i am greatly reassured by the messages i have received which have been positive and constructive the police in saudi arabia have arrested two men for arson after a woman's car was set on fire the owner says her car was deliberately set ablaze by men opposed to women drivers she says she faced abuse from then in her neighborhood soon after getting her driver's license last week the kingdom overturned the decades long ban on female driving. now the chairman of korean whose family has been at the center of a series of scandals is now in court in seoul a ruling is expected on an arrest warrant for sixty nine year old cho yang ho he's suspected of tax evasion and embezzlement court last month rejected a request to arrest cho's wife on charges including assaulting workers chose two daughters have been at the center of temper tantrums dubbed not rage and water rage . food supplies and medical treatment helping build up the strength of the football

team trapped in a cave system in northern thailand for twelve days now rescuers are working out how to get the twelve boys and their coach out including a crash course in scuba diving tiny the seals are using a chain around seven hundred meters into the cave complex as a base for the rescue operation however heavy rain is expected in the next few days that could slow down their progress scott hietala has more now from the sites in chiang rai. as the training and the planning for this very difficult process of getting the boys in their coach out continues there was a clock over when they have to get that down that is because the monsoon rains are expected to start again we've been lucky with the weather last couple days it's expected to start again in three days on sunday you see that there's still training right now trying to get that water level is low is possible now when you think about the logistics of getting these boys out yes obviously the part about training them the basics of screwed up but also there are different stages to this exit you know this is something that you had a situation where there four to five kilometers in and it's not all the same

terrain it's not all the same water level so they have different stages to go through so that being said if rain starts to fall again what they're planning for right now where there are chambers that aren't submerged where there could they can leave supplies that could change if there's more rainfall so they need to try this process before the conditions inside change now it's going to be very difficult for that but also when you think about bringing them out it's going to be in stages they'll probably have to rest for. hours you know once you get out of the main part . you might have to rest there so it's going to be a long process to get thirteen inexperience. out of there. because the rains are coming in on sunday there's really a hard deadline on this operation the right now is still training and planning for exactly that. including us oh. well. a show of support from poland. out of work.

help to. now is making a major promise the head of the country's election. and it's. on. the weather. we've got dry weather hot sunshine across a good parts of the middle east a little more clout there over towards afghanistan up towards pakistan through my stance a task and all mighty you could just catch one or two showers here as we go through thursday but for many it's more hot sunshine thirty seven celsius in tehran with ten degrees hotter than that for baghdad pleasant sunshine around that ace's side of the mediterranean so we're getting up around the thirty degree mark here over the next couple of days good to see want to two showers just sliding out of the

black sea into were georgia as we go on through friday now the forty seven there for baghdad the hot sunshine continuing in the hot sunshine state again across much of the arabian peninsula just notice a little bit of cloud into central and southern parts of saudi arabia by and large is going to be more burning heat coming through the court as hot as of late for doha temperatures around forty to forty three degrees but still plenty hot enough a lot of dry weather too into southern africa but we have got some showers in the forecast the chief going to be around the mozambique channel so just around the coastal fringes the most and became expect to see somewhat to weather his through thursday going on into friday cool enough in johannesburg but largely dry temperatures at eleven degrees. so whether it's sponsored by cattle. a new series of rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues from the.

distance rewind continues with the return of the lizard king steve charland one of upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera let's just update you with the top stories so far british police say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a russian spy and his daughter a man and woman were found unconscious on saturday in the town of amesbury that's near salzburg and you'll be

a scrip probably poisoned in march. in iran the revolutionary guards say they're ready to carry out their president's threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf. has warned of taking action if u.s. sanctions prevent iran from selling oil on the global markets. the syrian government and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in south and province that's according to opposition media strikes escalated after ceasefire talks with the rebels broke down three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago. in poland the prime minister is defending a new law that forces supreme court judges to retire at the age of sixty five he says the country has. the right to decide its own legal system but the european union is warning the move will undermine the judiciary david chase from warsaw. a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters converged on the

supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her in first fertile. ground of almost lost in the crowd she declared she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to play politics but to bear witness to the truth but far removed from the sounds of the protest the ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims of a vague and told the building of a can be there of a can they can be there as guests but a vacant workers judges because they are required. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasburg cars that drive each state has the right to shave their legal system according to their own traditions but with the european commission

