another america and oh how the top stories here on al-jazeera has been a week since the indonesian island of. a magnitude seven point five earthquake that triggered a tsunami effectual death toll stands at almost one thousand six hundred and those who survived still waiting for food and medicine when hey reports from. people here escaped the earthquake and tsunami but the fight for survival goes on in palo parks have become refugee camps for those who have nowhere else to go their houses were destroyed many family members killed. and now they use whatever they can

find to build shelters while still struggling to comprehend what's happened to them . my sister was trapped and they're all they managed to get her out but she died my mother in law is still missing. i mean there is some food being given out by our own but it's well short of what's needed there's still a lack of basic supplies around the affected areas including here in the heart of power louis city where people have been camping for a week despite all the money from the indonesian government and all the offers of assistance from foreign governments no one's been able to supply the people here with temporary toilets or adequate shelter or part of this camp is on the grounds of the mayor's office though sheltering here say he's only been to see them once when the indonesian president was in town we asked the mayor for an interview but his staff declined the refugees say die a grateful for the land to sleep on but they need more help than i ate the plant i

can tell you there are some toilets over there but they are full of excrement so i eat only once a day so i don't have to go maybe everyone is ok at the moment but if they don't sort it out we will have disease here some people are waiting for space on military flights out others say they have nowhere to fly to everyone is scared of more earthquakes and wondering when or if they'll be able to go home when hey al-jazeera palu indonesia. this year's nobel peace prize have been at ows as a news conference and also low the norwegian nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for twenty eight team two dennis mcclure yeah and a rod for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. both laureates have made

a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes. dennis mccririck it is to him who has devoted his life to defending these victims. rod is the witness who tells of the abuses perpetrated against herself and others each of them in their own way. has him to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions the trump ministration is accusing china of trying to undermine american democracy vice president mike pence as beijing is using economic and military tools as well as propaganda his comments come after president trump accused china of interfering in the upcoming midterm elections india has signed

a controversial new deal to buy russian s. four hundred missile tests and india force ahead with a five billion dollars deal despite the threat of us sanctions on countries that trade with russian defense firms the penalties are intended to punish russia for its annexation of crimea and alleged interference in twenty sixteen u.s. elections u.s. hit china with sanctions last month over its arms agreements with russia. and the washington post has printed a blank column and its newspaper in solidarity with the saudi contributor who went missing in istanbul jamal khashoggi disappeared on tuesday after he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi officials say he went missing after he left the building attack us government believes he's still inside stay with us one is off to shelter.

raise your right hand and repeat after me i say your name. this only swear. support the. constitution united states. against all enemies. foreign and domestic. according to regulations. and the uniform code of military justice. salmi job. so i got the ventures into roger shoals he served in the ring corps for one thousand nine hundred ninety five so he's going my programs his bed and mutely for him to get his life back to living out of his truck for the last couple of years

he's homeless i'm shouting about obstruction to a bed. so. you tell me you know we've been in the marine corps yes i was never. can i knew. i was a sergeant for a long time. if you look at his background oh no i love my serve and i came from a very broken broken much from his support. that's a genius is recurrent there's off good from there so learn how to be of marine nothing else in it rain yesterday you every day your eyes there's somebody on your side always. some pride so many scholars speak or. my god the

marines from my from the my wife not the year after up and i didn't know it. was work i get my life back on track after pretty much what i did from tunics stream flashback. and into the stream thought i want to write back overseas are in the field and cannot get out of me in the shares had a few run ins a few times the shall see on your second mile program so it's basically there to work on is income his health and his housing situation it was it was hard also for me your bags of a life i mean i tended suicide three times and i was homeless at one point i want to first came back for a second roger situation being homeless sucks the country that is the

country gave up on me this job saved me because i mean i know forty percent of the ploys here are better and sell or better stands the veteran here and. it was just the perfect working place so many people arrive to success because he wants it now i mean yeah he's had his hick ups is bumps in the road but he's at that point his life where he's fifty you know he's ready to he wants to relax i hope and just work him enjoy the rest of his life toss up. we've got hope for today put it that way i met. this organization started in the seventy's we were trying to create a place for returning vietnam veterans and it soon became apparent like everybody

else i mean a home landed a job they knew that healthy relationships. so there so there was a need for to establish an agency an organization that was know i could bring together these resources but also create a place a safe secure place that they could come to talk about their experiences share their with the people have a similar experience. there seems to be a large percentage of veterans who do come out you know a little broken you know and for everybody really i mean it's a life changing experience that's what boot camp is all about they take away your individual ism and they train all that stuff out of you see don't question orders they're leaving you know in such a structured environment and then thrown into you know life that's been going on for four years without them or longer you know and that's scary and intimidating

and they don't know how to cope and that's why a lot of them turn to drugs or turn to whatever it is they don't know how to fit in anymore i feel like the real problem is no out training that makes sense you know particularly with our military people now you know they're being trained to such a high degree to go over and fight they go over there they do their job and then they're out one day and why have you know how somebody supposed to foot that switch it doesn't happen. to have the bob dylan where the nails leave yet. we get using well there are thank. you your room. yes you could program next week of graduate but i got it i put it in pretty extension staying longer than that he lot more work on myself and i'm getting the

help that i need here are some well i'm going to commit i can learn here because i did with every issue the interest the beauty of it i'm going to present a.t.'s need to support you on you and what you're sure you in sixty seven sixty eight zero said . when i was drafted they very wisely made medico for me because i don't think there was anything else in the army that i would have done i never saw another job that that i could have done that i would have done. and when we get a ambushed and they'd be shoot medicine and stuff i would use my rifle to big noise

just. scare off but i didn't want her to. mostly since they are not men do defects p.t.s.d. and depression and don't want to hear your don't complain about ask it's common to all of. this my son jack. to seek to be. seen. never play came form from. the oh. i'm comes on dunn. is right. in his. life. was

known to lean on me and both. i took care of a man when a truck rolled over the mountain and crushed him. williams airworthy it was full of blood and i clawed it out with my hands and it just filled back. and then bubbles broke and there was nothing i could do he was dead. oh and true that. tore me to pieces.

you. worried. that some. are. the ones to see you know. the very. end in order to function in combat and you know this a rational response would be to get the hell there but we cannot be rational so we have to set aside our rational human response and then having cut all those feelings all off you know when you're sent to it

because if you don't you just start screaming that one day and the middle of it and you won't stop i went out to a track in two thousand and nine and we got bombed every thursday they went lop off rock allow rock rock around some more rounds whatever happened one night one of those rounds hit three four guys and. i think one of them survived i really remember because kind of hurt my memory with the math and everything turned forget about it but. we lost three three guys three m.p.'s. he talked about numbness and i got back i had no fear period i don't i was afraid of anything i want to do that in the middle of the night and i am a care trying to get some weed to you know to calm me down and held it none of this . would use using it would. not have been

a whole that dime a big boy. i could've made it well if i use the unemployment because i got employment for two years i would use it right instead of using it to subside my my fears my you know like my feelings very much you know i could have went somewhere but i didn't i just explained it that i've been here almost ninety days now the twenty third of this month the nineteenth what i'll be asking for an extension because i can't trust myself to go out there i go for the holidays i need to go through that go through the holiday here in the r.c. and. i just thank god for each one of my bets with regards to whether you're an army navy coast guard they're not marines that ask you up all right here.

when i actually came here and i mean yeah that person scary situation and the diversity here is you know we have straight and we have gay and we have transgender and i'm actually a gay veteran and also came out with. my hiv status m h i v positive and. you know they acceptance from the group was very much overwhelming and. they opened up arms and you know they offered words of encouragement that was actually remarkable. and we come so rich that we could get any. career care or love. in their day that is. it is true. you know every veteran out there is one of my

brothers and sisters. i want to be there for him you know it's all my my my vets all the time said look you know i'm i'm not a social worker by nature. a room. so . it sounds harsh but by and large i don't really care about the average person out there. but i do this because i love my vets on. the. earth. and.

