as of the free syrian army this is the group that turkey supports in side syria the attack certainly seems well underway the y.p. g. this is the group in control of our freeing that turkey considers a terrorist organization says there has already been civilian casualties it is going to be an incredibly difficult situation for the civilians meanwhile syrian state t.v. says government forces have taken control of a rebel held air base in northwest syria her base and at the province was captured by rebels in twenty fifteen events in this part of the government's ongoing efforts to regained control of the area. the u.s. government has shut down after the senate refused to pass a funding bill thousands of government employees are now off the job although essential services do continue president donald trump splay in the democrats for the deadlock branding them obstructionist losers women's march is second place across the u.s. on the anniversary of trump's first year in office organizers hope the rallies will

encourage women to engage in november's midterm elections and see more female candidates elected that's the news for now up next it's walls of shame thanks again for your company but by. al jazeera. swear every. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in northern ireland. nearly a decade later al-jazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city

. the film you're about to see was first broadcast in two thousand and seven. there's not be a lot to laugh about in northern ireland over the last forty years the old mantra for god and our stuff has a new twist these days the fact that it's now possible to make a joke about it is a sign of the changing times in northern ireland. and yet in many respects belfast the capital of northern ireland remains a divided city the physical evidence is there for all to see. the modern history of northern ireland has been dominated by one thing the troubles

. and bitter conflict both political and religious between those claiming to represent the predominantly catholic nationalist of those claiming to represent the mainly protestant unionists. broadly speaking the nationalist more so-called republicans want northern ireland to be unified with the republic of ireland while the unionists wanted to remain part of the united kingdom along with england wales and. i think this conflict was possible. for people of my community. taking the problems to the theatre and you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people want to in marched on the streets i'm a pig in office straights and then the british army come in. there catholics and i says here actually had no basic human rights the had no full rights the had all

those traits taken away from. us in nineteen ninety eight all the political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking three decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our a military group. after many false starts the assembly assumed its full power in may two thousand and seven the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became first minister and deputy first minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and tempered stalemate

of separate identities and separated lives there is huge pressure surgery in very large particularly the working group three. kids going to school in different. scorning of quarter century. would just not mix. consequence of the rules in the movie the segregation divisions were there before the war and the movies kind of fit into that and the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more segregation. of the peace process and there was during the conflict. segregation is a fact of life of life and of over thirty five years of trouble. and people aren't going to get over the very very quickly or very easily. the first of the so-called peace lines began the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate

the warring communities in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. from then on they became common and more complex today there are believed to be forty one deliberate across belfast we estimate that about half of all the parents have either been there and you will have been expended. in some way. and. most notorious burial was the one between the warring communities of protestant shanksville and catholic falls road the flashpoint of recent years has been the separates the short straw and isolated catholic enclave in east belfast from the

surrounding areas in two thousand and two it was the scene of the worst riots in the city since the start of the peace process. a catholic lives with his family in. shadow of the short strands war as vivid memories of what happened. there was widespread. on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it was called a trip. because this was seen as a form of the wall was lord. jesus here will leave. the whole everyone the. doors were destroyed. of our. students and both came through the.

ten. thousand people hurt. covered up so every day it was really dark when it was too not just me it was. lives with her family and place the other side of the wall the protestant side i actually moved in here in the troubles in two thousand today because. other people in here had children. and. the people next door. needed people to move in here that want to free it eleven here so i. and i moved in . she was at the head with a brick and it was just and the ally over there. said their manual. talking to. the wall here between the two communities has become

the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between two traditions two denominations where. them mentality still. exists they nearly killed us. what can we do the police don't stand up for us we did sandra people obey commands they attacked them back they went home and now. they have to be shown that we are not by ourselves that other people are ready to command and protect us they have a sense of insecurity they've had it for four hundred years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold there and they have got away with getting their own way. ten years from now. and they out their government has give give give them all the time. time they want to

squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to go when a government with. the bitterness felt by the protestant majority. being compounded by the feeling that their own politicians have let them. be tribal leaders rather than statesman above the their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the broader needs of the wider community is. the difficulty and those with and strong strong moralist areas or so once we republican marion's. they feel a sense of betrayal because the politicians said that they would never share with republicans for example. and all of a sudden in a very short period of time. on the receiving side laughing and smiling.

a lot of our news here that is a step backwards. even today politicians in the new northern ireland assembly still look asian we seem locked into their old mindsets. she represents the maine republican party. the first republican. still exists between.

