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and we came over that little rise over there and we had been there and down here. in the black car full long sigh ellis. and we didn't know who it was at the time. the driver said you know they are right there. and said no we didn't know where they were. we kept on walking and they kept face of this in this car. and they kept training at us to get in. and we refuse her. a hundred yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant in ten hell. and i had a screen there too we finished we all loaded back up in the car but they never went back the way they came they went around away from the reason i fell asleep. and i never will go up until we are coming up to. the moon against him. when after
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a good old not by relays i was kidnapped like is that my dad didn't know. very many new fears new jersey they didn't geared how they got the children. i believe it was february two years ago. those on the board sessions that are
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choosing united church and chosen township of the book five miles out here and my first set were the sessions meeting effect in there was two other members in the minister and myself and the minister was going through the agenda that we were to talk about in she mentioned the residential school system and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying i had no idea why. i didn't know what this was about a tall and from that i ended up going to my doctor and for some depressed help pretty pression and he referred me to a psychologist in north be. and to courier probably twenty minutes to determine that it is part of my problem was from that incident fifty years earlier. i was to the station there in the r.c.m.p.
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and we had a territorial jail there which most times i was in jail guarded night and in this day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of sixty four and april of sixty five on a day shift i was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up two children from a family in fort smith northwest territories i went to the door of this home and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that there are two two daughters were being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably six and eight years old. and i took the six year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his car and car took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never
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saw him i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the price. at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me and cursed being in the r.c.m.p. i had no alternative who could complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the uterus is a dental schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problem with it. and since then i've come to realize what they were a boat and i know differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell . it took up maybe five minutes of my life. and i buried it back and i'm sixty four sixty five. years later it came back
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to haunt me. here in boston. we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table we're sitting at this very spot. at a board meeting. you remember ron you were on the board at the time and and the board at that time had decided that they wanted to study this book called a healing journey for us all and part of that took us into residential schools well let me let me say first clearly that i think the residential school
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history within canada is one of the the the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's it's the damage that's been done to so many lives and. the damage that it continues to be done and that will be felt it generationally. is is just it's beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in feel. presidential schools are schools that were set up by the government of canada and
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there are other countries that have the same thing but it was a policy that was put into place to bring all as many indigenous people as possible into these schools to educate them into the european way of life to take you away from your culture your language all your traditions and that's what it's about. in order to sever those ties in your culture in your language they had to separate children from tam least communities we wore uniforms you all dress the same you had your hair cut the same you were all one and it was to assimilate us to make sure we didn't have an indian that did us when we left here.
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the took us to the church or recently we had say prayers and things like that. we weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but it wasn't indoctrination like you can even put us in one room and you just indoctrinate us all day long just the way. the routine of the place it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english. well you went to the wake med school you went away miniature you were the way with clothes all those are built in was in a classroom lecture thing it was it was in green in the system
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there's a live in years the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures nobody said good night or come and see you if you're sick personal didn't know me look arity except that they put his in a big player room similar to this dining room. and we sort of loot looked after ourselves. what was going on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children are being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they
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were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had him now i may have europeans everybody should i had a residential school not just one race of people is a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was is to kill the indian in the child i'm pretty much they've done it or. so you get punished for being who you are. it's the school where you're punished for the third least the interactions and. the the punishments were. severe. and punishment for things you never did you never did. i i don't think i ever did anything wrong that would deserve a strap never and you got it. you never knew it. when you went over
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the line there that you know they give you d.d. beating so it's a symbol but it was more than that it was terrorism that come to teach beating. for tell me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment or for punishment lesser crimes against humanity and yet different things and i've heard of other guys have an electric currents and they brought us into a place they called the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we went in or one of the time and got a good show locked in with the litters leather strap a day everybody. i was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later and just remember them crying there was a lot of crying in this place a lot of tears. and yet we find out it was like. thousands upon thousands of
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children that were being used despite the beatings and the ferocity of some of the beating we still defying the authority to run away. the boy say how he's over sixty boys displayed this number each of us are lonely beyond despair. from within we each had our own battles to fate we were lost lonely scared and confused her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. are laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know that we all clicked through the knew they kids were being raped and walesa in large numbers sodomized by beasts. no one could know no one would ever know saddam ingle were headed to be
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a nicer place so he tried to escape. were the colonel seeing what ironing those cut were ferocious they had been relentlessly beaten with a they were senior belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until their speed echoed out to the earth any among the barns down the lean way and up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us straight at least once to escape that ways prison. the hell east please with demons all over.
