for lesson one girl my sister. and we came over that little rise over there and had been buried down here. in a black car full long so i know us. and we didn't know it was it's i. 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 refused her. a hundred yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant in ten hell. 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 they never will come up until we are coming up to. the moon against you. when after a good old not by relays i was kidnapped like you 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 at the chisholm 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 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 a vote 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 took her 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 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 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 and 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 is a dental schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problem. 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 the tribe minutes of my life. and i buried it back in

sixty four sixty five. and a boat fifty years later it came back to haunt me. here and of course. 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 families and 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.

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 didn't 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 the classroom lecture anything it was

there was in green in the system there's a live in yours the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures nobody said good night or come and see you if you are sick personal didn't know me look everybody except the head 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 and pretty much they've done it. 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

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 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 call the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we were near one of the time and it got a good shellacking was the litters leather strap a day everybody. i was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later i 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 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 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 that we all clicked through the new kids are being raped and will se 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 cuts were ferocious they'd 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 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 of.

ethel and. there is a boilers. at that far end of 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 but haven't any. 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 against the wall here and he had his way with me. 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 this 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. then

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says all americans should be worried about mr trump's actions those are your top stories so far up next it's candid as dark secrets all season. i like finding old friends and really what i know here 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 early and my sister don we need 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 in the empire my home i remember that. i know i was just there so then i met this this is older. person on this island the girl

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 would to take me home to be her little sister. but add didn't happen because. she she. gushy got hurt. hurt or hurt 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.

but anyway i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her and i was there. were happened to her. seems. sometimes a nice dream of hers she would come to me and dream by that because it hurts to talk about. it because i remember when she used to. piggyback we honor. her back and we run and play and. then when i got hurt she picked me up to. give me a hug and some even to cry. like why we should we do remember you know and.

after they smashed her in the tree. you know that sound sometimes you can hear it on t.v. on the. river shows that sound that's the sound. even if a glass breaks today. oh it's green. and sometimes my family get mad and. i say. that's the sound. if care's me and. makes me would like. the scene is a drawing child who just surely reform was flailing away with his head above water

in a raging river he can swim but there are risks with that unrelenting he slips under the surface there's a reef the trying to catch of that leaf save the 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 late on the surface of the river. as he slowly sinks his here is silky and wavy in the room still they were removing so slowly and reaching for no purpose except his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except

that of the current he tumbles lay physically along the water going into oblivion. i left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that. attack me in they didn't just attack me they think they attacked everybody but. i wrote a book called bird legacy in the. dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morning and beat the whopping i am 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 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

they were here first so the government i guess determined that 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 riff inish there 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 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 greener the sky was blue or. it was just a great day. he come home and they're like you're a stranger i was 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. hundred fifty thousand people children were taken from their families and as role of a result of that seven generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i've 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

alive 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 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. 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 you're good birds of a. they were of race that. they were complete your race. 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. i'm. a bank and ask for the survivors to stand up for a moment and be here with us survivors we stand. with children in the grandchildren or survivors we stand up as 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 it 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 mark i went teeth are now on. the way and i wish. i was fair in there. but only. as a financial means. 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 poor and they think we. ought to publish.

why bubbly 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'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 said to has been shared. it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth to 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 nuke for here all together 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. be 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. one of them. in our office or i'm going to sing again. after. him. and. i'm going to.

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

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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a dusty breeze and quite a strong one recently i was forty four degrees forecast and the suggestion is still there but the breezes die which usually last a humidity to come up to some degree a hint maybe that this cloud is a result could give you a shower or two in the n.t. coat or maybe down in yemen as well the heaviest snow blowing on the coast of amman . in southern africa where you help rest see much in the way showers this year we've seen rain in the west and the eastern cape recently i see do more of any significance of the change in wind direction or make it rather more chilly by day especially in the western cape. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs

that matter to al-jazeera. national importance the debate on migration is polarized into two strident positions all close on the head of us how do you define an indigenous brits who do they benefit isn't this more about living with defense and you and visas that and who do they contain people think have the right to live anywhere in the world for the right to leave their country maybe his son goes head to head with a cold coming on al-jazeera. heading for a murder trial of malaysian judge rules the case against two women charged with poisoning him joe moon's half brother can go ahead.

and welcome you're watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters here in doha also coming up turkey says it's ready to talk to the u.s. over their diplomatic spats as cats are invest billions to help it through its currency crisis. a year long state of emergency for genoa italy tries to work out why a major bridge collapsed. on south africa's struggling mines massive job cuts as it commemorates a deadly day of protest. two women accused of killing the half brother of the north korean leader kim jong un will face trial for murder in malaysia and the judge on the case says she can't rule out that it may have been a political assassination the court ruled there is enough evidence to try the suspects were from indonesia and vietnam last year they were seen on security video

seeming to smi a nerve agent on to kim jong nam his face at kuala lumpur airport the women said they thought they were taking part in a t.v. program. indonesia's ambassador in malaysia has expressed shock at the decision and the lawyer for one of the women said they were disappointed you broke. up like. there was no evidence this is the show now did josh draw that inference because he says well you look at the expression. she looked very. very relaxed. if. she knew what was happening and that she must have gone to the well it was a. judge. and the days of right on that you. correspondent joins us live now from the high court in shaw so florence

the judge wasn't persuaded by the defense argument so far. that's right now the defense had argued but all the evidence against their clients with circumstantial and they said but the clients genuinely thought they were taking part in a harmless reality show for t.v. that they were being paid money for it that they were excited about it but clearly the judge felt that the prosecution had used enough evidence to present to establish on the face of it a case that the defense must now now the prosecution had called more than thirty witnesses they called including our port staff police investigators a government chemist who testified that traces of nerve agent v.x. that was used to kill kim jong nam was found on the women's clothing as well as the fingernail clippings of one of the accused the vietnamese citizen now the defense lawyers however say that the real culprits are the four north korean men who have been charged along with the women but who have never been in malaysian custody

these men were at the airport when the killing was carried out when the act was carried out but they left i was off to the attack on kim took place they were the men who had recruited and trained the women had taken them on practice runs in shopping malls in kuala lumpur but then had left the country before they could be arrested before they could be tried for that and i suppose the judge had had a knowledge of this fact saying that this could be. he will be a political assassination remember the defense lawyers have said these women are nothing more than pawns in a politically motivated killing but the judge ultimately decided that there wasn't enough evidence for that so this is not going to be seen as a politically motivated killing but the questions will exist and linger surely outside of the legal system outside of the court as this case moves forward. absolutely and it can be said but you know this trial and what we've heard from the prosecution witnesses so far they've not been able to address the issues or answer

any of these questions the big question really about north korea's alleged involvement remember the u.s. and south korean officials have said that they believe north korean agents were behind the killing and this is a big mystery how did the a nerve agent that is so toxic that it's banned that it's classed by the u.n. as a weapon of mass destruction how did it end up in the hands of these two women how did they get how did this nerve agent get into these into this country these are questions that are still not oncet south korean pope politicians also believe that the kim regime kim jong un had a standing order with standing instruction to accept to kill kim jong nam kim jong un himself while he was still living in self-imposed exile while he was still alive in macau had believed that he was in danger yet this child does not answer any of those questions or produce any evidence to help us understand those questions lawrence thanks very much. gunmen are attacking

a training center for afghanistan's primary intelligence agency in southern kabul the police say the attackers entered a neighboring building to launch the assault from the rim of the stones primary intelligence agency security forces are trying to move people living nearby to safety. turkey says is ready to enter talks with the united states over the dispute that soon tyrus pileup and its currency plunging. kasra purse come to turkey's aid with an investment of fifteen billion dollars the dispute with the us began after turkey detained an american pastor accuse links accused of links to the failed coup mike hanna reports now from washington. afternoon in the search collating trade war between the u.s. and nato ally turkey the white house insisted its decision to impose tariffs was taken on national security grounds and it's only the sanctions put in place against two turkish ministers that are linked to the release of american passport andrew brunson they tariffs that are in place and seal would not be removed with the

