| Haiti suffers floods as Hurricane Ike hits Caribbean - 07 Sep 08 - 146 sec
Hurricane Ike has barrelled into the Caribbean, packing winds of 215km an hour and is now roaring over the British territory of Turks and Caicos.
The Caribbean island of Haiti is likely to be spared a direct hit, after being pummeled by three storms in as many weeks.
But it looks certain to get another drenching, adding to widespread flooding, that is only now starting to recede.
Aljazeera's Teresa Bo sent this report.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: ike hurricane teresa bo haiti aljazeera floods
 | | Swazis angered by birthday celebrations - 07 Sept 08 - 189 sec
The kingdom of Swaziland, home to some of the poorest people in Africa, has held extravagant and expensive celebrations for the king and for the country - both are marking their fortieth year.
Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Swaziland where the events $10m price tag has angered many people.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al jazeera Swaziland Bernard Smith king South Africa poor poverty celebration birthday kingdom
| | Hundreds buried in Egypt rockslide - 06 Sept 08 - 101 sec
Rescuers are searching for hundreds of people buried under tons of rock at in a village on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Dozens of homes have been crushed after huge chunks of hillside smashed down onto them.
At least 30 people are dead but there are fears that the toll could rise.
Al Jazeera's Sylvia Lennan reports.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: egypt rock rockslide cairo deaths aljazeera sylvia lennan earth landslide
| | Artsworld - Palestinian theatre - 06 Sep 08 - 707 sec
This week Artsworld visits Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp. This pioneering project is the only professional venue for theatre and the arts in the north of the Palestinian occupied territories. Zakaria Zubeidi, the head of the al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade in Jenin in the West Bank, has now put down his weapons and believes that children's theatre is an important way to fight for Palestinian statehood.
The programme also features the China Disabled People's Performing Arts Troupe, which has entertained audiences in more than 50 countries. The troupe consists of 100 performers who say their tightly knit community has given them a renewed sense of pride and purpose despite a history of discrimination that continues to haunt many of China's 80 million people with disabilities.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Artsworld Freedom Theatre Jenin Zakaria Zubeidi China Disabled Arts Troupe Brazil Circus Picolino Tanzania Bongo Flava
| | Artsworld - Brazilian circus - 06 Sep 08 - 667 sec
In part two, of this week's show we go to the Brazilian city of Salvador Bahia, where the circus has become much more than entertainment. The big top of the Circus Picolino is as close as many young people will get to a classroom but the lessons learned here are transforming lives.
And we report on a new sound making waves throughout Tanzania. In Dar Esalam, the country's biggest city, Bongo Flava is the beat from the street and the rhythm of the times.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Artsworld al jazeera Brazil Circus Picolino Tanzania Bongo Flava
| | Gaza schools and hospitals face strike action - 06 Sept 08 - 143 sec
Hospitals and schools in Gaza are at breaking point, after a series of strikes throughout the territory.
Doctors and teachers have staged walkouts after accusing Hamas leaders of sacking pro-Fatah staff, and replacing them with Hamas loyalists.
The United Nations warns the strike is harming Gaza's most vulnerable residents.
Ashraf Amritti reports.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: gaza strike hamas fatah hospitals schools aljazeera ashraf amritti
| | One on One - Haifaa Mansour - Sept 5 - Part 2 - 702 sec
This week on One on One, meet the outspoken former television show turned film-making activist, Haifaa Mansour.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
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| | One on One - Haifaa Mansour - Sept 5 - Part 1 - 622 sec
This week on One on One, meet the outspoken former television show turned film-making activist, Haifaa Mansour.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Al Jazeera One on Riz Khan Haifaa Mansour activism television
| | People & Power - The Secret State - Sept 6 - Part 1 - 728 sec
People&Power reports from Transnistria, a criminal state only Russia recognizes.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: People and Power Al Jazeera Juliana Ruhfus Transnistria
| | People & Power - The Secret State - Sept 6 - Part 2 - 607 sec
People&Power reports from Transnistria, a criminal state only Russia recognizes.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: People&Power reports from Transnistria criminal state only Russia recognizes.
| | Aid agencies struggle after Haiti storm - 06 Aug 08 - 160 sec
Aid has started to arrive in Haiti, but agencies are struggling to get supplies to all of the tens of thousands of people affected by tropical storm Hanna.
Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from Gonaives, Haiti's third-largest city and one of the worst-hit areas in the country.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al jazeera Teresa Bo Haiti Gonaives flood tropical storm Hanna natural disaster aid agencies
| | Inside Iraq - Who controls Khanaqin? - 05 Sep 08 - Part 1 - 787 sec
A new flashpoint is brewing between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), over the city of Khanaqin, in northern Iraq's Diyala province.
