crossing countries means crossing the intimidating river more and more refugees are attempting this route even though they know how dangerous it is even outside the risk of drowning or dying of cold in these huge empty spaces any number of refugees have told us that confessions and forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with frontex the european union for the agency. this eighteen year old syrian was in the smugglers boats with his young the system. the police came up to us and that but they told us you can't cross they made us turn around the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they'd turn any refugees around think claim their priority is human dignity. but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking international.

hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. since the launch of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've built up a library of award winning documentary s. and here on rewind we've been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today we're going back to two thousand and seven to a poor south african neighborhood just outside cape town when using honor enter dish and come together in an unusual annual competition in recent years south africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south

africa second largest city has been feeling the impact of climate change and struggling with drastic water shortages a decade ago south africa seemed to be moving towards a more inclusive post apartheid world yet in the poorest suburbs of cape town local communities still maintain their distinctive identities based in the cape flats the muslim community holds an annual singing competition for the silver affairs jovi and in two thousand and seven the witness series was there to film this contest which sheds a unique light on the diversity and inequalities of modern soph africa here is the silva phase. this is the story of a man with a dream but it plays out on the dark side. till nine

hundred sixty five or thereabouts most of the town's muslims lived in the city proper this book of recounts a language that helped create and many other groups that went back centuries but when the parts are derived they were forced to the church to the parents that's outside the city it's a tough world too little money too many drugs and one of the highest murder rates on the planet but not as we shall see the place. hopelessness. this is a place called. it's in the middle of the cape flats and i'm staying the evidence that the everybody knows and he knows with that guy i see because of one thing only because of the risk of. the thing. that i've had going but that's basically the idea in two thousand and five and two

friends decide to enter and try to win the annual capital a quiet competition an extravaganza that involves fifty rival teams to custom changes five different song forms and massive amounts of money it was an insanely optimistic move considering the competition they were facing. this is haji bucks israel name is mohammed same benjamin but he owns several businesses and visits mecca regularly so the hundred bucks it is. the thing. six. six six six feet. he calls his team the starlights and as far as he's concerned nobody can touch them yes there's a lot that doesn't like me in the film but they said. because they both from the from the me there's no life only first place. was was the box has been

organizing choirs since he made his first fortune his funds are inexhaustible his dominance of type with a culture almost complete so it was a david and goliath situation really an underdog versus the establishment a house painter of us as haji books. i will you interest for us in the five in school that he knew. but i'm a person that can lead something very quickly this new a music is good. but always knew that i had something in me that i could actually do i feel it can benefit other people too the cut you couldn't do it alone of course mr muhammad stoffel it's how much or rather how much to his friends you see with the listen these are all from talking to witnesses in the news all the way friends who know. the truth of it and we can they will stay away from me said i

need somebody that i can test because he's handling them and you. and i can just continue with meetings with five o'clock. you know i'll take it. to the table a quiet word he goes to the meeting see that everything is in place is i put out what. really know exactly what the chances are you can sing so good that this is going to ask if you're seeing something that i missed that things look from the judges and the people he knew got there we knew. and. we different. the new team was called the continentals and this is the third member of the trio that founded it one indicted plays guitar bass and banjo sings like an angel and dresses flash when he's in the money which wasn't the case until today i'm happy now and as a citizen this started. but my wife was the only but it was everybody was with them

. on the ranch and every day is close just for food you can't even come on depp's of it on the. in case you're wondering i'm the watcher with a guitar i'm actually a writer but touching needed help and i was honored to be asked. we are always playing for different cause. he said to be too old. and needed to be on the school put them through the school to do something that is. by of and it was big he was it. when it was what i was away in a means that the mock as it is to me no one had more. to endure for five o'clock it was a show. they got me at the what i'm told if you only.

