tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 23, 2018 1:00pm-2:01pm +03
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in this process to a final conclusion in the interests of all our people. a draft political declarations now in place determining the future political relationship between the e.u. and he. but the twenty six page document was attacked by politicians to crossing some of the government's earlier red lines and failing to provide many details this empty document could have been written two years ago it's happened with phrases such as the parties will look at the parties we'll explore watch on earth as the government been doing for the last two years. the paper makes no mention of frictionless trade between the e.u. and u.k. scene is vital for the health of the british economy. the e.u. and u.k. will be regarded as two separate markets making hard barriers almost inevitable. it has big implications here on the border between northern ireland a part of the u.k. and the republic of ireland and a you member the u.k. says it's now pursuing
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a high tech solution to keep goods and people moving. the draft plan also says both sides and to provide a visa free travel only for short term visits longer trips may now require visas. in addition the document leaves room for an extension of the two year transition period after breaks it aimed at easing britain's departure but it also means the u.k. will be subject to european rules for longer without any e.u. voting rights the plans will now be decided on a political level by e.u. leaders have brussels on sunday it's been an extremely busy few days for the british prime minister she has been successfully able to hammer out draft proposals on firstly the withdrawal agreement and now a declaration of a future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. but history's amaze big breaks it plans head to brussels she knows that those plans could flounder at any stage either voted down by the e.u. or voted down here in parliament and i commend the states next. the park al-jazeera
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westminster. still ahead to and a half hour donald trump threatens to shut down the home border with mexico if things get out of control of asylum seekers and new york spends millions more help than harm the students that want to be enough to keep them off the street. by this guy nine information. or off the coast of the italian riviera. once again would you believe we got more wet weather more disturbed weather across a good part of the middle east say we go with our latest band of clouds spilling out of the mediterranean lay the eastern side of the med seeing some pretty lively showers for the flooding certainly a possibility for many years a rash of showers there for friday just twenty celsius therefore by fourteen for
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jerusalem really wet weather that's making its way across that eastern side of iraq as we go through friday western areas of iran of the coast kuwait could see further flooding showers remain here longer spells of rain as we go through saturday whether by this stage extending its way over towards the western side of the himalayas with snow certainly i with the high ground still pretty disturbed there i had was that eastern side of the med syria lebanon jordan all with a chance of seeing some wet weather now the boss in saudi arabia could see some wet weather as well as we go through friday cloud increasing here in concert was a go on through friday and on into sat that is but much of sas that will be dry just can't even hear it hotter as we go through sunday and on into monday so they want to watch out for john so they are shot just around the mozambique channel as well but much of south africa will be dry dry and warm temperatures getting up to twenty seven in been and a similar that you janet. the with the sponsor. on
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line when you're looking at. the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to. join us if you could take me around the way we don't have to set up your experiment and experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting points there that the members are going to join the. good to have you with. these are all top stories saudi arabia's crown prince has arrived in the united arab emirates on the top of his first trip abroad since the
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murder. meanwhile the us president has again deflect blame from. the cia has not concluded that he ordered the. un's welcome to the escalation in fighting in yemen. saying it's providing much needed relief to thousands of civilians especially in the capital pushing the warring parties to attend peace talks planned for next month and the u.k. prime minister says a break. draft agreement on sunday that spain's prime minister has threatened to block it i'm happy about the disputed. territory. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to close the border with mexico if his administration decides that his neighbor has lost control of immigration. i had thousands of asylum seekers from central america gathering in the mexican border
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city of tijuana to cross into the u.s. . as a humanitarian crisis is building john heilemann has more from tijuana. this space behind me in the country this temporary camp was largely empty until the day before yesterday now is about four thousand seven hundred people here and they continue to come all the time people are starting to get a little bit restless here wondering what the next step is they sort of me thing different points with megaphones trying to work out if they want to do a protest march about the fact they can't get across or what the next step is quite a few people have signed up for asylum in the united states so those requests are being processed quite slowly so they're looking at a period of months really rather than weeks in which they are going to be stuck here into one sleeping rough many of them the having tents here it rained just last night as well so this is