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and. there's a boy others. at that far end is where i got my lesson time and time again day after day and boy did i ever wish someone would come live here so he wouldn't miss me some. another era came. and i just came out of there feeling so dirty rotten low as you can imagine and i thought every kid over there knew that i had it would have been me. but. i think it all and then they could never bothered me and i never asked what happened in there i think we all got it at one point. but it is a nasty dirty they. but here's where i got unless it arrayed. against
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a wall there and he had his way with me. and i was his mother that i. could see a time in my life and i felt so dirty and so so long. really had me down in the boiler room and he took my clothes off. and i just standing here a little guy this discussed what he was doing.
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i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know asis i've heard too many different stories for it to be all lies if they're not buried here they're probably buried somewhere on the property and it's just one of those things that in time we may come across about this this we can investigate if there's any truth to it if there is anything in there just just from the people that i know from the survivors that i know that say that yeah they remember this being something and you don't just put a window at the bottom of a basement for any for no reason. to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these
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terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies the us government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely pick it up less than two months off in the professional america's secret pipeline to syria on al-jazeera the nature news as it breaks the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory with detailed coverage what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world is taking things to a new level from around the world to the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic power vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months. amidst a climate of violence and paranoia. those still willing to dream.
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in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of past oppression. if you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. how i maryam namazie and london here's a quick reminder of the top stories a saudi amorality coalition air strike has hit a possible a school children in yemen it happened and who is the other province alf ministry says fifty people have been killed and red cross says it's received the bodies of twenty nine children all of them under the age of fifteen saudi that coalition has
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released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets have been calls for the attack to be investigated we've seen these reports it's very important as we said repeatedly that all parties to the conflict in yemen adhere to international humanitarian law where the reason instead of this sort it's important its investigative story and the conclusions that investigation. from be called into that in this instance is one. in the last half hour a palestinian official has said israel and hamas have agreed on a truce to end a flare up in violence in gaza the truce is due to come into effect in less than fifteen minutes time at twenty forty five g.m.t. it comes after israeli aircraft struck more than one hundred fifty targets in gaza on wednesday night and thursday and hamas fighters fired scores of rockets including a long range missile deep into israel the scene is an opposition figure tendai biti
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has been charged with inciting violence and unlawfully announcing election results it's called appearance came a day after he was denied asylum by zambia and handed over to zimbabwean security forces the u.s. says it is deeply concerned by zambia's cooperation as well as reports of a government crackdown following the july thirtieth vote. russia's stock market in its currency the ruble have fallen after the u.s. announced new sanctions washington imposed the measures after accusing moscow of being responsible for the nerve agent poisoning of russian double agents argus cripple and his daughter in march the kremlin has called the u.s. action unexceptable and south sudan's president has granted amnesty to opposition need to react which aren't all rebel groups involved in the civil war a power sharing agreement was signed earlier this week and that ending the conflict it gives president salva karat his former vice president machar eight months to form a transitional government tens of thousands of people have died since fighting broke out in december two thousand and thirteen canada's dark secret now continues but i
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will have the news out for you after that program i'll see in about half an hour's time. i like finding old friends and winnie is what i know her by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we first went in there we were my sister and i were separated into groups and i had one older girl that took me under her wing and my sister dawn when you look after her well i don't you know when i was there i don't even remember going there i don't even remember the people it to me at but in my home i remember that. oh i know i was just there so then i met this this older. person on this older girl she
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kind of took care of me when i was growing up and she told me when she's ready to leave because she was in twelve thirteen maybe fourteen she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and think she was to take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she see. because she got hurt. her hurt and. i think. i think somebody hit her on a tree. and i don't know i think she died but i'm not really. sure but i don't know.
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why they were in. i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her and i was there. were happened to her. it seems. sometimes i used to dream of her she would come to me in a dream by that it hurts to talk a lot. because i remember when she used to. piggyback we under. the back and we'd run and play and. then when i got her to pick me up and. give me a hug and a standing room to cry. like why we should be doing meth and. after they smashed her in the tree. you know that sound sometimes you
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can hear it on t.v. on the river shows that sound that's a song. even if a glass breaks today well it's green. and sometimes my family get mad and. i said who are i care how that seems to sound that's good scares me and. makes me would like. the scene is a drawing child who just surely will for was flailing away with his head above water in
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a raging river you can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he slips under the surface is refitting trying to catch in that leaf say to breath but he knows he's going under for good. what tears run upon the child's mind knowing can imagine those sites will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks his hear is silky and wavy in the room still a removing so slowly and reaching for a new purpose except that his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except bend of the curb he tom was lay physically along the water when into oblivion.
