Gaza is starving. As Palestinians mark 77 years since the Nakba, families are still under bombardment, cut off from aid and struggling to survive. With US President Donald Trump touring the Gulf, what will it take to bring relief to Palestinians?

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After deadly attacks between Pakistan and India, a ceasefire was suddenly declared. Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar rejects claims that Washington imposed the truce, insisting Pakistan acted independently. He addresses India's accusations and Pakistan's military influence. As two rivals teetered on the edge of war, Ishaq Dar explains Pakistan's strategy, its position on Kashmir, and whether this ceasefire might not last.

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The Gaza genocide isn’t just happening on the ground. It’s being enforced through code, algorithms, blacklists, and billion-dollar tech firms. Meta is censoring the truth. Microsoft is complicit in the genocide machine. AI is targeting students. Rupert Murdoch’s empire manufactures the lies to justify it all. This isn’t the future, it’s now. And the fight for Palestine is the front line of a global war on dissent. Rapper and activist Lowkey joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to expose the machinery of techno-fascism, the empire’s digital mask, and the collaborators who hide genocide behind cries of free speech.

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Trump’s tariff measures – especially on China – have been giving consumers, businesses, and pundits whiplash. In the two days following Trump’s tariff declaration, stock markets lost 10 Trillion dollars. This was followed by bond markets which also devalued rapidly. Experts are forecasting a near-certain recession.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, joins the show to break down the Trump administration’s unlawful deportation of hundreds of immigrants, including Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, “mistakenly” sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. A month later, no one held at CECOT has been allowed to contact their families—not even to confirm they’re alive. Reichlin-Melnick unpacks the human cost, Trump’s refusal to bring Garcia home, and the chilling possibility that U.S. citizens could be next.

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Zoe Alexandra, Editor of Peoples Dispatch, joins the show to discuss Ecuador’s April 13 election “irregularities”, where right-wing incumbent Daniel Noboa was declared the winner despite polls favoring progressive presidential candidate Luisa González, who calls it "the most grotesque election fraud in Ecuador’s history" and demands a recount. Alexandra explains how Ecuador’s year-and-a-half-long state of emergency has “had a chilling effect on people's participation in a democratic process.”

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Trump's trade war against China is escalating, but so far it seems to have only facilitated a growing political and economic isolation of the United States. Brian Becker and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the real motives behind Trump’s seemingly chaotic tariff declarations, including how Greenland factors in, and what may lie ahead.

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US President Donald Trump has met Qatari and American business leaders in Doha ahead of his departure for the United Arab Emirates - the final stop on his regional tour. President Trump hailed the trade agreements signed between the US and Qatar. He also praised Qatar’s efforts in negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal. Trump said he wants to negotiate with Iran and see the country reintegrated into the global trade system.

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Anwar Ibrahim came to power in Malaysia soon after ex-PM Najib Razak was jailed for his role in the $4.5bn 1MDB financial scandal. He has faced criticism after a royal pardon slashed Najib’s sentence while alleged 1MDB mastermind, Jho Low, remains at large. Anwar leads ASEAN this year as it confronts Donald Trump’s tariffs and rising transnational crime, including a cyber-scam industry in Cambodia worth billions of dollars.

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This documentary short explores the life and times of the filmmaker’s Palestinian grandparents, Naim Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi , and the consequences they suffered in Jaffa because of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionists in 1948. Their lives are recounted through the oral testimonies of the couple’s three daughters and other relatives. The film weaves together personal memories to depict a couple’s life before their expulsion—and the lasting impact of displacement on their family.

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