oh wait you know. if. the program is designed it's a thirty bed transitional program for homeless vets and so yes they all had to been homeless and all that friends like you are going to their goal self-sufficient income so we help them apply for benefits we help them go back to school or get employment. morning or are you going to interventions difference to their needs are

different and so we're able to treat them to the root issues whether it's addiction whether it's mental health. or you're either. going to have red. meat my roommates met me it's a little that you say maybe hung over. to them or you. used to fire through and worm farm are the reason i would get sleep in. sydney i really just want to be from. the way of life for the marines. just as you mix the society. so we're learning how to just. so we can maybe a relationship with your. children its worth. that's simpler it doesn't turn destructive. like the

morning yeah every morning. sorry i see what i do guy right now when he first came in here he was with me i thought he needed medication bag because you get out he would if he was having a real bad time and a counselor was in session with somebody so i can get the cows are out of the office i thought roger was going to get his truck and leave. that oh yeah yeah well you had to get in it would have been two weeks of two and two weeks and he was calm down it was amazing it was. not going to swab the floor the navy guys would be good to get. their call swamis. so one thing i like to highlight optically with the new veterans coming into these programs is that it is

a program so you don't run shelters you know this isn't a mission. it's a man's supportive housing program. everybody takes turns doing chores and somebody has been living on the street for fifteen years cleaning the kitchen might be told we alien experience for them but it's something that they all have to do like it or to teach that. i don't know i don't know how to say it but there's just i love this place you know i wish everybody could experience this. this is my car yeah and my wife lived in this car. it's

not a good place to live but i guess it beats the street you know let me show you where i was living. it was basically. sit like this and put the seat. where is it right here all the way back and this is this is the position we slap and you know i'd have sleeping bag pulled up over me and my pillow behind my head bit as you could see i'm not burgle or horizontal. so i wasn't i mean you try to turn over and you just get more uncomfortable and that's why they all called him and you know you drink enough are you just pass them out a way that when you wake up in the morning sore you know when you do you start today all over again doing the same thing trinket so you wouldn't have to feel anything

when you when you try to crawl back in this thing and sleep in it the end i think happened in the mcdonald's parking lot and i stopped getting i try to use more drugs and they just wouldn't work and it's like likes something outside of myself said that's enough now it's a veterans resource center and things have just been going good since you know i completed i did everything i needed to do. to do the right thing you know to get help. and now this car is just a reminder of what i'm done with. today like this so good. we're going to hang on to what i get. a leg and go.

to dinner fried chicken go to. let me know how difficult is. it he's going. to be good because there. was so. much that you need to give big fish. just sure have you seen circumstances where you can say. i've seen circumstances in which the client didn't want to be saved somebody will decide. heroin or or alcohol was much more important at that moment and then we just hope that we left enough with an impression that at some point they'll be ready for hoping to come back again. and never turn our back on a veteran and we're not going to do it today hopefully some day they'll all come back. i'm just how

i am. a veteran of two branches i did six years active duty in the name is the center technician from there i went into the naval reserves that i completed i went into the army national guard which i'm still hurt currently serving and. a total of fourteen years now for the car they were as a player just sticks i have periods of i where i had a substance abuse problem that i had about all that and get over it which was hard but i've done it now and again and this last time was a lot harder but at least i was able to. bounce back from it all. and since then have been trying to find income to help kind of move forward and. remember we have to cross over into it a creek area. and give you

a heads up when. you're holding isn't compassed with doing nothing but surviving that foothold to go around to look for housing or to look for jobs it becomes much harder because you're more focused on where am i going to get my next meal. or how am i going to get to these free services or how my going to these food banks. and then to think about where it's our next hour. yeah i mean you look homeless and your clothes are all dirty and stuff like that you can't better even if you want to change. a lot of good stuff that make a difference reagan. here

a little platform where i stand. with my boyfriend and couple other neighbors so to say. this is our tank that group is a profit back and i think there's also very ventilation to be good ventilation and then there's them our friend vicki is well they're cranking in that they stay on here with us but this general you were saying ran off of a freeway in the woods so welcome to woods. this powerful social network is sculpting a global cyber society and regulation is playing. at a scandals begin to unfold they will witness is that we should not be in this position. they want as much extreme content as they can get on the cover to gauge how i think sway against profits and how the rules are being

