Daily field programme

Street Pulse

From markets and neighbourhoods to officials' desks, live on air

Presented by Ali Al-Saadi
Airs
Daily, 18:30
Rerun
Rerun 02:00
Season
Season 9
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Street Pulse · Season 9 · Episode 33

Before the winter rains: will drainage networks in Basra's neighbourhoods hold up?

7.8K views · Tuesday, 27 October 2026 · 04:59

“Street Pulse” toured the Jumhuriya, Hayaniya and Khamsa Mil neighbourhoods, whose streets flooded last winter, and found storm drains clogged with rubbish and pumping stations running at half capacity. In a call on air, the head of Basra's sewerage directorate pledged to finish clearing the main lines before mid-November.

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About the programme

Street Pulse

A daily field programme that takes citizens' concerns and demands from markets and neighbourhoods straight to officials.

Since its first season in 2016, “Street Pulse” has left the studio for the street every evening: an open camera in a market, a neighbourhood or a public-service office, people's questions just as they ask them, then a live call to the authority responsible so it can answer on air. The programme follows up on officials' promises in later episodes and shows how much has been delivered on electricity, water, roads and housing.

Airs
Daily, 18:30
Rerun
02:00
Running time
90 minutes
On air since
2016
Current season
Season 9
Category
Politics and talk shows
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Episodes of Street Pulse

3 episodes available to watch in full, with a player that remembers where you left off.