the top stories on al-jazeera at least fourteen policemen have been killed in a gun battle between afghan forces and taliban fighters in gaza he says he lost and . heavily armed men stormed the city attacking several government buildings including police headquarters overnight has more from kabul. so we believe that there are at least fourteen people dead those people being police officers and more than sixty people wounded but it's such a fluid fluid situation it's so hard to get information out because so far intel is a down cell phones are jammed the taliban is putting out one one story and the

government is putting out a completely different story both with vastly vastly different numbers talk to the u.s. military a short time ago they suit that they intervened this morning to assist with the afghan military they seem to be one bomber and apache helicopter to support afghan military on the ground they now say that they had seen it crossed back over the skies of gaza after they took the aircraft away now they're seeing them back they say that's to assist in clearing operations but we do know that gunfire is ongoing witness residents on the ground saying that they still holed up in their homes we're still hearing gunfire it's been this way for more than twelve hours now they started to hear rockets hitting the police headquarters from the taliban around two o'clock this morning since that time he began to fire as the taliban spread out through the city taken control of checkpoints the taliban is now holed up in a residential area essentially using human shields and it's somewhat of a standoff if you rode with the taliban in a residential areas and the government in. government buildings and trying to

launch an attack in there. leading some news just coming into us from canada we're hearing of at least four people being killed in a shooting incident in the eastern canadian city or town of fredericton police are saying that there are multiple fatalities and that the incident is ongoing we're going to keep an eye on that event in eastern canada and fredericton we're hearing of at least four people being killed in a shooting a palestinian group says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence and that the israeli government has not confirmed the agreement they stray palestinians were killed in israeli as strikes including a mother and her young child a mass had fired rockets into southern israel. yes courage council is set to hold a closed door meeting later on friday to discuss the saudi m.r.c. coalition as strikes that hit

a bus full of school children and yemen that people were killed including young children yes actually general antonio terrace has called for a prompt and independent investigation has more from neighboring djibouti stopped talking the market the province in more familiar men is one of the last in the recent past the suited to coalition however have called with a legitimate target saying they simply are the point where ballistic missiles targeting an industrial city is sold and so that it be a was sent from something that has been rated most of in the north particularly from the who through far it doesn't. say it was deliberate on one aimed at causing the number of civilian casualties now what is also giving many people in yemen hope is the growing calls of the mission of the incident and the requests for investigations into so the strikes on yemen find that many people

in yemen think the attention of the world is focused on the war raging in their country. tigers present which up top as in the northeastern city of bay but he's appealing for calm as the country faces a volatile economic situation the national currency has hit a record low investors are worried after a rise in inflation and its increasingly tense relationship with the u.s. top administration is calling on the turkish government to release an american pastor he's been held on terrorism charges for the tos he has called celera to drop more than thirty five percent say fault this yeah. they now with all the headlines are back with more news after canada's dark secrets.

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my name is roberta hello i'm from the mohawk nation grammar territory. i'm a survivor of the mohawk institute residential school i was here as

a student from one nine hundred fifty seven to january nine hundred sixty one and i came here with six of my family. a lot of their memories here that's for sure. these are really familiar to me. used to play on us on the girl side i was playing down in the basement and a girl side and my mother had come out to the visiting area and the little kids had said your mother is here you want to go see her night and they ran i ran but when i got to the door way over there i froze right in front of the stairs and i couldn't move and i just stood there crying crying crying and the more i cried the worse it got and i could see myself i could actually like an out of body experience i could see this little girl crying and it was me but i and the little girl said well if you don't want to love your mother don't you want to see your mother and i said you

know i did i really did she say she's going to leave you you know she's going to leave if you don't go see her so at that time i knew that she would goal then i things just kind of came back honestly i just took off running up the stairs. and i went and sat on my mother. that that time all i did was cry. i just cried. when i was in because if you don't want to see her i loved her but we just saw her have to part with her year. because my brother was like she was really good mood you know. it's. not much. to say a mood good tames here they are all written by the bed and bed is enormous there is

