“When I voiced concern repeatedly, I was silenced, I was sidelined”, recently resigned US diplomat Hala Rharrit tells
#AJEUpFront
host
@marclamonthill
about dissent within the
#Biden
administration on policies towards
#Israel
.
🔗 Watch the full interview:
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
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:
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.
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
.
@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.
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:
“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:
ESPN suspended journalist
@jemelehill
soon after she said Trump is a white supremacist. Now she’s calling out the NFL. Full interview with
@richellecarey
:
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.
Are ‘wokeness’ and call-out’ culture weakening social movements?
@mehdirhasan
asks Harvard professor and political activist Cornel West. Full interview:
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
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:
“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
:
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:
“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:
“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
.
🔗Tap the link to watch the full show
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:
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
#Israel_Gaza_war
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:
“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:
“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 &
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.
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.
"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:
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:
The clip being widely shared of our interview with
@IlhanMN
has been selectively edited. Please watch
@mehdirhasan
's original interview from February 2018:
“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:
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.
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
“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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Why did
#Nigerian
Presidential candidate
#AtikuAbubakar
send over $40 million in "suspect" funds to the United States?
@mehdirhasan
challenged Abubakar’s spokesman last Dec.
“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:
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:
Is Abiy Ahmed stifling free speech in Ethiopia?
@mehdirhasan
challenges a senior adviser to the Office of the Prime Minister. Watch the full interview:
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
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:
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:
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
#Israel_Gaza_war
“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:
“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:
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
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:
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.
Reality Check: Australia takes great pride in offering an outstanding quality of life... but there's an outrageous racial disparity hiding behind the stats.
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:
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:
Ukrainian MP,
@lesiavasylenko
on how the international community can
#StandWithUkraine
beyond simple political statements and gestures.
Full Interview:
"People are starting to realise that poverty is not a lack of character, it's just a lack of cash,"
@rcbregman
tells
@marclamonthill
on eradicating poverty through Universal Basic Income.
Full interview:
China’s president has said any attempt to split China will end in “crushed bodies and shattered bones”. Could Beijing intervene militarily in Hong Kong?
@mehdirhasan
asks China commentator Victor Gao. Full interview
@ajenglish
1930GMT and on YouTube:
After inadvertently sending UpFront a recording with PR advisers, Rwanda’s Justice Minister admits the government paid for the plane that brought ‘Hotel Rwanda’ dissident to Kigali.
Full Interview with
@marclamonthill
:
What is Pakistan doing about the tens of thousands of people allegedly killed or abducted by its security forces in Balochistan?
@mehdirhasan
asks the country’s Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari. Full episode 1930GMT and on YouTube:
Israel deports Human Rights Watch director Omar Shakir. Days before his removal he debated law professor Eugene Kontorovich on why he’s being kicked out. More of the debate with
@mehdirhasan
:
“Defending the indefensible” Burmese rights activist Maung Zarni discusses Aung San Suu Kyi’s appearance at The Hague with
@mehdirhasan
. Full interview:
Indian journalists “are literally calling for war” between India and Pakistan over Kashmir conflicts, says award-winning author and activist, Arundhati Roy.
Watch tonight 1930 GMT
@AJEnglish
, or online:
Watch
@mehdirhasan
challenge an MP from France's ruling party on the heavy handed police response to recent protests where demonstrators have lost eyes and hands. See more: