the politics of the tribes more likely on lives a vote to stop the chaos or she soon ack has taken a decision at all with some within his own party who called it madness to go to the country. when you're so far behind in the polls, it seems the prime minister has decided that after a poor showing you local elections and with rooms of dissatisfaction with his leadership inside the party, the things are unlikely to get any better. the prime minister insists there is a plan and the plan is working. but many people see too little evidence of that in failing public services and no and to small bud crossings of the channel despite a plan to send asylum seekers to rwanda. so next promise to keep for it and secure a head of what he describes is the most dangerous he is since the cold war and to restore the economy to health. the prime minister pointed to for the installation is assigned that he's potty is best place to end 3 years of a cost of living prices. you phone, the voters will give it 5 more years. in downing street during the whole elder 0

london was full of powerful tornadoes. his debit stated polyps, the us midwest state of iowa in the west hit town of greenfield for people were killed in thousands injured rescue is a still searching through the rubble of destroyed homes as most storms could be on their way in the next few days. on panels reports, at least $26.00 tornadoes, ravaged, 3 states doing the greatest damage in iowa. it is just a rip, it gets hard to describe until you can actually see at the devastation, much of the town of greenfield population. 2000 was torn to pieces. many residents are stunned and trying to cope with the extent of the damage done. a pruitt's family home has been wrecked just going to the most you know, like i said, just picking up the stuff in the region known as tornado alley violent spring time storms are

a fact of life. but this warm of twisters was particularly large and powerful. moving rapidly from west to east, gaining strength as it bore down on fields and farms residents rushed to shelter. we also reports in the weather was going to be bad and there was a tornado headed our way. and so i took my kids to the basement authorities, a multiple people were killed and dozens are being treated for injuries. when we have this many homes that have been destroyed and i just fully demolished, we want to make sure that every resident, every person has a kind of force. trailers were flipped like toys in wind turbine smashed to the ground. tens of thousands of people were left without power and the weather service says more storms are on their way over the next several days. rob reynolds alger 0 . okay, that's it for me, molly. inside lot small information on a website. al jazeera, don't com. the news continues hit on al jazeera, off to the stream to stay with us.

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deducts the funds directly from customs taxes that it collects on behalf of the palestinian authority. she says she'll never write a scooter again from kingston to can shasta by kate town outages and sights and struggles all over the wild music into words and with liberal ration struggles. today's reasoning against the genocide in gaza is no different. so what is the soundtrack to the, how to find movements? i'm what parent tell us about the time use, and i deals guiding it by miriam software i'm, this is the stream the if i was in palace by right now. if i was in gaza right now, if i was in the bathroom right now, what, what i want the rest of the world to be doing? so i went to the dentist said sweets pallet start,

the, the i got the, the same, the vin. how many does stuff, macklemore. these are just some of the names of the office to of use them use it to raise awareness of the palestinian struggle. so what is the role of music innovation movement and what kind of achieve that was a loan candidates to introduce this to this topic? let's listen to it. a half from sol band, a palestinian group from gaza of the

year. and then a whole to both of us to me in a minute on the see the show for the most stop. okay. do we open the else? unfortunately, the working, the platinum, the 2 weeks are literally the, the is the scene was not just my dreams and actually everything was destroyed.

and i didn't know if i can dream again. um, but all i know that i, i will try not to lose my out the, the situation. we need to do this in our museum and the city and sounds like the other thing is do other denies. there's literally really lucas, which give us an energy and whole and support over the children's side literally. so i think music, oh, the, the who goes to to house was the most beautiful the thing. so i have the

importance of music as a source of hope in the times to discuss this with us today. we have poet, rafa, musician and activists. so williams are of american sing it and they that he does the 11, eas, palestinian sing, a rafa i musician. nice nice that you recently finished touring in the us. let's take a listen. and while my people suffer only one of the most inhumane, one of the most fun ethical, one of the most house in gross human rights violations of monitoring history. as a palestinian, it's a very weird feeling to be singing and having salts of joy and happiness. but as i said earlier in the show, music is a tool of liberation. and my to my music will always be used as a tool to liberate my people and to liberate all people and to liberate us here and to liberate myself from inside. so i just want you to know as i play the show tonight, i'm with the people of gods. i'm with the people of palestine are nice,