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i left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me in they didn't just attack me i think they attacked everything. but. i wrote a book called our legacy and. since i wrote dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morn beat the wop a. i haven't forgiven him but they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had on thousand people in my time.
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and it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world and i'm ashamed to say i'm canadian because it wasn't a government it's not. the government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course
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they were here first so the government has determined rather than go to war with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i know they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when the refinish there their parents didn't accept them if they were native and the white community did not accept them because they were native so these people news hundred fifty thousand children grew up in limbo with no roots no background and no place they could call home. i knew ahead of time when i believe i went to school that day in. and it was the last day of school in summer. everything seemed greater than the grass seemed
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greener the sky was blue or and. it was just a great day. he come home and they're like you're a stranger i'm a stranger to them but they're a stranger to me too so i had to go find who my relatives were how was i connected to this community i knew where i came from i didn't know that but i just didn't know holly fit in. a hundred fifty thousand people children were taken from their families. and as rural a result of that seven generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i have known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things
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she can tell us about her first nations so. having my father my aunt and my uncles. gone to residential school my father never discussed his upbringing he was silent the home that we lived in was silent around who he was and how he was raised so prior to the age of thirty i had no idea or no understanding of what had happened to my family and i knew that there was something up like there was something wrong but i didn't know what that was when i was finding all of these things about residential school when i was thirty and my father had already passed away my mother was still alive and i started asking michael my aunt questions it began to i began to
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realize how strange everything was and it began to see what those schools did and what the effect that we had and why my brothers and i had struggled so much with our emotional life this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will it just blew me away and then when ron when you had the courage to stand up and say that this was wrong and that you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad that. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't.
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and i don't care what things you might have done in your life. i know what's a whole lot because. they were raised that. they were completely erased. but what you don't hear about is what happens to people when their kids are ripped away. and those kids come back broken but they come back broken to two adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok.
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too. but the bank and ask all of the survivors to stand up for a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children and grandchildren of survivors please stand up as well things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning in the one nine hundred eighty s. but not really successful until the mid one nine hundred ninety s. when the courts finally ruled that they could sue the government for the abuses
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that went on in schools and the churches as well the root of the t r c as in survivors themselves survivors said we demand attention and we demand recognition for what it is and was that we experience in the residential schools i had a problem i had a hearing problem i would mock i would teeth i would nod every day and i wish. i was free and so then. i don't you know this is a sin for me to be still. we were the recipient of their most private moments in their life often and we as listeners had to be there for them because we weren't just
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representing the commission we were actually representing a hearing of the entire country. well as a commissioner for the truth and reconciliation commission listening to the stories of residential school survivors it was difficult emotionally very challenging but there's no doubt that when they cried often we did as commissioners we always made it a point to repeat back to the survivors what it was that they had told us because we wanted them to know that we had heard them and that we believed them. to be poor and they think we. ought to publish. why bubbly for what i put. i
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could i could tell my grandchildren like. what a great privilege of yours that he loved. but. i can't it hurts it hurts me the think boat. what i missed. it was a very emotional. very emotional time because the more you got into it the more the more things started to come up about residential school that you would start to remember that you'd listen to everybody and. it was a very very difficult time so i was involved right from that right from when the lawsuit started so the truth and reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an air of being victims of the residential school
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experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing a better relationship with the government with the church as the story of the truth of residential schools in this country is a story about the resilience of children they have supported me in this work but at great loss to the relationships we could have had and which we will now try to recapture. were. residential school survivors. we all week in canada. this
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is not. only about. resilience there's a whole lot of truth that to has been shared it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth conciliation in my telling or in new york i'm screwed it's. two or three or four generations. to work all this o.t. to get is the history books and have become commonplace that the guy next door knows where that in the future of canada will students and be told that this is not an integral part. of everything we are as a country everything we are as canadians that is a promise we nuke for here all students are our.
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it was the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a five kilometer walk from gatineau quebec to the city hall inaudible was approximately seven thousand people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the commission's work ended almost seven years later that we had established the credibility of the commission not only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country and the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now includes this history.
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the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the t r c but more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country have asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth and sure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i
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don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. let's. go. with the. you see though on. the very day. in many interviews. i'm very hopeful i'm still
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a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see action i want less talk and more action so we all know that something is changing in terms of healing for the native folk and for white and brown and yellow canada. the problem for. both. of them off is a. lot of the storm going to move. back into. them and. if.
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they win there is unique there expressing their. their culture in the. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old sits for. the dances the songs.