a tremendous amount of evil that went on here. so the whole institution itself was run by fear so it was very regimented more like a military style you lined up for everything to line up for your meals and lined up to go to school you lined up to go to church just like that fellow that routine in the e.u. would be ok if you followed and didn't break the rules you know so you just follow the rules. i didn't have the freedom as a as a child or as it young teenager and always came to wonders with her vision of somebody but we got them both six o'clock and we were sent down to the cold play room and it was always cold in the basement early morn still a lot of chillen here and yet they put us in the big cement room and we had to keep

warm whoever we could. be there and all kinds of farm were they work on a farm so long that. i picked up a certain discipline the poor hard worker to get me were i'm going. and i think at some point there was somebody here that i don't know if it was a kid or a supervisor told me i would never leave here you know so that really stuck in my mind that i was going to be in this place forever. you're isolated all you see is this world around you this is it that was my world i didn't learn about all those other things that were going on until my adult life i didn't know there was all those other residential schools i don't think anybody in canada knew that much so it was kept very secret up and yet when you start to look at every residential school across canada you find the same thing. came to the morgan city we're going

to is. six or seven years old and they spent six years here. it was picked up on a new. review and. the. walking on a road. we're going to visit my grandmother one day and they still i'd be back in ninety three. years for less than one girl my sister. and we came over that little rise over there and buried down here. in the black car for long so i know us. and we didn't know it was that it's i. the driver said there they were right there. and said no we didn't know who they were. we kept on walking and they kept face of us in the car. and they kept training at us to get

in. and we refused for. a hundred yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant intent. and i had a scream 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 woke up until we were coming up to the moon against him. when after i got old enough i realize i was kidnapped like i said my dad didn't know the firm indian affairs in new jersey they didn't care how were they not the children here.

illegally. i believe it was february but two years ago i was on the board of sessions that are chosen united church and chisholm township is about five miles out here and my first set were the sessions meeting effect in there was two other members and the minister and myself and the minister was going through the agenda there were to talk about him she mentioned the residential school system and all of

a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying had no idea why. i didn't know what this was about at all. and from that i ended up going to my doctor and for some depressed help for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north he and the courier probably twenty minutes to determine that they just part of my problem was from that incident fifty years earlier. i was to the station there in your city m.p. 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 current time took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never 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 in cursed being in the r.c.m.p.

had no alternative who couldn't complain about it. the only thing i knew about the renewed residential schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problems. since then i've come to realize what they were a boat. heard no 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 in sixty four sixty five. years later it came back 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 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 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 tammy some 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 and make sure we didn't have an indian left in us when we left here. the took us as a church or recently we had say prayers and things like that. we were 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 or anything like that just the way. the routine of the place it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english or you went to the white man school. you mean the way miniature you are the way with clothes is all those are built in was in the classroom lecture thing it was it was in green the system there's a mode of living 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 empty except that they

put is 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 were being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they 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. so you get punished for being who you are.

it's a school where you're punished for the third least of interactions. 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 line they let you know they give you d.d. beating sones a symbol but it was more than that it was terrorism that the 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 were near one of the time and got a good show locked in with the litters leather strap and. everybody. was afraid of good 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 children that were being abused despite the beatings and the ferocity of some in the beginning we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how he's over sixty boys. displayed this number each of us are lonely

beyond a spear. from within we each had our own battles to fight. we were lost lonely scared and confused where biggest battle was to keep were secrets. or laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know that we all clicked to the new the kids were being raped and were less it in large numbers subtle ways babies no one could know no one would ever know saw domingo ur head to be an ace or police so he tried to escape. it. the colonel seen when ironing those cuts were ferocious they've been relentlessly beaten with the other machine rebuilds carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the urgent need money in

the burns down the lean way up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us tried to least once to escape that worries prison the halley's plays with demons all over. ethel and there is a boy others. at that far end as raw unless it time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there from you and miss me somehow. another error came.