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a difficult situation for them and also this town which is struggling with the influx of people that are coming in. to get you know where the government has deployed soldiers to the capital to stop opposition led protests people angry about unpaid wages and the contested results of the actions of hock reports. discontent is spreading teachers left their classrooms swapping pens and paper for rocks and sticks protesting for better pay they joined a growing wave of discontent against a president and his government civil servants want their unpaid wages trade unionist one an end to oil price hikes and the opposition want the killing of protesters to stop if you can be sure the chef and there really is the army has been deployed against the people the military are heavily armed this is in violation of our rights and the constitution. out. and overwhelm the police now patrol with an elite army battalion turning the capitol into battlefield human
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rights groups accuse the president of using the military to fire live bullets at the people it's meant to defend hundreds have been injured and twenty killed including members of the security forces we are calling for is for. sure but this stops there should be no more death in the context of demonstrations in guinea and there are a number of ways. one is ensuring that the members of the security forces who have used excessive force are held to account that they are taken to brought to justice bishan me also a clear message from the your thirty's but also from the political parties that violence should not be used during demonstrations including demonstrations of the imposition of the or the ruling party i mean they should be very clear that they're right that he's protected is the right to peaceful demonstration protests began in february over a contested local election in quickly spread the government accuse the opposition
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of using guerrilla tactics running street battles with armed men pitted against the security forces despite a ban on marches protests continue. they are trying to take part of the population hostage by militarizing the streets and they give the excuse that this is to maintain law and order good day has been in power since two thousand and ten opponents fear he wants to change the constitution in seek another mandate with elections scheduled for twenty twenty and growing popular resentment these protests may be just a glimpse of what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera. campaigning for long overdue elections has begun in the democratic republic of congo president joseph kabila met his ministers as they launched their campaign on thursday is beaten palace and his father was assassinated seventeen years ago but he agreed not to seek another term the next voyage which has been put off since twenty sixteen. the
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united arab emirates says it's determined to protect its relationship with the u.k. a day off the sentencing of bush's student to life in prison for spying the u.a.e. denies that thirty one year old matthew hedges has been treated unfairly saying he'd been given access to a translator hedges family accuse the gulf state of fabricating evidence and making him sign a confession that he couldn't understand. him shaping course after being handed a life sentence and be made to leave was beyond heartbreaking we didn't even get to say goodbye. i really appreciate the foreign secretary taking the time to meet me at this crucial country in march and mount why he has assured me that he and his team are doing everything in their power to get my map free and return him home to me. this is not a party i can win alone and i think the foreign office and the british probably
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were now standing up for one of their sons. paul brennan has more from london. a pretty intense series of diplomatic to and froze during the course of the day as this promise to escalate into a really serious diplomatic crisis between the u.k. and the u.s. over the conviction of matthew hedges on wednesday now his wife. arrived back in london on thursday morning and was visibly upset gave an early morning radio interview in which he criticized the british foreign ministry for not doing enough to help matthew in those early months of his captivity but the foreign secretary jeremy hunt later in the morning summoned the u.s. ambassador into the foreign ministry and had what was described as very frank discussions of iraq you had predicaments and later this afternoon daniela to harder then went to the foreign ministry to meet jeremy hunt and she emerged after about an hour saying that she was very much more happy with the situation now she said as
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follows i really appreciate the foreign secretary king the time to meet me at this crucial point he's assured me that he and his team are doing everything in their power to get matt free now that coincided almost to the hour with a statement that was released by the u.a.e. foreign ministry which stood by the conviction but it also offered the possibility of some breakthrough now the statement from the u.a.e. said that the british academic had been treated fairly and according to the constitution it said that there was compelling and powerful evidence that include information extracted from his personal electronic devices but it added that both sides hope to find an amicable solution to the matthew hedges case so it does appear that with thirty days left before while he can appeal against this this charge that does seem to be a diplomatic moves afoot for both sides to come together and find some resolution to this. less than chairman and has been sacked after nearly two decades in charge
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at the japanese carmaker the sixty four year old has been accused of. financial misconduct and was arrested earlier this week the company's board voted unanimously to remove him and senior executive greg kelly the two men remain in custody in tokyo but france and japan are insisting that they want the alliance between the san and renato to survive the scandal electronics giant samsung has apologized for illnesses and deaths among some workers at its factories and that settles a longstanding dispute that began when an employee died of leukemia in two thousand and seven c.e.o. kim kinnell admitted the company failed to provide a safe working environment and promised to comply with a compensation plan that includes a financial settlement of up to one hundred thirty two thousand dollars per case now greenhouse gases that up again reaching new levels of the planet has been seen in as long as five million years and the u.n. is warning that we are running out of time to act its latest report which covers
