Witness brings world issues into focus with courageous, human stories and provocative debate. Half-hour documentaries air throughout the week, while at weekends, Al-Jazeera shows a longer format special film. Each documentary reveals the unknown lives of ordinary people, following their lives, telling their stories and portraying the challenges that confront them. Our witnesses are people in a situation or those who have observed them first hand. The films cover conflict, belief, the past and the future and as well as bringing new stories to light they showcase the talents of a new breed of multi-skilled, frontline journalist. In the studio, host Ghida Fakhry further explores the issues raised in the films, with expert guests on the subject matter and the film-makers. themselves.
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Inside Story provides analysis, background, and context on the day's top story from some of the best minds in the Middle East and around the world. More than just the news, Inside Story asks how we got to today and what tomorrow might have in store. The programme will draw on Al Jazeera's heritage of covering the Middle East and world events. From the latest developments in the Palestinian Occupied Territories to the wider issue of relations between the West and the Middle East, Inside Story aims to get behind the headlines, analyse the facts and hear the opinions to try and provide a frank assessment of the latest developments.

This bi-weekly Al-Jazeera show travels around the globe exploring different individuals and groups who wield unnatural amounts of power within their nation, or within their particular area of society. The series examines how those people are using or abusing their power, and which methods they employ to keep the rest of their people silent. No subject is out of bounds, and the producers generally spend most of the programs extracting analysis of the situation by those who are most affected; the people who have suffered abuse at the hands of those in power.

Monthly show which questions global powers and their agendas. Be they state, corporate, military or economic the Empire team, headed by Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, will analyse these giants and how they strive to dominate everything from international security and finance to communications and the news itself. Each month they fuse the best Al-Jazeera field-reporting, and in-depth studio debate, with leading analysts and commentators, to discuss the most significant geo-political issues of the day.

We live in a world run through with Fault Lines. As the global economy implodes, and people around the world feel the financial shockwave, as more US troops pour into Afghanistan, as Israel tightens its stranglehold on the Palestinians - all eyes are on the US. Al Jazeera's eyes are there too: Fault Lines will take you below the surface, where opposing forces collide. Every fortnight, Avi Lewis and Josh Rushing will examine those conflicts - both in the US and abroad.
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Whether in bustling cities or remote villages, the 1880s and 1890s were years of terrifying upheaval for Africans. Fleet upon fleet of foreign soldiers armed with new weaponry - and a sense of entitlement - descended, seemingly overnight. In the space of just 20 years, 90 per cent of Africa was brought under European occupation. Europe had captured a continent. But with the Second World War - which saw the peak of Europe's dependency on African troops - a powerful genie was released from a bottle - African nationalism. The tipping point came on February 3, 1960, when Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister, gave his 'wind of change' speech. Within 10 months, Britain had surrendered two key African territories and France 14. The rate of decolonisation when it arrived was breathtaking. Seventeen African nations gained their independence in 1960, but the dreams of the independence era were short-lived. Africa ... states of independence tells the story of some of those countries - stories of mass exploitation, of the ecstasy of independence and of how - with liberation - a new, covert scramble for resources was born.

The world is experiencing one of the biggest economic downturns since the great depression. Al Jazeera is focusing on the main events of the financial crisis and how the economic difficulties are impacting upon people's lives and welfares across the globe. Counting the Cost is a weekly show that encompasses all the best of Al Jazeera's reports on how ordinary people's lives are affected by the crisis.

The 2003 U.S. led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq continues to divide opinion both between, and within, the East and the West. Inside Iraq is a weekly insight into this, one of the most important, and divisive, political issues of our time. The programme explores some of the fundamental issues affecting Iraq and its people. Is Iraq a fledgling democracy, a beacon of light for a Middle East largely controlled by kings and dictators, or a disastrous experiment in imperialism, and a breeding ground for extremism? In the context of escalating sectarian strife and a rising death count, Inside Iraq examines these central questions, and a host of other key issues, as well as reacting to the very latest news developments in the country.

Presented by Richard Gizbert, Listening Post brings viewers a weekly insight into how the news is covered by the world’s media. It monitors and examines all platforms, all over the world, from newspapers, radio and TV to blogs and podcasts, they've got it covered. Through this show, Al-Jazeera want to see the emergence of new voices from regions that are not often heard in traditional western media. From the biggest network to the most obscure bloggers, Listening Post reports critically on what they cover - and what they don’t.
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