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Early results from the largest election in the world show India’s opposition leader Narendra Modi has won a landslide victory to become the country’s new prime minister. Modi is the leader of the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party.

This week the Israeli army and settlers escalated attacks against Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza, meanwhile the Palestinian President reiterated his willingness to continue the peace talks.

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Palestinian lawyer dies due to Israeli army torture this week, meanwhile the United States remains hopeful that peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis would resume. These stories and more, coming up.

This week Palestinian Leaders reached a unity deal ending seven years division between Gaza and the West Bank. Meanwhile Israeli attacks targeting the Palestinian Territories this week left at least a dozen injured civilians.

How far would you go to tell the truth? That is the question posed by the new documentary “Silenced,” which follows three national security whistleblowers who fight to reveal the darkest corners of America’s war on terror while enduring the wrath of a government increasingly determined to maintain secrecy.

Environmental reporter Dan Fagin joins us to discuss his book, “Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation,” which has just won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Fagin tells the story of how a small New Jersey town fought back against industrial pollution and astronomical rates of childhood cancer, and ultimately won one of the largest legal settlements in U.S. history.

In an Earth Day special, we look at the history of the global environmental movement as told in the sweeping new documentary, “A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet.”