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- Essential Middle East is a weekly podcast by Al Jazeera English, providing in-depth analysis of news and current affairs in one of the world's most misunderstood and complicated regions.
- In the run up to the elections in Burma we examine what is going on behind the scenes. Is the junta trying to go nuclear? Is anyone planning a revolution? How are the ethnic minority groups surviving?
- Two Muslim converts promoting women's rights through Hip Hop.
- The H Protocol is the extended director version of The Hannibal Directive documentary. The Hannibal Directive was a highly classified military order used by the Israeli army. It was created in 1986 by three top army commanders and outlined the measures to be taken if an Israeli soldier was captured during combat. The order intended to prevent the enemy from escaping with the captured soldier, even if it meant putting the soldier's life and the lives of civilians at risk. The Hannibal Directive was last implemented during the 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge, during which over 2,000 Palestinians and 72 Israelis were killed. On August 1, 2014, the Israeli Army invoked the Hannibal Directive at Rafah in southern Gaza to prevent Hamas fighters from fleeing with a captured Israeli officer. The intense action that followed resulted in the deaths of at least 135 civilians, 75 of whom were children. Amnesty International and other NGOs have labelled the events of that day, referred to as "Black Friday," as a war crime. This documentary explores the secret history of the Hannibal Directive, including its origins, recent use, and implications. The film, made amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding the doctrine's morality and application, features interviews with former Israeli soldiers, reservists, and civilians who were divided on whether the policy, which resulted in the deaths of numerous innocent civilians, could ever be justified. The order was eventually quietly revoked by the Israeli military in June 2016.
- By the end of 2014, only 9,800 US troops will remain in Afghanistan, which is causing widespread concerns about the country's stability. For two years, Zekria has been desperately trying to find a way out of his home city, Kabul. He has been working for an international agency and is afraid of what will happen to him after the foreign troops depart. He discovers an opportunity to leave and is determined to keep his plans secret from his family. Telling them it is a short assignment in another part of the country, he packs all his belongings and boards a plane to New York City - uncertain if he will ever be able to return.
- An international current affairs program which broadcast on Al Jazeera English from 2009 to 2015. Presented by Marwan Bishara the program offered an analysis of the use, misuse and abuse of power on a transnational level. Each episode featured guest experts on a different topic.
- One in three Native American women will experience sexual abuse at some point in their lifetime. That is more than twice the national average. We hear from Donna Erikson, a native Alaskan woman and a survivor of sexual abuse and others who share their stories. These women are speaking out publicly for the first time in their lives about lifting the burden of silence within their community in the hopes that they will encourage others to do the same and start a dialogue.
- In 2011, the number of people living in towns exceeded those living outside. Few noticed, but as this urbanisation continues we need more than ever to consider what sort of a world we want to live in; one ruled by commercial forces and narrow self-interested elites or one created to provide for the needs of the many?
- Despite the billions of dollars being poured into Afghanistan to rebuild the country and boost its economy, more than 30,000 Afghans applied for political asylum worldwide last year. Zekria is willing to pay $25,000 to an agent to make a visa application to a European country on his behalf. If this visa is not granted, he will be stranded in Kabul facing the likely option to escape through people smuggling networks. At only 27 years of age he works for an international agency and is the sole supporter of his family of 16. Fearing what will happen when the foreign forces withdraw, he secretly plans his own escape from Afghanistan.
- In 1961, Nelson Mandela formed the military wing of the ANC to help in the struggle against Apartheid. As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their fourth general election since the end of Apartheid, the film follows a group of former combatants who have stopped waiting for the compensation promised to them by the ANC and have decided to start their own business.
- A lack of oxygen in the body is a major cause of death in intensive care. Yet little is known about why some people die from the condition, known as hypoxia, while others survive. In this special edition of The Cure, anaesthetist Dr Joff Lacey joins medics and some of the 200 or so volunteers on Everest in the largest high altitude study of its kind. Using oxygen-thin air at altitude to simulate the effects of hypoxia suffered by intensive care patients, doctors examine volunteers, including identical twins Jenn Price and Jan Taylor, pictured to try to work out how the body adapts to oxygen deprivation. The researchers also examine a large group of Sherpas, analysing them at a cellular level to discover how they are so well adapted to oxygen-thin air. In all, medics carry out around 65 separate studies, collecting hundreds of samples, from muscle biopsies to nitric oxide readings. Their findings could ultimately change the way critically ill patients are treated, potentially saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with a range of diseases, including cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease.
- Documentary about the fight by Dr. Gustavo Farruggia in northwest Argentina against the Chagas disease, and in particular his struggle to help a humble family deal with the effects of the disease.
- In rural Tunisia, a mother toils in the fields to secure life-changing surgery for her daughter.
- In the bustling industrial hub of Guangzhou, China, filmmaker Haryun Kim films three migrant worker children during their final year at a privately run primary school. As she captures their passions, struggles, frustrations and dreams she discovers the shocking reality of Chinas growing educational underclass. Propping up Chinas economic boom is the largest migration in human history as millions of people leave the countryside to work in the cities. Many parents have no choice but to take their children with them. There are more than 20 million migrant worker children in the cities and under Chinas residency laws they find themselves locked out of the national education system.