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daughter for twenty seventeen but the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as more than four hundred five parts per million now to put that figure in perspective it is forty one percent higher than it was in one thousand nine hundred ninety the amounts of other heat trapping gases are also up the findings add to pressure on representatives from nearly two hundred countries who gather in poland next month to discuss ways of reducing global warming under the twenty fifteen paris climate accord now oksana thought a solar coordinator that report and she says temperature rises in every single under current climate agreements. we are very much concerned are with the recent findings because what we reported in these here on greenhouse gas politan off the wall mature logical organization is that the concentration off the main gases carbon dioxide methane in need to find they continue to increase not that they are just continuing to increase they are increasing by the same great is for the last
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ten years so we do not see any signs or the decline in the grow fraid of the greenhouse gases and in their concentration and that is really very voice him because the countries have taken the commitments we assign and the paris agreement under which all the countries wanted to do something but unfortunately we do not see any signs off the decline in the greenhouse gases in the office here the implications are that even if we stop emissions overnight we already immediate so much greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that we are committed for another half degree warming if we continue with increase off the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with the rate is we are doing now are we may reach our very high temperature increase and definitely all which will be at the levels which were
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a grade within the paris agreement so it will be definitely evolved to two degrees . to new york where more and more families have been winding up homeless and recently is so the city is spending extra money on services to try to keep the affected young people in class christensen or any reports. the thanksgiving holiday in the united states is traditionally a time to gather with family and feast on a trip to dinner with all the trimmings. all your family is anticipating that you bring home a turkey so we'll be giving each one of you guys a time to bring home to your family. it's an experience the staff at the research and service high school in brooklyn tries to replicate for its students thirty percent of whom are homeless students like lexus cologne who lives in a city provided hotel room and has a lot more than homework to worry about these out of focus and. i can't think that way i want to clearly. i'm always thinking about how i'm going
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to get out this plea when i'm going to nick. the school is in a neighborhood where like most of the city affordable housing is getting harder to find income levels have not kept pace with inflation helping to drive one hundred fourteen thousand students and their families into shelters or shared apartments part of the reason why i think students come to school is because they know they can get a meal here they know that they can get cleaning products here they know that they can get close here they know that this is a safe warm loving environment in which they can learn and forget about many of the problems that they face outside of school building the school has a pantry from which students can select up to ten items a week in addition to a social worker who can help them with the issues of instability that can affect their education district wide the city has promised to add one hundred community qward neighbors to help students in transitional housing. students living in
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shelter have dismal scores in reading and math they're more likely than other students to be suspended in school teachers and school staff talk to us about the need for more social emotional support for students who are homeless in order for them to learn in a class or lexus feels he has a lot to be thankful for this thanksgiving. so i look at this like my. feel loved everybody knows me i know everybody. will feel the love i never i never went to school so my actually like. but with so many homeless students in new york advocates say even more needs to be done to make sure they all have the same level of support to break the cycle of poverty kristen salumi al-jazeera new york.
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and again on the lives of the problem and to hell with the headlines on al-jazeera saudi arabia's crown prince five in the united arab emirates as part of his first trip abroad since the middle of journalist kushal that's as the us president has again deflected blame from mohamed bin salim on saying the cia hasn't concluded that he would have them. i hate the crime i hate what's done i hate the cover up. and i will tell you the crown prince hates it more than i do and they have vehemently deny that the cia points of both ways you know. maybe they maybe didn't but i will say very strongly that it's a very important. but you are as welcome in a reduction in fighting in yemen's port city of saying it's providing much needed relief to thousands of civilians there especially in the capital continue his push
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to get the warring parties around the negotiating table talks are expected in sweden next month. the u.k. prime minister says talks with the e.u. have reached a critical point european union leaders will hold a vote on a draft deal on sunday the mayor of the mexican city of tijuana is warning of a humanitarian crisis over the thousands of asylum seekers who are gathering at the u.s. border president trump has threatened to shut down the crossing the united arab emirates says it's determined to protect its relationship with the u.k. a day after sentencing a british student to life in prison for spying the u.a.e. denied that thirty one year old matthew hedges has been treated unfairly hedges family accuse the gulf state of fabricating evidence electronics giant samsung has apologized for illnesses and deaths among some workers that its factories it settles a longstanding dispute that began when an employee died of leukaemia in two thousand and seven c.e.o. kim kim downs of the company failed to provide
