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Violence has broken out on the streets of Indonesia after a motorcycle taxi driver was run over and killed by police.

The president has apologised and appealed for calm, but protests continue.

What’s driving the anger, and how will the government respond?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Abigail Limuria – Cofounder of What Is Up Indonesia?, a digital media platform that unpacks Indonesian sociopolitics

Vedi Hadiz – Professor of Asian studies at the University of Melbourne

Wirya Adiwena – Deputy director of Amnesty International Indonesia

Weapons of war have increasingly found their way into the arsenals of domestic police forces.

Few people know that better than protesters in Bangladesh. During the 2024 student uprising, the UN estimates that as many as 1,400 people were killed – the vast majority of them by firearms used by state security forces.

But over the past few decades, police forces in wealthier parts of the world have also come to look and act more like armies. Leading the way has been the United States, where military tools and methods developed for faraway conflicts have found their way back home, onto the streets.

Hind Hassan travels to Bangladesh and France to investigate the companies providing military-grade equipment to police forces and speak with citizens who’ve been on the receiving end of excessive police violence.

The US has taken a stake in Intel chipmaker as part of a push to secure domestic production and reduce reliance on China. The acquisition is the most significant intervention in private business since the 2008 financial crisis. Supporters call it a smart industrial policy that will protect jobs and national security. But critics warn that this could mark a shift in the relationship between government and private companies, raising concerns about how much control a president should have over business.

Also, Bangladesh warns it can no longer bear the cost of sheltering Rohingya refugees.

Plus, meat prices are at an all-time high.

It’s been eight years since more than 700,000 Rohingya were forced from their homes in Myanmar, facing a campaign of mass violence, arson and sexual violence at the hands of the military.

The Muslim-minority Rohingya fled from Rakhine State in the country’s west, into neighbouring Bangladesh.

It’s where an estimated one-and-a-half million Rohingya live today – in the world’s largest refugee camp.

But, Bangladesh and aid agencies say the nearly decade-long humanitarian operation is simply unsustainable.

They are warning that severe funding shortfalls could push the crisis to the breaking point.

So, what’s hampering efforts to repatriate more than a million refugees?

Presenter: James Bays

Guests: 

Yasmin Ullah – Executive director of Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network and human rights activist

Farah Kabir –  Country director for Action Aid Bangladesh

Abbas Faiz – Independent South Asia Researcher with a focus on Bangladesh

In Britain, citizens protesting against the war in Gaza are being arrested and detained under “terrorism” laws. Activists and legal experts warn that “public safety” is being used as a pretext to silence dissent, curb free speech and criminalise legitimate political activism.

Presenter: Stefanie Dekker

Guests:
Clare Hinchcliffe – mother of imprisoned activist
Laura O’Brien – head of protest team
Matt Kennard – investigative journalist and author

Famine in Gaza from Israel’s deliberate starvation policy has pushed more than half a million people into immediate danger.

Yet Israel is intensifying its war, backed by the United States and other Western allies.

How can an engineered famine be allowed happen in the 21st century?

Presenter:

Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Dr Tarek Loubani – Emergency physician and medical director at the Glia Project

Tess Ingram – Spokesperson for the UN children’s agency, UNICEF

Michael Fakhri – UN special rapporteur on the right to food

If Israel rejects the latest offer to pause its War on Gaza, it’s a sign that Israel “doesn’t want any deal,” argues US journalist and author Jeremy Scahill.

Scahill, the co-founder of Drop Site News, tells host Steve Clemons that Hamas has offered major concessions on sticking points such as the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released, Israeli withdrawal from the border with Egypt, and the so-called GHF.

But with carte blanche from the US to continue its war, the question remains: Will Israel decide to sign a temporary deal or pursue war?

America First was the slogan Donald Trump championed during his re-election campaign as he promised to put the interests of Americans above those of foreign governments, immigrants and large corporations. However, the United States president has made several policy decisions that have divided his electoral base. The two guests in this episode of The Stream voted for Trump in the 2024 election but now find themselves on the opposite side of several issues: economic policy, foreign military spending and the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Presenter: Stefanie Dekker

Guests:
Ethan Levins – Social media journalist
Erol Morkoc – Spokesman, Republicans Overseas UK

Israeli attacks around Gaza City are escalating – while diplomatic efforts intensify.

Hamas has accepted the latest proposal from Egypt and Qatar. But Israel has yet to respond.

So, as international pressure mounts, can a ceasefire be reached?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Daniel Levy – President of the US/Middle East Project and a former Israeli negotiator

Omar Rahman – Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs in Washington, DC

Muhammad Shehada – Visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he investigates human rights violations in his native Gaza and the occupied West Bank

Europe is now pledging more military aid to Ukraine than the US.
Meanwhile, Washington is negotiating the nation’s future.
President Donald Trump has held talks with the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents in a bid to end Moscow’s war.
If no peace deal is reached, US support to Kyiv could shrink further, putting even more of the financial burden on Europe.
If a deal is struck, the question shifts from who gives more aid to who will pay for rebuilding what’s left.

How are Nigeria’s manufacturers coping with currency turmoil?

Plus, why is sleep tourism booming?

As climate change pushes sea levels higher, Dutch architect Koen Olthuis says the answer isn’t higher dikes – it’s floating cities. From luxury homes in the Netherlands to sustainable floating schools in slums and entire island communities in the Maldives, his vision blends architecture and adaptation. But can floating design truly offer an inclusive solution – or will only the wealthy stay dry? In this episode of Talk to Al Jazeera, Olthuis explains why living on water may be the only way forward.

The much-anticipated summit between the leaders of Russia and United States concluded without a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

Despite this, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin say “great progress” was made at “constructive” talks in Alaska.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not invited. Instead, after a lengthy phone call with President Trump, he’s heading to the White House on Monday.

So, were ceasefire options discussed behind closed doors?

Could an end to the war finally be in sight?

And what does the summit mean for Russian-American relations?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Andrei Fedorov – Former deputy foreign minister of Russia

Thomas Pickering – Former US ambassador to Russia and the United Nations

Oleksiy Goncharenko – Politician and member of the Ukrainian parliament

Eighty years after the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used – the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 – the risk of the unthinkable happening again has never been greater.

The world’s largest nuclear powers – Russia and the United States – are as close as they’ve been to conflict since the height of the Cold War.

As they upgrade their nuclear capabilities, even talking openly about using them, all signs point to the beginnings of a second nuclear arms race.

Only this time, there aren’t just two players, but three: China, once a junior member of the nuclear club, is expanding its arsenal faster than any other nation.

Violence in Serbia has erupted, involving government supporters, police and anticorruption demonstrators who have been on the streets for months, demanding elections

President Aleksandar Vucic says the protests are part of a foreign plot to oust him.

Why has violence flared up – and what’s next?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Mirko Dautovic – International affairs commentator for Balkan media

Florian Bieber – Professor of Southeast European history and politics at Graz University

Tatyana Kekic – Correspondent covering Serbia for bne IntelliNews

Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in years is spreading in a country ravaged by conflict.

Health and aid workers are battling desperately to stop it from escalating and crossing into neighbouring countries.

What’s driving the outbreak – and how serious is it?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Mathilde Vu – Advocacy manager for Sudan at the Norwegian Refugee Council

Simon Mane – Sudan national director at the humanitarian organisation, World Vision International

Mitch Rhyner – Deputy head of mission at Doctors Without Borders, Sudan

OPEC+, which includes Saudi Arabia and Russia, has agreed to another large production hike in September.

That’s despite a warning by the International Energy Agency, the extra barrels could tip the market into oversupply later this year.

US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have targeted Russian crude buyers.

But whether those tariffs are imposed depends on the outcome of trade negotiations with India and China.

And even more so on talks over a peace deal in Ukraine between Washington and Moscow.

Can the US and Europe break China’s grip on rare earths?

Plus, why is China’s Labubu toy so popular?

We say we care about privacy, but this episode examines whether our actions reflect that.

In The Privacy Paradox, we unravel the disconnect between our stated values and our digital behaviour.

From mindless clicks to routine app permissions, this episode exposes how everyday online habits feed a vast, invisible data economy, often without our knowledge or consent.

Israel’s murder of four Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza has sparked international condemnation.

And it’s not the first time.

Although Israel has killed at least 237 media workers since its war began, these and other killings have gone unpunished.

What does this impunity mean for journalism?

Presenter: Nick Clark

Guests:

Ahmed Najar – Palestinian writer and political analyst

Dominique Pradalie – President of the International Federation of Journalists

Omar Rahman – Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs in Washington, DC

There is a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, after nearly four decades of conflict.

The final stage was brokered by US President Donald Trump in the White House.

Crucial to the deal is a corridor to connect the main part of Azerbaijan with another part of its territory, which is cut off because it is on the other side of Armenia.

But how long will it take before the corridor becomes a reality?

And what will Washington’s growing presence in the South Caucasus mean for the region?

Presenter: James Bays

Guests:

Vasif Huseynov – Head of department at the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center)

Jamila Mammadova – Research assistant at the Henry Jackson Society

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan – Political analyst

By offering nothing except continual massacre for the Palestinians, and attempting to subjugate the surrounding areas to its will, Israel finds itself “in a predicament of its own making”, argues former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy.

Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, tells host Steve Clemons that Israel has put Arab leaders in a bind, as regional disgust grows towards Israel for its war crimes in Gaza.

And while Western governments and cultural institutions have been carrying water for Israel for decades, argues Levy, some have begun “acknowledging things they worked hard not to acknowledge for an awfully long time.”