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when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. and i'm until they're healed i will be and i'll keep harking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. and now the house has to be hope. and when i look at my grandchildren i think there's a lot of hope. i see positive things for i don't.
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august on al-jazeera european muslims today are facing the consequences of having their faith linked to on the attacks even though they too of victims of the bugs the largest multi-sport event on the continent asian games in jakarta will host affably competing in a mix of traditional and the olympic sports a vibrant new series of character led documentaries from immigrant neighborhoods across europe a series of reports about the state of the world's forests and what's being done to
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protect them in a three part series al-jazeera uncovers the motivations and impact of the brutal human exploitation system then lay the foundation of today's global powers ogust on al-jazeera mean mars commercial capital yangon is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive borrowing money from merciless loan sharks is their hole inside the cycle of debt when east on al-jazeera. hello there strong winds have been battering parts of western australia is all of them to this weather front here that's gradually edging its way eastwards we're seeing winds gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour in some places and it's gradually edging its way towards the east so it looks like south australia will see that wet weather and windy weather as we head through friday and then it will work its way across victoria and tasmania as well by saturday looks like most of us will
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be in the fresh air so it's going to be a cool one adelaide with a maximum just of eleven degrees and force in melbourne will only be at twelve as we head across towards new zealand we've got a fair amount of cloud has been piling its way into the western parts of the south island has also brought us a fair amount of rain they don't break so really there was we head into friday friday should be a mostly bright day for many of us eleven degrees the maximum in christchurch fifteen in all clones and generally staying very settled here as we head into saturday to me well if we had further north we've just seen a typhoon in japan that was called shan chan and is now working its way towards the northeast it's taking or of it's what weather with it so force in honshu should be a lot drier than it has been recently and thirty two degrees will be our maximum in tokyo towards the west expect a few showers in the beijing area. a
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new village committee has been elected and is grappling with the obvious tosca sustaining the community but residents of this chinese village have grown impatient and have one concern inside. the reclamation of. democracy is complicated. to have a six part series five years. china's democracy experiment on mountains iraq. this is. a low i maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes israel and hamas agreed to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting. now that is.
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another grim day in washes become the world's forgotten war dozens of children are killed in a saudi led coalition and strike in yemen. zimbabwe's see any opposition figure at ten diabetes says he'll keep on fighting off to being taken into police custody. and creating crime or chasing it at least in the u.s. city of chicago accused of entrap a young black man. with the sport is belgium goalkeeper. joins room madrid from chelsea in a mega money deal on transfer deadline day you better more coming up later in the program. welcome to the program. our top story this hour a saudi m.r.c.
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coalition as strike has hit a bus full of children in yemen this took place in the northern city of saud and the right cross is saying that twenty nine children were brought in the bodies of some twenty nine children or brought in they were under the age of fifteen years old now maraton reports now from djibouti. still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children hadn't bought from a school some of. them. but those the bus drove through a busy area of the town in saw the. rescue workers bring in dead children one often mother of the world medical workers three of the injured on the cardinals on every available space in the hospital. all the fighters of accuse the sodium led coalition of lunching at the movie theater which is what
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we got but the saudi led coalition attacked a bus carrying more than thirty students who were on a summer school trip to the city there is no exact number of the dead people the hospital has received many many wounded with a lot of serious injuries if this boy refuses to hobbies interests to to to lizzie's his brother's will with him on the bus i know i certainly don't know i mean my brothers everyone get have until i see my brothers. the strike happened during morning rush hour in the business. a huge crater lies in the middle that ruled the exact support where the missile fell the monk gold wreckage of the school bus the children what's troubling him now trapped under the destroyed market buildings lining materials belonging to the children us through not even mind as of the talk and the friends that struggle to live the seen by those lucky enough to escape and. in
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a statement the sodium but i'd to coalition say that it's aesthetics inside aimed a missile launches used to attack an industrial city and saddam so did it beyond was. the statement for the accused the host of fighters of using children as human shields there are increasing calls for investigations into these attacks we've seen these reports it's very important as you said repeatedly that who bought into the conflict in yemen adhere to international humanitarian law where there is an incident of this sort it's important in its investigative story on the conclusions that investigation channel learned from will be according to that in this instance as well so debbie and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the hotels who are aligned with iran to hold this control macho from yemen including the couple's son all these latest out talk of small kushal to us to the list of thousands who've been killed during this war the u.n.
