to form a coalition. the taliban says it's behind a suicide bombing that killed fifteen soldiers in afghanistan's capital it's been a deadly week for the country at least eighty nine people died in two separate mosque attacks on friday your second just eight rex tillerson xin saudi arabia's part of a new push to end the gulf crisis but he says he doesn't expect a breakthrough it's now four months in saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain all suspended ties with cattle egypt's government says sixteen people have been killed in an ambush on security forces in the western desert the police officers were raiding a hideout of the bacteria oasis when they came under fire from fighters no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attack. five former u.s. presidents are joining forces for a charity concert to support her ten really the one america appeal concert of texas will raise money for people affected by hurricanes harvey and maria tens of thousands of people were displaced after the storms hit the u.s.

in the caribbean president trumper sent a video recording to the concert goers. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront. but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera how much is nobel peace prize winner aung sang suu kyi to blame for the ongoing violence against the rohingya muslims in myanmar one of her fellow nobel laureates the renowned bangladeshi economist muhammad yunus. as a new generation of feminists have risen up around the world in what's been called

the third wave a central question as emerged in the movement should feminists support all women's choices or some choices holding women back that's our debate but first in what the u.n. has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing in recent weeks more than half a million rohingya muslims are fled after neighboring bangladesh myanmar security forces and put it vigilantes have been accused of mass rape and the burning of entire villages so how much is the country's defacto leader aung sang suu kyi to blame and how is bangladesh handling the mass influx of rohingya refugees this week headliner nobel peace laureate economist and author of the new book a world of three zeros muhammad yunus. mohammad yunus thanks for joining me on up front we're going to talk about your new book a world of three zeros in a moment but i have to start talking with you about perhaps the biggest story in the world right now in many ways because you are one of a select band of individuals who have been honored with

a nobel peace prize and yet one of your fellow nobel peace laureate aung sang suu kyi currently seems to be complicit in brutal violence ethnic cleansing possibly genocide against the rohingya muslim minority in myanmar how does that make you feel i feel terrible sinful terrible thing that happened to me is the number one news item right now and i feel it every day because there are people who are coming from the same region who are that within your people are coming in. i feel. this nobel peace prize the cigars she had won the maids who are world showered with the admiration and respect for her now she completely reversed her position she has another phrase who she is about the city is about killing your own citizens these are in yours were born there lived there for generations. when the country became independent they were automatically became the citizens the participated in politics the sender of the present in the parliament they were the cabinet members

suddenly nineteen needed to military government comes with the idea. that they are no longer serious so let me ask you this in myanmar right now what we're seeing is what the un has called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing last year you signed a letter to the un security council with a dozen other nobel laureates expressing quote frustration that aung san suu kyi for her refusal to act on this issue just to be clear because a lot of people kind of point the blame in different directions how much blame do you place on her directly for the current crisis for this ongoing violence and refugee movement but hundred percent of the blame on her because she is the leader she can say that and we spoke to me or somebody did a lot of people would say the military really in charge what can she do well then she should resign this is they can't handle it because this is their own citizen is another few people by staying on she's blessing them out of children in order on to their belief she's defending it she says i don't know why these people are going no we don't have a choice in the lords is american is were attacking us all kinds of thing there is

no atrocities in the villages burning of villages these are all false she made his name these are false news so she takes all the blame herself so there's no way you can parted with the military and anybody else if she gets all the blame and she's responsible for it and she has to fix it so when your fellow nobel peace laureate jose ramos horta of east timor who signed that letter with you last year a few months ago he was on this show and he was basically defending suchi said she's handling a very complex delicate situation she cannot antagonize the military. quote criticism probably is mis directed more to her than to the military what do you say to him i would say the same thing and if she is if she cannot say the things she should say then she is not a leader a leader is supposed to stand by their own people have you had any contact with aung san suu kyi yourself in recent i met her several times before months before this incident before the election. i mentioned about and so on she said well i have to be very careful about the military back and not say anything but wonder election

is over if i am the winner i'm definitely taking the stand in favor of that she said that they might has gone back on the inevitable and if you could speak to a directly today what would you say to what she should be doing i said you have to stand up you have to protect your image that you built over the years as a defender of human rights defender of democracy what happened to all those bellows that you have promoted stand by them it's not the military it's not somebody else you suffer the house and all this for years and years you believed in some principles what happened to those principles is it because of so you want to stay in power and you have to go along with military and everybody else what would they do they would put you back into prison or something like that you think you still deserve that nobel peace prize if she is if she had all this story in front of the . committee i'm sure the committee will never give her the problems just talking about your own country bangladesh which is hosting one million rohingya refugees who fled persecution in me i think more than half