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on al-jazeera. and again on norco island hall with the top stories here on al-jazeera friday prayers in indonesia have been held outside the most completely destroyed by the quake and tsunami last week hundreds of thousands of people are still waiting for food and medicine in the sixteen hundred people have died. the winners of this year's nobel peace prize have been announced and. the. nobel committee has decided to award the nobel peace prize for twenty eighteen to dennis mcclure yeah. rod for their

efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and conflict. both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on and combating such war crimes. the troubled ministrations accusing china of trying to undermine american democracy vice president mike pence says beijing is using economic and military tools as well as propaganda his comments come after president trump accused china of interfering in the upcoming midterm elections india has forged ahead with a five billion dollars deal to buy russian s. four hundred missile systems despite the threat of u.s. sanctions on countries that trade with russian defense firms the penalties are intended to punish russia for as an extension of crimea and alleged interference in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. elections the un's refugee agency says it is deeply concerned for the safety and

security of seven range of men deported from india to men man thursday u.n. says the men were denied access to lawyers in the applications for asylum were not assessed in the washington post as part of the blank column in this newspaper in solidarity in the saudi contributor who went missing in istanbul jamal khashoggi disappeared on tuesday after he entered the saudi consulate saudi officials say because of you went missing after he left the building the turkish government believes he is still inside cans at them brazil's presidential race gone head to head in the last televised debate before sunday's vote or at nationals jabil son are as absent from the debate site in doctor's orders. as i had been back with more news also we were tiny.

here little platform where i stand. with my boyfriend my couple other

neighbors so to say. this is our tank time for a visit profit. and when they i know about that being homeless man situation i remember today is going to work when the robbery happened. sheriff's office ended up coming down here looking for in a sale and sort of thing came down here one of our asses come out basically told us they have a week to move now it's quite common here in the homeless community. when the veterans are definitely the most underserved population. we could put a man that's homeless right now fuel problem but we have a young female for that has no place to go and has to hide for us to hide photography for. this is actually

a new ten off of our and my last paycheck but the first one we're in was over the next corner and a half after the first rank because it had holes and what not we were so all of our betting everything wes and decide and i was lying down on my socks my shoulders wrinkly minutes of him yeah. these are my girls he was you know. they were both rescues. clearly like my heart tends to be bigger than i can handle. blade logistically you know. i have had her students which is five weeks

old and the v.a. certified her as a therapy dog for me she actually just being my baby. turned into like a peach yes response to all of us when i'm feeling like really edgy and i defensive sure really post up close to me and make sure that nobody likes. a really just give me a she i think she knows that nobody's gonna hurt me she just knows that like there's times i can't handle all of this proximity to other people. i was a navy diver. so. i did primarily as submarine rescue and i worked on actually had a really cool job in the navy. but undiagnosed mental illness was a major part of why ended up homeless. just rolls back in here. a

minute a page. you can totally mean you can get in there and go the signature drives the you know at the ready and never missed a dose of my medication since i've been given it and i just really like. a i mean i can i can write lists now and like realistically see a list ruin a day. call people back. whether i'm going to make an appointment or not. it's sucks it's terrible it's no you know nobody should have to live like this but at the same time i have i do have a roof over my head and four walls and organic heaters you know what i mean i will never go cold. and on never not get my hugs for a day i'm clear about the fact my hands out and my hat's

off and i need some help. you know and when i'm in a position to like reach out and help somebody else but your ass i'm going to be there like as soon as that opportunity shows up on my own head. part of the pathology of trauma in a veteran is them wanting to i sleep from society from each other and they just

want to be left alone. and that's our biggest challenge i think we fight desperately to get them out of their comfort zones and get them back together and kids in the city of tables to make friends you know to do things that people in normal society do you. contact is curative. being with other people. was what heals us. to dinner and. their drug. trade that. art so one of yours is ready to move on weak knowledge that accomplishment it would be giving up of this coin runs a very special point on one side says that's a recovery because that's what you guys all are and the other side says i came with

hope it worked and i learned i have a new life a life that i earned this corn is going to be four in a smell her. goodness and all for a while a loving it you felt me with my spiritual growth so it you know that you're my hero when you are. that. good luck. dance. oh very simplified plans for that job by their very good record. brother through senior. deduces can. you see it really you can so i can be pumped. about myself.