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a safe working environment and promised to comply with the compensation plan those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next thank you very much for watching. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities starts from the very beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to al-jazeera. here in the stream today part two of our discussion with the cast of the fall a play that chronicles the activism behind a social movement that started in south africa in march twenty fifteen students at the university of cape town lot she rode smiles for a movement that not only pull down a statue but spots
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a global campaign to de colonise education so what does it mean to be a student activist and what's been the global impact of not just the movement but the play as well but joining us to discuss that are three of the co-creators and members of the cast cleo writers. and. welcome everyone to the stream it is really good to have you both here i wanted to start with this comment to this is. how do you feel about having become some of the leading international representatives and voices must fall and road courses are to hashtags that went global after they started in south africa first in twenty fifteen and then later on in twenty six team what does that feel like to be what some people might say are the leaders of this because they see you in acting on the stage. it's a great responsibility. it is
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a very emotional experience as well if you could think about the fact that. dating back to early as our parents black people weren't given this kind of platform or this kind of voice to tell the truth and share their pain and i think that we had a very good our sisters our parents they've paved a way for us to be able to do that and so we cannot get to a point where we are misrepresenting that particular story so i think it really grounds us it really roots us it's it is very humbling to be able to tell the story everything go day yeah. i think. ok when i hear that treat. because for me i think first and foremost it's my art introduced me into activism or gave me the confidence to be an activist so now that i'm hearing that that statement of the question only i mean i knew that. it is quite
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a responsibility performing this play and representing the type of. ideas and ideologies are are put on the play i just didn't think of considering myself as i can international representative of the movement but that is i think it's an definitely an honor this movement. is it's it's a big deal because the last. it's so weird it happened at a time where as south africans were actually commemorating a movement that happened in like the one nine hundred seventy s. a very huge movement that happened in. in the shuffle saw its like kind of like a repetition and it sat there as black south africans or as people of color in a marginalized group in south africa was full seems like we're fighting about the same things although the arrows are different but i think it's an honor to be that
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it's a huge responsibility and the most incredible thing is that i think there's so much for me to learn as an artist as an activist as a person as a person that belongs to the community in society so as as much. you know as this movement has introduced me to brady d. parts of myself i also realize that there's so much that i need to learn and i think i look forward to that the most i'm going to remind our audience watching this. this was a major news story what happened in cape town and then spread to other universities with the idea of the fees being too expensive that really took hold and this was how we reported it on al-jazeera have a look. student protests close to hannah's brogues university of that bar to strand two weeks ago it was supposed to reopen on choose day but a group of about five hundred students were not going to let that happen.
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so the police moved in. and. they fired rubber bullets tear gas and stun grenades at the protesting students these students say they want free university education to help close south africa's inequality gap which is still largely divided along color lines they're angry at how president jacob zuma treated them at a meeting on monday. so that was our. report and where were you at that time. i remember it started inverts actually when we went to parliament part of the force of actually standing in parliament where we had the white students standing in front of us to protect us from the police because it was quite brutal as you can see even in the clip. we had to ask why she was because the police were saying
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would not attack you know the white students in the movement in fact these even apart with a photo of an iconic photo of a police officer helping take a photo of these white girls who've come to a protest but when it's us it's like we're treated differently so it also hit home for me because when i came to the university i only had two hundred rands which my family gave me to spend in far away kilometers away from where i stay and not having the fees to integrate me into the lifestyle that orientation opens up for you in university i wasn't able to integrate from the word go into the university system because of the fees that exorbitant in that are high that our families cannot pay. i want to bring this up here because you mentioned you're taking us back to what that feeling was like a couple questions similar to this one the that we got on you tube it says i what has changed as years ago another person writing on twitter says. says i attended
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the university still no as a rhodes it's been decided that the university's name will not change because it brings money and because the legacy of rhodes is still rooted in privilege and wealth even in south africa clear i'll give this one to you what has changed for you what do you see is the most significant change especially keeping in mind that things like the universities don't known as roads has not changed the most significant change has been with the youth of south africa so we have even high school and primary school children dealing with words like do you call him as a sin. everything was moved into the mainstream they know what you can innovation is they know what or are beginning to understand what institutionalized racism is and it was terms like that then we didn't know it all we were like i'm feeling this but i don't know what it is i don't know how to express it and then suddenly you have a term for it you know how did you learn that what was happening what i particularly learned throughout the rose must for movement suddenly we had all these academic.