Tension has been simmering since the Iraqi defence ministry ordered Kurdish Peshmerga forces, who have been providing security in Khanaqin, to be replaced by Iraqi troops.
The majority of Kurds who control Khanaqin want the city to be integrated into the KRG in northern Iraq.
But in a recent move to curb growing Kurdish expansion, Nuri Al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, ordered the Iraqi army to force Kurdish parties to vacate public buildings in the city.
Massoud Barzani, the KRG president, accused Baghdad of trying to derail the democratic process in the country as the Kurds consider Khanaqin to be part of Kurdistan.
Al-Maliki shot back by threatening to prosecute any Peshmerga forces operating outside KRG controlled areas.
Inside Iraq this week scrutinises the implications of the rising political tension between Baghdad and the KRG as the Kurds are increasingly claiming a stake on disputed territories in the north of the country.
Our guests this week are Dindar Zebari, KRG Coordinator to the UN, Brian Katulis from the Centre of American Progress and Saad N Jawad, author and political analyst from London.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Inside Iraq Khanaqin Diyala Kurdish Peshmerga Dindar Zebari KRG Brian Katulis Saad Jawad Massoud Barzani
| | Inside Iraq - Who controls Khanaqin? - 05 Sep 08 - Part 2 - 593 sec
A new flashpoint is brewing between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), over the city of Khanaqin, in northern Iraq's Diyala province.
Tension has been simmering since the Iraqi defence ministry ordered Kurdish Peshmerga forces, who have been providing security in Khanaqin, to be replaced by Iraqi troops.
The majority of Kurds who control Khanaqin want the city to be integrated into the KRG in northern Iraq.
But in a recent move to curb growing Kurdish expansion, Nuri Al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, ordered the Iraqi army to force Kurdish parties to vacate public buildings in the city.
Massoud Barzani, the KRG president, accused Baghdad of trying to derail the democratic process in the country as the Kurds consider Khanaqin to be part of Kurdistan.
Al-Maliki shot back by threatening to prosecute any Peshmerga forces operating outside KRG controlled areas.
Inside Iraq this week scrutinises the implications of the rising political tension between Baghdad and the KRG as the Kurds are increasingly claiming a stake on disputed territories in the north of the country.
Our guests this week are Dindar Zebari, KRG Coordinator to the UN, Brian Katulis from the Centre of American Progress and Saad N Jawad, author and political analyst from London.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Inside Iraq Khanaqin Diyala Kurdish Peshmerga Dindar Zebari KRG Brian Katulis Saad Jawad Massoud Barzani
| | We the People - Religion in the US - 5 Sep 08 -Part 1 - 634 sec
How do US communities today balance their religious beliefs with their political pursuits?
Filmmaker Ilan Ziv spent much of the last year observing and documenting life in Anderson, South Carolina, a place where 90 percent of the residents go to church. This small town is a snapshot of how America balances Church and State.
Ziv's perspective is unique. He fled his homeland, Israel, in order to escape the volatile mix of religion and politics there. He wanted to build a life in a country where he felt religion was not always uppermost in people's minds. But as he reveals in this episode of We the People, religious fervor in the US is alive and well.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: religion evangelical christianity US south carolina election issue we the people al jazeera ilan ziv
| | We the People - Religion in the US - 5 Sep 08 -Part 2 - 726 sec
How do US communities today balance their religious beliefs with their political pursuits?
Filmmaker Ilan Ziv spent much of the last year observing and documenting life in Anderson, South Carolina, a place where 90 percent of the residents go to church. This small town is a snapshot of how America balances Church and State.
Ziv's perspective is unique. He fled his homeland, Israel, in order to escape the volatile mix of religion and politics there. He wanted to build a life in a country where he felt religion was not always uppermost in people's minds. But as he reveals in this episode of We the People, religious fervor in the US is alive and well.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: religion evangelical christianity US south carolina election issue we the people al jazeera ilan ziv
| | Listening Post - Republican convention - 05 Sep 08 - Part 1 - 724 sec
This week on The Listening Post, we bring you a critique of the media coverage of the run up to and during the week-long Republican National Convention.
We look back at the Ingrid Betancourt rescue by the Colombian government and ask some searching questions.
In News Divide, we see what happened when the McCain 'Straight Talk Express' made a stop at in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention, despite the threat of derailment by Hurricane Gustav and shock news of a teenage pregnancy.
Like the Democratic party did the past week during its convention, the Republicans wanted to seize this opportunity to display party unity and show off McCain's chosen running mate: Sarah Palin.
