It’s the world’s biggest democratic exercise. Nearly a billion eligible voters in India go to the polls over the course of six weeks, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third term. Will Ripley explains what’s at stake.

“Fighting for freedom makes us feel everything deeper, everything more emotionally.” Ukrainian maestro Oksana Lyniv, who leads Metropolitan Opera’s Turandot, tells me how her passion for conducting is shaped by the war in her homeland.

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On the show this week: Britain’s ex-spy chief on the chain reaction in the Middle East, Putin’s propaganda parrots in Congress, and America’s vital counterweight to China charts its political future.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk tells Hari about a 14-year-old girl from Mariupol that Matviichuk learned of while investigating Russian war crimes in her home country. Oleksandra Matviichuk hari sreenivasan

Melanie Ward who returned from Gaza last week: “One of the most disturbing things is that doctors are having to reuse medical equipment. External fixators, which hold together fractured bones, are having to be removed from dead people and reused on living patients.”

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“The thing that's always amazed me is when you try to explore different things, people have a problem with it, and I don't understand it because there's a natural curiosity about music.” Terence Blanchard on Beyoncé’s country takeover and how music can be a unifier.

“Journalists have been attacked without… justification. They must at least be afforded protection as they are doing their noble job. They are humans before being journalists.”

Al Jazeera English correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum has spent over six months reporting from the ground

A trailblazer and a true journalist, through and through. Remembering Robert MacNeil, the PBS legend, who has died at the age of 93.

“In the coming days, Donald Trump is going to have to face one of the things that he has feared the most, which is a jury of his peers, with a criminal trial, with regular processes.”

Fmr Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal walks through what to expect of this historic trial.

'We were hoping that a person who became the future president of these United States would say... I took out a full page ad in 1989 calling for your death. I'm sorry.'

Yusef Abdus Salaam has an extraordinary story to tell.

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“I think our policy has got to be very clear: not another nickel for Netanyahu’s right wing extremist government while hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face starvation,” argues Bernie Sanders. “That we… are continuing to supply 2000lb bombs… is unacceptable.”

Big news on the climate crisis, with a landmark court ruling against Switzerland.

Last year I spoke with one of the plaintiffs, Elisabeth Stern, and lawyer Jessica Simor KC about the fight for climate justice pioneered by these self-proclaimed 'climate grannies':

“The Asian community up and down the country was under siege. It was about time we did something for ourselves. In the face of racist violence and injustice we fought back.”
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The ABBA-lanche unleashed on London 25 years ago, which became a global multi-billion dollar phenomenon. MAMMA MIA! creator-director Judy Craymer talks about the show’s quarter-century milestone - and whether there’s a third movie in the works.

“'Trigger-happy’ would be an understatement.”

A +972 Magazine and Local Call investigation with testimony from Israeli intelligence sources alleges the IDF uses AI to pick targets in Gaza. Journalist Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם speaks to Eleni Giokos Ελένη Γιώκου about his latest report.

'We either move forward into a rules-based world... Or we move into a world where the killing of 15,000 children is acceptable.'

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta tells Eleni Giokos Ελένη Γιώκου why the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza signals a 'juncture' in the conflict.

“That is a hostage situation,” says Evgenia Kara-Murza. The wife of twice-poisoned Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza – now imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony – reacts to the year-long detention of Evan Gershkovich.
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