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Joe Biden promised to be the most progressive president in the history of the United States but he has maintained some of Donald Trump’s harshest immigration policies, opposes the Green New Deal and defunding the police. This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill challenges Democratic candidate for the US House of Representatives and outspoken progressive politician Nina Turner on Biden’s first 100 days in office. And in a Special Interview, investigative journalist and Washington Post Global Opinions Writer Rana Ayyub discusses why she believes India’s government is downplaying the true extent of the COVID-19 crisis overwhelming the country. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

First 100 days: Is Joe Biden really transformative? | UpFront

China has consolidated its grip on Hong Kong by imposing a sweeping national security law and overhauling the electoral system; moves critics say strip the opposition of any space for dissent. This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill challenges Hong Kong Legislative Council Member Regina Ip on the principle of “one country, two systems” and the crackdown on basic rights. And in the Arena, Shireen Al-Adeimi, an anti-war advocate and assistant professor of education at Michigan State University and Peter Salisbury, a senior analyst for Yemen at the Crisis Group, discuss how hunger is used as a weapon in Yemen. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Has 'one country, two systems' come to an end in Hong Kong? | UpFront

In an UpFront special, we ask whether capitalism and climate justice are compatible. Marc Lamont Hill discusses with guests Naomi Klein, the author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, and Kshama Sawant, the first socialist Seattle City Council member in nearly a century, who has first-hand experience of organising against big business. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

The climate crisis: Is capitalism the problem? | UpFront

This week on UpFront Marc Lamont Hill challenges Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltan Kovacs on the erosion of democratic standards under nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And in the Arena, Barbara Ransby, a professor of African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University, discuss the case for reparations for the historical injustices because of slavery in the United States. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Can Hungary still call itself a democracy? | UpFront

Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopian and Eritrean forces has left thousands dead and forced more than 600,000 to flee to neighbouring Sudan. This week on UpFront we ask Getachew Reda, Executive Committee member of the TPLF, about the conflict and whether the group’s ultimate goal is an independent Tigrayan state. And a series of mass shootings in recent weeks has reignited the debate about guns in the United States, but will any substantive reforms be made? In a special interview, Marc Lamont Hill discusses the politics of gun control with activist and school-shooting survivor Cameron Kasky. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Is independence from Ethiopia the TPLF’s endgame in Tigray? | UpFront

With more than 2,500 people arrested and, according to some estimates, at least 250 killed, the crackdown by Myanmar’s military on pro-democracy protesters is showing no signs of abating. In this episode of UpFront we ask the international envoy for Myanmar’s overthrown civilian government, Dr Sasa - who is in hiding after being charged with treason by the military junta - what is next for Myanmar and whether he would support an armed resistance. In a special interview, we speak with renowned novelist and women’s rights advocate Elif Shafak about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention at a time when femicide is on the rise. And in the Reality Check, UpFront producer Ashish Malhotra takes a look at how the United States’s prison industrial complex targets vulnerable populations and what criminal justice alternatives can look like. - - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Will civil disobedience turn into armed resistance in Myanmar? | UpFront

India, long considered the world’s largest democracy, slid down the democracy scale this month, with Freedom House classifying it as "partly free", and the V-Dem Institute calling it an "electoral autocracy" under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In this week’s UpFront, we challenge BJP spokesman Syed Zafar Islam on the government’s recent crackdowns on dissent. And in the Arena, we discuss Lebanon's financial meltdown and political crisis with Kim Ghattas, an author and non-resident fellow at Carnegie Endowment and Dayna Ash, an activist and the executive director of Haven for Artists. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Headliner 13:53 Arena - - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/

Is Narendra Modi dismantling democracy in India? | UpFront

With the thrust and parry of rigorous debate, Mehdi Hasan cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards.

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