what it'd be like for you as a promise to any musician performing in the us right now. when can you tell us about this? i did of music also freeing you. yeah, absolutely. um. touring right now is very sorrowful and at the same time purposeful. i think people collectively joined together and been together through music. it's like a spiritual connection that we shared. so it'd be in the same room with people in the time like this and to be able to speak on the things that are touching all of our hearts has a deep purpose. but it doesn't come without sorrow because we know that all the while there is this just a position of the, the intense suffering happening and gaza. and so i'm trying my best to use the purpose of music and it's live for him to keep the eyes on our

people and also to lift our people spirits. so in 2003, you made a pledge which was had the. 8 out of titled not in our name the responsibility to be done by our government. the how does it feel, watching that back now in 202420 years on with what is happening now? well, i would definitely say that that is certainly the kind of intention that was put into constructing that the pleasure of resistance. you know, we are americans, for example, or for us to, to recite the pledge of allegiance every day before school and, and up. and i remember refusing to do it as

a kid and then getting my kids permission to refuse it and been writing the touch of resistance sitting with the right of star hawk. and i really felt as if we had to place the type of intention for something that would inspire and last and so it's sad to see it's relevant, you know, still still there. um, but at the same time that was exactly the energy that was put into it, you know, and, and, and so it, it, it's, it's, i'm glad that it's useful. that's the main thing. i think as an artist, as you want your work to be useful and, and for people and movements to find it useful up to this day is, is excellent. yeah. yeah. layla you going viral for turning pop trucks into songs? resistance the the

why did you open for this particular means of getting your message out that why pop trucks? so i think this really trying to connect with people who might not normally be connected to this issue. and i think when you sing songs and they know and you change the words around, you know, maybe at 1st they don't necessarily realize that they're hearing a remixed version of it. but it kind of makes people listen and maybe connect with the message a little bit more. so that was why i started doing that really just to bring attention to the issue through a different method. ben is usually used well on the ground in palestine. music organizations have been focused on preserving and continuing a rich musical legacy, which includes sounds. many of us will now be familiar with a song.

is it turn of a to and is it turned? it's an act of generosity and it is a statement that i do exist. this is a space for dreams, for hopes, and it does a tool for expression and also documentation. we know music has played the major role in revolutions all around the world, including in palestine. we know songs that dates back not even 21948 only, but before that, to the british, i'm out of date that i would. grandmothers and great grand mothers have sunk and we still know them until today. it is a statement that by this time has existed, ever since, for the long time contradictory to the is really negative, that tries constantly to it is the culture of the history of this by a to move,

speak because it's an act of empowerment. it's an act of motivation. it's an act of activism. that's why we believe in the power of music as a strong, empowering, and universal language for change. nice as a promising in office. do you feel this responsibility to carry forward this musical tradition especially with so much racial around? yes, absolutely. i think um the inevitably palestinian spirit and culture sort of permits everything we do. so for me, whether it's in the kindness or in the love i'm trying to write about with a grief or the sorrow i'm trying to write about inexplicably these things are just extensions of my past in spirit pass down from my mother and her mother. and those who came before me, so i've come to really embrace the role that our ancestors play and everything we

create. and bypassing and culture and spirit is hand down to me and through me by my ancestors. so it's an honor and it's also it, it carries a heavy weight. but a beautiful one. so i want to ask you about what some might consider culture was silence in the music industry right now. there are some notable figures including palestinian ones, not to mention d j. kyle, that of course. um, what is the role of the musician the office right now at this comment juncture, as you see it as well as i see it, i see music as a form of the art itself as a form of resistance. but i also see the art at heart is used as, as tools of propaganda. and, and you know, what that does is often times a misaligned value, so that we become complicit with the system that we could be using our art to, to fight against. you know, um, and that's the problem and we have

