earthquake still living in this camp. the government raised our hopes and then abandoned us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost complexity of hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public is increasing i think there. will be very very. anybody. ever to do something to invest a profit of. up to the last drop on al-jazeera. and

all of the. headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. and u.k. and france have carried out their first coordinated strikes against the syrian government multiple targets associated with a suspected chemical weapons program and the pentagon says a scientific research center and the greater damascus area was hit and two more took place west of homs of what the pentagon says chemical weapons storage facilities russia has called for an urgent u.n. security council is expected to happen at fifteen g.m.t. on saturday british prime minister choices made defended the strike saying there was no other way to stop the assad government from using chemical weapons. last night british french and american armed forces conducted coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and

deter their use this was not about interfering in a civil war and it was not about regime change as i discussed with president trump and president back wrong it was a limited targeted and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid escalation and did everything possible to prevent civilian casualties we would have preferred an alternative path but on this occasion there is none we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normal minds and then the heart of us following the reaction in the middle east from beirut. the syrian government and its allies in particularly iran have been issuing harsh words strong words of condemnation calling this an aggression the strikes are an aggression it's not just words of condemnation they're actually warning of consequences grave consequences at the end of the day iran feels that it is the target of of what of this whole

crisis because when the u.s. president donald trump was discussing the different options on the table one of those options what we understand was targeting the iranian presence in syria it didn't happen this time because we understand there were behind the scenes negotiations and the issue risks spiraling out of control but iran sending a clear message to the west that that it will retaliate and that it will not sit idle the iranian the top advisor to the iranian supreme leader ali akbar will lay if he wasn't damascus a few days ago and from the syrian capital he issued two warnings one of the warnings was to israel saying we will respond to your attack on monday the airstrike that targeted the syrian air base that left seven elite iranian soldiers dead and hezbollah iran's ally in lebanon confirming that they were the revolutionary guards who were killed that is an acknowledgment from iran

a statement which really shows that the it is not taking this lightly in fact hezbollah is warning that israel made a historic mistake and that now iran and israel are in direct confrontation and a few hours after that statement israel said that the iranian drone which was shot down in february was armed and ready to attack so israel yet trying to give another justification for a future attack so the feeling is that to this this this crisis between the west and russia if you like may have eased following these limited heiress. there is still the question of confrontation between israel and iran many analysts here believe that the iranian the iranian personnel in syria iranian bases they were not targeted to avoid an escalation but they believe that this is not going to this is this problem is not going to go away and at the news egypt's army says eight of its

soldiers and fourteen fighters have been killed in central sinai egypt has been battling ice and northern sinai for several years the government has extended a state of emergency in the region for the next three months. and thousands of mourning the death of south africa's as a part of us winning because that among a funeral is being held in her hometown so we took. those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more news for you in just under thirty minutes.

i'm attached to my phone my computer my tablet. and it amazes me how in just twenty years they've completely changed the way i live and communicate . our devices are sleek and elegant. we store our lives in a beautiful to cloud. it was. i started making this film to explore the impact of our digital revolution. and then secrets the industry tried to hide for years began to spill out. that it. was.

our electronics are made and unmade is dirty and dangerous i am it's a global story of damaged lives environmental destruction and devices that are designed to die. if it is. illegal . in china massa. industrialization have put a huge pressure on our ecosystem and on the environment.

when it comes to i.t. industry many people think it's. it's green or natural it's rain or some people think it's even think it's virtual. but in our investigation we find it's not like that. this pollution is having different consequences but i think that the impact the biggest impact is on this public health we have nearly three hundred million who are residents who don't have access to sufficient safe drinking water.

