Gangs seize roads into Haiti’s capital

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48:01

A protester holds up a Haitian flag during a demonstration against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 19, 2025.

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Increasingly brazen armed gangs are taking control of most of the roads leading into and out of Port-au-Prince, as control slips away from Haitian police and Kenyan-led multinational forces. Also, a court in Tokyo has ordered the once-powerful Unification Church in Japan to be dissolved in a case against the religious group that goes back to the 2022 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. And, the beating and arrest of Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” highlights the blurred lines between Israeli settlers and the Israel Defense Forces. Plus, Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people use an ancestral sport to help protect and revive their culture, customs and language.

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In This Episode

Gangs seize roads leading to Haiti’s capital as police continue to lose control
Special Coverage
6:43
A decades old Catalan musical may be ending its run, but its message still resonates today
Special Coverage
5:47
Safe shipping in the Black Sea
0:40
Japan moves to shut down the Unification Church 
Special Coverage
3:57
US acknowledged Denmark’s claim to Greenland over a century ago
3:54
Beating and arrest of Palestinian filmmaker highlights blurred lines between settlers and IDF
6:16
Welfare in South Africa goes online — with mixed results
4:35
Mapuche sports help Indigenous Chileans revive culture
6:00
The rise of Chinese electric cars
7:33