get. the business men love the show but are brought in on your tiny fraction of what the continentals need in months to come there will be more fundraising events karaoke friends and the like but progress is slower and some continental is a better name just a few of them since. i did this in the dead. and see that they put out there at a cover that those has to get up and you know they're in a cell of the just so you one o'clock one day. donald of true and lives in a caravan whose parents guard him with his family he's just come out of prison and he's struggling to make ends meet simulcasts you see that. so i think it is let go

of it in a cell above it in the it's so it's just sort of you know you can see only for truth it's nothing. in my heart must. know. meanwhile on the far side of the tracks the starlights a burden brighter than ever. you know i call eats like the the c.e.o. before god you know me me me just go slow will be asleep i can never feel good and . i i i i the champion think everybody is that i've gotten you to see what they see with . you. none now ask. approach just don't open your mouth and sing the

first thing the simplest if you have the support of the state's young one that the we are to be the at have the. the the conscious neighborhood on the other hand drugs are everywhere and discipline can be a problem but what i saw tonight it was pretty disappointing so. we don't tell you guys no to do whatever you want to do that is up to you but those who would win the teams and we don't need people like to have those item with their money now how did mine know what county club if you speak any clubs or not. so it for half a day when the canola that you for non no he laughed at you he said. and the constitution but see pussies what they can oversee it so thank those that you send will take its course no mental with us that is trying to live we don't talk about

it in a. lot of them is coming out of the health community so it is known for its conniving that stuxnet what we trying to do is get given the way from the get into the fictitious since it didn't teach him discipline so that it doesn't go into that only one thing the seem to live in is loaded with the confines. of the danger lead in jail with one and just keep doing will keep finding that. in the five dollar the guys up into the box and the practice the fuck to give that up to him out of the fantasy of being. back on sunday to since he and. sometimes he complains he does actually. well that's not the sports but see

that's what i love that's what's really good. luck. because i mean really bad but i think i think in the. past if you got it. that i would see any theme and support the scene and found it in me. and i knew that. if i enjoy a scene. like that i'm. not going. to give them hell. let's.

close. my neighbors they could but then we have just two muslim families among. the families but. we do speak it's like a sculptor we need to and we've been playing that music he's actually that yes but i think for the snow. it's high summer and kids on the competition season is drawing near this is the soldier says the holy grail the way since a good in the continental isn't going to get anywhere near it's missing knights in shining armor comes to their wrist i believe a thing. i just adored is a prosperous business my business dreamed of has and so this is what you do yes. little disappointment to get enough. but we grew up in the lake

why is indeed he said i'm going to stock up on things so i don't get it i think they can we just do it they can. hold it together every day and everybody that working on the site is all seeing this. oh. we needed some money to depose adele sheets pull the competition so i gave me a ticket he just brings people to give did what it takes to give it one and just to be fully loaded like these that are look for details. and i took about twenty directions to them used to dig their way to faces will end of the dick says to them i felt so good yesterday. these guys will be dancing while we played this whole lakeville thing more lively you know at least. it's new year's eve and big things that bring on the good it's not something. one

shudders to think what all this is costing mr dog the truck suits are just the start of it he's also hired a string section a brass band and enough buses to transport hundreds of people. the festivities begin with a tour of the tough neighborhoods where most continentals lived before moving to middle class after the were mr dog's wife and her friends have prepared a feast for the multitude. johnson from the continentals and the supporters piled back into the buses and head for the city proper. according to legend all discussed back to the opposition of slavery and it's unfair to fall on the stroke of midnight to those in bondage were set free and they flooded into the streets to celebrate ever since muslims are marching through tripped on that so it might. lead to the magic that. people would know.

that was the fun part of the proceedings in the new year the struggle for the self defense begins in earnest this this is the distribution i've got to do from today on with and what you just seen the is coming up on my pocket nobody else's pocket they must come on reading us they might as we'll as you back here at the end if i'm successful i can both go yeah. no really going both is and then loving. clinton silver fizzes complicated you get points for singing points for dressing smart and then you hire an army sergeant to drill your team and you get judged on precision march of.

the family you get judged for your performance of a sacred song a form that is unique to this culture. and these sad old songs are haunted by a song that arrived in the cave on slave ships the sauna for instance off and some much merit to elements questing as they call them in the middle on streets over the. for her. or. a little kid it's called over two hundred songs off of them i don't know because no records was kept of it it's only the old people that actually knows the songs the nigger learns and leak well never ever say it's not

a fifty in the late the will never thing that will stay or the forever war the mother was was. a sow's with it in under ten fifty two hundred years simple need look a lot to tease him and live with that some of us don't even understand it but as you know more and more and more then you come to see that old school there are those who look for fuzz lived before and now they were slaves and. they came to enjoy the shells buy c.d.'s and learn songs they couldn't do so they sang. god. budget bucks and cut your claim to like each other but you'd never guess it from the way the talk about one another most of those members with the stylus they will never be able to leave the style it's what evil bucks tells him to do if it

