tv The Widows Sanctuary Al Jazeera October 4, 2018 4:00am-4:58am +03
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zero. swear every. hello i'm down in jordan and the quick remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera soldiers in the nation under orders to shoot looters as survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami desperately search for food aid is slowly arriving on the island of sin always a more than fourteen hundred people are now confirmed dead and rescuers expect the death toll to rise under thomas has more from pollute. the mosques are in part to hide the smell the white top all in is because liquid is dripping through the orange one from the body wrapped inside there's not much dignity in this but in pali right now there is
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a lot of meat at the row row hotel there searching for between fifty and seventy guests who were inside when it collapsed nearby one of hollywood's biggest shopping centers has been destroyed. elsewhere building damage is less obvious but the reality is worse with individual buildings it's easy to see the destruction from ground level but this wasn't one building it was in a state of seventeen hundred homes and to appreciate what happened here you really need to see it from the air during the earthquake the pressures on the ground grew to such an extent that the soil liquefied collapsing everything in on itself hundreds of people i thought to still be buried here. by wednesday afternoon a search team had dug into an area of just four hundred square meters and had already found twenty five bodies there a square kilometers to go among those buried almost certainly is ricardi suffer rutins mother he's found the house she was in it was among those carried hundreds
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of meters by the way you. but she has vanished. gone missing in looking at all this i know really it's impossible that she's alive but i can't quite bring myself to give up hope. in that he is head of search and rescue operations visited the site on wednesday he saw for himself the child on the sticking out of the debris but says there isn't yet the right equipment to bring her body out summer scout we are using all their resources but we are very spread out and we can't just focus here. repairs are being made and aid is coming in but it's not yet a functioning city in places some people are digging through the debris in search of food but now fuel is coming in far more simply getting out andrew thomas al-jazeera palu indonesia the u.s.
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is pulling out of a sixty year old treaty with iran after the un's top court ordered washington to ease some sanctions there are welcome the ruling by the international court of justice but the u.s. says the tribunal has no jurisdiction on the matter a british intelligence agency is accusing russia of launching cyber warfare with the intent of undermining western democracy the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says moscow was behind a series of major attacks including the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and the world anti-doping agency hot and twenty seventeen or jury westby from global salaries says you can tell agents would have collected evidence against russia before making the allegations they would determining that the russian military intelligence with the knowledge and consent of the kremlin or i was involved with the world doping with some u.k. banks attacks with attacks on ukrainian infrastructure and the hacking of the democratic national committee so these were new blames that were laid being
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laid at the at the feet of the russian government and if they i'm certain had quite credible information before they came out with this so it's important because many private sector companies know there are bad actors out there but if they are being hit by a nation state that raises it to a level that most companies no matter how big they are can withstand without the assistance of government. u.k. prime minister tourism a as defended her brags that strategy at the tory party conference may says the u.k. will be a champion of global free trade and says she's not afraid to leave the e.u. without a deal. well those were the headlines the news continues here al-jazeera after al-jazeera world stature council watching by fidel.
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from the border with syria. quite different from the capital beirut it has really old buildings and it's neighborhoods markets and old roofed alleys. it boasts more than one hundred sixty landmarks castles mosques schools. which means an old guesthouse how mums which are baths markets and water springs as well as beautiful walled engravings. croon. crooner. ornish further search.
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that. not many people living in tripoli know that this con known as the hunka is there in the heart of their city. it dates back several centuries to the period of ottoman rule when it was donated to the community as a refuge for women who had lost their husbands. a mother of three is the youngest woman living in the hunka. she couldn't find anywhere to live after she was divorced so she came to live in the hunk of well she tried to find a job. on
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less subtle when i swallowed her a lot on her. i don't know how long. well i don't remember i want the long version. the word hunka comes from a persian word. meaning somewhere for long term guests like religious teachers needing somewhere to study. shouldn't be confused with a place for the mentally ill as it was once used in some arab countries like egypt . the word has changed over the years and is now pronounced as hunka or han. the place was actually built over seven hundred years
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ago when the mom looks ruled the region and was later designated for the exclusive use of widows. as a charity it's run by government ministry but has fallen into a very poor state of repair i never signed up it was as if. somebody. on come as a sauce. i meant out about. it i'm going to. want to comment on that that doesn't mean it also has a bad coffee and to have a new comment on the sea i want to see in a. lot of play if you were. better at it and along with about something that i did everything by mathematical content was i don't know that but it.
