On The World 🌎 today:
@tibizea
: The dangers of waiting in Mexico for a US asylum appointment
@Shirinj
: Israel strikes media guest house in Lebanon, killing journalists
@JoshuaCoe
: Long-lost story by "Dracula" author Bram Stoker rediscovered
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A very loving and affectionate, purring cat called Bilbo has his own podcast.
In each episode, Bilbo purrs for 30 minutes straight to the delight of thousands of listeners.
This is his story.
Han Dongfang, who led protests in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, is now marching with anti-government demonstrators in Hong Kong. They have a different kind of determination, he says — "they are ready to burn together if it burns."
Afrobeats has ascended from the clubs of West Africa to some of the biggest music venues around the world. Just this year, Nigerian artist Burna Boy sold out Madison Square Garden.
"The vast majority of political appointees are donors with almost no foreign policy experience. And I think that practice needs to stop," says former US Amb. Michael
@McFaul
.
Ain Husniza (
@ant33ater
) posted a video exposing rape culture at her school. The video was viewed at least 1.9 million times, sparking a national conversation on sexual harassment and misogyny in Malaysia.
Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah will marry Saudi architect Rajwa al Saif on Thursday. The wedding is a geopolitical symbol with its own meaning.
@MarcoWerman
talked with
@amersabaileh
about the significance of the royal wedding.
#Jordan
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Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States.
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Kamala Harris makes history as the first Black woman to become vice president and the first person of South Asian descent elected to the vice presidency.
The Q-pop boy band Ninety One (
@XCIofficial
) has made headlines for their catchy tracks and their appearance — which often challenges Kazakhstan's traditional gender norms.
Hawzen, a rural town in the ethnic
#Tigray
region of northern Ethiopia, is a microcosm of the challenge facing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — and a warning that the war here is unlikely to end anytime soon.
Vladimir Milov (
@v_milov
), a close adviser to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, tells The World that after the third week of a hunger strike in prison, "there is a grave danger to his health."
THREAD 1/ DO IRISH VOTERS GIVE A DAMN? There’s a referendum in Ireland on whether to remove an article from the constitution outlawing
#blasphemy
.
@PatsyMcGarryIT
, religious affairs correspondent
@IrishTimes
, tells
@pritheworld
what’s what.
"The facts here are clear as day. The president used his public office and taxpayer money as a way to leverage dirt on his Democratic challenger," former Ambassador Michael
@McFaul
told The World.
"Chess gained tremendous popularity over the last few weeks and I hope it will be the beginning of a new boom, especially among girls," grandmaster Garry Kasparov (
@Kasparov63
) told The World's host
@MarcoWerman
.
"Chess gained tremendous popularity over the last few weeks and I hope it will be the beginning of a new boom, especially among girls," grandmaster Garry Kasparov (
@Kasparov63
) told The World's host
@MarcoWerman
.
Ukraine’s year of war, displacement and no end in sight.
The World's correspondents
@OfmanDaniel
,
@DurrieB
and
@ShirinJ
reflect on some of the key moments of the war that has sent shockwaves around the globe.
US Congressional Rep. Ilhan Omar, a former refugee herself, shares her insights on the refugee crisis, US tensions with Iran and how she thinks the US should handle immigrants at the border.
2/ Blasphemy cases are extremely rare in Ireland. The last successful prosecution was in 1703. There was one case in 1855, when a visiting Ukrainian priest burned “bad” books, including a Bible. But the case was dropped when he said the Bible was included by accident.
More than 100,000 Armenians still live in Nagorno-Karabakh, and they depend on the Lachin Corridor as the only road that connects to the rest of Armenia.
Cutting off this road puts Armenians there in a difficult situation.
By
@OfmanDaniel
Long COVID can have a severe impact on kids, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Dr.
@zalaly
talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about how and why kids' immune systems struggle with the condition.
By expanding the definition of American family to American familia, "One Day at a Time" was also helping to narrow an increasing gap in Latinx representation. The show's cancellation steps that progress back.
Long COVID can have a severe impact on kids, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Dr.
@zalaly
talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about how and why kids' immune systems struggle with the condition.
.
@Malala
Yousafzai promotes tolerance and connection with the new Oscar-nominated documentary "Strangers at the Gate."
LISTEN to the conversation with host
@MarcoWerman
.
