The Inside Story Podcast

As the world focusses on COVID-19 vaccines, there's been a breakthrough in the fight against one of the biggest killers of children in Africa.The World Health Organization has approved a Malaria vaccine. But will it be affordable?

Join host Kamahl Santamaria.

With guests, W.H.O. Regional Adviser for Tropical and Vector borne Diseases Akpaka Kalu,  Board Member of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Helen Rees, and Research Scientist for African Population and Health Research Center Abdhalah Ziraba

If you're in Europe, you may have been shocked lately by expensive power bills. Natural gas now costs six times more than at the start of the year. High energy prices have triggered protests in the EU. There are even claims that the bloc's main gas supplier, Russia, is deliberately withholding stock as winter approaches.

So what's causing the power crunch? And how will it affect the EU's plans to cut carbon emissions and switch to renewable energy?

Join host Darren Jordon. 

With guests, economist and CEO of Meyer Resources Cornelia Meyer, Professor of Public Policy at University of Erfurt Andreas Goldthau, and Greenpeace EU climate and energy campaigner Silvia Pastorelli.

For nearly seven hours on Monday, billions of people around the world couldn't use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp to communicate. Facebook blamed a technical glitch for one of its worst outages in years.

What does this say about our reliance on social media? And has Facebook become too big and powerful to face proper scrutiny?

Join host Adrian Finighan.

With guests, Europe Legislative Manager and Global Data Protection Lead at AccessNow Estelle Massé, Founder of Internet monitoring organization NetBlocks Alp Toker, and Assistant Professor in Private Law at Maastricht University Catalina Goanta.

Algeria is very angry at Emmanuel Macron.

The French President has reportedly questioned the existence of an Algerian nation before his country colonized this North African country. Macron also lashed out at the current political system in Algeria, describing it as tired and weakened by the angry popular movement in recent years.

What's behind Macron's controversial remarks? And why now?

Join host Imran Khan. 

With guests, Deputy director of Foundation for Strategic Research Bruno Tertrais, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Qatar University Youcef Bouandel, and Journalist and Author Adama Gaye.

A split is widening between Sudan's military and civilian leaders. Their deal to share power is supposed to run until 2023 and lead to elections. But after last week's attempted coup, the question is, where does this leave the transitional period?

Join host Sami Zeidan.

Guests: Salah Eddine Elzein, an expert on Sudan and former director of Al Jazeera Centre for Studies. Alex De Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and former member of the African Union Mediation Team for Darfur, Sudan.

Fumio Kishida is a former Japanese top diplomat. Now, he's set to become prime minister.

He's been seen as a safe choice for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party as it faces general elections in November.

Kishida has pledged to counter China's growing influence, and promised to narrow Japan's income inequality gap. But will he succeed?

Join host Sami Zeidan. 

With guests, Professor of Political Science at Musashino University Donna Weeks, Professor of Management at the University of Shizuoka Seijiro Takeshita, and Professor of International Studies at Kyoritsu Women’s University Craig Mark.

It's been 21 years since the end of the Kosovo war in Europe's Western Balkans. But tension between Kosovo and Serbia have reignited recently over car licence plates, with both sides deploying soldiers and special police to the border.

So why is their long-running dispute escalating now?

Join host Imran Khan. 

With guests, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Zarko Korac, Senior Associate Bodo Weber, and EU Policy Analyst Pieter Cleppe.

A severe shortage of truck drivers to bring petrol to the pumps in the United Kingdom means one of world's richest nations is stuck in a fuel crisis.   

Is Brexit to blame? And has the issue exposed wider problems within the trucking industry?

Join host Imran Khan. 

With guests, Truck driver and Editor of Truck and Driver Magazine Dougie Rankine, Chief Economic Adviser Vicky Pryce and  Senior Lecturer on Procurement and Supply Chain Management Temidayo Akenroye.

Thousands of Tunisians have protested again against the President. Kais Saied seized power in July, sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. He is now ruling by decree and ignoring parts of the constitution. 

Join host Imran Khan.

With guests, Independent politician Amel Azzouz, Professor of Media and Communication at Qatar University Noureddine Miladi and Lawyer & Political activist Riadh Guerfali.

More than 100 people killed, including at least 13 U.S. military personnel.

Many more were wounded by twin bombings outside Kabul's airport.

The attacks claimed by an ISIL offshoot came as little surprise to many, who had been warning of a security threat in the area for days.

Despite that, thousands of people still gathered outside the airport, waiting for their evacuation to be processed.

The attacks happened close to the Abbey Gate entrance of Kabul airport and near the Baron hotel - just a few days before the August 31st deadline for the U.S. military withdrawal from the country.

U.S. President Joe Biden has resisted calls to extend that date, until all Americans and Afghans that are listed are flown out.

The president has vowed to strike back at the attackers.

So, will Afghanistan face more attacks?

Presenter: Hazem Sika

Guests:

Obaidullah Baheer, political analyst and a lecturer of Transitional Justice at the American University of Afghanistan.

Colin Clarke, Director of Policy & Research at The Soufan Group, a non-partisan strategy centre dedicated to global security issues.

Sultan Barakat, Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute.

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