pure desperation to all these kinds here we're going to miss you thank you. i feel the same way truly goes down it's just you know i'm an issue so much you've done so much for me hope me in everywhere you really have ok know that of make sure you guys you know i was in jail it be a guy be a late picks me up in jail and banks me right here i got here what's. shower shoes on. family have straying orders against me. i came here with so much shame and this place picked me up and you guys did too. you know i sure got a lot of work ahead of me you guys but looking forward to get out of here you know and have a go to talk to me i think i want to talk to me and i want to feel good about

myself to get my family back. god bless you all and thank you thank. you thank. you thank you and i'd be remiss trudy i love you too you've been like you better great friend to me we hit it off right off the bat i forgot i forgot i'm sorry i missed you we hear that right off the bat. yeah. sure. great person. it is you. heard me say. the. thing that. made. this.

given. moment yesterday when i left the story completely had no idea who it was didn't know where my car was had a full blown panic attack and just going through those where in one minute i'm in reality the next minute i'm not quite painful. in this process as you know brought up all the stuff i've stuff for twenty years yeah. i don't i just miss my good friend jenny hi. dave dave this is jay jay mohr nice to meet you. i went into the coast guard to go help others when i was seventeen and a month before i went to maps they weighed me and told me i was five pounds overweight i was one hundred seventy lb body builder with six percent body fat so i

quit eating in basic training so through my time in. my anorexia took over my life at that point i was one hundred twelve pounds. so i finally was able to get into rehab in rehab my first week i was then cornered several times by a counselor and the last time he raped me so my history in the military was difficult for something i wanted to do something i so wanted to do i had to get out to save my life women with m.s.t. military sexual trauma if any female says i've been raped or i've been sexually assaulted or i have been brutally badgered they had nothing happens it's sort of falls on deaf ears and you get kicked out and you get nothing and it happens time and time again. i also myself was raped three times different times in the military

and it definitely is it's horrible and it happens to women quite often very much often that was twenty years ago when i finally broke this last may. i had been stockpiling pills and i'd already been drinking a lot and taken a lot is innings the day. so it took about eighty norco's percocet then expert panel and then some into a knowledge of medication and drink of whisky. and i was ready and i said i'm going to bed. i thought i would be done i looked it up on the internet that combination should have killed anybody. my next thought. was my friend jenny. shaking me awake screaming at me.

saying if you're dead i'm going to kill you bitch today. not so much i was so mad to be alive and the only thought i could think of was i can't believe i'm here i can't believe i'm still here. i convinced her i was just sick she went to go get another friend to help watch me overnight while they were gone i took a half a bottle of tylenol pm. the next day. when i woke up again i was like you've got to be kidding me but by that. that it now you know i'm really glad of suicide i'm. well you know you're inspiring i'll say that my goodness to two of you to come out

of the other side of what you have been through and what you have attempted is amazing thank you you are made of iron thank you are no. i would like to just share some things with you i was going to do you can. have short term memory. to have. i'm not. at the. root of this today eighty two patients and i get a little pain and. or caroline. the. nurse i was least in charge of who's in charge of me i don't want to choose the charge. was just

a wonderful person. this is some gratitude. so the first time i came back down here after the hospital just being able to see the trees again and the ocean and feel grateful for being here and having survived . was just kind of. breath taking. in the hospital i had a social worker tell me that we're all spiritual beings having a human existence we have tough times we have good times that's the whole balance

of why we're here and that has really helped me because i'm doing good today but you never know i get triggered things happen but if i can. three thrill walk down here or remember this spot in my mind i know what it is. they say that. a veteran commits suicide over sixty one then it's here in the united states and unfortunately i think the number is so off the drinking the drugging the overdosing the risky behavior. i'm sure that sure that number number is at least double that in terms of. all these other causes. we reverted it least in the last month twenty four suicide seemed to training that and the mandate my case managers get and then. and we've probably lost three in the

