
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“Some people have decided to look at Palestinians as somehow not fully human. Because if you think of Palestinians as fully human, you cannot find excuses for this kind of mass murder,” says author @ChimamandaReal to #AJEUpFront host @RediTlhabi.
🔗Watch: piped.video/mqA3vvZPhOo
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"It's a misstatement. That doesn't mean it's a lie," says Trump adviser, Steven Rogers. Watch @mehdirhasan challenge Rogers on President Trump's lies on birthright citizenship, riots in California and U.S. Steel plants.
Full intv: piped.video/wbh2Y-V0Cqc
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Cornel West says Trump is "a sign and a symptom of a spiritually decadent culture". The academic and activist discusses racism in the US with @mehdirhasan. Full episode @ajenglish 19:30GMT and on YouTube: piped.video/d8KaUS3OUaI
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The clip being widely shared of our interview with @IlhanMN has been selectively edited. Please watch @mehdirhasan's original interview from February 2018: piped.video/0UmmvROd4J8
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“The problem is not Netanyahu. … What he is doing is popular in Israel. If it's not Netanyahu, it's going to be someone else,” Professor Rashid Khalidi tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill.
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/1_SkF1-rDl0
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“Do I fear that genocide might take place? I do,” @Aakar_Patel tells @marclamonthill in an UpFront special with @RanaAyyub and Shahrukh Alam looking at increasing attacks on Muslims and other minorities in India.
Full interview: piped.video/watch?v=GpYAzaHc…
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Who would you like to see on @AJUpFront with @mehdirhasan? Leave your comments below!
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“If we, as climate activists, aren’t able to see and speak up against the current marginalisation and oppression and killing of people today, then. . . we shouldn’t be able to call ourselves climate justice [activists].” @gretathunberg to @marclamonthill
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“Evangelicalism has been hijacked” @RevDrBarber tells @mehdirhasan Trump’s actions are at odds with Orthodox Christianity. Full show: piped.video/HDmwJGZCX4U
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COVID-19: The two options we have is overwhelm the health system, or long-term extreme social distancing, special pathogens expert @syramadad tells @mehdirhasan in a Facebook live interview.
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"If Najib is there, this country will go to the dogs" - Fmr Malaysian PM tells @mehdirhasan - Watch more at 1930GMT
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Given America’s abysmal legacy in Latin America, would U.S. military intervention in Venezuela really bring democracy?
@mehdirhasan asks Juan Guaido’s representative to the UK, Vanessa Neumann @AJENGLISH 1930 GMT
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“These are girls who want to study…and they're being deprived of their education, because they’ve asked for the right to wear the hijab,” @RanaAyyub tells @marclamonthill of India’s Karnataka hijab ban.
#UpFront Special w/ @Aakar_Patel & Shahrukh Alam: piped.video/GpYAzaHc-8U
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“People right now are scared of journalists” Al Jazeera reporter @Hind_Gaza tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill about Israeli targeting of journalists in #Gaza.
🔗 Watch the full interview for #WorldPressFreedomDay: piped.video/e3K1oYte87o
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Turkey claims they have "shocking" audio evidence of the killing of Jamal #Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate. In a preview of our discussion with @rulajebreal and @sarahleah1, @mehdirhasan asks if #MBS has little tolerance for criticism. Full show: bit.ly/2A7hOm4
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War crimes have been committed in Syria, isn’t it time to call out those responsible? @mehdirhasan challenges UN Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis to name names. See more: piped.video/HDmwJGZCX4U
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“[Trump] keeps thinking that he could hit other countries with a tariff. No, you hit us [Americans] with a tariff. We have to pay it,” says economist @profwolff to #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill.
🔗 Watch: piped.video/1ih7WJrcjWg
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PREVIEW: Why won’t Poland take in any Muslims? @mehdirhasan challenges Dominik Tarczynski, an MP from Poland’s governing Law and Justice Party. Full interview @ajenglish 1930GMT and on YouTube: piped.video/asGHu2NzvbI
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We speak to Noam Chomsky about what a Trump presidency means for the world and if he is worried about the future. Watch Nov 25 at 1930GMT.
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More leaks from China reveal the details of atrocities being committed against Uighur Muslims. How long can Beijing pretend they’re not happening? @mehdirhasan asks China commentator Victor Gao.