want to see what they almost see the happy shiny new economy but not. the kind that your show does not let them do a check. to the world that they get it it's on them. to just it's is a hold up you hold on incidentally i did it the shah then the but. i keep thinking about the moment when i face all those environmental and social damage. river you know which carries all the ways to lake. river and place old ladies suddenly down on their knees in front of me. i. ali i'm not i'm not going out. but i don't have any sort of government administrative power and don't have much

financial resources to deal with this but i told myself at that moment in front of those ladies i told myself that. at least i need to bring the message out. i need to make sure that all the users of old as gadgets they need to be informed about this. i moved to this area in one nine hundred sixty nine to go to law school because i said i wanted to help people who didn't have the means to represent themselves. it was a time when most people not heard of the semiconductor industry. but within a few years people started seeing the the birth of what has become the you know

global electronics industry. the. top names were companies hewlett packard apple intel advanced micro devices. and the virtually the who's who of the electronics industry. and of course the granddaddy of them all was i.b.m. . when i got a card and i.b.m. that was great that was the company to work for at the time i could go any place where he worked i.b.m. and i don't need an id you just write a check it was that easy i.b.m. had that much clowne. i was the first marker processor buyer for i.b.m. . in the early eighty's the idea of a personal computer which was was on oxymoron right i mean personal computer what and what would you use it for anyway but it got legs and we started the p.c. business the first year they shipped fifty thousand units and so we went from

a thousand a week to forty thousand a week and at that point the p.c. was long. from almost the very beginning you heard electronics and semiconductor production it was a clean industry they said it was as clean as a hospital but what they weren't telling people was that it was really a chemical and lng industry and that the magic of making these microcircuits relied on the use of hundreds if not thousands of very toxic chemicals and that's why they have clean rooms that's why they have bunny suits to try to protect the chips it was never designed to protect the workers it was always designed to protect the product itself over i got those a lot of different chemicals they built the disk drives we had to strip them out and then would have to dip i'm in severe gases and with

a sponge it just with armed with severe i didn't know what it was is i just knew it stunk really bad and you couldn't get it on your skin because it would burn you like nobody's business what what happened was people started getting sick with very strange kinds of illnesses things that didn't seem to make a lot of sense and didn't seem to hang together but increasingly as this happened more and more there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the chemical exposure on the job. one put music on yeah right you want to turn on the music from. but some good music on today. right there. that does not mean there's a thing of. the. one nine hundred seventy five i was eighteen years old and i started working in the

electronics field i went to a specter of physics and they just hired me just like. i was making the end of the laser and i would have to mix up this chemical in i used to call it green go. and get the consistency and then put into a spray gun and i would have to heat that up after a glued on together that was just all day that i did at that. event in know the material she was using turns out to be probably in the vicinity of fifty percent little excise she didn't know she was exposed to lead in tell her that i got pregnant with mark in one thousand seventy nine and that was full term my months and we're just really happy about it. that he doesn't even know to cross the street and know a car is coming to stop going to the restroom you know i have to go with him in

there so i have to system with everything. number one more you better know it. if i knew what i know now how to read out a spec or physics at the time it was unnecessary it just. breaks my heart that i could avoid it. oh we're filing this lawsuit against her employer and it's a lawsuit for his son who was born with a severe developmental disability and is a suit concealment of systemic chemical poisoning and case of a vet and for the direct injuries to mark. marks condition isn't like a cold take antibiotics and you're going to be fine in five days this is life. you're. just overrides all that and you do what you're going to do to the stereo still do. i'm sorry getting.

the. i discovered i.b.m. had a corporate mentality. which they kept for thirty years and it kept track of the causes of deaths of their employees the most dramatic findings were about cancer for the company as a whole this was thirty three thousand deaths that were in this corporate mortality file so included people who had worked all over the u.s. . but then when you look at specific plants like the i.b.m. plant in san jose there was some extraordinary access cause of death one was brain cancer the other was not hard can some form or another was melanoma with the skin and in the women breast cancer was three and four fold higher than expected. that was the heart just said it was a lawsuit. in a santa clara courtroom today the first trial out of more than two hundred similar

lawsuits filed against i.b.m. former i.b.m. workers jim bore and a lighter hernandez say they developed cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals at i.b.m. san jose facility in the late seventy's or early ninety's i mean literally tried to prevent the results of the tally analysis from ever seeing the light of day in fact they went to the judge and said this can't be used in this case a lot of hernandez is not dead she's going to be in the courtroom and not only was it not relevant the judge said it was my prejudice the jury if they saw what these excess costs dusts were and so he denied the use of it in the court many of the brands will respond to questions by saying no one has ever proved to me that a single person has died from exposure to these chemicals either within inside their factories or outside of the factories and of discussion but that's not the way that

