tv The Architecture of Violence Al Jazeera January 2, 2018 1:32am-2:01am +03
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because suburbs are reported to have killed thirty five civilians as well as government troops and rebel fighters north korea's leader has warned the u.s. that his nuclear forces are now a reality not a threat and his new year's address. was more conciliatory toward south korea saying he was open to dialogue and wishing them success for the winter olympics but he warned the u.s. he has a nuclear button on his desk and will defend the country if he feels threatened last month the u.n. approved harsh new sanctions on pyongyang backed by the u.s. image sponsors to repeated missile tests. the us mainland is within the range of our nuclear strike and the nuclear button is put on the desk in my office at all times they should clearly understand that this is never a trash but a reality pakistan's government has increased fuel prices by us twelve percent it's blaming the rise on international prices and says pakistan still has cheaper fuel
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the many neighboring countries critics of the move say patches becoming unaffordable at the pole. that's the top story as rebel architecture is up next. i'll juice here. with and for you. as always defined as human. from the simplest. the greatest money. rebellion is on the way. led by a new breed evocative puts people before i call. the tech using the tools of the trade to least try to.
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a little. they see no cuz it both mentally must love my ma. doesn't he look ridiculous inside his bypass like being the king of the hill and say these to you my name is a vitamin i'm an architect i'm a writer i'm an activist. my work has to do with the intersection of architecture and violence. architecture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence. the
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occupation is an environment that slowly was conceived to strangulate palestinian communities villages and towns to create an environment that will be unlivable for the people and. the crime was done on the drawing board itself. the settlements which are here in blue have been built wedges not only to serve the colonies themselves but consciously to create material damage cutting apart the very sort of fragile palestinian built fabric. architecture is used by architect as a weapon. we are looking at the buttons and the weapons and ammunitions off in a fairy simple animals their trees their terraces there are houses they are cloudy
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there are barriers. everything in this panel rama is a tactical to within the architecture forty patients just need to know how to decode it. the first thing i want to show you is the neighborhood oh you know. off the sixty seven israel annex is a large part of the west bank and calls them jerusalem and immediately starts building remote neighborhoods to these neighborhoods are called the living move around the city. immediately after the occupation all of the sudden you see their buildings that make us feel like we in the center of jerusalem in fact we're miles away. look actually at the corner
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of the buildings in architect know that we need to look at the corner of the building in order to study in scenes construction i see that tells me that this is a concrete building and that the stone is merely a veneer of one and a half centimeter thing. so the government wanted to tell the people living here that they're living in part of the holy city of jerusalem and it was left for architecture to tell that story. or. picture prince if he's really a patient he's way off painting separation and exercising control. so this is the time of the road building one thousand nine hundred six. now called the apartheid road was the road to simply serve the jewish communities to jewish
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colonies and settlements to the south jerusalem we have a whole jewish neighborhood overhead. and now we are driving over palestinian family. settlements to build on hilltops overlooking the palestinian in the valleys between the. main reason that they're built on hilltops is for the self protection and for them to dominate the surrounding. so though israel built hundreds and thousands of structures in the west bank the number of take policies is very limited there overreaction on the single oh double
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family houses with red roof very suburban take apology in fact read for free something that is mandated by law because this is allowing the military to navigate the landscape to understand what's always what's there was friends with where you can bomb and where no. you would enter the house through the in the circuit as you move through the house you open towards the view the house itself is like an optical instrument and when it is laid in rings around the hilltops it is like a suburban scale. optical device that can survive a big tire territory around. no way. no.
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it is not a simple good there's. no a difference i'm sure you get there. but no but you'll probably see a lot of material i thought we knew about of you have been at it now. that pits the loading of invocation sobota with english l.m. when your very last thought of course your system when you get in the church is a little exemplary of course the condition loisa both will see because they have a confession to simply put it we're selling. and you know it's like if you think. over let me look at your table talk mass and. when we think about borders when we see even the wall we magine a single instrument that separate israelis and palestinian two sides off a map. but actually in the israel palestine from tear
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the border had splintered into various border devices defenses around the settlements there are blockades around palestinian cities the highways that operators borders the checkpoints in sterile areas and all sort of other border device that shrink and expand the terrain at will. to control a space you need to create differentiation in speed of movement. when you put israeli colonies on highways york salary to and from the space. walk. in a same way and every twist and turn of the terrain palestinians would encounter a border a checkpoint a fence a valley that they cannot close. sometimes
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you can read politics on the most mundane of architecture elements. turnstiles in israel when they put them as the most important instrument in checkpoints they've reduced the arm of the turnstile for it to press against the body in case there is anything a person carries but that creates horrific situations when people who are a little bit. larger would get caught up within their turn style so cruel and degrading and reduces palestinians to nothing more than bodies.