a million since august alone promise to share casino has been commended by a lot of people in the international community for taking in the refugees from speaking on behalf of refugees but let's be honest bangladesh is a poor country with a bunch of domestic problems that need tackling how long can it continue to host this growing rohingya refugee population within its not only simply economic issue it's a political issue it's a security issue so you have one million people who belong to any other country came to your country and they're all really taking up arms against their. situation and it becomes the den of the respective it is very soon and all the international connections of the terrorism will begin and this will be terrible for bangladesh and terrible for the region and all these things will come on in an explosive these go by so i am saying that it has to be resolved very fast before all those elements can create trouble for everybody ok many are concerned in bangladesh that the islam a quote unquote islamist pressure group in bangladesh is exploiting the influx of

rohingya refugees they're organizing mass protests around the issue they're even threatening to wage jihad against myanmar of quote the army doesn't stop torturing muslims how worried are you that groups like her father are getting a big p.r. boost in bangladesh from the rohingya crisis and becoming even more influential in what was once traditionally deemed to be a secular democracy not an islamist country this issue. and that if you g.'s it will become the forger for all kind of negative activities including the extreme on the terrorism so these are only demonstrations i'm more worried about the terrorism they do breed because of the frustrations in the young people we're not seeing the young people yet but when they came in mostly women and children these children will grow up who's given them the education who's going in the future what is the future they look up to so they will be very dated you believe the rohingya refugee crisis is a recruiting sergeant in a sense for the sort of the i say this is

a concentrated help for the recruitment and promotion of terrorism and just one last question on this issue on bangladesh and on me and said that myanmar's pretended like they wanted a war bangladeshi government of accused me of modren choppers of violating its airspace are you worried that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war between the two countries that it serves as general security issues which direction it will take we don't know because even in the name of something will happen and some. we will use that within your name to me to tap and so any direction it can go is not only between between bangladesh and my arm i am saying all the regional countries will become involved in india will get involved with pakistan will get involved with all the terrorist groups all involved with the middle east and so on how many countries will get involved god knows because this is a very attractive. area staging area for the terrorist activities. mohammad yunus

let's talk about your new book the world of three zeros the new economics of zero poverty zero unemployment zero net carbon emissions it's focused on capitalism in particular unfettered capitalism and growing wealth inequality around the world you write in the book that the structure of the present economic system is quote a ticking time bomb waiting to destroy everything we've created over the years what do you mean by that exactly simple thing that is the way the concentration of wealth is taking place in the world. it is just leading to the ticking time bomb any day to explode today eight people in the world own more well then the bottom half of the entire world's population and tomorrow it will be one person who will be only half the population of wealth in two in the hand the one in the after probably one person would own eighty five percent of the wealth of them their world this is the direction it should not far. be it is just about the next few years it will happen so a lot of people who read your book or listen to speak now especially on the right

will say look there is a problem with wealth inequality income inequality but you're not looking at the big picture which is the growth of incomes across the board you acknowledge in the book that since one thousand nine hundred sixteen poverty has been cut in half if you look at china for example that's a lot to do with economic growth eight hundred million people have been lifted out of poverty there since nine hundred eighty that's a kind of capitalism to it is capitalism it is capitalism which is helping people get out of poverty in the slow motion way again but when you talk about the growth growth of the economy i'm not concerned about the growth of the. i'm concerned with the growth of people so what do you say to people who read your book and say but you're deliberately vague about a how you switch to this new system of yours and b. how your system would actually lead to zero poverty and zero unemployment as a big goals i mention that because i'm saying every businesses should have a part of a business of social business and this is because we have it not because i'm imposing on it if you feel that yes you want to contribute you learn to play a part in solving problems about employment problem solving of the housing health

care and so and so forth all the things that we know if you can play there everyone doing that this problem will be solved with the same. you know you're not the first to say that sounds very utopian you talk in the book about super happiness we need to taste super happiness and great in theory but how do you do it in the real world what makes your full sentences making money is happiness making other people happy is a super happy get again very vague because i started big when you say you can't measure something you know i understand keep telling people say i don't feel to super happiness i said because you have not done that i said why don't you just try instead of seeing the foot in front of you ok but that's a very smart or approach telling individuals to be happy it's almost like a self-help that systemic use a systemic critique of capitalism you have a systemic replacement and a way to get that systemic replacement is there with two kinds of business well it's your choice capitalist system is all about choice that's what they're prayed about we are our choice but when it comes to business there is no choice we have to