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academic books and readings that we could have access to to educate ourselves and with ending it to each other and it was a turning point for a lot of the youth so the youth are a lot more empowered and that's the biggest thing that came out of it for me because now people are no longer sitting quietly in waiting for something to happen they're doing something for the change to happen there's speaking out there having a voice and that was the most important thing to me. i was going to say pretty much the same i think that's the most important change that could cure that could occur sorry at the end of the day you know you can only push institutions so far the only listen to you so far the government parliament it's very self-serving self-serving industry like you said with the roads they refused to change the name because the name roads brings in money so i think the most important changes to be the mentalities of the people that go to the places because
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a lot of the structures are held in place because of all the generations so i think if younger people are more psychologically and emotionally empowered then that is so that is so so so much better and he were like what you said you're so right my nephew is like twelve years old he knows a lot more than i like then i knew when i was them for tell us one thing you know is just like a lot more aware i guess when something doesn't look right for me as a child that i was a very observant child but like if something doesn't look over me but like if the is for instance at his school they kept telling him the head thing is always an issue they keep telling him to cut his hair cut his hair and he came home crying one day and he was like they keep asking me to cut my hair but my hair doesn't fall in my face like my friends. and i was like well what is that he's like it's a race and i was like attaboy. go back to school and if they have
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a problem he'd tell them to hit me up on it there's a little. little side note for people who don't have afro hair so africa kind of grows out that way sometimes in some schools which. go beyond colonialism but still maybe have that thought that their idea of what's in the hairstyle does not go out like that it's kind of slid down a short or western style little note they're. wearing for us so we want to show you a couple of excerpts from the fall and we're going to pick up in the production where the statue of john rose has been removed but instead of all celebration new issues of intersectionality arise causing rifts between the genders so here to perform a scene is the entire cost of the fall. you see after old fell all the problems that the movement had been suppressing began to
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come back into focus now the issue of gender had been simmering throughout the occupation and now that the statue was gone the tensions began to boil over the black radical feminists were demanding that the men account for their patriarchal behavior while the men were feeling more and more attacked. what you guys did was definitely derail our narrative by jumping on that plan you gave the media this huge photo op then i want to focus on the little statements that we keep making as women and i don't want to have to compete with you for the spotlight by being hyper masculine and jumping on flatbed trucks and hitting statues we had an agreement just stick to the agreement for once so are you saying that we can't express ourselves naturally this is biology it's not your limits
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when we are in spaces like that testosterone takes over so what must we do it. and our this is the hyper masculinity they keep telling you about so check by yourself these. every single time we have these discussions about gender uses hit men and women make it all about you and the rest of us are sitting here suffocating you continue to use these he see brother says the binary even after non-binary kids have expressed our pain at being referred to under them you ignore queers non-binary colluders transgender kids in the space when you asked us violent and offensive questions we spent hours here educating you trying to validate our existence. we have put our bodies on the line or over and over for this movement but we are still seen as invisible members of the
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face respect. respect our existence. higher weight nor do black feminists of patriarchy princes as you refuse to put your money where your mouths are and leave this movement. never start making us proud that is a tweet we got from showing a sunny on twitter to the stream you just saw the cast of the fall on a sunny rights y'all revolutionary pollution eyes the world with your talent for fire emergency the great bear she goes on to say when began i was in my final year at the university of cape town i went and protests there with my fellow students
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and i went to drama school with the entire cast of the play so i'm really proud of them for spreading the important message and keeping the movement going internationally so there's a little bit of love on the line for all of you. watching him. back up what you talked about in that piece we just saw because we got a video comment from someone who is a former student activist in cape town and she talks about what this movement meant for her as a black woman have a listen to what and i told us. before listen was defined by a deep awakening and awareness of black consciousness and for the first time. the need of discourse around race nine hundred ninety four i think the movement changed when the presence of absolute thinking began to sister and the criteria for being a committed with is narrowed. one thing that has remained for me is that the movement
