one girl my sister. and we came over that little rise over there and we had been buried down here. in a black car full long so alice. and we didn't know who it was at the time. the driver said you know they are right there. and he 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 intent. 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 i can still. win after a good old not by relays i was good now like i said my dad didn't know. very many new fears new jersey they didn't geared how they got the children here.

i believe it was february but two years ago i was on the board of sessions that are choosing united church and chisholm township of the book 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 that we were to talk about in she mentioned the residential school system and oh said and 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 for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north he and to 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 the r.c.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 there 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 this warm and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that there are two two daughters who are 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 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 in the uterus a dental schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problems. and. 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 i'm

sixty four sixty five. and both fifty 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 said 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 weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but it was an indoctrination like you didn't 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 speak anything but english or you went to the white man's school. you know the way miniature you are the way a man's clothes is all those are built in was in the classroom lecture thing it was

it was in green in the system there's a mode libin years the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures no he said good night or come and see you if you're sick personal didn't know me look empty 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

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 three least of interaction say. the the punishments were 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

the line they let you know they give you your d.d. beating so it's 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 a press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we went in or one of the time and got a good shellacking with the letters leather strap and. everybody was afraid of good but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later 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 defying 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 her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. are laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know we all clicked through the knew they kids were being raped and walesa in large numbers subtle ways babies. no

one could know no one would ever know saddam ingle were headed to be an ace or police so he tried to escape. it. the colonel seen when ironing those cut were ferocious they've been relentlessly beaten with the other machine or belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the earth the need money 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 of.

ethel and. there is a boilers. 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 some you and miss me somehow or. another era 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 and i never asked 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 it but 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. some

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say it's too lenient those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera throughout the day there is much more news to come in the meantime canada's dark secret is next. i like finding old friends and when he has what i know here by from the residential school the mohawk institute 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 don we need to 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 picking me up but in my home i remember that. 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. gushy got hurt. hurt her bad 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.

why anyway. i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her and i was there i saw. what happened to her. it seems. sometimes a nice dream of hers she would come to me in a dream by that it hurts to talk about it. because i remember when to use that. to get back we on. the back and we 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 were we should we do when we met and. after

they smashed her in the tree. you know that song sometimes you can hear it on t.v. on the river shows. that's that's a song. even if a glass breaks to be. out scream and sometimes my family get mad and. i say who are i care how that seems to sound. get scared 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 a raging river he can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he slips under the surface is really for the trying to catch him in that leaf say to breath but he knows he's going under for good what tears run upon this child's mind knowing can imagine. those sites will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light on the surface 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 in 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 in one room in 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 everybody but. i wrote a book called our legacy in. a road dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morn beat the wapping. 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. and it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world. and i'm cheap 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 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. they 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 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 the 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 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 herd 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. and i don't care what things you might have done in your life. i know it was a whole lot because. they were raised that. please respect. 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.

too. on 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 furious over there. but only 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

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 where anything we. do public.

why bubbly for what i put the children i could i could tell my grandchildren like. what a great privilege of north. love the but. i can't it hurts it's certainly 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 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 schools there's. a real 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 truth in the 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 create here all the struggle for our.

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 the one. of the very. near being made here in the.

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. the. little girl. has. been on the field office. in our office so i'm going to assume you're. going to hear from him. and. if. you feel.

everyone there is unique they're expressing their. their culture in the. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old sits. the dances the songs.

when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. until they're healed i movie and i'll keep dark and anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. now the house has to be hope. and when i look at my grandchildren i think yeah there's a lot of hope. i see positive things five of. the