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calls it the world's wast humanitarian crisis and her son months odeon huey forces have advanced towards the port city of data which is under the control of who they fight is most aid than food to yemen gets in through these polls in this force those who fight us have intensified the talks against so d. and i'm not out to targets how about a while just djibouti. israel and her massive agree to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting it comes after a day of violence which saw seven palestinians injured in israeli airstrikes and had mass rockets fired into southern israel let's get the latest now from andrew simmons what more do we know about this truce sandra. well we know merriam is that house has briefed a number of correspondents of his or included two separate officials saying that the truce was negotiated with the egyptian and u.n. involvement and that truce and let's say truce at this stage is not
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a long term ceasefire there is a difference and i explain later but there is a truce in place now twenty forty g.m.t. which is the best part of twenty minutes ago that truce according to how mass was in place we have not heard from israel as on this there is nothing on twitter right now as far as i'm aware but we will update you later should we know anything from israel there has been silence of the security cabinet there on the military briefing which preceded it on wednesday the last attack the last major israeli attack on the gaza city or was in fact the best part of let's look six hours ago and that was a devastating attack on a cultural center a large five story building it was all but destroyed in an airstrike that involved a number of injuries eighteen in all according to the latest the ministry of health
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releases and they were we think civilians we don't have full details yet but that's according to the israelis was a military target because hamas have some sort of operation there no word on that at all but hamas in their briefing much earlier to me. was saying that they fear felt that there would be a cease fire now the reason for all of this sort of from israel maybe the communications line because the united nations envoy special envoy who's working very hard in all this nickel i'm allowed in off may have made a briefing to an israeli correspondent at least one and then of course there was a news flash. certainly all over israel but some. military corresponds the probably falling stories saying that there is no ceasefire so maybe down to communications at the end of the day how mass here as far as they're concerned no
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rockets are being fired and as far as the israelis are concerned we have not witnessed heard or heard any unofficial or official reports of any rocket launches there was a indeed a missile launch for ausmin fact longer than that a long time ago in fact read about lunchtime thursday a grad missile was launched across the border which missed its target a house we said but it was a grad missile first time those missiles have been used since the twenty fourteen war mariyam andrew we know that there were rockets that were going across the border how mass was firing rockets into southern israel israel has also been conducting as strikes inside of gaza what prompted this latest flare up of violence . well according to how mass and i spoke to a senior official earlier of the day and he was saying that categorically the
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reason for this was the israeli attack on monday on a border post for hamas which was in fact a training ground there were two soldiers in a watchtower who opened fire and now immediately a tank returned fire and it was a devastating blow it killed both of those five says they later the israelis announced that this was this was. on two terrorists as they described them and said that this was they later said that they it was clear they would not fight firing at them now hamas interprets this as one big accident and they described their first rocket launches into israel as oh that's a mistake that was a tweet with different words than that in arabic but the tweets are set out by the outer sam brigades which is the military wing of hamas now later on of course there was a response from the israelis devastating as strikes scores of them and then
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a whole volley of rockets being fired raining down into southern israel hitting a number of communities and that's really it was more than it was more than one hundred eighty and of course there has been sporadic fire throughout thursday but nothing on the scale of wednesday night all right for now thank you very much andrew symonds bring us all the latest from gaza what are you more now on the humanitarian situation in yemen at the moment we're touching on an attack that took place in the northern yemeni province of sada in terms of the broader situation this is where we stand. on wednesday than a week in refugee council released a report saying that in the two years since it was closed fifty six bombs were dropped on son international airport it's one bomb every two weeks ten thousand
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yemenis have been killed during the three year war the u.n. says two thirds of those are due to saudi led strikes the fighters are also accused of causing mass casualties getting accurate information is hard but save the children estimates a hundred thirty children die every day from extreme hunger and disease just last week the u.n. warned of a new cholera epidemic yemen is now used as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food assistance. in jordan as a united nations force and joins us live rosen and any reaction that to some of the latest developments in yemen will marry him as we heard from our colleague mohamad doe there was reaction from the deputy ambassador from the u.k. to the united nations deploring the incident and. insisting that there be an investigation there have also been a number of other officials who work on the humanitarian side who have also
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condemned the attack on that school bus with those children on board and insisting that there be far away to end the civil war inside yemen now in the last couple of hours i had a chance to sit down with hussein the high commissioner for human rights at the united nations he's completing his four year term and i did ask him about this incident because obviously the people who work for him have been very concerned about the well being of all civilians in the caught in the middle of yemen civil war. this specific and incident i mean richard harris attack and i'm sure my office is gathering the evidence i've seen what you've seen on the media and if it has occurred and we've ever reason to believe it has of course i mean absolutely horrific and it's precisely these sorts of attacks.
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that impelled us to request time and again for.

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