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has given me confidence to be bold and pound. to lead to occupy space as a black female specifically in a city like keep down with black voices forgotten or on. with everything what in particular resonates with you. right now i want to share the fact that you know what she's talking about every after the movement everyone like had a sense of confidence in themselves and understanding they as individual first and foremost the one thing that to us to the movements were different things and then we came together as one group you know under one banner but the story of being black and white in history is not complete without addressing the most imagine allies in the society you know people like black people women in the struggle goes on to create bodies non-binary kid is like we saw one of the month by new kids in
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this case that people just for now walking out people who are who have disabilities our image is not complete until all those people are also empowered to feel like they can participate and can contribute into the movement and that was one of the things in the movement that was shaky for for for some kids who also participated in you know mobilizing and contributing to to to narrative and to change in the university. i'm sure you must you must to see less but i want to remind our international audience of how far the must for movements have moved around the world this oxford must fall. and just look here i'm just a behave races institutions never change. for and then we go to harvard in the us royal must fall harvard law school and what those students were protesting about was this here you see. the slaves carrying the sheaves they
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eventually managed to get rid of that shield and then they continued to actually look at some of the injustices in the micro aggressions that were happening to people of color at harvard and that continues on. must. the thing that connects these there are many other universities around the world who are using you as an example what's like. i can't exactly point out because. you know as we we have the privilege of taking the show internationally right now but we definitely weren't like the architects of the four of the movement but it's it's a great thing that a movement in south africa was able to influence so many other universities i remember when the shutdown happened and we also had a lot of universities supporting us shutting down their universities because
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they're supporting for african universities in shutting down so it's incredible also the use of social media has helped the movement saw incredibly much it's connected so many voices that are going through so many similar things across the world and across campuses for us to be allowed also we're not the only it's not crazy to feel the way that we feel and we're not the only people feeling this so it's a great feeling to know that people that are in these educational these institutions . are not there to just absorb information it's like no we're done with that we're here to change the narrative we're here to make sure that when we have children and they go into these institutions they're not necessarily going through the same problems that we're going through that they're there to learn because oppression in all types of forms it disturbs you it takes away so much of your time so much of your heart so much of your energy you know in areas where you could be grown as
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a person that is like stunted because you're constantly having to validate yourself in situations where you really shouldn't have to especially considering the fact that we're in africa you know what i'm trying to say where the majority we are in africa at the bottom of africa but yet a lot of the times it doesn't feel like that and i was just going to refer to something that gore said about cape town cape town is it's a beautiful city to look at us there tickly but it's very problematic and i'm not surprised at the fact that the university of cape town because it's firstly it's very hard to get into that university and it's very diverse as to which is a beautiful thing but there's not enough representation and it's in cape town and it just shows the type of environment that you know we live in and yeah i'm just glad that it's been able to influence other universities and then that name has stuck because a lot of things need to for. not just universities i want to bring this up this is
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a scryer palled question they wrote to us on you tube they say take them down no law about the hash tag thanks you for your work we stand in solidarity with you in the struggle to remove symbols of white supremacy and the systems about they represent not taking down structures in new orleans louisiana. it is the time of thanksgiving in the us you are performing at the studio in d.c. so people around they can go and see you in production what i am particularly thankful for is that you are not only activists but also says billions because that is our lives or beautiful. i'm going to get to work one more time would love to see another excerpt from the four and let's pick up in a production where the students are protesting outside of parliament under the banner of fisa most for because of the post twelve percent increase in tuition fees at universities the government has called this an illegal protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds
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a scene takes place after some of the stun grenades are used on students so here to perform once again is the cost of the four. cock so who the first done grenade was aimed over the line of white people into the black students and workers behind them who just burst briefly and when we returned the wife kids ran to the front again demanding that the police arrest them they threw more stun grenades and we just burst again but this time running into government as are you we arrived just in time to see the gates of parliament closing now there was a group stuck inside the parliamentary precinct and another group outside trying to get back in as the gates were closed form fell down to pick it up and i was trapped inside i looked down the dollars for work sunglasses i'm. not sunglasses i get it but who held protests and.