we approach environmental or occupational health in the world we are not flying blind here at all especially on the chemicals at issue here in the electronics industry actually and most of the common chemical used in all industrial manufacturing we've been at this work for forty years. if you look at the pub listening generated by i.b.m. you would think that we lost everything and that's simply not going. after the trial i.b.m. matters were resolved for hundreds of people whose claims did not go to trial. what can you tell us about the settlements. i'm not going to be able to talk about any of the resolutions of the case. and i won't. can you give any details at all. did you have to agree not to reveal

the details as part of the settlement all i can say is that the matters were resolved that's what i'm allowed to say and. i'm. here in silicon valley chip companies and the other electronics production companies used hundreds if not thousands of toxic chemicals and the most of the chemicals once they're used in making the components needed to be disposed of as waste the companies ended up storing them in underground storage tanks all over the valley. but what the brilliant people who were designing these systems didn't quite think through all the way was that the solvent swer really good it dissolved in things and so when you put them into a tank eventually they're going to eat their way through the tank.

solvent that the electronics industry used in production in silicon valley in the seventy's and eighty's are now on in the groundwater and if you think about putting a drop of ink in a bathtub. that spreads really quickly and it's really hard to get that dropping back that's what we're dealing with except we're dealing with multiples of gallons of the stuff that is in the groundwater. in the late one nine hundred eighty one there were over one hundred families in one little neighborhood who had serious problems and the state health department discovered that the families that were drinking the most heavily contaminated water had significantly higher rates of miscarriages and birth defects then did people in other neighborhoods. well the chemical industry will often say if i had not a dime for every time i heard this that even water can kill you the most non toxic

thing of course it can but only if you stick your face down in the bathtub or fall into a you know fall into a large body of water and so that has the traditional approach to toxicology is that the more stuff you're exposed to the more harm it causes you but what we're seeing in particularly around cancer and around hormone disrupting chemicals is that it's when you're exposed to at the time of exposure so if you're in third trimester and you get even a perp or billion or part petroleum exposure it can actually cause significant damage. we formed this silicon valley tuxes coalition and we did a summer organizing project getting people to sign petitions asking the e.p.a. step in with their authority into the superfund program if any of it. yet. and i went to a meeting in washington and presented these thousands of petitions saying we need

e.p.a. to come in it's time for e.p.a. to exercise your authority and to everybody's great surprise they agreed to do that . so hewlett packard became a superfund site until became a superfund site national semiconductor advanced micro devices i.b.m. you name it they were there and they were of all superfund sites. the cost of cleanup for i.b.m. as well as all the other companies has been tremendous it's an enormously slow and tedious process. if you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. most of the people living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. and those same chemicals that are still right under where we're

standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and are actually coming into the offices of these software engineers a google. and this is the one that e.p.a. said might take three hundred years to clean up. this is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that we're really talking centuries of cleanup not just years or decades. the problem is that it just keeps reoccur. at least when companies started moving away from silicon valley to china i think that they were the only too happy to have the government off their backs and. the chinese government made an offer to multinational corporations that they couldn't refuse. you need a land and you need money and you need government approval and you need lots of

people to put it all together well they have all of that in china. and. this is. just. one of the primary purposes of outsourcing is to enable companies like apple to make what are essentially an reasonable demands on manufacturers that they wouldn't and couldn't make if they actually had to employ the workers directly apple doesn't have to worry about what it means to workers when they insist on