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is the oldest resident in the hunka aged eighty and has been living here for over twenty years. word has it when she was a young woman she was quite beautiful. she still has a great memory especially for old songs which is more than happy to sing for the other residents. but if you ask her about her own life story all she says is like you know in the. short form. for him and the other women living here a sense of isolation and loneliness have become a part of daily life. her
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established by the phoenicians but then occupied by a series of invaders from the romans to the byzantines from arab muslims to the crusading franks followed by the looks and the fourteenth century and the ultimate in the sixteenth hundreds. after the first world war came the french occupation of greater syria before lebanon was founded as a separate country in one thousand twenty. has been out into the market and bought basic items for herself and the other hundred women. to qualify to live within these walls a woman must first be a widow and then crucially have absolutely no means of supporting herself
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financially. the previous occupant of this room had died so it became available to him ali there are three women of that name here but this ill molly gets to work cleaning the gun delia from the market. this is. known especially for her kindness but her health is poor and she's had surgery in the past. we have
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a horn while we hear what we have and more about the mother now the birth of a new born. oh my son will be number one hot or won't be in our theme. we love it the underling more thought know nothing about the fellow about the mile island. when this mile is husband died she worked as a cleaner at this law make education center. fifteen years ago she moved into the hunka with her youngest daughter and three grandchildren.
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the mosque has two gates one leading to the hunt the other to a bridge on which the mosque was built which is why it's called the hanging mosque . mother moved to the hunk of when her husband died during the lebanese civil war. although three. fell out of it that it. came on i'll give none of it the pain and the fact that ok and if. that's inventive
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but i'm out of what all. they have. that i'm going there and have a big. hunk of became a charitable institution through a process called walk in islam this is when a property is donated by its original owner to the community in perpetuity. that's why its upkeep is the responsibility of the under the endowments ministry the building and the windows are his responsibility. for the magic of. the law were.
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be i did. a lot of stuff that it on the summit level that it said about that in that early but it looks a little bit odd but i didn't know what the hold of this is just a lot of the city. was . was. some of the widows are in tiny amounts of money peeling and cleaning vegetables for other people. but the widows living and the hunka by definition have no real source of income and
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semi it has played for two football clubs one in beirut in the lebanese premier league and another in tripoli in the second division and there he didn't. panic to see a few years for him to have. any. and then managed to miss me some things you'd like the money delisting here. is a matter and i said. i know what the. media
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that is you all are i'm a student suddenly thing you've. honed. the rick theory deal. a lot of. things have worked out relatively well for semi it despite his early life and the refuge but there's a question mark over whether all the female residents of the. genuinely qualify for charitable support. this powerful social network is sculpting a global cyber society and regulation is playing catch up but as scandals begin to unfold they will witness is that we should not be in this position. they want as much extra content as they can get. to gauge how ethics weigh against profits and
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at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera soldiers in the region are under orders to shoot looters as survivors from friday's earthquake and tsunami desperately search for food aid has been slow to arrive on the island of sin away z. more than fourteen hundred people are now confirmed dead with rescuers expecting the death toll to rise. the u.s. is pulling out of a sixty year old treaty with iran under the un's top court ordered washington to ease some sanctions to iran welcomes the ruling by the international court of justice but the u.s. says the tribunal has no jurisdiction on the matter a british intelligence agency is accusing russia of launching cyber warfare with
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the intent of undermining western democracy u.k.'s national cybersecurity center says moscow was behind a series of major attacks including the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election where jodie westby from global summit ridge says you can televisions agencies would have collected strong evidence against russia before making the allegations they would determining that the russian military intelligence with the knowledge and consent of the kremlin or was involved with the world doping with some u.k. banks attacks with attacks on ukrainian infrastructure and the hacking of the democratic national committee so these were new blames that were relayed being laid at the at the feet of the russian government and if they i'm certain had quite credible information before they came out with this so it's important because many private sector companies know there's bad actors out there but if they are being
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hit by a nation state that raises it to a level that most companies no matter how big they are can withstand without the assistance of government. malaysia's former first lady eros a man saw has been arrested and of the charge of corruption on thursday she was detained after being questioned by the anti corruption commission her husband former prime minister najib razak is set to face trial next year the money laundering and abuse of power charges followed the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state fund known as one in the. u.k. prime minister of tourism a has defended her brags that strategy at the tory party conference may says the u.k. will be a champion of global free trade and says she's not afraid to leave it in without a deal well those are the headlines now it's back to out of their world stage and that's what.