bringing legal proceedings which could land poland in the dock of the european court of justice the e.c. j many experts are predicting a compromise so i am expecting the polish government to show the respect to their opinion as well and to at least to freeze the law not to appoint new judges they're allowed. to decide on this issue at the moment the highest court in the land appears to be in a state of the eagle limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing down. once again protesters are gathering outside the supreme court determined to defend the country's constitution and limit the growing powers of the government david chaytor al jazeera was sort of staying in europe extra police have been sent to a city in western france after a fatal police shooting of a driver led to a series of violent protests shops and buildings were set on fire and moaned but police say they shot the twenty two year old man after he hit an officer during

a traffic stop prosecutors have opened a judicial inquiry and the police have launched an internal investigation. a private humanitarian rescue ship has docked in barcelona in spain after being refused entry to italy and malta the astral balloons to be proactive or open arms charity it rescued sixty people from a rubber boat off the coast of libya on saturday it's the accuses private rescue boat operators of encouraging human traffickers take refugees across the mediterranean from africa to europe. so it's enough that we managed to rescue sixty people on fortunately since we left the area i think if i haven't lost count almost five hundred people have died in the last four days this demonstrates that what's happening is only viable the closing of the ports in italy and malta if they get ships like us out of the way as evidently italy and other european countries want what happens is that people will die. now the two sides in the u.k.'s divided

government will meet on friday to try to resolve their differences over brics it at the heart of their disagreement is how to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland lawyers have told al-jazeera the government could face mass legal action from people claiming bricks it violates their human rights in florence li. on the irish border it is currently impossible to tell where one country ends and another begins as the tarmac changes this is the. drive around here and you can see why people worry about a return to the past the british government's bland assurances that it'll all be ok off to brick sets mean nothing to declan was when there was a hard border you couldn't drive these roads it's ordered most of these border roads were actually creator are closed off this makes matters bikes that the people couldn't get from their owners the neighbors say sure they're in their daughters

are sure their farm such was life in crossing the glen where before the peace process british soldiers dead not war could be entered by helicopter do you think that the business community north i'm sorry is doing enough to fade against back to these teenagers from colleges either side of the border know nothing of those days . want to keep it that way. their leverage the ballots are free movement already of free communication they have taken full advantage of that to their credit and they are filled with. yes they are international in their perspective and they have to want to be. angry middle aged largely. an hour away you can see north colling food the border splits that they. told me who runs the water sports here really wants to know if the happy atmosphere will be punctured by customs posts and travel restrictions absolutely no

answers and we're left in the dark looks at things there is govern themselves seem to be in the dark about how they're going to manage things and in the south as worrying i can understand why they don't go and have another referendum make sense but. that's ignorant. what all these people have in common is not only a concern about their future working arrangements but the potential blight to their lives from a brick sets that may shut the border once again the british government says tide itself up in knots trying to figure out how to extricate itself from the european union without creating a new border with the european union by contrast is much more interested in how communities either side of the border are go to continue exercising the same freedoms of movement that they already have and that apparent contradiction is now the subject of close examination by human rights lawyers it's

a legal morass it's in it risks being a legal swamp generation lots of different legal actions it's very very uncertain as to how it plays out no one knows whether people have a claim or they may have lots of claims no claims but the real the the i mean what is obvious is that it's going to result in deep legal uncertainty as of now the u.k. side has been unable to come up with a solution to the irish border issue that convinces anyone with human rights lore against them on top of everything else they are in very deep water gloriously al-jazeera on the irish border. zimbabwe's military commanders are hoping to convince the voters they will remain neutral in elections planned for the end of the month the army was instrumental in unseating robert mugabe eight months ago and since then officers have taken up key posts on the electoral commission has more now from harare. joining robert mugabe's rule army commander supported his rulings on a pay party and the military vowed not to allow the opposition to take over the army

which forced mugabe to resign last november say this year things are going to be different this in baba defense forces is not day ready to roll in the upcoming one as the elections. our role in the elections is mainly to support the zimbabwe republic felice in their role of maintenance of roi in order in the country before during and after the elections previous elections juma got israel were often marred by violence voter intimidation and fraud opposition leaders often said security forces were involved allegations denied by the commanders without nelson chamisa who leads the opposition m.d.c. alliance is concerned about for tricking and intimidation we are ready to prove as people are alleged where we have problems with certain people who are probably muskrat i ding is the army it could be that is not the army but they must be able to then move those people out so that they are not in the rural areas just

