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Golden age: Donald Trump is sworn in as 47th president of the US

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, marking a historic return to the White House.

He's taken the oath of office, ushering in a new administration and an end to Joe Biden's presidency.
 
His inauguration took place in the Capitol Rotunda -- moved indoors for the first time in 40 years because of intense cold weather.

Trump's the first president to have invited foreign leaders to his inauguration.

He's returning to the Oval Office backed by a House and Senate under Republican control.

And has promised sweeping executive orders on day one to undo Biden policies and push forward his promises.

France and Italy are two faces of European hypocrisy in Syria: Marwan Bishara

Saturday, Jan 11, 2025  
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara highlights the contrasting approaches of European nations toward normalizing relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He emphasizes that while countries like France and Germany hesitated, Italy took a proactive stance, aligning itself with Hungary and the Czech Republic in re-establishing ties with Assad's regime. Bishara suggests that the rhetoric of the Italian foreign minister on dictatorship and human rights underscores the broader hypocrisy of European positions regarding the rights of those living across the Mediterranean.

Can a new president change Lebanon's fortunes?

Friday, Jan 10, 2025
After a two-year political stalemate, Lebanon has a president.

The election of army chief Joseph Aoun by parliament is welcomed from Washington to Tehran.

He takes the helm of a country ravaged by war and economic crises.

What are his immediate challenges?

Presenter:
Imran Khan

Guests:
Joseph Bahout - Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at American University of Beirut.

Ronnie Chatah - host of The Beirut Banyan podcast.

Ali Rizk - political and security affairs analyst.

Oxfam’s Mahmoud al-Saqqa warns of critical food shortage, limited aid amid Israeli strikes on Gaza

Sunday, October 27, 2024
Oxfam's Gaza food security and livelihood leader, Mahmoud al-Saqqa, joined Al Jazeera from Deir el-Bala, discussing the escalating humanitarian crisis. Al-Saqqa outlined severe shortages of food, medicine, and essentials, worsened by Israeli bombardments and border closures.

He highlighted that more than 90% of Gaza's population now faces acute food insecurity, and children are increasingly malnourished. Aid entry has been minimal, particularly into northern Gaza, where severe restrictions leave residents with few options but displacement.

Al-Saqqa emphasised that humanitarian workers are risking their lives daily, calling for international action against the use of food as a weapon.

Iran’s Khamenei says wrong to downplay Israel’s attack

Sunday, October 27, 2024
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made his first comments about the ''malignant" Israeli attack on Iran early Saturday in a meeting with the families of the four members of the armed forces who were killed.

The Israelis try to make the impact of the strikes appear larger than reality, but any move inside Iran to make them appear smaller would also be "wrong", he said.

“It would be wrong for us to say that it was nothing and it did not matter,” Khamenei said.

"The calculation error of the Zionist regime must be disrupted. They do not know Iran, its youth, its nation. They have not yet been able to fully comprehend the power, capabilities, initiative and will of the Iranian nation, we must make them understand it."

Khamenei also opened a Hebrew account on X after the Israeli strikes.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar reports from Tehran, Iran.
To discuss this further, we are joined by Menachem Klein, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University, speaking from West Jerusalem.

New tragedies unfolding in northern Gaza as the day progresses: AJE correspondent

Sunday, October 27, 2024  
Israeli forces have killed at least 45 people in two separate attacks on residential buildings in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza.

Dozens more were wounded and Gaza's health ministry is calling one of the strikes a "horrific massacre."

And at least 40 people have either been killed or injured in an attack on Gaza City.

Emergency workers and volunteers came to the scene of the attack on Saturday, after the Israeli military bombed a residential building.

Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili went to the scene in Sheikh Radwan.

Palestinians in northern Gaza are struggling to survive with little or no food and water.

The Israeli army has been preventing the entry of humanitarian supplies for the past three weeks.

The UN says it has blocked nearly half of all aid missions into the north, since the beginning of the month.

It has accused the military of carrying out a systematic starvation campaign against Palestinians.

Rosalia Bollen is from UNICEF, and is based in Gaza.
She says the humanitarian crisis there has worsened, with extreme shortages of water, food and medical supplies.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has the latest developments from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.

Injuries after truck strikes bus stop in central Israel

Sunday, October 27, 2024  
At least 40 people have been injured some critically after a truck crashed into bus station in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv.
There are reports that several people are trapped under the bus.

Israeli media says the driver was shot.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom has more from Jordan's capital, Amman, because the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting inside Israel and in the occupied West Bank.

Abed Abou Shhade is a journalist based in Jaffa.

Israeli forces raid Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, detain staff and patients

Sunday, October 27, 2024  
Israeli forces have raided Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza—one of the last functioning medical facilities in the north of the strip. They detained staff, patients, and destroyed much of the facility. The World Health Organization says it has now re-established contact with its staff after losing communication during the siege.

Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel reports.

Israeli raid leaves north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital in ruins

Sunday, October 27, 2024  
Israeli soldiers have withdrawn after raiding Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza, leaving catastrophic damage and death in their wake.

Will Iran respond to Israel's latest attack?

Saturday, October 26, 2024  
Israel launched air strikes against several Iranian military targets early on Saturday.

It said it was in response to what Israel called months of continuous attacks from Iran.

While, Tehran said the damage was limited. Israel has stepped up its attacks against Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Now, the Iranian leadership is threatening to retaliate.  But could this cycle of violence lead to a broader regional conflict?

Presenter: Cyril Vanier
Guests:
Yossi Beilin - Former Israeli Minister of Justice who initiated negotiations at the Oslo Peace Accords.
Mohammad Marandi - Professor of American Studies at the University of Tehran.  
Roxane Farmanfarmaian - Professor of Modern Middle East Politics at the University of Cambridge.

The US says this should be the end of military fire between Israel and Iran

Saturday, Oct 26, 2024
Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro  reports from Washington, D.C., as US Defense Secretary speaks with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding Israel's recent strikes on Iranian military targets.