release of castro brunson the tariffs are specific to national security the same sions however that have been placed on turkey are specific to pass or brunson and others that we feel are being held unfairly and we would consider that at that point the separation of the issues certainly complicating any efforts to resolving the economic dispute and the argument wretched up by a tweet from the u.s. vice president mike pence that said pastor andrew brunson is an innocent man held in turkey and justice demands that he be released turkey would do well not to test at trump's resolve to see americans who are wrongfully imprisoned in foreign lands returned home to the united states in the midst of the argument a show of support for the one on the turkish economy during a visit by the emir of qatar as he promised to invest fifteen billion dollars in

the country the value of the lira immediately recovered cycle and now signs that turkey is willing to discuss the ongoing dispute the so the message from the foreign minister. harish air around here despite everything we are ready to talk about everything to solve the existing problems as equal partners i speak openly but only on one condition where no threatening no dictator and it's something that we won't forget me a ministration. but at the white house there was no dialing down up a tone apparently calculated to be threatening mike hanna al-jazeera washington. who is live for us in istanbul this arson in fifteen billion dollars it's a big amount of money it seems to be working however. yes peter of course yesterday when the markets heard that qatar and to me was coming to turkey this created this created a calmness in the markets because turkey and qatar has very strong relationships in

terms of regional politics and also in terms of economy because qatar has almost two billion dollars of investments investment in turkey in various sectors from t.v. entertainment media real estate some infrastructure projects so that when when they heard that qatar i mean it was coming to turkey they knew that something would happen also last year when qatar was sent qatar was sanctioned by the by saudi by the saudi government it turkey stood with qatar so turks believe that there is kind of friendship and cooperation between the two of course this really has an impact on the markets says while especially following the following the results of the meeting when the markets heard that there was this huge foreign direct investment package by the cutter is it's really good in the markets really gain trust and also

the turkish citizens have have gained trust in the turkish economy or of course this also and this is also a message for the international markets as well qatar as a huge investor is investing this much money in such a period of time in turkey a means that qatar believes in the turkish economy that could also give us sign for the other investors to do more investments and try again this is how the turkish government and how the turkish citizens see the situation but of course qatar is political stance with turkey qatar support to turkey has been very important for the turkish government as well because qatar is one of the very important partners and important players in the region when it comes to dealing with europe and united . as well sinan thank you. the twelve month state of emergency has been declared to the italian city of genoa as the search goes on through the rubble of the collapsed bridge there at least thirty nine people are now confirmed dead so that's the

number the government does expect to rise the deputy prime minister is claiming a lack of maintenance for the disaster that i should butler joins us live from genoa now natasha what's the state of the rescue operation. there were pretty much into the second day since the marandi bridge collapse in that rescue operation continues but we were just speaking to one of the main fire fighters one of the commanders of the fire brigade here in genoa and what he told me was that through the night there were nearly four hundred emergency workers firefighters working on the ground picking through the rubble trying to see if they could find any more survivors but what he told me was that they haven't found any victims at all that means they haven't found any bodies or anyone what remains is all you know is more randi bridge vehicles seem to be frozen in time left where they were abandoned moments off to the bridge collapsed on tuesday the driver of

this truck managed to stop just meters from the edge others were not so lucky. in difficult conditions emergency workers continue to search for survivors we have the pieces of the of the breach of collapse of the now we are using big cranes to move those big pieces and to try to enter the rebels again search for the buildings police are letting anyone who's not involved in this rescue operation to go down this road with a warfare flak you waited hundreds of people who were living in the area because there are still concerns over the safety of the bridge and whether some parts of it may still collapse when they'll be still when i realized the bridge had fallen down like everyone and i felt as if a part of me had vanished it's unclear why the fifty year old bridge collapsed but some people in the city had questioned its safety this former independent senator.