yesterday in there they are people we must go to the soldiers. human rights workers say they are also concerned about the army's policy at least fifteen percent of the electoral commission the secretariat. all former military will see shows. the military. commission more independent. removed. from the board some political analysts say the july polls will be a battle between the old guard of the one nine hundred seventy s. independence war and the younger generation these are the first elections will be on the ballot. more than five million people have registered to vote no think all presidential candidates with an outright majority there will be a runoff in september the army says it will respect the constitution even if the opposition wins the man replacing the president. promises these elections will be free and credible. kenya's top prosecutor has charged nine

people with manslaughter over a dam collapse in may at least forty seven people died when the cool county failed to managers of the commercial farm where that was located have been charged as well as county leaders and officials from the water and environmental management agencies. the police are saying the woman who tried to climb the statue of liberty to protest against the u.s. president's immigration policies she was on new york's famous landmark for about two hours before she was arrested the woman said she wouldn't climbed on until donald trump's administration released all the children it's detained at the border with mexico. colombian football players have been receiving death threats since being knocked out of the world cup by england one team member carlos sanchez received threats earlier in the tournament after being sent off twenty four years ago defender. shot dead days after conceding an arm goal that resulted in colombia's world cup exit. time's running out to save the great barrier reef that's

the warning from australia's climate council its latest report says coral bleaching could happen every two years by twenty thirty forty two rising sea temperatures the council says that rates of bleaching will continuously set back recovery of the reef global warming has led to more frequent and longer heat waves in the world's oceans ecologists damage to the reef may be irreversible they've noticed a drop in the diversity of fish species and the number of young fish settling on the reef martin rice is acting chief executive at the climate council he says the bleaching is very worrying when we look back in one nine hundred eighty s. we returned currently teaching at twenty years because of change and i'm an intensification of climate change and warming temperatures return every six years

now so we'll look at the great barrier reef heads the future unless we urgently and deep rooted you see a greenhouse gas pollution and we could actually see a return of leaching of the two years that's affected. our. recent larch scientists have used the fertility technique to create test tube embryos in the hope of saving the northern white rhino the only two that are still alive are infertile females they live in kenya scientists created the embryos from d.n.a. collected from bull rhinos before they died and the eggs of a close subspecies research is and are looking for a surrogate to carry them and hope to have the first northern white rhinos calf born in three years time. recapping our top stories so far today here on al-jazeera police in the u.k.

say two people critically ill in southern england have been exposed to the same nerve agent used to poison a russian spy and his daughter the man and woman were found unconscious on saturday in amesbury that's near salzburg he was. poisoned in march. on monday the second of july due to concerns over the symptoms both the man and the woman would display samples from both patients were said to pull down the burra tree for analysis. following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. which has been identified as the same agent that contaminated both and so. in iran the revolutionary guards say they're ready to carry out the president's threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf rouhani has warned he'll take action if u.s. sanctions prevent his country from selling oil on global markets syria and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in southern iraq province that's according

to opposition media which say there's been an increase in airstrikes after a cease fire talks with the rebels broke up three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago food supplies and medical treatment are helping build up the strength of a football team trapped in a cave in northern thailand for twelve days now rescuers are working out how to get the twelve boys and their coach out including a crash course in scuba diving tiny navy seals are using a chamber about seven hundred meters into the cave complex to base the rescue operation. poland's prime minister is defending a new law that forces supreme court judges to retire at sixty five hundreds of people supported the chief justice says she defied retirement and returned to work the government says the changes are required to reform an inefficient legal system . the police have detained a woman who tried to climb the statue of liberty to protest against the u.s. president's immigration policies she was on new york's famous landmark for about two hours before being arrested. those are your headlines the news continues here

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tube for those of you who don't know harvey his new netflix special warrior relatives was released globally this week and he reflects on everything from indians love affair with mangoes to the trump presidency here's a clip. i don't think white people are used to being called white people. you know the rest of us have to be explained. why people get to be fancy things like people . so when they're called white people there's some white people who just aren't used to. the shows you'll see like white people with their arms folded like. you're talking about the white people you must be talking about the if you think i'm talking about you. give me a you know what i love most about the joke now is that when i look into the audience you always see this. just to the non-racist stretching. and how hard it kind of follow joins us

here on sat welcome to the stream to this story and. good to have you so as we solve their social justice racial justice plays a key theme in your netflix special and that's one of the things that apparently really resonates with our all my community who are also i want to pull up a tweet here this is actually shaq he says the racism bit peppered throughout the show was very well done not preachy but making the right points about racism and being racist now there is one particular joke that someone picked up on he actually sent us a video comment because it resonated with him so much this is drew he's a student at harvard university and this is what he said about watching you're not like special have a listen. very i really enjoyed your relatives one of my favorite parts was when you used. a comment to give a social commentary about police brutality and justice and i realize that we use