a lot of art is who who yearn to be successful rather than yearning to be revolutionary to their art. and so there's, there's a confusion of values in terms of what really makes something less. and, you know, you know, you see people in, in t shirts with, with bob marley with nina simone. that's pretty cool. cool bain. um, you know, the list goes on and on of artist web stood at the intersection of politics and, and, and creation. and a lot of those artists even stood at the interface of, of almost inventing john rose by speaking you know, their mind and, and, and, and, and speaking truth to power with music. and i don't know why artist would choose to go the route. i mean, i do know why it's capitalism, right? we know that artist measure some artist, measure of success in terms of money in term instead of measuring it in terms of the way that they can touch hearts, how many hearts they reach and, and,

and how they can transform and help transform society. and so i think that we have to realize this art is often times that were being used by system and fight against that with our art. that is the highest purpose of art is to serve as resistance. an artist, an art has always served on the front lines of resistance. you don't have social change with out, you know, music, helping the people marching and all of these things. but the way the arch, it's the heart, the way that it, that it resonates and the self conscious so that we have matches up with the p to ourselves. these things should be sending us not distracting us. um, so yeah, well not like the american rock. c macklemore has blown up with this traction the whole that's taken. listen. the people they will need. what is threatening about the best thing i want to increase?

the problem is that the protest is what their protest page it goes against. what i've touched for you is finding the barricade entail palace on a spring lock. the barricade entailed palace thomas for layla. um michael, maurice and the said a riley, all its in its purest form, is resistance. is that something that you relate to? and can you break that down for us? absolutely, i feel that our has been a part of every freedom movement that has ever existed throughout history. and this one is really no different. i mean, what we're seeing is truly hard to process as human beings with empathy. and if people aren't being episodic, it's because they're really just disconnected from you know, the truth of our connectedness. if that makes sense. so yeah, when we think of art is resistance, we think of sharing truths, truths that are often difficult for people here. and trips that are often taboo

and maybe often times shut down, which is what a lot of what we're seeing in pro palestine spaces and beyond that our voices are being banned. so art is a really, really powerful tool because you know, you can try to silence the people, but there will always be art that speaks to the movement and that has happened throughout history forever. so when you mentioned the molly, when he signed, get up, stand up the, the message was to provoke consciousness for action. do we have any equivalent attempts to provoke consciousness today? and is it working? i think we have several, several attempts. i mean, we, we can't make the mistake of ignoring all of the underground orders that are using their voices. all of the poets that are speaking up. um, you know, i, i feel as if i'm a member of an army of poets actually i've been sold so proud to be

a part of that community of, of people that are speak to not been using their voice to connect to what's going on. but yes, it would be useful if part is contributed to song i thought, you know, to the movement in, in the wrong way. but the wrong signature we need that for about 20 said music is the weapon of the future. and we've been celebrating cowardice often times in music . we've been celebrating complicity. we've been celebrating nonsense and that's the reflection of ourselves. and the propaganda that strict west of our culture. it's our responsibility to transform that and, and does transform society and to celebrate the artist that are helping us transform that and, and so yeah, it's happening, but more can happen. well those who know cause that will be aware that there is a full of sound will fact always underway. the web. i drones consistently blight the sound scape, they call it the nana is be sensor. explain. i'm an example of how music is used to resist it. the uh

the, [000:00:00;00] the nice as someone who understands the impacts of sound a vibrations. can you tell us about the psychological and physical effects and facts of this some constant background found on the lives of palestinians in gaza. i couldn't tell you,

i couldn't imagine living through that us in america, in the west. we live with such privilege that music is only for us. sound is only for us, you know, uh, pleasure, leisure or, you know, if we have the discipline likes, always talking about to use it as revolution. but those in palestine, those and guys who have to sort of navigate through these a sinister efforts to hack their minds with threatening sounds. they lift through something that i can't imagine. i really couldn't speak to it. um, i just, uh, i'm always inspired by the way that palestinians find a way to resist and everything that they do, especially those in palestine who understand that at a way, deeper level. well, so you, you want to come back that i'm, i wanted to ask you is, what about, you know, hip hop provided many listeners access to what something called the sort of black cnn. what have you personally,