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as josie that tells the story of dispute and division at the heart. of the caliphs episode two. just. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story as well we cover this region better than anyone else would be foolish as you know is that it tends to leave out only but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories just mended is to deliver in-depth generalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

there's a problem in the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. u.k. and france have carried out their first quarter data strikes against the syrian government multiple targets associated with syria's suspected chemical weapons program bombed the pentagon says a scientific research center in the greater damascus area was hit and two more took place west of homs on what the pentagon says are chemical weapons storage facilities or russia has called for an urgent u.n. security council meeting which is expected to happen at fifteen g.m.t. on saturday and just moments ago the u.s. president took to twitter congratulating his allies for the strikes he said a perfectly executed strike last night thank you to france and the united kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine military could not have had a better result mission accomplished or british prime minister treason may defended the strike saying there was no other way to stop the assad government from using

chemical weapons last night british french and american armed forces conducted coordinated targeted strikes to degrade the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and deter the use this was not about interfering in a civil war and it was not about regime change as i discussed with president trump and president. it was a limited targeted and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid escalation and did everything possible to prevent civilian casualties we would have preferred an alternative path but on this occasion there is none. we can also allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalized now syria and russia say they shot down most of the missiles and says the strikes have hardened his resolve to crack down on those he called terrorists in night yet that the law and.

we stress that this kind of aggression will not stop our army our alliance will continue targeting terrorist groups across the country this will strengthen us and we will continue to defend our sovereignty and our homeland and people security as news is coming into us from gaza an israeli airstrike has killed at least four palestinians in the southern gaza strip the air strike hit a very cold that they were traveling and we will bring you more information on that as we get it. here michael thank you that's new for confidence in the fall down six missiles you see youngest abbas to do it has died and fifteen others were injured after an explosion at a fox come factory in chengdu south was trying to talk to some old sometime people you know he just. didn't make it around at seven pm in a polishing workshop it appears to have been triggered by an explosion of

combustible dust in the duct. no one to be surprised that aluminum dust if it's in a high enough concentration and there is an ignition source it will produce explosion and fire this is a hazard which is extremely well known so the fact that apple suppliers have an explosion in chengdu in the plant means that they have very poor housekeeping very poor production processes that's terrible. what's completely unacceptable is that five months later at another plant within the apple supply chain they had another explosion and fire. its outrageously inexcusable that they had a second one five months later. they

set up these ply chains exactly the way they want them they monitor these chains with exacting scrutiny so they know exactly what's going into their products at every point along the way. here. we have a town hall i fix the guns it will show you some of that. so i have an i phone five here and them and show you a little bit about what's inside what makes it tick and some of the design choices that apple made putting it together to the first thing out bill has on the bottom is two proprietary penta lobe screws this is

a security screw that apple designed to keep people out of the phone once you get the phone open we can start to see the guts. this isn't really a phone it's pretty much a full blown computer that can make your phone last for eight hours if you need a really big battery batteries and phones last about four hundred charges every cell phone i've ever had just popped the back off you can pull the battery out swap a new battery and every year or two you have to replace the battery apple has decided with the i pod and now the i phone that they don't like that model so what they are doing is building the batteries and the founding using proprietary screws on there an attempt to limit the lifespan of the following. eighteen months which is around the time when they have a new phone and they want you to buy a new one anyway. i fix is a company that wants to see everything get fixed so we show people how to fix things and provide the parts tools and guides to enable them to do so helping everyone fix everything. that's the challenge it's

a big challenge because there's millions of devices out there and luke and i are reluctant capitalists we get excited selling screwdrivers even though that seems like a boring product because we're selling people a capability where they're able to do something that they wouldn't have otherwise we want to make it simple and easy for me to repair their own stuff. the amount of raw materials that go on the products that we use are staggering it's over five hundred pounds around materials go into making in a down south. so here's an example of a circuit board in this new ways this is out of apple laptop from a few years ago even if you make this circuit board in the most environmentally friendly way it's still going to use a ton of water a ton of money probably literally a ton of water lots and lots of materials. when we know of or. nothing is different.

