The Current for March 21, 2022
Today on The Current:
The war in Yemen has led to a humanitarian crisis, but there's limited action from the rest of the world. Guest host Mark Kelley talks to Dr. William Cherniak, who is working to get ultrasound machines into Yemen; Radhya Almutawakel, the co-founder and chairperson of Mwatana for Human Rights; and Thomas Juneau, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, and author of the book Le Yémen en guerre.
Then, from bombing hospitals to using banned weapons, experts say Russian tactics in Ukraine were previously deployed by President Vladimir Putin in Syria. We hear from Artur Shevchenko, who recently fled Mariupol in Ukraine; Hamza al-Kateab, a Syrian doctor and activist; Natasha Hall, a senior fellow with the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a Syrian writer, activist and former political prisoner.
And algorithms play a key role in everything from sports to election campaigns. But in a world where we rely on computers to know everything we don't, journalist Chris Jones says the good old gut feeling is being shortchanged. He tells us about his book The Eye Test: A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics.