"The [Defense] Production Act has two parts. The first is a president invokes it,"
@juliettekayyem
, former DHS adviser, told The World. "It has the second part, which is it has to be executed. ... That part has not happened."
Who would’ve thought that the redactions to the
#MuellerReport
could make a catchy song?
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⬛🎶⬛🎶SOUND ON 🔈⬛🎶⬛🎶
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The pitch and volume change when pages are heavily redacted
To date, the US estimates Russia has lost almost a thousand tanks, at least 50 helicopters, 36 fighter-bombers and 350 artillery pieces, according to Business Insider. Thousands of Russian soldiers have been killed.
"Navalny” is up for an
#Oscar
in the category of best documentary feature film.
Host
@MarcoWerman
speaks with investigative journalist
@christogrozev
, who uncovers how the Kremlin tried to kill the Russian opposition leader.
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"No Road Back Home,” by Abduqadir Jalalidin, a detained Uighur poet, bears witness to the suffering of Uighurs held in Chinese internment camps.
The poem has traveled by word of mouth from China to New Jersey, where professor
@jlfreeman6
translated it. 🔗
Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico. But with a little help from
@chefjoseandres
, these farmers are working on a sustainable food infrastructure of the future — via
@CivilEats
The Senate Intelligence Committee released the final volume of its report on Russian interference. It's nearly 1,000-pages and mostly takes a look back. But it's filled with clear warnings for this election. Host
@MarcoWerman
speaks with Sen.
@MarkWarner
.
1/ Leading Israeli human rights organization
@BTselem
is now describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single "apartheid" regime — an explosive word choice that the country's leaders and their supporters reject.
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"The vast majority of political appointees are donors with almost no foreign policy experience. And I think that practice needs to stop," says former US Amb. Michael
@McFaul
.
Should Russia rejoin the G7? "If Russia ... would move back towards embracing democratic ideas and enhancing democratic institutions and integrating into the West, that's the right time to have that conversation," says former Ambassador Michael
@McFaul
.
1/ A conservation team has found a native magnolia tree in Haiti that has not been seen since 1925.
The species called Magnolia emarginata was once abundant in a forest that disappeared due to deforestation.
4/ The Irish citizen who made the complaint about
@StephenFry
later contacted Fry “to point out the only reason he’d made the complaint was to show up how asinine law on
#blasphemy
was,” says
@PatsyMcGarryIT
.
We had iconic guitarist Carlos Santana (
@SantanaCarlos
) on The World today. He spoke with host
@MarcoWerman
about Woodstock 1969 and his new album "Africa Speaks," featuring singer Buika.
"I'm very proud of Belarus' people because we all know that we are ready for changes. Lukashenko's regime, the active president, he has been in power for 26 years," opposition activist Veronika Tsepkalo tells
@MarcoWerman
. Tsepkalo is in exile in Moscow.
Journalist
@MariaRessa
on freedom of the press: “In the [Philipphines] today, I talk about the three C's, the way the government gets you to do what it wants you to do. And that is: Corrupt, Coerce or Co-opt. And
@rapplerdotcom
refuses to do any of that.”
"The military is not for parades. It's supposed to be training for war," says former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who held the job from 2015 to 2017.
Alexei Navalny remains in prison but has continued to speak out. In January 2022, one year after his return and the massive protests that followed, 53% of Russians say that they fear the authorities’ abuse of power.
1/ This year’s
@PritzkerPrize
, the world’s top honor for architecture, went to Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect, educator and social activist from Burkina Faso. Kéré, who was raised in the small village of Gando, was one of the first local children to get a formal education.
Hawzen, a rural town in the ethnic
#Tigray
region of northern Ethiopia, is a microcosm of the challenge facing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — and a warning that the war here is unlikely to end anytime soon.
Can a journalist also be part of the resistance? Univision's
@jorgeramosnews
explores how journalism has changed under Trump, particularly for reporters of color.
6/ “...Jamal and [Abdulaziz] were planning for many many months activities around social media activism and [Abdulaziz] was very afraid that the surveillance on his device could have contributed to [Jamal’s] disappearance,” said Deibert.
A massive security flaw exposed in Germany — then a criminal investigation into the work of
@LilithWittmann
. Jennie Russell has the story.
@jennierussell_
.
@WaadalKateab
filmed her own life in Aleppo, Syria, for five years, in which she fell in love, got married, gave birth and survived the monthslong siege, airstrikes and snipers.
The result is Oscar-nominated "For Sama."