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a look at weather conditions across the americas now for south america showers across amazon basin pushes a bit further towards the south at the moment and a frontal system which is giving some outbreaks of rain across paraguayan temperatures that low there sunshine twenty four degrees fine conditions across much of argentina and indeed also across chile so as to move the forecast on not to frontal system we can just push a bit further towards the east rio should stay dry and fine with highs of fourteen will get cooler there for born as aries so let's head up into the caribbean for most the islands weather conditions looking pretty good you can see on the satellite imagery some share a close bubbling up across parts of cuba and also through into the bahamas something us will see some showers elsewhere you may get they'll share it in the day but thirty two degrees and pleasant cooling breezes what more could you want to move up through the isthmus we've got some showers here but again it's just a scattering nothing more than not having gone through into wednesday or a few affecting mexico city i think during the course of the day so let's head up

into north america and suffered we had to wrench you wrinkles and real flooding issues across new jersey so some showers in the forecast during the course of shoes day busy head on through into wednesday should turn draw a bright and warm back up to thirty one in new york and thirty two in washington. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. the new poll ranks mexico city is the pull first in the world for sexual violence many women are attacked while moving in the crowded spaces of the metro buses and even at the hands of taxi drivers the conversation starts with do you have a boyfriend you're very pretty and young you feel unsafe threatened you think about how to react what do i do if this gets west's no money on the uses a new service it's called loyal droid it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seven the train of dr as the them there's nothing

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a busy motorway bridge collapses in northern italy vehicles plunging more than one hundred meters. turkey's lera slide starts when it starts to infect others in the present response at the boycott of u.s. electronics. and afghans. he almost cut off and a rapidly rising death toll as the battle for gaza me drags on. the stuff you want to. divide over hong kong status the talk beijing want to ban it's raising new questions about freedom of speech in sport in cricket so ben stark's has been found not guilty over friday the trial followed a points out sort of night club involving stocks last september. rescue teams in italy are scrambling through massive chunks of concrete and rubble after a motorway bridge collapsed it came down in an industrial area of the city of genoa during stormy weather about noon local time at least ten vehicles were on that

bridge when it gave way sending them plunging more than one hundred meters into a riverbed railway and buildings below police said happened in the middle of an unexpected thunderstorm and the cloudy conditions made visibility worse for drivers at least transport minister has described this as an immense tragedy horse it is on the hayward is monitoring developments from london and what else have you learned about what's happened. you only have to look at the pictures to realise how terrible a situation this is very dramatic pictures coming from italy this lunchtime the bridge part of it has simply disappeared the suspension tower simply disappeared and we know that there were multiple vehicles on the bridge at the time of the collapse plunging more than one hundred meters we know that below there was a stream and also some rail tracks the italian news agency is saying that at least eleven people have died there will be multiple injuries as well the transport

minister saying this could be an immense transfer day clearly now the focus is on trying to reach any survivors from this incident. what do we know anything else about this particular part of the city about how busy this bridge usually is it is a very very busy bridge and of course this time of year the road between italy and france will be packed with holidaymakers going between the two countries the genoa as well this part of genoa is a port so we know it will be very very busy the road always very busy at this time of day we know also that the operator was carrying out work on the bridge at the time of the collapse that they say the bridge is constantly monitored there was also this very large storm at the time so we don't know exactly what has happened to it but it is obviously quite catastrophic. and the hayward with the latest there on what's happened with this bridge joining us from london we're going to bring

someone else into the conversation now by phone the italian journalist journalist that is ten creating palmeri who is in milan thank you for joining us right now what else can you tell us about this bridge. we are talking about the documentary and on the meat that obama walter we. know the molly. high are just going to think. that god is meeting that. will be landing with. me to the left leaning to the bullpen of the thirty. one of the main gate of. everybody everybody that is being too general are driving

a car that has been passing by. a highway but to. be made the only luck the postal mentioning is that it could ease the oval sympathy in the normally let's say between the eighth and although twenty all the c.t.'s you need to really. shut down because everybody on all the day all the offices are closed and so there is a time. that out of that let people really think at. the time that these could be made the key point because. as you mentioned one. traffic going on. and some. collapse have been.

halted on the other to reach out a lot of. the kanaly in that event down on the other but some are going to be meeting some all of these and some of the a lot. of this in all this is an old french. the bridge was built. on the. one basically goals that they create there where the old highway eighty at the highway ninety three was built it was a classically functioning. couple that the only i must add to this must be vetted by the next. boss he didn't mean it as being. pulled back because people put all my arguing about physical fights on from couple of we have to go that was one thing about the bomb.