electronics industry is close in ways that through this the american manufacturers are. they're selling a thing and they're saying well you have it but you don't really own it there's no way we're ever going to sell you a screwdriver to be able to get on the phone ford would never sell you a car and say we're not going to make tires available to it to keep your car running after thirty thousand miles you have an entire ecosystem an entire industry that's built on secrecy and we're one organization that's trying to pry open the hood a little bit show people what's inside. and we've kind of been conditioned by manufacturers and brands to leave yourself on the outside don't worry about the details we make this product we give it to you and you just use this product and when it stops working you go buy a new one. when we originally started i fix it it was just

a way to provide people with some solution to fix broken devices. and over time we've realized both the manufacturing and the environmental problems are all huge concern. over the last few years i've been to china on a regular basis a lot of that related to our tool manufacturing. and. we're looking at getting circuit boards manufactured. this is the big rechargeable battery and this is the main circuit board in here so considering it's just a flashlight you can see it's a surprisingly complex circuit board and i've got these basic schematics the sort of more once we did we'll leave them with them and. finding this supplier that is environmentally friendly has good quality and has

reasonable pricing all three of those at once is probably going to be a challenge. for next photo. visiting factories we've found that it's surprisingly effective to show up on short notice. in general any factory and it's not willing to let you see the factory is an immediate red flag at least for someone we don't want to do business with. this is the big lie. from the factory so this is where they're edging and bringing all these nasty acids and other chemicals in. you've got

a little bit of the believe you can see gilboa acid on the outside of the machine. i walked over to where there were some storage tanks and there was basically acid all over the floor. and the moment i looked over that they told me get back away from here and this isn't giving me a good feeling. as far as making sure everything's done correctly environmentally it doesn't seem like that's a priority for them. and there is no doubt the mouse river. the fact that it was so dear to you is the price you pay for the last thirty years of development you. don't buy from them.

what you that was the time to somebody. that i hope you know about incentives from under me. not just by putting on. one. hundred. percent so will the store so i say no she brings my sense at the time to buy them just. as a what the idea what that's like a model of model. i'm going to do a lot of the document on so that it. doesn't you know but fox you know buy new things which. is what woman sitting on when i do it so you decide and so when we should.

do it such a signal hypot. for them by us but to give you a thing to. do you see. that is constantly changing. i'm all the. time. this is definitely the most professional of factories visited. the fact that we're being taken through this water treatment facility is a really promising sign. you start out with incredibly yucky water and it

goes for a progressive series of filters and other processes and eventually you end up with a fully acceptably clean water. the coolest thing when the water is coming through the treatment facility some of the water comes out and dumps into this and they have been here in the factory owner said well they know the water treatment is working ok as long as the fish are still alive a little unfortunate for the fish because if something breaks maybe the fish die but it's clear to me that this would definitely be a factory to buy from up the one we've visited. from the institute of public and environmental affairs module.

ladies and gentlemen i'm truly honored and humbled to be the first chinese citizen to receive the school awards thanks i set up this institute of public. affairs. and our first project. to be a national water pollution database. though this records comes from the government sources the public can access the information by click on the locations on the map because people want to know you know who should be held responsible for such a bad what a pollution situation and so far we got some more than one hundred and ten thousand records of violations in our database. april two thousand and ten we filed letters to twenty nine ninety brands

to check with them whether those polluting factories whether they are their suppliers. all of them responded except the one that is an apple. apple just give us one statement that is we have a long term policy not to disclose our supply chain or. not to. my june contacted me and we began to work together to apply additional pressure to a company with headquarters here in the united states my insurance singled out a number of facilities that he believed were in apples that that it had a very heavy environmental impact in their locality and when he level of those

charges apple was shocked and sort of in denial that this type of problem to this extent could really exist in their supply chain. i think it's important to understand that this is not just about apple you know this is about the id industry. they all share printed circuit board manufacturers they all share chip manufacturer is you know despite their audit protocols there is a lot more talk than walk on environmental impacts in the supply chain. you say to yourself how could they not know about any of these problems but you know it's it's always you ask and it's all you look for so if you're not there and you have a checklist of what you need and you need it now and that checklist does not include what's going on at the end of the pipe of your wastewater treatment plant

it's actually conceivable that you know exactly where it's being made you just don't know exactly how it's being made and what the impact is. that's what's going on not just with apple but with all of these companies. forty years of operating the environmental protection agency in this country these are american based companies hard to believe. we still have this industry which is discharging so much waste not just normal ways hazardous waste. in just one supplier to generate more than one hundred thousand tonnes of hazardous waste in one year. how could we dispose stuff you know in the safe way so how much a time bomb this industry's gonna create. in