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but if you remember. this you never would have to say this if i remember that yeah i was a child we used to good that i'm to blame but if they decide to take it that the nouns out. there were can't go down anymore so this is affectively the wall it's just not a wall here it's a fence yet it's we got there we can't there walk we can't do anything here. if you're not the staff there for around. and you have a shot. what is very cruel about this tower next to the wall is that if you
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stand to hide the presence of the army so you go always assume this somebody looking at you. you see apartheid in action at this moment here. when conflict a ruckus the slow violence of the environment is being put into immediate use israeli soldiers move down into palestinian towns and villages from the settlements themselves the checkpoint hardened and nobody can move through the border complete surround them and the entire territory springs into use.
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in two thousand and two sharon ordered the israeli army to occupy the entirety of the west bank as part of operation defensive shield. they had no problem with the open areas but invading the cities was somehow the most difficult part. of the bomb and. we're now at the heart of the journey refugee camp. this is palestinian ground zero . in two thousand and two days really army try to take hold of this camp and then
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they've decided to enter the city by first using the nine bulldozers. the way they did it really is a kind of a design by destruction off the can. they cut literally new streets through the dense urban fabric in order to allow the tanks to coming. up the resistance retreated into the core of the camp and at the end of the battle effectively the bull. those is collapsed the heart of the camp on those on those fighters. i know. it was in the first time he's really used bulldozers but
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it's the first time that the bullets were integrated into the battlefield. the fleet of bulldozers rew exponentially and the bulldozers become really the means of israeli fighting in palestinian urban fabric. april two thousand and two and tackling janine and that was the poor tree for the go s to think about the urban warfare in iraq and also training in the israeli training sites scope our cities that were built in the in the desert in the south. we're now in a city of nablus was one of the biggest bore trees in two thousand and two for the
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development of a new type of urban warfare israelis were studying not only that city but how cities operate. they understood in order to occupy the city they need to invent in moving the city in a different manner. i started to study tactics which i thought were very architectural. even the our no one but me for this should give us. what the whore and. the feel goes if. only they got to go they got see much they got to put the. i need a. new bill i'm sure. the hope will show me they keep their bets sam can this love a theme. become holy man but you all. to
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me is there turning private and public space upside down to private space becomes a space of circulation. and a public space the space of the street is where the resistance i should be killed. who. you know. there's a palestinian architect that lived through the israeli invasion and these still in charge eleven years later on the ongoing project off reconstructing the city so that was the first invaded then the troops came in and they sort of did the
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old city and this is where the men destruction. others. and the other. going through the old city of. it's like going through. what everything was demolished the streets with them all well bush. looks dumb here is a comprehensive the story one of the core to his death was affected by the invasion . and you see all of it. yes. this is one of the so useful of those you know of those to indicate to the un the soldiers which you should go.
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after has you. know you. so this lady is one of the living witnesses of what happened during the various invasions in a two year period of two thousand and eight two thousand and ten minutes. after she was smoking had a will to pot. when the soldiers came from home to watch. yes and you were she was as if you speak it in english sorry to say that she was telling him off and she continued smoking your water five he went and then the whole room behind her went blasted but she didn't make a move and she said ok i hope i will die and i will be recorded on guinness as the first one who was killed whilst walking the water five in the us so that was
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the story i mean you can see what it means to live in such a place. that has. when violence is and acted through architecture architecture must somehow arise to resist it it must find the tools in must find those tools within its own toolbox. now that most wars take place in the city which most war is urban warfare.
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architecture becomes really the most important evidence to read the contours of the violence. we can reconstruct the battle itself and what happened by looking very closely at the ruins. again the cause. events of the e.u. to fund this project close friends of turkey take to present architectural facts as evidence in legal and political for. a major project if we do is an analysis of drone warfare in pakistan afghanistan yemen somalia and gaza frenzy. working with the mandate to look at particular strikes and to do as far as we can and accurate reconstructions against
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which to assess the competing claims about the strikes themselves. in gaza during two thousand and eight two thousand and nine the i.d.f. started employing a kind of tactics of warning. there was shooting a warning miss on a rueful fielding's waiting for about three minutes before they demolished the buildings complete. to sell her family is one of the saddest and most horrific instances when you kind of warfare that tries to be legal it kind of for humanitarian war has gone completely wrong here mr fay is mr nose thank you very much for coming here to speak to us for. our work has been actually in an attempt to
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reconstruct what happened between the warning shot and the lethal shot. or how a family gets organized how they understand the options facing them. the family was trying to leave the house they divided themself into two groups. that here. my model. so long a bit the second group when it was just about to exit food of main door the big bomb hit demolished a building and killed seven members of his family. packing a situation like that is using a very particular story the story of a family and the story of the house in the traces that we can see in this house to
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pose a kind of a political challenge to israel humanitarian war in gaza. your personal tragedy is enormous it's also a part of the tragedy of the palestinian people. lies that not just. egypt to the mother. and then there. i love this land and i care deeply about both peoples that live in here and i think looking at the landscape i see this kind of slow process of killing. i would have loved to practice my architecture free of the constraints and violence
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of this conflict but i think that to be an architect is not only to build and to contribute to the space struction of the place that i love most but to use architecture as a way to both interpret protest and resist. in russia many cuddy's migrant black and grazing. echoing an increasingly familiar global trend. labor force left to exploitation and xenophobia. people in power investigate. little pakistan. this time around is iraq. until now the coverage of
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