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the curious continued the police kept on creating and were displaced and coming back i remember a policeman getting hit you've only helmet these are all fathers who are fighting an opposite. the police thought and warning often hitting us with their riot shields all the students in the front were black so call was made to our white allies to form a human shield in front of us i remember a police officer telling a white girl that they didn't want to harm them. and i thought now this is a south african nelson mandela dreamt of with black and white protest together but nothing has changed you've. got the africa. god. we used to be
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lethal. we used to dream of a future where we didn't need to protest anymore or call ourselves brave and fearless. there are reasons we call ourselves that there are reasons some of us are losing our humanity one protest at a time there are reasons the workers go on strike reasons the black students are so angry that it feels like the entire world is doing everything in its power not to see them. what do we need to do to show people that we can't keep living like this to show them that the state of our lives isn't normal that poverty isn't normal and that the townships we are born into are not normal and we are tired of being forced to be brave and fearless. i don't want to be this person . i don't want my life to be a series of violent gatherings where i'm always running away from the police and
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their stun grenades. i want to be seen. i want to matter. i'm tired. my soul is higher. but the reasons i came here the first time a little before. they will let me live a normal life. you know watching an excerpt from the production of fall here on the stream trey graham on twitter says y'all i just saw the ball there and i'm here to say that if you're any kind of engage in making progressive change in the world you really owe it to yourself to sit with this work made by students who were there the roads. thank you very much the cost and really appreciate you coming into the stream transforming us the first time we've had drama on the stream it wasn't caused by myself. but. i
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on the shores of paradise progress for some can create a living for others challenging his government and big business one man risked his life to save the community. the opposition a witness documentary on. saudi arabia's crown prince visits arab allies as donald trump again questions intelligence about jamal khashoggi murder.
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welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth wrong also ahead a threat to close the us mexico border as more asylum seekers gather. britain's prime minister has a final exit deal with the. threat from spain suggests otherwise and what survived the war syria's rich cultural heritage goes on shows a new exhibition. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salon has arrived in the united arab emirates to begin his first trip abroad since the murder of journalist. the saudi official news agency says the crown prince has on a tour of a number of brotherly arab countries he's also expected to attend a g. twenty meeting and when his side is next week with other world leaders as well earlier once again. contradicted the reported findings of his own intelligence
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agency about murder the us president says the cia hasn't concluded that muhammad ordered the killing but a turkish news website says the cia has a fine recording and which the saudi calm prince gives instructions to quote silence. as soon as possible meanwhile cut though is calling for far reaching justice foreign minister shaikh mohammad been up there any said who ever is responsible for kushal g.'s death needs to be held accountable she reports are you celebrating it wherever you are at the u.s. president has just completed a call to troops to wish them a happy thanksgiving and have broken with protocol by asking a service members to comment on political and logistical matters in front of the gathered press then he eagerly fielded questions on a range of topics from reporters the cia's assessment of the crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi soon cropped up. for him in i don't want to talk about it you have to ask the president insisted that the cia
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had not reached any conclusion about the crown prince's responsibility for the murder and once again repeated what had been judged to be vastly inflated figures out of the saudi contribution to the us economy whether he did or whether he did and he denies it vehemently his father denies it the king vehemently the cia doesn't say they did it they do point out certain things and pointing out those things you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn't but there's no that was another part of the false reporting because a lot of you said yesterday that they said he did it well they didn't say that they said he might have done it that's a big difference but they're vehemently denying it. according to media reports the cia has high confidence that the crown prince gave the order to kill khashoggi however it did so based on circumstantial evidence such as communications intercepts. on the saudi power structure and that's all the leeway the president
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needs to any definitive conclusion the president also said this didn't absolutely arabia we wouldn't have a big place with a puzzling statement given the u.s. withdrew most of its troops from saudi arabia in two thousand and three the presence of a country that held two of islams holiest sites have become a source of regional tension over the last several years there have been reports of a secret u.s. drone base in the kingdom however it's not clear to what the president was referring thank you very much over time see out as it. takes a closer look now at the evidence around in the mud and those involved the u.s. is imposed sanctions on seventeen saudi officials for their suspected involvement in the killing of jamal khashoggi they include a fifteen man hit squad that traveled to turkey to carry out the operation so who made up this team and who did they report to let's start with abdel aziz matric who is believed to have been the coordinator of the operation he's
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a general in crown prince mohammed bin soundman security team next we have saddam hamit out o'bagy an expert in autopsies and a colonel in saudi arabia's interior ministry it's headed by prince abdullah zs bin sowed else out he reports directly to king solomon all the crown prince. six members of the team that killed were part of the crown prince's security detail three others were members of the national guard an internal security force which protects the royal family it's led by prince khalid bin abdul aziz al muqrin and one was a member of the rules saudi af force it's part of the ministry of defense which falls under the control of the crown prince the u.s. is also impose sanctions on saudi tani he's a senior advisor to crown prince mohammed bin salomon and on mohammed al a table the saudi consul general it is stamboul where he shows he was murdered he
