School Segregation is Making a Comeback

The U.S. education system was designed to favor the white and the rich, and you 'don't have to wave a confederate flag or have a statue of Robert E. Lee to effectively secede from your court-mandated school-desegregation order,' says the Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford.

Inside Story - Is the War on Terror Failing?

The topic of terrorism has been at the forefront of world politics for many years. Attacks on western soil dominate the news for weeks after they happen, and the Iraq and Syria wars against ISIL is regularly centrestage on our TV screens.

The subject was on the agenda at the recent BRICS conference in China, and will debated at the upcoming UN General Assembly. This week it's catapulted back into the spotlight for an obvious reason, the 16th anniversary of 9/11.

The September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001 have largely defined U.S. foreign policy since, and affected lives throughout the world. Almost 3000 people were killed when hijackers flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon.

And the attacks triggered a series of events including new wars, new immigration policies, and new prejudices.

What will it take to defeat terror?

Presenter: Jane Dutton | Guests: Max Abrahms, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University; Jim Walsh, Senior Research Associate with MIT's Security Studies Program; Joseph Kechichian, Senior Fellow at the King Faisal Center in Riyadh

The Fate of Europe Was Decided Long Ago

Please note that I have made a mistake in this video, There were 15 Member states involved in the Barcelona Declaration, not 28, All other info stands, and can be verified here.

What Are Germans Most Afraid Of? | DW English

According to a survey conducted by the German insurance company R+V, Germans are generally less afraid than they were last year, but they are still most afraid of the same things. DW compared the results with its own less scientific survey in Berlin.

Seoul: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb - BBC Newsnight

Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Seoul on the North Korean defectors who want to bring down Kim Jong-un and asks if Seoul’s residents are concerned about the nuclear threat from North Korea.

US Media Reports Saudi ‘Involvement’ in 9/11 Attacks

Sixteen years have passed since almost 3,000 people lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks in the US.

According to evidence being reported in US media, the Saudi government was possibly involved in those attacks.

Saudi Arabia has always denied any involvement.

Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports.

Picking Up the Pieces - What Lessons from Hurricane Irma?

Trump Says Hurricanes Prove We Should “Speed Up” Tax Cuts For The Rich

During a cabinet meeting that took place on the eve of Hurricane Irma slamming into the state of Florida, President Trump said that the recent spate of hurricanes show that we desperately need to speed up cutting taxes for the wealthy. He offered no reasoning for linking this two completely separate issues, but he’s made it clear that giving the wealthy more money is his priority. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

Ann Coulter And Right Wing Fanatics Blame Gays For Hurricanes Irma & Harvey

It wouldn’t be a natural disaster if there weren’t members of the Republican Party waiting to blame the entire thing on gay people, and that’s exactly what’s starting to happen with Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Right wing pundit Ann Coulter jumped into the fray, claiming that the storm being God’s wrath for homosexuality was more plausible than the storm being caused by climate change, and right wing evangelicals are right on board with her. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how people like this are destroying progress in America.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, at Pax Europa against "Hate Speech" Laws

US-North Korea Escalation: The Story behind Decades of Tension

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Hurricane Irma Batters Florida

Hurricane Irma Heads to Florida Coast after Lashing State's Islands

Hurricane Irma made landfall in the US state of Florida as a Category 4 storm. The Florida Keys on the southern tip of the state was hit first with winds of about 200km per hour.

The storm is expected to remain powerful as it travels near the west coast, which is now bracing for impact.

Irma should move inland and over the northern part of Florida on Monday, before hitting the state of Georgia.

Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports from Miami Beach.

Obsessed with Virginity – Female Sexuality among Western Muslims | DW Documentary

Available for purchase are kits for faking virginity. Young Muslim women are supposedly among the target market. But who is really pushing the demand?

What significance does the requirement for virginity have among young Muslims? Are their own expectations and outlooks compatible with their parents' traditions? Filmmaker Güner Yasemin Balci heard some extremely personal responses to these questions while making the documentary ‘Obsessed with Virginity’. She was born to Turkish immigrants and grew up in the multicultural Berlin district of Neukölln. From an early age she was eager to know why Muslims often deny their children the right to self-determination, and what price the younger generation have to pay to be free. She talks to female activists, women's rights campaigners and psychologists, who themselves have Muslim roots. All of them have had to fight to be able to live their own lives. It meant breaking away from families and friends due to the women's rejection of moral concepts that make sexuality a crime - and which are still promoted by preachers in many mosques today as they were 900 years ago. These are women who want to educate and change society, with an agenda that is both personal and political.

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Inside Story: Trying to End the Gulf Dispute

It was their first phone call since diplomatic relations were cut and a land, sea and air blockade imposed more than three months ago.

The Emir of Qatar and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia talked by phone on Friday. But hopes of a breakthrough were quickly put on hold, along with more talks, apparently because of a dispute about protocol.

The setback followed Donald Trump's offer to help end the crisis. What went wrong?

Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra | Guests: Abdullah Baabood - Director Gulf Study Center, Qatar University; Mohammed Jaham Abdulaziz Al Kuwari - Qatar's Ambassador to Spain; Andreas Krieg, Assistant Professor, Defence Studies Department, King's College London.

Wie es einmal in der Schweiz mit dem Rauchen war: Rauchen als Selbstverständlichkeit

Im Zuge der öffentlichen Diskussion über die Einführung eines Rauchverbotes und den Schutz vor Passivrauchen berichtet die Sendung "10vor10" des Schweizer Fernsehens am 29.4.2005 über das selbstverständliche Rauch-Verhalten in Politik und Medien in früheren Zeiten. Heute kaum noch vorstellbar wie überall ungehemmt gepafft wurde. Der Bericht zeigt das Bundeshaus vernebelt vom blauen Dunst, rauchende Moderatoren, Interview-Partner und Tagesschau-Redaktoren und einen Aschenbecher-Brand in einer Literatursendung mit Friedrich Dürrenmatt und Marcel Reich-Ranicki.