a lot of that to be kind of the talk because they balk at the something that augers really. will be investigated more in the next hour absolutely and that is going to be the question of what in the world possibly went wrong and should there have been a warning that something like this can happen so ask things stand right now the last you have been told is that there are a levin people that a parachute in this is that correct. yes indeed at the moment although i have to pay that. was not the only sound to me to spend big he says. but i jersey. and all. that i ask is a sign from automatically that the deal. on the ground the thing is to kill the least we think we're at the march march more like casualties

because it just think about. all the cars that has. that old school and oh many people and what the three join that they had i won't mention without all these weather is going down the radio if they want that and whether that was not the talking body good bye bye what do you think of the pictures and these pictures are breathtaking and really really horrific on sankranti palmeri thank you so much for joining us and giving this on this information we really appreciate it. eventual gov in yemen has escaped a roadside bomb attack this news developing just now governor i mean mahmoud survived the blast in aden probably several others were injured attacks in shootings have been escalating in the province in recent days we'll get you more on that. turkey's president is taking new action as a currency slide starts to infect other parts of the world but it's not economic

measures it's retaliation for a type or the one says as an economic attack he's announced a boycott of electronic products from the u.s. which he blames for the slide or one has again tonight the national currency is even in crisis even as it continues to slip against the dollar lira has dropped forty five percent this year turkey's central bank has already said it is easing bank restrictions to stabilize the currency. war from istanbul. turkish government has taken some measures in order to stop to develop ration of the turkish care and still iraq the central bank increases the liquidity for the banking sector yesterday on the other hand today the industrial ministry announced that they activated one point two billion dollars for the turkish industrialists production along with some other measures taken by the finance ministry however the business world in turkey warns that immediate actions should be taken without getting late without being late and one of the steps that is the demanded by the markets and international markets is the high it is the increase of the interest rates by the

turkish central bank however according to the school of thought that the present hour don and his economic team represents this is impossible for turkey because they see it as a pressure by the international markets by foreign powers and turkey and they wouldn't bowed down however to latest decline in the turkish euro had some impacts on the european countries as well along with some other markets the turkish private sector has a depth of at these two hundred twenty one billion dollars and most of those debts are law and are actually. today european countries like how forfeits belongs to the european countries so a slight in the turkish economy and instead will it into turkish economic could also harm the european countries as well that's why european politicians including america have shown some support to turkey along with the russian president and iranian president and the prime minister of iraq however turkish president our don still sees it as an economic waged against the turkish. against turkish economy and

he says a firm political stance is needed in order to deal with it glarus problems have caused a ripple in many emerging markets from south africa to india the indian rupee hit a record low on tuesday morning it now costs seventy rupees to buy one u.s. dollar and its currency has fallen around nine percent this year amid higher oil prices and widening trade deficits. afghans living in the city of gaza are running out of food and water as a battle between the taliban military continues now in its fifth day residents say the taliban has control of more than half the city at least four hundred people have died in the fighting charlie ellis reports. knees residents have been thrust onto the front line of a war and they can't escape. the assault started with a taliban attack on the police headquarters early friday morning over five days it is morphed into a city under siege

a well stocked taliban against the afghan military which has us is support two hundred seventy thousand people shelter in their homes running out of food and water without power or communications. dan rather see the government is not able to transfer the dead bodies some of them have swollen up i want the government to transfer the dead and move the injured to a safer place. the people of gaza a largely on their own the u.n. has no presence in the city the main hospital is overwhelmed and running out of supplies the red cross is fearing few body bags and bandages to its doctors the roads in and out a contested the taliban claim to control every access heavy fighting in gaza city in the past three days has resulted in more than one hundred civilian casualties communications networks and electricity supply are currently down in the city resulting in water shortages and food is also reportedly running low resistance say

the taliban controls more than half the city there well equipped with trucks guns and rocket launches.