Name: Five-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan forced to flee his homeland by The World in PRI's The World: 05/03/2016
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: The father of the 5-year-old boy who became an internet sensation after being photographed wearing a homemade Lionel Messi soccer shirt, says the family has been forced to leave Afghanistan after repeated threats.

PRI's The World: 05/03/2016

I talked with a Hong Kong protester today who goes by the name of Fish Cheng.

At the barricades

People in Aleppo, Syria, are trying to continue with their lives despite the constant sound of explosions and the chance of sudden, violent death. Kids play soccer. People go to cafes and hold wedding parties. Host Marco Werman speaks with Declan Walsh of the New York Times who was just in Aleppo.

War as normal: Life in Aleppo, Syria

Workers at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas have cast their votes to unionize. But Donald Trump's hotel company is refusing to recognize the vote.

Las Vegas hotel workers take on Donald Trump

The father of the 5-year-old boy who became an internet sensation after being photographed wearing a homemade Lionel Messi soccer shirt, says the family has been forced to leave Afghanistan after repeated threats.

Five-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan forced to flee his homeland

Abel and Burlee Vang managed to get around the mostly white Hollywood community by turning to their own community, Hmong Americans. Hmong Americans financed their project, which has now been sold to a major motion picture company.

Two Hmong American filmmakers give credit to their community for helping them get their big break

In Yemen, the city of Taiz is at the heart of a struggle between the Houthis and their enemies for control of the country. But the forces aligned against the Houthis contain some strange bedfellows.

The one place where al-Qaeda and the US are on the same side

After my story on Monday about how legendary Brooklyn pizzeria Totonno's is trying to rebuild and come back after super-storm Sandy, a lot of people said how charmed they were by the grand-daughter of the late Anthony "Totonno" Pero, Antoinette Balzano.  So here is an extended mix of the time I spent with Balzano, going around Coney Island, starting in front of Totonno's, going to the boardwalk, and returning back to the restaurant. We began by speaking about her grandfather.

Touring Coney Island with Antoinette Balzano of Totonno's Pizzeria

[<a href="https://soundcloud.com/theworld/sets/embedded-journalism-in-iraq">This is part of a panel discussion on embedded journalism in Iraq and Afghanistan</a>] 

This is part of a panel discussion on embedded journalism in Iraq and Afghanistan</a>] "(During the 2003 lead up to the Iraq invasion) we were going to bring all of the journalists that were going to go with us, and read them into the entire plan, weeks prior to the invasion.  And the reason this is done is, number one, they're going to be right beside us and deserve to know; and two, it was an extension of trust that says "We are going to let you in, and let you see everything that we're getting ready to do.  And we trust that you're not going to compromise the mission." - US Army Col. Richard "Ross" Coffman

Sebastian Junger, Bob Woodruff, Rita Leistner and Col. Ross Coffman talk with The World's Aaron Schachter on March 15, 2013

How reporters got to the war zone

Reporter Anders Kelto of PRI's The World talks about his radio and multimedia series, "School Year." Kelto is spending a year documenting the lives of students at a public high school in Cape Town, South Africa. The Centre of Science and Technology is a magnet school that serves families in the low-income township of Khayelitsha. &#13;
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School Year

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