a lot of of your jokes to kind of make social commentary like for instance. the organ donation one. and i was wondering how you could approach and how you write your jokes to have a meaningful impact so this could be you getting at here how do you approach your see in the library he's talking various. in the jokes about loving firefighters i think most of hating but i think the key thing is. just like any other person you have interesting conversations throughout the day you have tons of thoughts like you're a human being you think about things the difference between i think an artist and everyone else's everyone else moves on with their lives you go on you have lunch things happen then that with artists you get obsessed with that thought you get obsessed with that idea you have to write it down you have to think about it over and over and over again and you think about you know reconstructing and recontextualize and whatever that idea was to strangers most people don't think

about now i had a lovely conversation with you i can't wait to say the things i said to you with someone else and that's what we do it's a very bizarre thing so i think part of it is as simple as keeping track of the things you think about and being really vigilant about that so i think that's that's one part and the other part is knowing who you are you know that that i set out to make comedy that involved social justice issues i'm not going to be i want to be a social justice comic and i want to be an activist and i want to use comedy it's not that at all this is who i am i actually care about these things and i think when you can share what you care about with a broad audience and be able to make them understand it and hopefully laugh at it that's what i think when you're successful you have to be you on stage so the. this is me this isn't a special political lens i put on this is actually me sharing my believes in my dears and. using humor to cope with things i'm frustrated about and as a student do you actually had to study for

a comparative politics you have i'm a human rights from the london school of economics a lot of money was wasted before i got here so you have a very impressive degree is how did you get from that with a monster is to do stand out now did my mom send that question that. highly qualified you are very smart if that's one of the criticisms of if your comedy is you're too small which is i don't think i'm too smart in america. really affairs if we think that but i mean. you know i've always done comedy comedy when i was sixteen seventeen eighteen years old and i plan to do it for the rest of my life that that doesn't mean i was going to do it professionally i don't think that if your passion about something you have to make money doing it necessarily nor do i think it was possible back then there were no south asians on american television there was no south asians of comedy careers why would i even think that so i did it

i enjoyed doing it i was an immigrant rights organizer out of college in seattle i worked with people in detention who were in the middle of deportation proceedings people whose family members were you know were dealing with that i mean and to take crimes victims and i did comedy at night and i did it because i love doing it i did it just because it was a wonderful thing to do and it was a great scene in seattle of the time and it took off you know i stumbled into a career in comedy and when i had these opportunities when i got on television when i became when i got a manager and i got attention you know it took me a long time to decide to actually pursue it because it felt like it could just go away it wasn't available to us but it felt like the door was open and if i was in a make an attempt to do it than i. i would regret it later and i'm glad you know i'm glad i stepped through that door so you mentioned your mom earlier joking about her. joke this is stacy who picks up on that theme that the theme of family that

often makes its way into your comedy stacey says i like his jokes about his parents cultural expectations and his mom's text message his airport security jokes and his material about race and white people he pointed out true societal elements with a sharp wit but he wasn't and of course for all of our audience members who art quite sure about these jokes that steady men stacey mentions you can you can check out in that flick that it's available one hundred eighty countries but she talks about your mom is that an intentional thing or is it just that you find her funny so she comes up in your comedy but mother is funny but it's not just me i think objectively people who meet her i think her charm charm by her she's very quick. i think so much of not only like being witty comes from her but also taking frustrating hard situations and being able to turn that into something positive how do you recycle pain and turn into something that can bring joy to yourself and other people and i think my mom said to do that and some ways to survive that's what a lot of us have to do to survive when you're dealing with different kinds of pain

you want to talk a little clip of you talking about your mom yes absolutely let's have a look you know when you're like an adult child and you like try to push your limits with your parents it's like you know you're basically acting like a jerk and you know you can get away with really going to you know i mean so i started doing that with my mom i'm at home i'm like hey i'm hungry immigrant feed me immigrant my mom walks over to me looks beat dead in the eye and she says don't have children only stupid people have children i didn't mention write down word for word. now when i do it or when i tweet something she says she's like stop writing down everything that i'm saying your material but she sees. you know because she's she's really funny she's really thoughtful and i think people have all these preconceived notions about immigrants as you older immigrant women if your accent in particular like you have whatever depictions you have and

