CHP leader calls for former mayor’s release, denounces arrests of protesters in growing clashes over Turkish democracy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Turkiye’s Istanbul have taken to the streets again, rallying against the government’s decision to imprison the city’s popular mayor. The mass demonstration on Saturday was the latest in a wave of nationwide protests that have gripped parts of the country since the arrest of Ekrem...

Pro-Palestine student Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested on Tuesday by US immigration authorities in Massachusetts. A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel’s war in Gaza and was detained by US immigration officials. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was forcibly taken into custody by masked federal agents in broad daylight near her Massachusetts home...

Country on edge after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warns of more possible attacks. Israel bombs the southern suburbs of Beirut – the first air strike on the Lebanese capital since November’s ceasefire. Hours earlier, rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon. After numerous ceasefire breaches by Israel in four months, how serious is this one? Presenter: Cyril Vanier Guests: Ali Rizk – Security affairs analyst. Lorenzo Kamel...