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grade through the street. of belfast but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration full of occasion. for the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in sixty ninety is at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. is very much a way of life a cultural expression of a partial. especially from the protestant community. it's a celebration of a bubble which took place over three hundred years ago at the boy. it's celebration

expression of freedom expression of liberty expression fraternity. and something which is not on a level to american independence day to. the celebration of the boston france to the celebrations which we have and see and many other countries where people celebrate their liberty. for staunchly warless people know this i'm a libertarian about war against the catholic church this is going it's a part of the cultural identity. for the wider unionist community i think it is. a symbol of the right down to bring a lot of strong as someone else made them it's a very. hot from a catholic perspective the drums and triumphalist gestures calculated to keep all wounds open. you have to understand where we're at the only common out of a complex situation there are people here eleven and those areas that have been

murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that it's insulting for them to have to have to watch an orange create that a school bombers all fly less primal trees francis you know it's it's very hard for us in the state to take us. on both sides the pos is ever present. three centuries ago. time has not been. officially the conflict in. many of the.

famous big trees over the six hundred sixty ninety. eight symbols chiefly irish flags go up in. the pub. market.

street. scottish. not from a foreign country. the symbolism doesn't always take the form of flag waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided northern ireland have been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. conflict i was asking us about five years ago by the locals i was. well into the peace process i think what they were

trying to say was to let future generations know the individual the characters because i remember watching funerals of palestinian young people killed in the west bank and at the funerals of a kerry packer's of these people and i thought i would like to know who that person is what they represent why did they do this such a young. and i think it's also transmitted into. the spheres this young people young man young woman they asked the question why. a republican who honed his talent well serving time in the maze prison is now involved in the unlikely to stick. with the son of one of the best known protestant loyalist leaders. who in the past chronicled the troubles each on his own side of the walls come together to bring a new message to the city in

a northern ireland separation has generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities it's a remarkable act of collaboration and. that's when the impossible task. fifteen years ago it just would not be now and i would never consider the notion ten or fifteen years will it's only been a lie possible to be me a possible through the work of our people of the on the ground. as just carried on through miss out on the army which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society in my community the walls were used it was all the through the censorship most of the was done with a she's the one else. would focus on. the images you see in our walls reflected the frame. within our communities so we were too and we were vehicles for fear or anger or frustration is taking place within our unfortunately my community

the murals were used. i like different things. they were used to mark territory by groups and organizations through a fair channel reedit by the political leadership of the tank. i believe that my community missed an opportunity we're here also to ensure. now the two men are determined to use the murals as a force for unity rather than division. mark and danny's hope is that their own writings on the wall may dismantle those of the walls the virtual ones that have been erected over the decades. we met accidentally. but there's also many buyers and from the people holding people back and if those can be programmed that my kids my grandkids can meet up with people from mars to move them and their fate in the sea and i got sick a chemist was so inspired as was his wall start to fall trying to change people's

main sets because that's where the party or success than the making room. but for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we don't know but hopefully you have a small part of the we can add something to it it's the hope that will made. we're not cause we're friends turn but let's try that he was a little. but whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts in the communities are still bent on division and the moment there's a decision waiting to be implemented to him to to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between two communities we need to get to a situation where there's no more barriers being built and not only that the idea of building the barrier is considered to be unacceptable. the lesson of northern ireland is the dismantling a wall is far harder than erecting it wars are indicative not just of division

but of mistrust in belfast the day the walls come down is still a long way off they wanted this straight and made it all get a dame reacted in the process. i am not going to justify anything else i love my country i love my culture a lot stimulated a man. just. the way i would do their heads as a toy i was there before to measure what spirit shelf where. nearly a decade after this film first ad we returned to belfast to catch up with danny devaney he's still painting the city's walls so what is your focus on a shop well that's right across the arts there was no no the toilets were the are.

you maybe having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist problem see a projection light up the straw. that the political work of danny and his nearest brethren have become world famous but some of that can. this is a disappearing. in twenty sixteen the fast rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by twenty twenty three. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were here at the residence to feign see if we need to be in a certain space where they made secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was played up that's on the back of people's homes so what does sachs what it was about this

strike that the that more people at the manage just don't face for that article. let's just get the stats were. a bit when the. join is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the law. but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's troubles. where they were first cheap. a lot of people told the troubles. there weren't going to get. as much trouble to provide that. protection. but they really give you protection.

all the sectarianism still exists the government is now attempting to give the city and new image. encouraging artists like danny to find new subjects for them. and then. they want to. he put aside his office and he's still collaborating with protestant mirror nest mark on vine. always a star. going to rather than call the reimage in the should have called it reinvention because really what they're trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities like nothing ever really help on here you know and as danny says sort of sweep it on the car but i don't enjoy going about him or injury or understand thoroughly why it's there. as well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the community's aspirations for a peaceful future. if the murals are changed it is because the main set of the

people and whose communities. today that painting for northern ireland's next generation. i think it's our form which should be to be part of the solution we use and towels for and that is what they are to try and say to our kids who. struggle and politics to solve when they come to us all through dialogue and white shoes and all the.

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