The Mamas and The Jabbers

Today, the seized President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro has appeared in a New York court charged with narco-terrorism. As Maduro pled not guilty he told the court he was a “decent man” and “still the president of his country”. The highly televised spectacle of the Venezuelan lea ...  عرض المزيد

Today, we look at who’s in power now in Venezuela, after President Donald Trump said the US will ‘run’ the country.Maduro's Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez has been named interim president, who Trump says is talking to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.Chief political corresponden ...  عرض المزيد

A landmark parliamentary inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity services after finding poor care is "all-too-frequently tolerated as normal".   The report calls for a new maternity commissioner who will report to the prime minister, be ...  عرض المزيد

Finding enough diapers has become an almost impossible task in Gaza, nearly six months since Israel’s war began. As much of the Arab world celebrates Mother’s Day, we learn what raising a family in a war zone is really like.

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The team celebrates a belated mother's day by revisiting some of the best mothers to call into the show. A favorite guest from the two-timers club, “Not Racist Susan, ” shares stories of her wayward youth that includes a stint as a women’s oil wrestler in the 80s. An adult entert ...  عرض المزيد

We all think we know the story of pregnancy. Sperm meets egg, followed by nine months of nurturing, nesting, and quiet incubation. But this story isn’t the nursery rhyme we think it is. In a way, it’s a struggle, almost like a tiny war. And right on the front lines of that bat ...