electronics at this moment of time i believe we're in the dinosaur age. we're using too many resources too many raw materials and the life of a computer is a typically three to four years. of a small company in and. a mission is to choose a fair trade computer. in the early days i repaired this component levels on the computers and one of boards. from i noticed that too was huge amount of waste in the computer industry. so we started designing and building a database of graven reusable computers. this is my father's

environmental drill and all my trusty and just you know such and such just. how could you build a computer going to stick how could you build a computer without lead mercury p.v.c.'s brominated flame returns and all the other heavy metals. that was our gold the material we use is wood so this it's technology of one hundred years ago but it's perfectly good. computers will last seven to ten years because home users none taken good people can repair and replace i'm never place in the memory you can extend the life of it by upgradability.

today is is a major launch in europe. we've lots of invites sent it to people. we were awarded the world's first year piece. for integration desktop computers it was the world's first ever achieve this award at that time i thought wow that the gates would open with orders so flooded and fast that was not the case maybe a little bit of naive essay on my part. it's hard at there that government agencies some people like that there is no room for environmental they are totally just bottom line. i'm looking at it now it's one little step at a time the what we need to do is it work harder build more computers and get people to join us. and.

americans toss out a lot of gadgets every day. if we look at the three million or so tons of electronic waste that gets generated in united states every year probably fifteen percent of that gets recycled. and some percent of that gets recycled in a responsible fashion. to

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a program says the decimal. so sound happy that he. this is. now. in the. music mail. we think ok we'll send our you ways to china let them burn it let them have the pollution but we have to remember that air pollution travels around the globe. that pollution is getting lost into the atmosphere and coming right back to us. metals in metals and metal you know and it's there's no other form for it to convert to you can convert it from being in the soil to being in the water to being in the air but you still

have a metal. in our work we fly through clouds and we sample the cloud droplets and we measure the chemistry of each one very fast as you're flying through a cloud there flashing as fast as you can imagine on a screen and we collect all that information and what we get is what's a chemical fingerprint. in california with getting rid of lead in gasoline we've reduced the amount of lead we have and so when lead shows up that is one of the tracers that we say this could be from elsewhere and we can trace it back in time and say you know four days ago this air was over asia. and you have more pollution and you have more aerosols those go into the cloud and it's you have so many they can't get big enough to fall and lead to rain.

and it's giving you these extremes of either not enough water in some places and way too much water in other places. what happens if we push it too far. we'll start to see more of these extreme events things like flooding and hurricanes. these are what people often refer to as tipping points and not so that's what we're very concerned about happening. my attachment to my devices is more complicated now. it's hard to get excited about the next new model or upgrade knowing what they really cost to make. the industry in it's constant search for cheaper workers and land is moving on to new countries with few government safeguards or inspections.

we all have a share in this problem. but we can use our voices and our buying power to demand real labor safety and greater environmental protections. the digital revolution has improved our lives in so many ways. we need to make sure it doesn't rob us of our health and our planet. from the neon lights of asia. to the city never

sleeps. hello there's been some significant showers in northern argentina something you're growing more recently preserved you can see the tail end of them still their daily build now they're on their way through and on the way out more or less the more significant line through rio is still developing and that will give some decent run if you're lucky inside power in the reservoirs as well and it certainly stretches back towards southern power and your requests and so on still pretty warm thirty one thirty two degrees all the pacific coast side cloudy picture for santiago twenty nine north of the continent the showers assurance sounds quite regularly now in panama significant dampens been reported in panama trying to get into costa rica as well now that's a repeatable feast and i think we'll see them probably during saturday on sunday though rather more obviously is the line of play that's coming into believes that's for western cuba and florida that's an active cold front which is currently an active cold front across the u.s.

plain states it's this thing here that's a line of hail hail showers potential tornadic hail shells wrapped around it's been really cold weather and we've had yet again snow yeah this middle of april we've had snow showers as far south as nebraska but basically in the midwest it looks like a blizzard. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique all this is really an attack on truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about that context is hugely important level right to publish if you have a good to be offensive overall it's all about it as people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera.

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