last two months and who knows how many more that we've engaged with that we just haven't heard of at this juncture you know it's. it's horrible. we have. we have a lot of successes to clients that come into the program they work really hard. and they leave us. i don't want to say normal but they leave us you know better productive members of the community they are happy they're healthy yeah the first week go out to get by truck a brick you leave every do. you start it up. you know fill resist you know the big. it works with the group the group therapy really were. it

was it. works well because role that you ensure that you are. in the staff here first or there's a this twenty four hour duty stuff and the guy at night has helped me gratefully i had a couple of crazy flashbacks and i got to come down to talk to the guy we talked for a few minutes walk around outside and i didn't have to go but to my old bobby age i got to work in a safe environment to go back to sleep and say no you know the sheriffs are arresting me. to spank you. and more of you are the more good things that come or. so former days give more thought.

in your life than your. face you feel out of and you're like. get that if there had been you would be cut off but we would have to. act like oh my god it's ok i will. i think i have there's somebody that has become a lot closer to me if i see her every day and i talk to her every day you. know i've actually gotten might even be my unemployment is out so i've been getting out which helps a lot gives more sense of freedom to be able to do a lot more stuff and to catch up and repay people back as a lot. and that money that she did receive she was able to take care of her debt with her storage facility she actually gets to go enjoy some space there's always room for dinner. how for you i think.

i'm well you know david and i we have our house or so we've been looking around like that for housing yeah that happens they're going to have it readily there's a hotel right next to second city coming out i just heard about that two weeks ago we looked and looked and looked and we've disconsolate come up against a door. for five dollars i'm going to get groceries you better get a number have a really great when you're not like one hundred are you know. that. you're . going to. and. then we're.

going to. thank you very much only because i was really. somebody yeah i think that thirty two zero one and thirty two going in and. ok. we're. going to take them to bring them. down takes them according to what the surgeon told me that means. they're going to make. you know what we're going without some friends you don't have your kids. and they may have only met one of them what i. think are good you can think yes thank you for your service thank you for.

your. story. the bloody. drunk shot. i think the biggest shock factor for me is that how many of our young vets not only old vets but our young vets are coming back you know a year removed from military and they're already homeless and have an issue with addiction. i'm going to. read the good gain. news told to. look to the trauma for the trauma

and every corner of every room of every building that we run i mean it is torture every night is sleepless and so necessary for half the conflicts be sentenced to. suss. cars. and streams of. looming known as. the. you know these guys are heroes and they deserve. the best of what we've got we made a promise to these people who were flipping to pick for once you know we make a lot of promises americans that we don't keep well this is one promised goddamn of the need to suit the need to cure these people that are. oh lord see. them oh boy i have data.

you could snap your fingers that tap you know i have. you know my first reaction is as it's happened every day when you see saving the life you help somebody else a little tiny bit of a miracle that the cool part of that but if i could step out my failures let's not have another goddamn war or her her. or .

from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast across south america watching one front make its way across me additional you can see the clouds right there now we are picking up some showers in the region but we are going to see a temperature change as a lot of cool air starts to filter in behind the system so you can see one is out just at about eighteen degrees rio is going to be about twenty four here on friday and then as we go towards saturday well the fun starts to stall out was to keep the clouds in the region we may see a pop up shower here across the sun sooner too but over here towards northern indies it is going to be rainy all the way up towards quito we do expect to see a temper there of about sixty degrees well across central america watching to disturbances one of the caribbean one over here towards the pacific and because of the proximity we're seeing

a lot of heavy rain across the region so for coastal rica for parts of nicaragua as well as guatemala all these heavy rain showers will continue over the next you days and that is going to extend all the way up to the yucatan by the time we get towards the middle of the weekend so would watching that for localized flooding as well and then very quickly across united states well we did see some active weather pushing across the northeast a lot of wind damage as well that system is making its way out here towards the atlantic and we are going to be seeing some better weather for new york with a temperature of about twenty two degrees. the with the sponsored by cattle and raise.

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