like my mom is a complex person who's lived in america longer than she's lived in india at this point she's a u.s. citizen she's struggled she's raised kids here her experiences aren't just pages also funny you know they aren't just struggle it's how you deal with that struggle and so you know she's grown in thirty five plus years and it's really funny to see her kind of look back at all of it. another family member who pops up in your comedy your brother on your facebook page i found a couple of pictures of you and your prada i just want to. and i won't disagree easier that's essentially. going forward mean like. what's your relationship like how were you with little kids and how you now because you work your butt here and so what is regarded right now you know we have the kind of all of this podcast i feel like the dynamics of the podcast are still very similar to any pictures of this. i mean it's still very much older brother younger brother you know the older brother and he's younger brother and he's definitely

a lot more i think curious he needs to learn things from self cautious and i'm constantly much more anxious and worried and that hasn't changed the same way we were in that regard when we were six on a bigger level with the same way i mean what's nice is that you know we grew up together we were inseparable but as adults we've gone in different directions we've done different things i love about the pod cast as you see two brothers who have similar roots and certain core values but you see how they're different and you see how they can argue and discuss and talk about things big and small and it's so relatable just because we're family more than anything else it's about the podcast about the connection of two family members and the different journeys they've been on the fact they're back in the same place let's have a look at the profit is a cost. suntans. you know this is hard because i think it's hard for either of us to relate to. it just feels overrated and maybe that's just because we've never had to try for it. so

what's the big deal if anything i find it incredibly insulting write it like it's so hard to be a person of color name is one of the darker you get you're telling me you just do it for fun. and when you do it it's value yes i'm doing it right now during. the it's like a your skill it's great no once in there if it's away privileges the beach you know you globe. you know offering it you know material i was allowed to have a reaction i mean i think most of the show honestly it's him like i thing my job is to create some foundation for the show and his job is to go as far away from what i planned as possible and just be free and my job is to make it feel like a show and make the audience think that we're actually in control when we have no idea what's about that but but you know he's think has such an incredible mind and it's really nice to have this pov cast out of people discover

a brilliant i know my brother is for a long time ago you were working on a show court totally biased and you did a little sketch which was about a simpson power to court. fast forward to a documentary that came out in november when you were telling a story about a coup in your childhood i'm just going to say a little picture a little clip of the i don't behind it because the documentary is available us not international so everybody can catch up with a problem with have a look. and because of that i just like the whole serious i love the simpsons because you hate yourself. my name is very kind of both had a great career full of laughter critical acclaim. completely happy but there's still one man who haunts me who. just isn't good don't think i'm not good how many have you had to deal with being cold or that being referenced. the

simpsons stereotypes all really is we don't have any other representation. dr does the voice of white doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father how did you feel about. making a movie about how much i dislike it. so you had kind of who's who i was. then there's an actor that in that area here on twitter says what do you then say to people who stay up who is just a cartoon character voiceover meant to be funny and it's been in character for over twenty years so why bring it up now i mean i think first of all the film is about a certain period of time it's about where a lot of us only had one source of representation and that representation was this cartoon character and it wasn't even really just a stand in for us was more

a stand in for my parents and i really believe that representation matters representation especially when you don't know nother person of the culture personally you figure it out from television and film you know that's the way it's always been and we had no way to respond to this now we're in a different era we have so many more south asian forces you know this is just one of many but when you only have the one and it's not controlled by you and you can't reply to it it's very frustrating and to me it's part of a larger legacy of minstrelsy in this country it's not the same as the history of like black minstrel see the america but it's the same legacy of this is going to be prosperous if we use this face use this this ethnicity as a prop to make people laugh. to sell a product it's in that vein and to me it's like if you're going to do that can we make money off talking about our own experiences we love to share our own genuine stories now we're beginning to and i don't think that's just because diversity is

important we have to push it it's because people and hollywood found out that we have money to spend it and we just want stories that relate so i think it's important i think for me it's less about the poor and it's less about the simpsons it's a case study that i'm comfortable with because it's from my past and it's also an example that's both the past and the present there's very few examples that of art that last thirty years and it's a way of saying this is how they're made this is why it's not acceptable now and here's the background of it how do we prevent things maybe not exactly like this but things that aren't fairly representative of people's experience how do we prevent that from happening again most people in our community are completely on board with what you just said i won't be able to share one of you go magic is not alone here this is manic bend and this is what he had to say there are a few other people who tweeted in similar comments but have a listen to what he told the stream. from my point an american hero a self-made immigrant why use

