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The political media programme on Al Jazeera English.
This past week, Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on violence against the media.

Nearly half of the 67 deaths this year were at the hands of Israeli forces in Gaza… contributing to a total of at least 278 media workers killed since October 7th.

Richard Gizbert reports.
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
On the show this week:

• So much money. So much drama. Is Netflix the better buyer for Warner Bros — or is it Paramount?

• No more social media for under 16s in Australia. How's that going?

• From jail, Pakistan's Imran Khan is a thorn in the side Asim Munir

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December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On the show this week:

• Will Netanyahu get the pardon that he says will "unite" Israel?

• Hillary Clinton sticks by her argument that TikTok - not genocide – is the root of Israel’s PR crisis

• Is South Korea's Kim Ou-Joon helping or harming its media discourse?

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December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
On the show this week:

• The Trump administration is using the 'narco-state' narrative to justify its attacks on Venezuela

• The latest roadblock in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine

• How settler ideology became mainstream in Israeli society

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November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
On the show this week:

• The escalating Israeli settler violence that’s simply not getting enough coverage

• Why are some media outlets helping Trump make the case for war with Venezuela?

• Elisa Morgera on #COP30 and the hold Big Oil has on our information systems

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November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
On the show this week:

• Trump’s war on news media goes global as BBC becomes his latest target

• Syrian President al-Sharaa makes a landmark trip to the US filled with photo ops and political theatre

• ‘Italian brainrot’ and the AI slop taking over our feeds

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/BNAPd_ur4-s
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On the show this week:

• Outrage in Israel: where war crimes against Palestinians are considered a PR problem

• The potential genocide in North Darfur and the disappeared journalists unable to report on it

• Why Kenya’s William Ruto has so many nicknames

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/OnGUp41nHSc
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“They understand the potential damage of journalists going in there…the protests and the objection to what Israel did will only grow.”
– Oren Ziv on why Israel is still blocking international media from going into Gaza.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/icNWmHjbDJs
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
On the show this week:

• The double standards that lay bare how the genocide in Gaza was allowed to go on for so long

• Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates award to Trump

• How conservative women are rebranding Trump's politics for a female audience

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October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
On the show this week:

• Trump takes a victory lap as ceasefire deal in Gaza takes effect

• Can billionaires Larry and David Ellison shift the narrative on Israel in the US ?

• How chasing ratings over accountability gave rise to the far-right in Portugal

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/BUNFnZBXVhM
October 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“As more journalists were being slaughtered and there were no consequences for Israel, their response became increasingly brazen.”

— Sharif Kouddous (@dropsitenews.com) on Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

Watch Smear. Kill. Repeat. ⤵️
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October 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“This is utter hypocrisy.”

Inès Abdel Razek, Michael Lynk and Séamus Malekafzali spoke with us about the countries continuing to aid Israel’s genocide in Gaza despite recognising Palestinian statehood.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/W78mjsGF4RE
September 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 13 million people and killed up to 150,000.

Reporting is sparse… but the coverage that has trickled out bears striking similarities to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

@meenakshirv.bsky.social has the details.
September 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
On the show this week:

• After Charlie Kirk’s killing, a crackdown is underway in the US

• Israel accuses the UN of sympathising with Hamas...again — and very few people are buying it

• How Donald Trump injected unpredictability into Russia’s war on Ukraine

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/S2l0czCH7G8
September 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“I’m chair of the most important public finances committee in parliament [and] I battle to get protection. What chance does an ordinary South African have?”

Songezo Zibi on the lack of protection of whistleblowers covering corruption in South Africa.

Full report ⤵️
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September 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What did Trump know about the Doha bombing?

As the White House struggled to form a coherent response to Israel’s strike on Qatar, Trump’s credibility began to take a hit.

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/BoDxk8ZPCM0
September 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
On the show this week:

• Israel's attack on Qatar reveals a state out of control...has the narrative caught up with that reality?

• A conflagration years in the making - Nepal's uprising

• Whistleblowers paying with their lives for calling out corruption in South Africa

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September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
On the show this week:

• Expulsion and ethnic cleansing in Gaza as Israel launches a lethal offensive in Gaza City

• An absurd Israeli AI smear campaign against Palestinian journalists

• The cyberpunk dystopias inspiring Big Tech elites

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/atVgHwOVH8s
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A new AI-generated website unveiled by an Israeli minister claims to “uncover the hidden ties” between Palestinian journalists and Hamas.

Sloppiness aside, it follows a pattern of dangerous smears against Palestinians.

Tariq Nafi reports.
September 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.”

– Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Full report ⤵️
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August 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
On the show this week:

• The rhetoric Indian politicians and media are using to demonise and expel Bengali Muslims

• Israel’s PR campaign to deflect blame for the famine it is inflicting on Gaza

• Alex Shephard on Donald Trump’s war on press freedom in America

Watch ▶️ youtu.be/m-udJsQEu8I
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August 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“if anybody should be awarded for excellence in journalism, it is all of those Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have risked their lives to live stream a genocide”

@dianabuttu.bsky.social on journalists like @Anas al-Sharif covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU
July 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
On the show this week:

• Famine has been turned into a weapon of war in Gaza and journalists are as hungry as those they are reporting on

• The wave of post-war nationalism sweeping across Iran

• Ghana's most dangerous beat for journalists - illegal gold mining

Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU
July 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Since its 12-day war with Israel, Iran’s TV channels, news bulletins and newspapers have been in patriotic overdrive.

@meenakshirv.bsky.social reports on the wave of nationalism sweeping across the country.
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
On the show this week:

• In a presidency rife with scandals, the Epstein crisis is in a class of its own

• New York Times finally uses the term 'genocide' to describe Gaza

• The crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in Germany

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July 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM