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On Wednesday veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. She was hit by a live bullet while covering Israeli raids in the city of Jenin. In video footage of the incident, Abu Akleh can be seen wearing a blue flak jacket clearly marked with the word “PRESS”.

In a statement, Al Jazeera Media Network condemned the “blatant murder” that violates “international laws and norms”, and called Abu Akleh’s death a “heinous crime, through which it is intended to prevent the media from fulfilling its message”.

The killing comes just days after the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians filed a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court alleging “systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists”.

Abu Akleh, 51, was born in Jerusalem. She began working for Al Jazeera in 1997 and regularly reported from across the occupied Palestinian territory.

In this episode we discuss the global reaction to her killing, and ask if there will be any accountability.

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Sri Lanka is also battling its worst economic crisis in history following the pandemic that hit tourism earnings, leaving the government grappling with rising oil prices and the impact of tax cuts.

We’ll discuss the latest from Sri Lanka.

Syria:
The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, warns that 12.3 million Syrian children are in need of aid both inside the country, and in the wider region where they’ve fled since the war began. UNICEF has received less than half of its funding requirements for this year.

This comes as international donors held a sixth pledging conference in Brussels earlier in the week. “World public opinion seems not to be able to deal with more than one crisis at the time,” European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said as he opened the event. He noted “a certain fatigue” among donors saying, “Now it is Ukraine in the headlines. But don’t give up on Syria.”

Syria’s war is estimated to have killed half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011.
We’ll discuss the impact on Syrian children and ask how donor fatigue can be combated.

Afghanistan:
The Taliban is once again requiring women to be covered up head to toe and permitting them to only go outdoors in the company of a male chaperone.
But in a first, punishment for not complying was also detailed: Male guardians of offending women will receive a warning, and for repeated offences they will be imprisoned for three days.
This decree comes as the country faces the worst humanitarian and economic disaster in decades, and millions face hunger and unemployment. The International Labor Organization says there will be an estimated 900,000 job losses by June this year, with women hit the hardest.

We’ll discuss the ongoing roll back of girls’ and womens’ rights in Afghanistan and ask how Afghan women’s rights activists are fighting back.

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