a very complex. just becomes he has a strong. voice. it seems senseless and i do not find it offensive when i speak with someone of south asian origin as an immigrant from working class. street backgrounds why reducing to one dimensional stereotype is ask me why i've reduced to a fictional character that's drawn unvoiced by someone else how i made him one dimensional ok first of all he's british so the experiences of people living in the u.k. and living in the us are different complex and in different ways i don't know what representations you've had in the past but certainly you got goodness gracious me in a bunch of other shows before we did so we were talking about that in the office about the stereotypical characters from the one nine hundred seventy s. and ninety's. which were exactly like a. different and there were more of them

a lot of the time this is one piece that was incredibly popular yes. it's the same discussion probably that happened then i would imagine like it was normal someone probably complained oh shut up this is just part of you take a joke i can take a job but one of my going to be able to reply and it took me thirty years to reply so you know the character it's not one dimensional he's right on there but it began as a one dimensional character and it wasn't given depth the character began as hank is very does the voice in a room everyone laughs ok let's make an indian even though they knew it was cliched and they added depth to their credit to this character now if there were other characters in other voices and other experiences that's different this is all there was that's the biggest critique and also to say that you know i'm not giving this cartoon enough credit i just give us more credit i give my people more credit we have the ability to me. much more complex images than that so whether they keep this character on the shore or not i don't care it's been thirty years it's not really important to love the simpsons and i don't know salie hate that character

i'm pointing out that it was it was difficult for that period of time and you might think well it's better now well not if you're like you know a queer person of color or a queer south asian if you're a female you know a south asian if you if you're you know if you're south asian woman if you're if you're trans of field if you're an immigrant we're your stories were your stories and that's the same issue we don't we still don't have that fair representation of love that you brought that up where your story is and the fact that this documentary was your reply because this is some of the comments because this is should be or who says you're representing our faces our teachers our stories our voices our families and you're doing it wrong and that's a quote from from the documentary he says that's a quote that resonated with me just wondering if there is anything that harvey sees that's leading the charge to correct this narrative from the south asian community in t.v. and film before you answer we actually got an answer from that community from a film producer he sent us a video comment this is out of california and here's what he said. we launched

a stream writing contest two to crowdsource a cure to this problem you see right now the sense in this is is sick the simpsons is a predominantly. male over grad writers' group of these folks who. lack perspective and suffer from group. and what we want is is right we won't write or send this spec episodes of the simpsons they deal with this up and problem in a fun way in an interesting way something that actually makes it you know authentic satire something that that that is actually clever in well written. so he actually launched this crowdsourcing screenwriting contest there's a headline of it here and the actual contest you can find online it is here cover

fly out to screenwriting contest really make about i think it's well intentioned and i think it came from a good place but i think it misses the point completely i don't want to play with old white people's toys i want my own toys like i don't need to try to fix a show that was not made for me and i love the simpsons but it's a relevant it's not even if this was twenty five years ago reading a different discussion i want us to tell our stories i want to create the settings i want to own the properties i want to write the scripts i don't mean me personally but i mean people of color women queer people trans people i want us to control our stories and that's much bigger and i think you know that because you hear myself as a producer and as done some great work and i think that you know his work that he's done outside of this i think is is what we need we need more of that we need more people to actually own the things we're creating and not just like owning our stories they belong to us and telling them i put literally owning it like actually

getting money out of it and proving that we can produce this and therefore we can produce even more honest work this is a remarkable conversation started back in november with a problem with that documentary i want to bring everybody up to date this is six fifty six am there are today reminder for day four seventy five the trump presidency this is not normal i know wasn't that great either that you can be doing this every day yes this is the important thing. is business it's fun and culture and it speaks to some important issues regarding representation but i worry the film wouldn't come up before the world ended and that i feel like is the more pressing part you know. every day is another scandal and every day we get lost because we had something yesterday but forgot what yesterday scandal was because of something else today. and i can only imagine with you to have to deal with being in the news industry the intensity of the stories coming in but. you