Full episode: piped.video/8Xh5uHrHV1s
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Will impeachment help or hurt Donald Trump in 2020? Full debate with @mehdirhasan, @TiffanyDCross, @Harlan and @_John_Mikhail on @ajenglish 1930GMT & piped.video/jP248qaQOj0
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How long will it take to develop a vaccine for #COVID19? @mehdirhasan asks the director general of the International Vaccine Institute. Watch the full interview: piped.video/yswfzyXsgtw
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Democrat Ilhan Omar made history last night, becoming the first Somali-American, and one of two first Muslim women, elected to US Congress.
In Feb, @IlhanMN joined us with @mehdirhasan to discuss the Democratic party in the age of Trump.
Full intv: bit.ly/2QqAbIi
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“I was a child when we were forced out of Jerusalem” @ghadakarmi who lived through the 1948 Nakba joins @MustafaBarghou1 and @AJUpFront's host @marclamonthill to discuss the crucial historical context to the #Israel_Gaza_War.
🔗 Full show: piped.video/lctkOmyu-AI
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With @SenSanders and @JoeBiden the two last men standing in the primary, will Democrats be able to put differences aside to beat Donald Trump? @mehdirhasan asks Lindy Li and Linda Sarsour. Full debate: piped.video/swhmkTOVt6M
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Why did #Nigerian Presidential candidate #AtikuAbubakar send over $40 million in "suspect" funds to the United States?
@mehdirhasan challenged Abubakar’s spokesman last Dec.
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“For me, the most optimistic thing is the young people,” renowned scholar @normfinkelstein talks to #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill about the youth mobilisation in solidarity with Palestinians.
🔗 Watch the full show: piped.video/ELNr_ro97MI
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“1982 produced Hezbollah. The crushing of the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza produced Hamas. And there will be new movements that will continue to emerge,” Professor @asadabukhalil tells @marclamonthill.
🔗 Full show, with @AssalRad: piped.video/watch?v=OCW_85Zk…
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Why is India’s BJP so reluctant to condemn hate speech?
@mehdirhasan asks Nalin Kohli, the spokesperson for Narendra Modi's BJP. @AJEnglish 1930 GMT. ONLINE: piped.video/oIdoYUYUlQw
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Here's how @mehdirhasan challenged Trump supporters on Trump's lies, wiretapping, voter fraud, birthright citizenship, U.S. economy, and U.S. Steel.
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“How are we defending Israel by having more dead children?” documentary filmmaker @MMFlint asks @AJUpFront host @marclamonthill on US involvement in the #Israel_Gaza_war
Tap the link to watch the full show piped.video/Ud-3s0thf-c
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Is Abiy Ahmed stifling free speech in Ethiopia? @mehdirhasan challenges a senior adviser to the Office of the Prime Minister. Watch the full interview: piped.video/3Fr9ki1vtSQ
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#ColumbusDay celebrations gloss over the dark legacy of Christopher Columbus. The man and the holiday bearing his name need a #RealityCheck.
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In one of the world’s biggest financial scandals, $4.5 billion went missing from #Malaysia’s state funds. Fmr deputy PM @anwaribrahim says “stiff action” must be taken against ousted PM #NajibRazak who faces over 25 charges. Watch the full intv @AJUpFront 9/21 @ 1930 GMT
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Watch @AJUpFront host @marclamonthill challenge former Israeli army general Yaakov Amidror on whether Israel controls Gaza #Israel_Gaza_war.
🔗 Watch full interview: piped.video/KCs89vj01Zw
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"The Democratic Party has singularly, principally underwritten all of the horrors… in Gaza, it is really rich to try to fear monger about fascism coming from the other side of the aisle" @briebriejoy tells @marclamonthill and @DeeTwoCents
🔗 Watch: piped.video/watch?v=5AXChhie…
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Will Israeli troops continue to shoot Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border? bit.ly/2IXMmZc
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Ahead of Super Tuesday, @RevDrBarber explains why @UniteThePoor has yet to endorse a Democratic candidate. More of the interview: piped.video/HDmwJGZCX4U
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PREVIEW: According to President Trump's midterm campaign ad, Democrats had let in an undocumented migrant who killed policemen BUT he had actually entered the US under President George W. Bush.
@mehdirhasan asks a Trump advisor about this.