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this centuries old building in the heart of the historic order of the lebanese city of tripoli has been a sanctuary for widows unable to support themselves since ottoman times. and the other widows living here rely on charitable donations of the basics to live on. fatty son makes a deliveries and then she is responsible for the distribution of everyone's share. each widow gets an allocation according to the size of the family all living in one tiny room and. some families have grown up but the hunka like oh my daughter. her
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brother's wife layla. and they have the daughter of another widow a mom and. none of them have anywhere else to live. and her going to them and still read without a thought of being a full time with. one of the new female hosts of the story let alone our fears subrace and on duty and young at this all in not bad about them but the but they are a little bit of the one of the. must leave us. alone the fluxes of the heaven is up but they're the best the last bus than the muscle ready back in for an attic at the two i left you and the safe a hell of a day and here to tell you if all. the see in the gutter over there was beaten up of our lives what an abridgment it with
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a lady as you are molecularly asvab at the land one of our sick as are some women as out of breath a little up my feeney i mean and no man to see in or a color number one hundred but up to that of last man the mystic there is a clearly in that it could not go. on. i don't understand that hunk allison is a mustache assuming he was not even hunted in hama up there up to have them instead of them be ok any guy who did that in the county. i was. little is
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young honkey. had just given out a. long live only in. my standup back i seen him does that come is that a. valid reason and i made one last shot him eleven hard and then when. i was delivered the other not only did it out there i learned that but i have learned to like that whole. thing hijacked. one hundred one legacy went in. with the ferengi to this day you fired because he was the. rag and i was smacked in the lead to. how can my family want to know if you're going to give. so i love hungrily i mean mr howard well am a family man let's have a dull bit of
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a lot. less than i'm going i am on my own i think that's better better better though better living. well. with her husband now in jail for drug dealing. no goes to the hunk of every day to share in her mother charity supplies level of her need i with him we could be out on our own in a walk if not all the world. all too well your way d.m. me how people. are only will be arguable. and i was thinking that's the t.v. reality and i had an hour left. when you're there because you.
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would. just. use it as mother miley is now too old to carry on working as a cleaner she relies entirely on charitable donations including money to buy medication. today meat and vegetables arrived and she went to visit her grandchildren. she cooked and invited her other daughter faiza and her son in law sammy is the footballer to lunch. with. me.