goes into money to jump in the fire i'm sure david was jumping the guy this is a sport but these are the dumb gave this is their first year we've got absolutely nothing to lose. e's got something to lose but we couldn't endure milk wouldn't nothing to lose to the wood is on the rope they were to stop like they want to keep us they want to win if we think. it's only one life or was cut. and i can petition. all those off with getting. attended in the movies again beat to it by seeing that other writing us will miss of. course i'll be the true lover but the plan will be known all that and i'm going to make all those other guys nervous too and i know what these guys get and what i think to do in those suits say you'll see a different lens a day. i saw much of the dress rehearsal and

shells what could be a bad omen the tendering isn't exactly up to scratch the plot to make it across might not that by someone who doesn't want to do you think somebody bad to alchemy monday two months you can point for the job as it's about to put it to sleep that's not the public doesn't give. us. a competition day to day of destiny for the continental. this event is run and run very strictly by the quiet board they have a rule that says on side has come out from the competition we spent many a year begging for an exemption but no luck. in the end the continentals decided to

perform for us outside the venue. it was yeah it will open sort of your case we were wrong apparently according to the board when you look at the mission to do a video sale but that is still on the bottom of the to get it and we got it did we see it. was not i don't know what you're going to need to do with this know what you want whatever you want to mexico we go outside made us buy it be walking we can it's a not it. and if. i call the

record the continentals one of nine a trophy for dressing up of all things for the rest they were crushed maybe they were doomed from the outset and maybe it didn't matter. we wanted to do it what it was that. they lived in before they'll. be disappointed to build a business but at the same level go. to see that this is a. good thing. and just for the services it went once again two hundred bucks and his in from simple starlight's was. the stuff all different kinds of people played together is just like the plug into the sky and sand and. does that moment the music takes you away.

on. a. a a a. a one to keep the lights they wonder if we think. it's only one for. us in the. los. and we but absolutely nothing to lose. e's got something to lose but we couldn't even do that until i. i. i.

the silver phase from the witness series in two thousand and seven do check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series that's it from us thanks to watch. a remarkable portrait of a remote japanese village in the aftermath of the two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of meow call been able to move on and rebuild their lives. the wind japan aftermath of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. hello and welcome back time to take

a look at weather conditions across the americas northern parts of south america are looking too bad in terms of share right to vittie looking fairly quiet at the moment further towards the south this is a little area of rain across southern parts of prune although in parts of bolivia otherwise fine conditions certainly for buenos aires it's warmed up gradually over the last few days as the wind switched directions to the north but a change to the foot once again because as you head on through into sunday over suddenly coming so temperatures begin to fall back and even got a frontal system developing give you some heavy rain across parts of europe quite meanwhile across from rio de janeiro should be fine highs of twenty eight degrees let's head up into the caribbean things here looking grocery quiet at the moment some heavy showers for the bahamas but otherwise most of the islands of cherry not fairing too badly and they're moving up through the isthmus we have some heavy showers of panama and costa rica nicaragua but further north korea's not looking too bad at the moment or we will see some rain pushing further north towards guatemala during the course of sunday nights ago city small chance of showers

moving up into north america we've got plenty of shower right here across many south eastern areas could be a wet one in dallas but across parts of the pacific northwest is looking fine highs of twenty eight degrees in seattle. it's like the wild west they can do anything and really hard for them to get the powerful internet is the tool for democracy under threat somebody who controls ten thousand dollars that controlling a hundred thousand voices and they distort the debate in the echo chamber world of fake news in cyberspace the rules of the game have changed there are no precedents people out investigates this information and democracy part to find out if you. he has no passport yet he's politically active in two thousand trees i was the only one that stunned the power of peaceful transition when because they're much part in

our part of the world some people think you are stupid and crazy if you do that mikhail saakashvili former president of georgia and next governor of the odessa region in ukraine talks to al jazeera. this is al-jazeera the city a fourteen year old has their headquarters in doha santa maria welcome to the news straight to the cycle begins again israel has launched its biggest attack on gaza since the twenty fourth war targeting the infrastructure of hamas while rockets have been fired out of the strip towards israel a live update from our correspondent in gaza coming up also on the grid another step closer to peace eritreans president assad has been welcomed in ethiopia as the two countries try to put decades of war behind them this is just

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