Examining the humanitarian crisis parall...

Nearly two years into the war in Gaza, UNICEF estimates that more than 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or injured. We meet a doctor in nearby Lebanon where he and his team are racing to heal the handful of kids they can reach.Learn more about sponsor message choices: ... Show More

President Trump has made clear he’s interested in ending the war Russia has waged on Ukraine. After a flurry of diplomatic meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a variety of European leaders, is the prospect of peace near? We ... Show More

In Ireland, the Catholic Church once ran homes for unwed mothers. Until recently the church dominated life there and pregnancy outside marriage was considered shameful. Behind one of these homes a ghastly discovery has recently been made and is now being unearthed. It was a secre ... Show More

This week on Babel, Jon talks with Carsten Wieland, a German diplomat who served in the United Nations with three separate special envoys to Syria. They discuss the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the politicization of humanitarian aid in Syria, and the implications of ... Show More

Fareed talks to Jennifer Cafarella, the chief of staff at the Institute for the Study of War, about Ukraine’s military advantages against Russia. Then, International Rescue Committee President and CEO David Miliband sits down with Fareed to discuss the humanitarian crisis caused ... Show More

Tommy and Ben discuss the debate about whether the US and NATO should help supply MiG fighter jets to Ukraine, reports that Russia may be preparing to use chemical weapons, the growing risk to journalists covering the war, what President Biden and the US are doing to support Ukra ... Show More

Tommy and Ben talk about the latest in Ukraine including reports of progress towards a peace deal, President Biden's visit to Poland, the apparent poisoning of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, and Trump's (second) plea to Putin for (more) dirt on Biden. Tommy and Ben also discu ... Show More

International Rescue Committee president David Miliband and Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass join Fareed to discuss the diplomatic fallout of the Chinese spy balloon incident and how to navigate the political pitfalls of sending aid to Turkey and Syria after a ... Show More

In an exclusive interview, Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska joins Fareed to discuss the humanitarian toll of the brutal war, how her family is handling it, and whether Russia will achieve its apparent aim of breaking the will of the Ukrainian people. Then, Mac Margolis, a vete ... Show More

What can 11 years of war in Syria tell us about Ukraine? This week marks the anniversary of Syria’s uprising and there still seems to be no end to conflict in sight. There’s also another date that resonates: September 30, 2015, when Russia intervened on behalf of President Bashar ... Show More

Gaza: No improvement in aid access to north, insists senior UN aid official Sudan facing looming famine, warn humanitariansUkraine war leaves 3.3 million in dire need on frontlines: IOM  

The scenes of devastation in Mariupol, a southeastern port city in Ukraine, are increasingly reflected in cities across the country as Russian forces advance. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the port city since the start of Russia's invasion. A humanitarian crisis is d ... Show More