not listening to palestinians and what do you think we all learning by listening to them as well? yeah. you know there's, there's certainly a connection. the 1st i wanted to loop into your previous question. netflix black, cnn quote has to do with um, the description that was given in the early ninety's, late eighty's of public enemy. and, and it's true that public enemy incorporated the sounds of sirens. and thus the sounds of, of, of police violence. the sounds of the hood into the music and we recognize it as part of the music in the same way that in that recording that be here, you know, the palestinians have to create but the constant sounds of the drones there and, and surveillance, you know, portable surveillance, and what has, has been inspiring, you know, and, and of course there's a lot of correlation that has been made for the ages between uh, you know, the struggles of all colonized people and haven't particularly, you know,

when i think of myself as, as a black american and, and the role that, that, that palestinians have played in both contemporary times. you know, i think of the ferguson movement with, with, you know, them saying this is how you, you know, can, can help yourself to turn gas. what have you. but all the way back, you know, um to, to people like if you knew being and, and, and all the people who found inspiration, um, you know, through and correlation between these struggles. we continually learn life from each other as the palestinians are found to say we teach life, right? and, and, and that is what we see more than the depth. you know, that, that, you know, obviously you fall into our timelines. we, we, we honor the resistance and, and, and, and, and so, and that's the connection to be made, right? is that resistance is, is resistance in many forms, right? and all of it is valid and all of it is necessary,

especially when the powers that be, are, are, are there applauding the, the, the actual like terror that being inflicted by the ios that seem inserted by the us establishment that's being inflicted by, by all the forces against it that want to keep things as is um, this is why, oh, to hear those voices coming out to hear those poems coming out to see to see people continuing to dance. um to, to, to realize that that we are impossible to kill, that we are impossible to destroy and to hear music. and art that reflects that is, is crucial. it's, it's, it's a part of the, it's a necessary part of the air. we believe it's a necessary part of the water we drink and i say that thinking of the people who are having difficulty finding water even right so, so music sometimes serves as sustenance and the same way that prayer and scripture can um, and a lot of these things often are imbedded in music and imbedded in poetry imbedded in art, um for that,

for that actual purpose to sustain us. right. and so i'm sustained by what i see and i hope to, to give some sustenance to do what we share. i'm well layla, you've just written liberation album. i'd love to hear about the message that you are sending out in the liberation album. and if i may ask you also about this book policy that we're seeing online. do we think blocking the celebrities who want speaking off is, is a good strategy, is that the way forwards? i want to start with that. yes. i think if you have a platform and you're not using it, then you're complicit. and i think that's really important to recognize is that these people, how to do amounts of money and they have a community around them who's willing to listen to what they say because of who they are. and if you're not using that for good, then society really doesn't have to put you on

a pedestal anymore. and i think it's really time that we start to kind of tackle this celebrity culture. and, you know, the album is, it's a lot about capitalism and how it sort of feeds this whole entire thing. um, you know, the album is about palestine of course and the palestine movement. and you know, those of us who are the resistance, there's a song on it that's an original song called we are the resistance and i think people hear the word resistance and they get a little like what does that mean, right? because we've been sort of told that it's this negative like violent, scary thing, but know every single person posting on social media, every single person who is taking to the st relentlessly. because i think, you know, especially i'm in new york city and i think the n y p d is really getting tired of our protests and we're seeing them really cracked down and get violent. and because you know what we're seeing, it's so frankly absurd. and it's, it's truly hard for us to process the survey of what we're seeing and also the

propaganda around it. which is, you know, it's, sometimes we have a community of people basically who are looking at best and they're saying, and like, are you seeing the same thing? is me right and, and we need an outlet for all of this race that we see all seeing these bloody bodies every single day and wondering how people could be cheering this on. so anyone with a heart, with human empathy is a part of the resistance. we just have to keep going. i mean that's what this whole movement is for. yeah. well i'd like to end today's program by handing the mike back to the house for some final thoughts on the support she has seen for palestine across the globe. it gives me in energy and hold and, and the feeling that my voice is here and i'm left alone. never, never, never stop talking, shedding about palestine and about what's happening and goes and pray for all the

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