know this to me it's important and i did from the first day that he was you know that he was inaugurated like ok i don't want to get used to this i don't want us to say president trump and forget how that happened and why that happened in the conditions that led to it and i don't want to think this is the way it's always been and it hasn't you know i think history's important context is important and that's why i do it every day and it's a terrible reminder every morning i have to wake up like i'm going to put the tweet out there read the thing and put the tweet. out. didn't want to schedule them i want to force myself to do it in some weird masochistic i'm going to have to deal with the bill let's at least feel like at least i'm in control of one thing regarding this whole thing during the day that's why i do it every day i think that is why some people online say that you are part of this resistance is krista black when she says watching her accountable on a stream talk about not putting on a political lens for his stand up and this is why he's so effective as

a social justice comic it's organic to he is so we actually got a video comment from someone who kills similarly and she has some some questions about your next steps have a listen i just want to say i am a huge fan of your work and i am really enjoying kind of all the brothers cast you are both so funny and i had a quick question for you i was wondering if you had any plans to do any kind of like follow up or other documentary type. movies like the problem with the it was really interesting and. i never want to talk with this cartoon character ever again ok. i didn't think it would take this much of my life because when i made the film it's interesting it was already kind of an old issue for me a lot of people in the the community. this is not new you know i made a joke on the daily show like i wanted to call the film i have to explain this to you like. it was

a conversation before but this is excessive who doesn't know. but i think there's a difference as an artist doesn't really push me going to me like this is you know i mean like i love the fact it's being used in college classrooms and schools and trainings and i really do appreciate that but as an artist i want to i want to push myself a little further than something that you know i already had to do some research but already knew the story before i didn't like it because it was kind of like ok like i knew what pieces were there and that's let's look it up a bit but yeah i mean to be doing another documentary is possible but i don't think i want to go into this particular topic i want to i want to create the art and not just reflect on the art for our audience who are watching right now let me tell you all of the things that is on right now these projects so on netflix look back down here at one hundred eighty countries you can see one your relatives chris rock told me not to use that. is going to be. doing comedy showcase if you're

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disrupting oil supply. as iran threatens to block oil from the gulf if u.s. sanctions prevent it selling oil on the global markets plus. starting scuba lessons the football team trapped in a tiny cave learned how to dive their way to safety. well. also ahead a show of support for poland supreme court judges after the government approves a controversial law that could force about a third of them to step down. british police have confirmed that two people critically ill in hospital in southern england have been exposed to the nerve agent navi chalk that's the same substance that poisoned the russian double agents swear pal and his daughter yulia in march a major incident was declared in the town of amesbury where the man and woman were

found unconscious on saturday sunday gago reports. it seems almost unthinkable that the same nerve agent could strike twice in the same place and yet it did leaving two people critically ill and a town swirling in shock these two patients are in critical condition following exposure to the nerve agent overture. following events in march we have a well established response to this type of incident and clear processes to follow our priorities at this time on to care for the patients the couple in question dawn sturgis and charlie rally both in their forties both british nationals collapsed at a house on saturday initially suspected of having had an overdose of contaminated illegal drugs but those tests proved inconclusive were they for first those drugs but now they know it's not the drugs it is something new to the nerve agents were

training for knoxville. the places they had visited have since been cordoned off as a precaution and police people who have visited those areas to wash their clothes and it's not just sites and amesbury that have been cordoned off but also by geographical coincidence in salzburg as well here at the queen elizabeth gardens not too far away from where the script pals were found when they were poisoned earlier this year. souls free came under intense scrutiny when the screw piles fell victim to poisoning by the nerve agent nabil chalk the british government pointed the finger to russia and a diplomatic rift ensued samples from the victims were taken to the nearby defense research facility at porton down where scientists were able to pinpoint exactly what caused the couple to full so ill the u.k.'s national health body has said that there is no risk to the public but counterterrorism police have now taken over the

investigation once again this quiet corner of england is plunged into the center of one of the most serious cases of poisoning in recent times sonia agel al-jazeera. to iran where the revolutionary guard says they're ready to carry out president hassan rouhani as threat to disrupt oil exports from the gulf through honey said the measures could be taken if u.s. sanctions prevent his country from selling oil on the global markets and the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal in may and one countries to stop importing iranian oil by november or face penalties as alan fischer. the reunion president has been on a two day visit to switzerland one of the main topics of conversation the u.s. decision to violate the iran nuclear deal by pulling out now the u.s. wants countries to boycott really you know oil as part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten the oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s.

pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer countries will be able to export their surplus oil in iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fishes have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so at its narrowest point there are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all that idea of the oil exports not coming from iran or remember the opec countries the whole reason a lot of these countries are in crises in the first place is because of the u.s. shale oil industry which brought prices down in the first place the u.s. has previously warned countries they must stop all imports from november or face

sanctions from america no exceptions our focus is on getting as many countries importing iranian crude down to zero as soon as possible. we are also working with oil market participants including producers and consumers to ensure market stability iran has warned any boycott of the oil industry could push prices higher it company provides around two percent of global supply or three million barrels a day the u.s. is already concerned about rising prices at the weekend u.s. president donald trump called saudi arabia's king solomon and said they do agree that the saudis would boost production but there's no sign that prices are dropping particularly as the global economy is growing and demand for energy is up india south korea turkey all u.s. allies are major importers of a really annoying they might not be able to switch providers quickly or even want to the trumpet ministration would then have to decide have sanctions on them would

follow the other signatories to the nuclear deal see the still support it and are looking at ways to save it alan fischer. letter hashimi is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he says mr trump's hardline approach to forcing is forcing iran to make drastic counter threats. i think this is a threat that iran has issued in response to american threats to trying to stabilize iraq and on as we're seeing right now. they. produce quite a bit of disruption in the wrong part of me and they have gotten the attention of the wrong leaders so what we've seen right now as a result of the lateral american sanctions the drop in the value of your own currency by about the fifty percent over the last several weeks or seen. major canonic protests taking place in iran they're not directly related to americans and but are indirectly connected to deteriorate and economic conditions so united

states has you know pursued this proper hard want policy and iranian leadership is starting to be adding and i think these threats that we're seeing to you know shut down the straits of hormuz or to restart iran's nuclear program is really an attempt by iran to push back against the pressure that is feeling at this moment the syrian government and russia have intensified their bombing campaign in southern province now that's according to opposition media which say airstrikes escalated off to talks with rebels but a cease fire failed three hundred thirty thousand people have fled their homes since the offensive began more than two weeks ago but it's myth is that the job of crossing on the jordan syria border. these people move to the border area to escape the fighting and out of province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists but being involved in opposition activities. among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least

for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. there are people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even executioners this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another our country or international guarantees from that. the opposition had a few cards to play but hoped they'd have more leverage by resisting government attempts to recapture remaining rebel areas in dara but the negotiations have now broken down with the opposition saying the russians were asking them to give up too much the rebel groups say it's because of an insistence by the russians rebel groups hand over their heavy weapons however it was understood that one of the conditions the rebel groups laid down was that they were willing to give up their heavy weapons if the syrian regime forces left arians they had recently taken control of and allowed a greater role for the russian military in policing areas that the rebel groups

surrendered to regime control or russian military control jordan had been mediating its foreign minister imanol safadi went to moscow for talks with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov about how to implement a settlement in south syria after rebels surrender their areas and. look at the situation in the south of syria with strong concern and want to believe that the fundamental goal is to resolve this crisis through a political process we would like to begin with a cease fire and then proceed to solving the question that would help to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in this area but it's clear that it is absolutely unrealistic to expect iran to withdraw from syria and that it won't be possible to solve the problems of the region without the participation of key countries including iran saudi arabia jordan egypt and many others there are no plans yet to restart. and so the bombardment of dera resumed on wednesday evening but jordan particularly is keen to get all sides talking again hundreds of thousands of

syrians trying to escape the fighting a gathered along the border with jordan tens of thousands more could be heading here jordan has already said it won't be letting anyone cross burning al-jazeera on the jordan syria border the polish prime minister is defending a new law that forces supreme court judges to retire at the age of sixty five he says the country has the right to decide its own legal system the european union is warning the move will undermine the judiciary david chase and from warsaw. a drumbeat of defiance was sounding as thousands of protesters converged on the supreme court it was a boisterous reception for the former chief justice. who returned her death on the first day of her in first fertile. almost lost in the crowd she declared she was determined to defend the legal order of the country not to play politics but to bear witness to the truth but far removed from the sounds of the protest the

ministry of justice was turning a deaf ear to her claims. and told the building. they can be there as guest. workers judges because they are. that uncompromising line was repeated by poland's prime minister when he addressed members of the european parliament in strasbourg eucharistic right each state has the right to shave their legal system according to their own traditions but with the european commission bringing legal proceedings which could land poland in the dock of the european court of justice the e.c. j many experts are predicting a compromise so i am expecting the polish government to show the respect to their opinion as well and to at least to freeze the law not to appoint new judges to allow them. to decide on this issue at the moment the highest court in the land

appears to be in a state of the eagle limbo with neither side showing any signs of backing.