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  • Football’s Wall of Silence
    Former youth football coach Barry Bennell, one of the top talent spotters in Britain with ties to major clubs like Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra, spent his days coaching children and his nights abusing them.
    Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit pro...
    32 min
  • Sleepless in Yemen
    For almost 3 years now, Yemeni aid workers Anas Shahari and Sukaina Sharafuddin have gone to bed hearing Saudi fighter jets circling over their city, Sanaa. Through WhatsApp voice messages, they tell our host Jasmin Bauomy what that’s like.
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    29 min
  • America’s poorest white town
    This week we take you to America’s poorest county and to a tiny town that never changes, regardless of who’s in power in Washington - Republicans or Democrats. Welcome to Booneville. Population: 87.
    On the show: Patrick Strickland, Al Jazeera journa...
    17 min
  • Trafficking Romanian women
    In 2016, roughly 800 Romanians were trafficked in Western Europe. Most of them were women. Most of them were forced into prostitution and violently abused.
    Today on the Debrief - a woman who was trafficked, a woman who saved her, and a trafficker who...
    31 min
  • Resisting Rodrigo Duterte
    This week on The Debrief: our correspondent Ted Regencia on the opposition to Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, the rise of vigilantism, and its human cost.
    On the show: Al Jazeera journalist @tedregencia. Our host is @mohsin.
    23 min
  • Rape, peacekeeping and the UN
    A couple of weeks ago we took you on a harrowing journey to the Central African Republic. Al Jazeera journalist Azad Essa told you about the effects of rape and exploitation at the hands of UN peacekeepers, and about how victims are often left defencel...
    24 min
  • Poop, radio & inspiration in a Nairobi slum
    This week on The Debrief, Al Jazeera’s Hassan Ghani goes to Kibera to find stories that take us beyond the miserable stats and hardship of life in poverty - a young man bringing toilets to the slum, a mother going to school to ensure a better life for ...
    23 min
  • Palestinian supermom
    Manal Tamimi wears many hats: mother, activist and a Palestinian resisting occupation, alongside her children. For her, these roles are inseparable because she’s part of a family that has become known for their protests in the village of Nabi Saleh. Ho...
    20 min
  • India's motorcycle ambulance
    When Karimul Haque's mother died because she couldn't get to a hospital, he swore no one else in his village of Dhalabari, in India's West bengal state, would suffer the same fate.
    For the last 20 years, he's used his motorcycle as an ambulance and ...
    11 min
  • Greek gym mixes Muay Thai and anti-fascism
    At the White Tiger Muay Thai Camp in Athens, they believe that your politics should be a part of every aspect of your life. You don’t just learn martial arts here. If you’re an anarchist and an anti-fascist, the camp is a place where your beliefs are w...
    19 min

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  1. Number 3: Palestinian supermom
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