Full intv: piped.video/wbh2Y-V0Cqc
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Is racism spreading along with the coronavirus? @mehdirhasan asked China Global Television Network news anchor Wang Guan about the discrimination Chinese people are facing all over the world. For more: piped.video/9q333niml60
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Here's how @mehdirhasan challenged Trump supporters on Trump's lies, wiretapping, voter fraud, birthright citizenship, U.S. economy, and U.S. Steel.
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Why are Western countries banning or restricting pro-Palestine protests? @marclamonthill talks to Ilan Pappe and Dima Khalidi about the battle of narratives in the Israel-Gaza war.
🔗Tap the link to watch the interview piped.video/c1G4JrnAGKw #Israel_Gaza_war
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“Elon Musk is following a very long lineage of this coalescence between oligarchic power in the public sector and in the private sector.” Former Greek Minister of Finance @yanisvaroufakis tells @marclamonthill.
🔗 With Nobel Prize laureate @mariaressa: piped.video/QDqIf_QcEgg
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“We're only flesh and bone”, some Palestinians face the stark choice of risking their lives by staying in Gaza or fleeing. Journalist and writer @MariamBarghouti tells @marclamonthill this is part of Israel’s strategy to depopulate #Gaza.
Full interview: piped.video/h8rn_HoKTdQ
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Can a U.S. attack in Syria stop the use of chemical weapons or would it create an even deeper crisis in the region? Full debate: bit.ly/2Hk65oN
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"Don't normalise this," @OwenJones84 tells @mehdirhasan about bigotry "injected into the mainstream" by Trump facebook.com/AJUpFront/video…
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“If anybody is divorced from reality, it’s the US administration,” @DrHananAshrawi tells @AJUpFront host @marclamonthill about the US veto at the UN Security Council against the Gaza ceasefire.
🔗 Watch the full interview: piped.video/y7iTPVbaMzY
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Should the wealthiest 1% of Americans pay a 70% tax rate on income over $10 million?
@mehdirhasan discusses @AOC’s tax plan with economist Arthur Laffer and author of @WinnersTakeAll @AnandWrites.
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PREVIEW: @mehdirhasan asks a former top CIA spy in Russia @john_sipher about alleged Russian meddling and the CIA’s own record of foreign intervention.
Watch the full episode FRIDAY at 19:30GMT aljazeera.com/upfront
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Earlier this month, @mehdirhasan asked Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nalin Kohli why the BJP is fielding a candidate who is facing terrorism charges. #IndianElections2019 #indianelections.
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Why did #Nigerian Presidential candidate #AtikuAbubakar send over $40 million in ""suspect"" funds to the United States?
@Mehdirhasan challenges his spokesman.
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Is PM Modi India's Donald Trump? @mehdirhasan asks author and activist Arundhati Roy. piped.video/Bh7M3ryozb0
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Top officials within Narendra Modi’s BJP have referred to Bangladeshi migrants as “termites” and Muslims as “a crop of two-legged animals”.
@marclamonthill asks BJP spokesperson Syed Zafar Islam if he condemns these comments. Full interview Friday.
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The international community could push for the “complete 100% isolation of Israel” if it doesn’t comply with the ICJ ruling, South Africa’s Ambassador to the US @NdumisoNtshinga tells @AJUpFront host @marclamonthill
🔗 Watch full interview: piped.video/D33ioQTcwrM
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Reality Check: Australia takes great pride in offering an outstanding quality of life... but there's an outrageous racial disparity hiding behind the stats.
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s former spokesperson defends her decision to embrace Hungarian PM Viktor Orban’s Islamophobic rhetoric. See @mehdirhasan challenge Nyo Ohn Myint. Watch full interview: piped.video/UWzaolPPWGc
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In this week's Reality Check, @mehdirhasan looks into France's religious double standard when it comes to Islam
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When @GretaThunberg, @rihanna, and @meenaharris spoke out about India’s ongoing farmers’ protests, many in the country reacted angrily, calling it anti-India propaganda.
@marclamonthill asks Thunberg what she made of the reaction. Full interview: aje.io/avner
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India’s BJP spokesperson says it’s “perfectly apt” to describe undocumented immigrants as “termites”. @mehdirhasan challenges Nalin Kohli. piped.video/oIdoYUYUlQw
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Ukrainian MP, @lesiavasylenko on how the international community can #StandWithUkraine beyond simple political statements and gestures.
Full Interview: piped.video/kylIxd1iyBg
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How religious are so-called "Islamic terrorists"? @mehdirhasan's #RealityCheck:
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