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because the hunger was donated to the community under the islamic practice of walk it's administered by the ministry of in. that means that she doesn't simply have to look after the widows and the crumbling old stone structure he's responsible to the ministry for deciding and monitoring exactly who has and doesn't have the right to live here. what are you in them because they can come to them because. rod was there for her in the. very. little arm and a leg larry is the more you learn while larry is exactly how done yesterday for ali you know when they said they you know my left arm and i model the rock from. the sun obviously had that in my left from the one man he and i were are not global
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. and my family was in there and him who i found mean women who were from a woman who were women and i want to. let users a nice little circle with them and you can feel them and. welcome to the world with the zillion i didn't know that. the shifting of the heavens are hard to bend it isn't fear or knowledge or is a. fiercely leaden one in the fact that it. moves into this field or the. corner. where the shadows but these are the. men and then the finesse over them the second largest sort of set yet i'm the sheriff there is you know if i did not mean what the wolf of. that mean second we have. a little less. what is a lower limb all on one number stucky of the and don't abuse them and he she
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a lot of middle of. the mother still bill and it is what are the lot about to lead the law a lot but there are still knowing human history is in progress do we do is can only wait and worry about the outcome. the fear is more than anything and hope to benefit from the charitable giving that's an integral part of ramadan. i love but i'm a little haik you need because people don't give you stuff you don't don't you see how that was. he was telling me of you. tell us. no no no no no no no no i'm a song. go on yeah you have to move good and i like build a. nest your. care if you're covered up the line about them or some such but a little. bit alone i would beat you hurt another ten out of the way we turned our
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allies are on a lot of the other are the enemy which had me share. my love of me a little bit but you. know how. i had. learned. you are like i never really been i obviously know no man love you nor do you know the fear no you're the man that is proctor all day long but still under very dull hold. regular colors. yeah i'm not i'm big or. maybe.
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oh ok the the bottom of the very thing i will oh oh ok. the old . just. now was on the roof of another building lives on molly's son. he lives in one room plus the roof terrace. this evening he's hosting a celebration to mark the birth of a daughter to his sister faisal and her husband sami it. lamb is on the menu. but how did you fuck with. the host
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the one on the side of my friend is that going to bed to me but less of it than me . and i thought of a bet. and the broom one left. in the world how do. i know most of you. i mean. how do i give me a bad memory with the brain i'm elaine abbott and she with one arm. thank you. very much. thank you thank. you andrew. the women are neighbors and all care about each other but living in such a confined space day after day can lead to domestic tension.
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but it's normally short lived and they make up quite quickly it's a tight knit community. and. how do. you know. about. them that would have. brought me back from the moment. i'm the one with the story that i feel that i live on and i want to know them the first thing that i'm going to give them an answer and i'm going to mean easy. when i come out and i'll come clean up all of that have
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been having a play about it in the in the rapidan opposite in the. ha community coffee that i would call for that what he would call for that he wasn't full of the rights and you know some might argue survival i wouldn't use the christmas day any. mean money when all the young more than a. lot of the endowments ministry has identified women and children who don't qualify to live at the hunka. or you've done. them with them have anything mean as you had with more but with a bit more sense that we've got on the long. run more so no one inside the home if that means. well you've done. a lot of work on the. why. we have. but your fear us decides to defer any of vixens until after ramadan.
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the widows start to receive cash donations during the holy month so in fact the endelman brahim go shopping on behalf of all the hunter residents. but three months after the end of ramadan the hunt in strangely quiet. the rooms were a mile. and ahmed once lived are locked and empty. the ministry identified that there were in fact only two women genuinely qualified
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under the rules of the hunger to live there. and on my list six getty have genuinely nowhere else to live and no family able to support. a lot of. traffic but. i fear the. hunger a lot of it i mean in late twenty sixteen the down ministry decided to renovate the hunger to restore the building. and make it if it plays for homeless and dispossessed widows to live. more like all of them how damaging them in their own way is wrong to. go to them and have a lot of but i don't. only inferred and on my list again remained at the hunker
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a chance to some pretty wet weather pushing up towards the good parts of where utah easing up towards wyoming colorado sunny with a chance of seeing some of that wet weather and notice a little further north we could even see a dusting of snow he pushed north of the border calgary with a top temperature just one degree celsius is it good to wilmer which was the eastern side of north america what they say that it agrees woman that thirty one celsius here on thursday with the wind still coming in from a southerly direction as that rain that we have got some wet weather still affecting quebec pushing towards newfoundland sliding further south was down across the appalachians that will move out of the way friday the eastern seaboard fine and dry ten celsius in ottawa falling back to around twenty three degrees they notice fold they say but should be dry by this stage but some heavy rain into central pos in the bota around the prairie's it looks rather snowy over the next day in the caribbean fun and dry for the last around tennis great around tennis and central america looking rather wet.
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