- Follows two Gypsy musicians, trying to improve and develop the life of Roma nation in Serbia, but preserving their identity at the same time.
- Young, urbane and highly-motivated, Cairo's 'twitterati' revealed the truth of the scale of the uprising which Egypt's state media sought to hide, and gave a street-level, minute-by-minute account both of how the persistence and bravery of the Egyptian people brought down a dictator but also how the naiveté and complacency which followed failed to bring about a revolution. The book 'Tweets From Tahrir' by OR Books was the inspiration for this film.
- Thirty years after becoming a nation, and 30 years after Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF came to power, Zimbabwe does not appear to have fulfilled the hopes that so many had at independence. Both ZANU PF and the MDC appear to be in a state of denial about the true condition of Zimbabwe at 30, and this cannot be the best way for the country to start its fourth decade as a nation.
- A Congolese refugee musician gathers fellow musicians in a migrant camp, raises money through crowd-funding, and records an album. Produced for Al Jazeera English (Witness).
- Consider This is a current affairs program dedicated to challenging the status quo. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Antonio Mora.
- Emeka Okereke leads a bus-load of artists and photographers for the Invisible Borders road trip of a lifetime as they search for new ways to portray their continent and explore their art. "A photograph is a window, and not the view. Don't photograph what you see, photograph what you feel," says Emeka. It is something he will try and teach young photographer Lilian Novo, for whom the trip is a first attempt at art photography. The group set off from Lagos and head overland to the Democratic Republic of Congo in a minivan, but soon discover that driving across Africa during rainy season presents environmental, psychological and bureaucratic challenges. The journey is made harder by Emeka's moral refusal to pay any bribes at border crossings. "Every year we go on a road trip across Africa with photographers and other artists. I can help them become better photographers, but it's the experience of the journey that makes the person," he says.
- This is the story of Shabeena, a remarkable school principal, and her quest to bring education to the children, particularly the young girls, living in the shadow of the Taliban on Pakistan's frontier. Despite age-old traditions that keep girls out of school and send them into arranged marriages, Shabeena's school actively recruits them. Afshan, a bright young girl who comes from a family of six daughters, is one of her great success stories. Living on the meager wages of a night security guard, her family is committed to each of them attending school. Another girl, Zarina, comes from similar circumstances but has had to fight to stay in school and resist her family's plan to marry her off at the age of 14. The film follows Shabeena at work. We see young girls and boys in their classrooms, discussing Pakistan and its future; we hear villagers tussling with different views about education for girls; we see Shabeena recruiting for new students, persuading reluctant parents of the long-term benefits of educating girls. And, over the course of a year, we see how Afshan and Zarina, as well as Shabeena herself, each strive to realise their dreams.
- In the summer of 2010, workers across Europe protested against cuts in their salaries and rising unemployment. Nowhere was this anger expressed more freely than in the birthplace of Western democracy. Strikes and demonstrations are not unusual in Greece, almost every week there is industrial action by one sector or another, but there had been nothing on this scale since the toppling of the military dictatorship 35 years ago. On May 5th, As Greek MPs debated the next round of cuts, workers stormed the parliament, buildings were set on fire and three people were burned to death, a tragedy which caught the attention of the global media. How much were these problems unique to Greece and how much a reflection of Europe's systemic problems? Rageh Omaar traveled to Greece in investigate.
- Award-winning photographer Neo Ntsoma revisits DJ Cleo and the stars of South Africa's democratic dawn to take new portraits and discuss the impact of both apartheid and freedom on their lives. In this frank and emotional film, Ntsoma recounts the obstacles facing a black female photographer in apartheid South Africa. "I was 22 years old. I was just thrown out of photo school for being a black woman pursuing a career, which was seen as inappropriate. I ended up having to work night shifts at The Star, taking pictures of news events . - I was just so sick of all those negative things." But as Nelson Mandela was freed and apartheid dismantled, she found herself part of a new movement. "In the early 90's, something new was happening in South Africa. We were full of energy and exploded with our dreams and ambitions onto the scene. We wanted to be - to create dance, music and fashion. So I took photographs of what was happening around me." Two decades later, the people in Ntsoma's original photographs are today's superstars, and her quest to retake their portraits forces her to look at the price she and many of her generation paid in the transition to freedom.
- Susan Pynchon, a Florida resident, runs for election in her home county for the office of Supervisor of Elections. But with the powerful incumbent Supervisor of Elections controlling the unaccountable and hackable computerised voting machines, how can outsider Susan Pynchon ever prove if she has really won or lost?
- Aljazeera's Mohammed Adow returns to Garissa, the town of his birth in North East Kenya to report on the growing insecurity since Kenya's 2011 invasion of Somalia.
- In June 2010, the eyes of the world were on South Africa as it hosted the largest international sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. For ordinary South Africans, it was also a month-long reprieve from the usual bad news about crime, corruption, and poverty that has plagued the nation in recent years. But it is only now, months after the World Cup has been over and the fans have long gone home, that South Africa can finally access how it moves forward, and how it overcomes the huge number of challenges it faces.
- Filmed inside Syria using undercover filmmakers and smuggling out their footage and outside the country with Assad supporters and exiled leaders alike, this piece documents the early bloody days of a country beginning to destroy itself.