Can Kerry re-energize the Israeli-Palestinian talks?

Can Kerry re-energize the Israeli-Palestinian talks?

Guests:

Amb. Thomas Pickering
Former U.S. ambassador to Israel and a career diplomat for the U.S. State Department.

Hussein Ibish @ibishblog 
Senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (@ATFP).

Read more about the Israeli-Palestinian talks, via Al Jazeera America.

Editorials in The New York Times, The Guardian call for US to grant Edward Snowden clemency

Guests:

Karen Greenberg @KarenGreenberg3 
Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law.

Tim Clemente
Counterterrorism expert and former FBI special agent.  

Read The New York Times' editorial and The Guardian's editorial. 

What is the humanitarian situation as violence continues in South Sudan? 

Guests: 

Siddharth Chatterjee @sidchat1 
Chief diplomat at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (@Federation).

What will happen next in South Sudan?

Eric Reeves @SudanReeves 
Sudan analyst and researcher, Smith College.

Read more about the United Nations' call for an immediate ceasefire in South Sudan, via Al Jazeera English.

Priest charged with hiding complaints of church abuse is released from prison

Msgr. William Lynn, the first U.S. church official to be charged with hiding complaints of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after serving 18 months for felony child endangerment. Lynn had his conviction overturned on appeal. 

Guest:

Barbara Blaine @BarbaraBlaine 
Founder, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (@SNAPnetwork). 

Read more about Lynn's release from prison, via The Associated Press.

Which movies and TV shows top the list of pirated media in 2013?

Guest:

Bill Wyman @hitsville 
Al Jazeera culture critic, former arts editor at NPR.

Note: Tonight our guest host is Sheila MacVicar (@Sheila_MacVicar), correspondent for Al Jazeera America. Antonio Mora will return on Jan. 6. 

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