@forsamafilm
#Oscars2020
3/ Ronald Deibert (
@RonDeibert
), who heads
@CitizenLab
, says Abdulaziz’s iPhone was infected with Pegasus spyware which gave the Saudi government complete access to the contents of calls, encrypted messages, and documents.
5/ The Irish constitution was written in 1937 at a time when the country defined itself by its Roman Catholic identity, so it has a religious flavor. “All our churches,” says
@PatsyMcGarryIT
, have come out in recent days describing the article on blasphemy as “largely obsolete.”
Have you watched the Netflix French series
#Lupin
, starring
@OmarSy
?
The series has a diverse cast of actors from various immigrant backgrounds. Host
@MarcoWerman
spoke to
@RimSarah
about what the new series means for France's film industry.
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On The World 🌎 today:
@liz_cookman
: Mass grave discovered in Izium
#Ukraine
️
@Jchenriquezpaz
: What comes next for migrants in Martha’s Vineyard
@durrieB
: Turkey’s carnation harvest in overdrive to supply the grieving United Kingdom
Tune in 📻🎧
It’s been a tough week around the world — but here’s a reminder of some good times!
The World team sang along to
@NeilDiamond
’s “Sweet Caroline.” 🌎🎶
Wishing everyone a great weekend with loved ones — in person or virtually — and, of course, good music.
"I would like to be able in my lifetime to see that Russia has come back onto the path of democratic development," Russian businessman and opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky (
@mich261213
) told The World.
"Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," a graphic novel by Kate Beaton (
@beatonna
) from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, tells the story of leaving home to work in the oil sands of Alberta, Canada.
A Russian court sentenced a former US Marine to nine years in prison Thursday over a drunken incident he says he cannot remember. The World spoke with former US Ambassador to Russia
@McFaul
on what the case means for US-Russia relations.
“It’s a collection of gross stereotypes intended to be consumed by a white audience with a sweet tooth for Mexican pain,” writer Myriam Gurba (
@lesbrains
) told
@pritheworld
.
Oscar-nominated 'Wolfwalkers' blends environmental, spiritual history of Ireland. "Merging Irish folk stories and real events felt like a good way to tell a story," said Tomm Moore, co-director with
@CartoonSaloon
.
Story by
@ASKusmer
5/ Abdulaziz told Deibert he was worried because he had been in touch with Jamal Khashoggi. Like Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz is an outspoken critic of the Saudi government.
1/ Seeing the northern lights can be pretty incredible, depending on where you are. Usually, the best places for watching them are in the Arctic.
But on Feb. 28, there was an amazing viewing further south at the Isle of Man.
“Ìfé,” one of the newest Nollywood films coming out of Nigeria, is unlike any that has come before. Upon release, it’ll be the country’s first positive love story made by queer women about queer women. Story by The World's
@BiancaHillier
"Chess gained tremendous popularity over the last few weeks and I hope it will be the beginning of a new boom, especially among girls," grandmaster Garry Kasparov (
@Kasparov63
) told The World's host
@MarcoWerman
.
There are no chainsaw-wielding zombies at this haunted house, but it tells the history of colonialism in Puerto Rico. “Colonialism is scary as hell,” says organizer Miguel Alvelo.
Anna Eskamani (
@AnnaForFlorida
) is the first Iranian-American lawmaker in the Florida state House. Today on The World, Eskamani speaks with
@Shirinj
about her family, her campaign and what it means to be an Iranian-American in politics.
This past weekend KCLU welcomed
@MarcoWerman
, host of
@TheWorld
, to Thousand Oaks for a live taping of the show. Tune in TODAY from 12 – 1p.m to hear Marco’s interview with Kerri Murray – President of
@ShelterBoxUSA
.
Somaliland celebrates 30 years of independence, despite little international recognition. The self-proclaimed state has cultivated a reputation for being more stable and more democratic than its neighbor Somalia.
Demonstrators in favor of decriminalizing abortion, who had spent the night outside the congress building in Buenos Aires, erupted with joy and embraced each other as they listened to the parliamentary speaker reading the vote's results.
"I don't know how in the world you can countenance that kind of phone call and say that there's nothing to see here." Former Republican Senator from Arizona
@JeffFlake
speaks about President Trump's Ukraine scandal.
2/ A team of researchers from the Haiti National Trust (
@haititrust
) traveled to the mountains of Massif du Nord, Haiti in search of the elusive plant.