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 what happen in me. but i think it all and then because none ever bothered me none ever asked me what happened in there i think we all got it on fire. but it is a nasty dirty they. were. it's like here's where i got him a lesson here. saying again since we're all here and he had his way with me. and i was his mother i.

see a time in my life when i felt so dirty and so so. bad we don't in the boiler room he took my clothes off. and they just stand here a little guy just discussed where he was doing. it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know all assist 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. it's a story of survival. it's a story about how people lived to live in such remote last five pretty cheeky to the way it is and how that instinct to help them recover from the financial crash i will continue as long as i can stand. this is a story about iceland. aging on al-jazeera.

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from kabul. apologies we don't have charlotte's. palestinian group hamas says a truce with israel has been reached to stop the violence in gaza but the israeli government hasn't confirmed the agreement that these three palestinians were killed in israeli airstrikes including a mother and her young child hamas had fired rockets earlier into southern israel. is here is council is set to hold a closed door meeting later on fridays discuss the saudi and. strike that hit a bus full of school children in yemen fifty people were killed including young children u.s. actually general and take a terrorist has called for a prompt and independent investigation. turkey's president urged one can disappear says in the northeastern city of ways it paled for calm as the country faces of volatile economic situation national currency has hit a record low investors are worried off for a rise in inflation and its increasingly tense relationship with the united states the volatility has caused the mirror to drop more than thirty five percent so far

this year. the irish budget carrier ryan air has counseled four hundred flights after its pilots and several european countries staged a walkout demanding a better pay and working conditions. the corruption trial of malaysia's former prime minister will take place between february and march next year the date was set off and attended a herring at the high court on friday the former leader has been charged with abuse of power criminal breach of trust and money laundering he's been investigated for the multi-billion dollar theft of a state investment fund he set up in two thousand and nine jeep denies any wrongdoing those are your headlines i'll be back with more news here on al-jazeera after a return to canada's dark secrets. i like finding old friends and when he has 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 that 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 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 she. got hurt to. hurt her 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. well anyway. 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 aloud. because i remember when to use the. piggyback we are there. the back and we run and play and. then when i got her she picked me up to. give me a hug and a standing room to cry. like why we should we do when we met and. after they smashed her in the tree. you know that sound sometimes you can hear it on t.v. on the river shows guts that's a song. even if a glass breaks to be. out scream. and sometimes my family get mad at me.

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 we are four was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he slips under the surface is briefly trying to catch him 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 here is silky and wavy in the room still a removing so slowly and reaching for a new purpose except 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 tumbled slavers lee along and one of the new into oblivion. 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 whopping. i haven't forgiven 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. it disgusts me that i'm a comedian 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 the natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here first so the government i guess determined rather than go to war with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i've norm they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when they were a finish their their parents didn't accept them if they weren't native and the

white community did not accept them because they were native so these people knows hundred fifty thousand children grew up in limbo with no roots and 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 greener and the sky was blue or. 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 the

holly fit in. hundred fifty thousand people children were taken from their families. and as a result of that seven generations of native people grew up with no roots. that. this is my friend carol croce whom i have known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things 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 a life and i started asking michael my aunt questions. it began to i began to 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 take 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 you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witness this in it didn't look that bad. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't. and i don't care what bad things you might have done in your life or one i know it was a whole lot because. they were respect that. they were completely erased.

but what you don't hear about is what happens to adult 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.

but the bank and ask for the survivors to stand up for a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children in the 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 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. and i wish. i was frightened so then. i don't know you know this is this information these you know. 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 representing the commission we were actually representing a hearing of the entire country. well as the 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 aware and they think we. ought to publish. why but really for what i put. i could i could tell my grandchildren like look what a great privilege of north. 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 and 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 reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an air of being victims of the residential school experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing a better relationship with the government or 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 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 true theory conciliation in my telling or in new

york dying it's going to take. 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 knew for here all together are. 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. 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 should 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 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 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. that's.

the problem. with the office of. the storm blew through your. letter from him. and you're going to. be.

there when there is unique and they're expressing their. their culture in the. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old seats to. the dances the songs. when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. nuts that's how it went for me. until they're healed i will be. the tarkhan to everybody who listen. there's

always hope without hope we're done. now the house has to be home. and i look at my grandchildren i think yeah there's a lot of hope. i see positive things for them. on

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