make money you have to make a profit you have to maximise profit i said desa not an option you give people option let them choose whether they want to do that make a profit maximizing or sees the world by creating source social business addressing the problem you have not even does that issue you say in your book that people without a future get angry at that desperately poor people be driven to crime would you extend that analogy about marginalised angry people turning to crime to the debate over radicalization is that what's also driving young. especially young men in places like bangladesh into groups into the arms of groups like iceland your view if the concentration continues though it does it will generate a human this amount of anger in the bottom of people it will come out in politics it come on and social interactions it will come out in economics and i gave the example probably because it is an example of that blaming the others for taking a really good job getting income and so on and politicians use this kind of feeling and say yes you've bought for us we will stop. immigration come out of europe the

european union but just specifically on the issue of radicalization do you believe these socio economic trends and pressures are feeding into the radicalization or goes in all direction this is ridiculous asian is a part of that so if you're envy you do all kinds of these a logic doesn't guide you in march not only in bricks it i said even in the u.s. election same thing happened the people at the bottom got very angry with the system that protested against it in germany election it recently the people who had never expected to be in the parliament they got thirteen percent of the seats i said these are probably their reaction generated to the bottom because they are frustrated they're angry because they see the system is not working for them and i said it will become worse and worse now mind you this thank you for joining me from there in cuba thank you very much thanks for that. in what's being pegged its third wave the f. word is becoming popular again yes feminism and central to the current debate is the idea that women's choices matter to vote act to dress as they see fit so should

family support all women's choices some say that certain choices are holding women and the feminist movement back joining me to debate this on meghan murphy founder and editor of canada's feminist current website and a self defined radical feminist who's been critical of the choice feminism movement and jimmy a wilson executive director of feminist press who calls herself an intersectional black family and is the author of an upcoming book on beyond say and famine is a thank you both for joining me up front meghan murphy. you consider yourself a radical feminist and you said that the choice framework supported women's freedom to make choices simply normalizes sexism it raises feminism and works to remove the still dire need for radical activism what do you say to fellow feminist critics of yours who say you know that kind of approach is policing what's authentically feminist it's it's making feminism too narrowly defined it doesn't give women enough individuality so radical the radical and radical feminism just means to get

at the root it doesn't mean extreme. all it means is to look at feminism as a collective political movement for the liberation of all women and so that's why i talk about moving away from personal choices of focus and personal empowerment as a focus because people can make personal choices as much as they want but how does that contribute to the liberation of all women is the question well let me put that question to jimi and let me also ask you this jimi you've spoken about feminism's as a plural that addresses quote a need to be more expansive about the definition of feminism if for example women choose to work in industries traditionally viewed as harmful objects to find sex work pornography is that a choice that they've made that's advancing women's liberation equality in your view because some would say it is. i believe personally that you know there needs to be a distinction that is made between human trafficking and also people who participate

in the sex industry in a variety of ways based on their own choices and their consent and we can look at social systems that would lead us to be in situations that could be object of finding not saying that they are for all people who choose to work in that industry but we also are race the experiences of people who say that this is about their own self-determination and autonomy and i really find it problematic to be in the business of policing choices that women are saying that they are making for whatever their reasons are to survive and take care of their family not to be critical of choices and to talk about the contacts that surround and influence those choices isn't policing so feminists who are critical of the sex trade are not criticizing the women in the sex trade they're not saying you're doing something immoral you're doing something wrong but we see it as part of a larger context so we understand things like colonialism imperialism capitalism.

and of course patriarchy and you know white supremacy racism those all play into the choices that women are making to participate in the sex trade and there isn't this clear line between trafficking and prostitution or what some call sex work the line is very blurred you know there's not so if a woman who works in the sex and says to you i made a choice i'm happy to be here it's a feminist choice would you say to them well i would say the fact that one woman is having what she says is a positive experience doesn't change the larger implications of the sex trade with the existence of a sex trade means which is around you know male entitlement. and i wouldn't say it was a feminist choice because they don't understand how her choice to sell sex liberates other women liberates women as a collective i don't know what that contributes towards ending patriarchy. one

thing i would like to share is that i haven't had that experience of working in that industry so i can't speak to what every woman's experiences but i can say that what i think is most important is that they do define their experiences on their terms and also share a collective story of what that experience may be i think you know being a part of an organization. could those experiences be delayed some of this to experiences. in my first section and my view yes because i believe in a variety of approaches to feminism do i personally fundamentally believe that liberation will come when we dismantle patriarchy capitalism white supremacy and imperialism yes but i also know that different people have different experiences and theories of change about how to get to liberation and expression the end times like now with the rise of authoritarianism and terrorism around the world i'm interested in creating bridges to talk with other feminists about how we can build

