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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour presents this powerful documentary examining the plight of Aids orphans in Kenya
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Wed, Jul 19 at 1830hrs
Sat, Jul 22 at 1130am and 1930hrs
Sun, Jul 23 at 1130am
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour travels to the slums and villages of Kenya, where more than one million children have been orphaned by AIDS. She discovers the lost generation of AIDS in Kenya – those who are infected at birth or very early on in life – and are left to fight the AIDS pandemic on their own.
“For some children, their parents’ disease is their only inheritance” Amanpour explains. “This enemy, AIDS, is a tragedy which bears down on families. It’s a truly shocking story.”
In a country where HIV/AIDS was declared a national disaster in 1999, WHERE HAVE ALL THE PARENTS GONE? goes right to the heart of this human tragedy as Amanpour spends time with the orphans left behind. One orphan she meets is Alima, a 17-year-old girl left to take care of her seven younger siblings. Alima must give up her dream of going to school to keep her family together, as she says that is the most important thing. Amanpour also introduces us to 11-year-old Mukhtar and his family, as his father is dying of AIDS and his mother, unbeknownst to Mukhtar, is also infected.
But not all hope is lost for Kenya’s orphans. There are individuals such as Khadija Rama, who runs a relief centre, supported by UNICEF, where she clothes and feeds over 600 orphans in the neighbourhood, whilst trying to find them foster families.
Amanpour also finds room for optimism when she travels to Nairobi’s largest slum, Kibera, and to the Starra Rescue School, where 70% of the children are AIDS orphans. This neighbourhood school is a place where local children can receive meals and the treatment they so desperately need.
Africa is the hardest hit of all AIDS suffering continents. Its legacy – 12 million orphans and counting…
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI: Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