However, with Hurricane Gustav cutting a devastating path along the Gulf Coast, the party re-choreographed the event to avoid a major PR blunder. When the hurricane was at its fiercest, reporters learned that the dyed-in-the-wool conservative's daughter, Bristol Palin, was about to become a mother, out of wedlock and at the age of 17.
In the second half of our show, Salah Khadr poses the following question: was the release of Ingrid Betancourt (and 14 other hostages) by the South American FARC rebel group earlier this year too good to be true?
It has been alleged that military personnel impersonated both humanitarian workers in the form of Red Cross and journalists from pan-Latin American TV station, Telesur, as part of the ruse that enabled them to get close to the guerrillas, and release the hostages.
The against-all-the-odds success of 'Operation Checkmate' raises a whole host of questions, with regards to the mode of rescue and the long term implications it may have on journalists and aid workers in similar situations.
In Newsbytes, we revisit the case of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer and the new laws that the Mubarak government is employing to keep tabs on internet users. We report on Ingushetian journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, who was shot in the head whilst in Russian police custody. Finally, still in Russia, we see how prime minister and self-styled Action Man figure, Vladimir Putin, supposedly acted the hero when he shot a predatory Siberian tiger dead.
Finally, for our Video of the Week, we show you how Al Jazeera made the news in Golden, Colorado, as reported by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Listening Post Republican Ingrid Betancourt Colombia FARC Gustav Egypt Kareem Amer Magomed Yevloyev Dana Milbank
| | Listening Post - Republican convention - 05 Sep 08 - Part 2 - 622 sec
This week on The Listening Post, we bring you a critique of the media coverage of the run up to and during the week-long Republican National Convention.
In News Divide, we see what happened when the McCain 'Straight Talk Express' made a stop at in Minnesota for the Republican National Convention, despite the threat of derailment by Hurricane Gustav and shock news of a teenage pregnancy.
Like the Democratic party did the past week during its convention, the Republicans wanted to seize this opportunity to display party unity and show off McCain's chosen running mate: Sarah Palin. However, with Hurricane Gustav cutting a devastating path along the Gulf Coast, the party re-choreographed the event to avoid a major PR blunder. When the hurricane was at its fiercest, reporters learned that the dyed-in-the-wool conservative's daughter, Bristol Palin, was about to become a mother, out of wedlock and at the age of 17.
In the second half of our show, Salah Khadr poses the following question: was the release of Ingrid Betancourt (and 14 other hostages) by the South American FARC rebel group earlier this year too good to be true?
It has been alleged that military personnel impersonated both humanitarian workers in the form of Red Cross and journalists from pan-Latin American TV station, Telesur, as part of the ruse that enabled them to get close to the guerrillas, and release the hostages.
The against-all-the-odds success of 'Operation Checkmate' raises a whole host of questions, with regards to the mode of rescue and the long term implications it may have on journalists and aid workers in similar situations.
In Newsbytes, we revisit the case of imprisoned Egyptian blogger, Kareem Amer and the new laws that the Mubarak government is employing to keep tabs on internet users. We report on Ingushetian journalist, Magomed Yevloyev, who was shot in the head whilst in Russian police custody. Finally, still in Russia, we see how prime minister and self-styled Action Man figure, Vladimir Putin, supposedly acted the hero when he shot a predatory Siberian tiger dead.
Finally, for our Video of the Week, we show you how Al Jazeera made the news in Golden, Colorado, as reported by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Listening Post Republican Ingrid Betancourt Colombia FARC Gustav Egypt Kareem Amer Magomed Yevloyev Dana Milbank
| | Floods devastate Haiti - 05 Sept 2008 - 134 sec
Devastating floods and hunger are hitting the people of Haiti where at least 137 people had died when tropical storm Hanna struck.
Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from Port-au-Prince, the country's capital, where more storms could be on the way.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al jazeera english aljazeera haiti port au prince hanna teresa bo floods
| | A winding road for Iraq's paralympic team - 05 Sept 2008 - 128 sec
The Paralympic Games will soon begin in Beijing where at least 4,000 disabled athletes from around the world will compete.
Al Jazeera's Omar al Saleh went to meets with the contestants who despite facing troubled times at home and a lack of funding, Iraq is sending its largest team to date.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al jazeera aljazeera english omar saleh iraq paralympic games olympics
| | "Change is coming," McCain tells convention - 05 Sept 2008 - 161 sec
John McCain's speech comes 24 hours after Sarah Palin, his vice-presidential running mate, which attracted a TV audience of more than 37 million people.
After formally accepted his Republican Party's nomination, Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds wraps up the Republican convention in Minnesota where McCain gave his patriotic speech.
Auteur : AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: al jazeera aljazeera english mccain rob reynolds republican minnesota palin obama democrat
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