and spaces where we have common ground i think that if we're going to say you know if if it's her personal experience that her personal experience is empowering or liberating therefore maybe the sex trade is fine maybe it's even feminist i think that that argument doesn't work because what if a woman who is being abused at home says my experience is fine i don't understand it as abuse i don't experience it in as abuse i'm fine are we going to say that man isn't abusive if a woman is raped and she says it's fine i feel fine about my experience are we going to say well that's not abusive thing that this man did the harmful thing that this man did of course not what we're talking about is what men are doing to women as you said in the paul you know you disagree with the idea quote that if you simply think a thing is feminist it becomes feminist for the sake of all of you is what you cross the world what makes something some of those your definition so feminism is

a political movement to liberate women from the system of patriarchy and male supremacy so i think that in order for a thing to be feminist it has to contribute to that goal jimmy would you agree with the service my question to meghan would be. who decides because i think that one of the things for example just going back to the question that you mentioned before around if someone experienced abuse but that wasn't abuse happen and they didn't experience it as such i agree that those systemic problems should be addressed but what concerns me is that when we focus our critiques in a way that we promote stigma in a culture that already undermines women's voices and experiences or when we focus our critics in a way that contributes to the politics of respectability then we actually further silence people's experiences and make it harder for them to get access to the support they need and one reason i'll say this for example when we are talking about the sex industry is that criminalization for example is an issue that i'm

very concerned about as a woman of color and so i have a lot of concerns about furthering stigma and also normalizing a narrative that could actually be dangerous and threaten people's lives so feminists support the decriminalization of prostituted people know from innocent argues that prostituted people should be criminalized that's what we're all fighting for and you know i'm not sure how feminists contribute to stigma by criticizing systems of power that a recent census doesn't calculus and all these are not all and to me as mentioned stigma used we've talked about sexual as complete obviously on the other come on the kind of other end of the spectrum you have muslim women some muslim women who choose to cover their faces with a veil with a niqab and there's a lot of liberal feminist women in europe and from some who have all due to get even called for. in the name of feminism in the name of challenging. the oppression

of women and a lot of those women who wear the sprays those are luke who defended on some of his ground who say we're doing this because it's our choice we want to do this would you stone them well i think for a lot of women who aren't living in the west it's not a choice and so i thing. but we should be taking that into account so if you're not in saudi arabia but you're in front and you're muslim and want to a face fell out of choice i would never say that she should not be allowed to make that choice and i do think we should we need to again talk about the larger context for that choice and you know those five minutes we do need to be critical of of all massage any and all sexism whether that's rooted in religion or culture or whatever but no i wouldn't support a ban i want to address this because i am an american but i grew up in saudi arabia and i have learned so much from very transformative feminists in saudi arabia and all over the middle east some of whom choose to wear head job and some who don't and i believe that in this instance most of the critique that i hear about people

who choose who are not coerced to cover has been mainly from white women who are police saying. the way that other women around the world are adorning themselves and representing themselves and so i think that we also need to really deconstruct this when it comes to race and. also when it comes to perturb and to really talk about it in a nuanced way to be honest about men and something is amiss at all to kill in your website and i get some discomfort which says never before have we seen so many men claiming to be feminists if men love third wave feminism and they do it's because they knew full well it will not seek to see the use of you should definitely i mean i think that the reason why men love third wave feminism is because it promotes the idea of women can self objectify and that's empowering in that if we choose to you know where stilettos and cosmetic surgery and participate in pornography

then that's all feminist i mean it doesn't change challenge male power at all so of course men like those kinds of feminism. i differ in that opinion i really feel like the men in my life including the father who raised me were engaged in feminism and present day feminism because they see a place for themselves in it and an inclusive movement that recognizes that none of us will get free when patriarchy still remains intact when white supremacy still remains intact for example discussions that are happening within third wave and beyond conversations around toxic masculinity are also talking about how it harms men and how it puts men into a limited and narrow standard that doesn't allow them to be in the fullness of their human experience so i really think that the feminism that i show up for has nothing to do with male validation it has to do with inclusion and also collective labor liberation i was when we were sort of briefly because last time i think that

men can be i was i know lots of men who are really amazing feminists is my point is that feminism is about women and so i think it's important to center women's needs and women's. boyce's and i think that this movement should be led by women and i think that men can support the movement and i think that men can ally with feminist but they should not be central to the conversation and they should not be central to the political movement that is feminism. we'll have to leave it there thank you both for joining me in the arena things. will be back next week. the russian orthodox church is deep pockets in the rapid expansion maybe its crucial role in putin's grip on power with some elevating the former k.g.b. officer saying to president putin he's our leader that. people in power

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