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reports to the saudi foreign ministry which is led by adult. his department issued the passports used by the hit team to end to turkey the private jets they flew in from riyadh to istanbul and back which charted from a company owned by the saudi government i'm not there hashmi is the director on the center for middle east audience at the university of denver and he says the crown prince could face legal action once he enters argentina for next week's g. twenty summit. i would like to point out though i think that. the saudi crown prince could find himself in legal jeopardy if he decides to go to the g. twenty summit under the principle of universal jurisdiction if there is a case brought against the saudi crown prince for war crimes or for murder in another court that is considered to be credible then a judgment and an indictment can you shoot against him when he arrives in botha's aires so i suspect this is something that his lawyers and his advisors are looking
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into and i'm certainly hoping that human rights groups in argentina right now are preparing a case against the saudi prince not only for his murder of jamal khashoggi but for what exciting crown prince has been doing in yemen and i think this is the real test case because this is the first trip that he's making now we don't expect you know an independent court to issue a judgment against him in egypt or in the emirates but when he travels to argentina for the g twenty summit this is you know the first you know attempt for him to step onto the world stage and there are cases in argentina right now that. that relate to this question of universal jurisdiction so i think you know certainly it it applies to the crown prince and what he's been doing and it will be you know it will be very interesting to see whether there is any legal jeopardy of the saudi crown prince finds himself in as a result of the policies that he's been pursuing the world we watching and i think
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it will be an important clarifying moment for the global community. let's move on to other news now in the u.s. as a welcoming of reduction in fighting around yemen's port city of hyundai they're saying that more aid as now reaching civilians who desperately need it especially on watch again as in the capital sana'a hoping to get the war on poverty has surrounded a go sheet and table the home of the reports from neighboring djibouti. u.n. special envoy martin griffiths his efforts to launch peace talks collapsed last september now he's back in yemen trying to get a farm commitment from the warring parties to a cease fire and a new round of talks is an opportunity to try and build trust ahead of peace talks and sweet as we know we when you have peace talks you need to speak to the various people to open back channels up lines of communication to build up trust ahead of almost talks to try and make sure that people will attend but then they also listen
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to what the other side has to say their ongoing fighting in the port city of the day the however risks upsetting this partial and voice efforts to bring the warring parties to the table in december the sodium and arctic ocean announced earlier this week it was holding all hostilities around what they did they said later fighting broke out again a part to work of yemeni fighters loyal to the international it equalized couple meant leading the fighting on the ground despite loud claims of progress al-jazeera has us published but they have not been able to enter the city most of the fighting so far has been confined to the eastern suburbs of the city healthy fighters have fortified the city's outskirts. of taint such images captured on the fourteenth of november one day before the sodium routed coalition announced it not suspended its military operations in the city. the images show that the coalition forces failed to entire data they also showed the massive fortifications and trenches created by
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the oldies around the city and along the roads leading to the port satellite images show the dog massive trenches along the edges of the city as shown by these lines these pictures also show the before and after when the port was full and then after shipping containers were moved to form part of the rebels defenses. also booby trap compounds and houses in the outskirts of the city this video shows a group of pro-government fighters and showing a booby trap compound and then the massive explosion that decimates them all almost four years after the sodium routed and time of the war in yemen there is no end in sight it's not even certain whether it can be worn or what is sure is that the civilians will continue to suffer in the wake of this destructive conflict if the peace talks fail to take off mohammed on the wall jazeera djibouti. trump
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is threatening to close the border with mexico if his administration decides that its neighbor has lost control of its side of the profiteer the thousands of asylum seekers from central america gathering hoping to cross into the u.s. john heilemann reports from tijuana where the mayor is one of a learning tarion disaster. the day starts with the battle to keep clean but it's hard when you're sleeping rough with by a thousand three hundred other people got to try and get washed because it feels weird being dirty all the time. easier said than done in the sports complex hardly turned into account privacy doesn't exist or even shelter to some of the rainy season is just beginning and those who went up with that i'm going to have you know last night it was tough my blankets got wet so we had to go and stand where there's a roof and we didn't sleep all night. it's going to be that way for some
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time for this caravan of central americans they've got to ride up against the u.s. border but now they stuck nowhere to go and nothing to do. some brush up on the scales others practice their poker faces or explore the small playground for the umpteenth time. the clothes washing area is busy so is the phone charging station at fifty cents a go. minute passes the time with the daily concert for anyone who cares to listen to them and that it will be them also it's a way to forget the bad moments that we've gone through with all been suffering so it's a way to forget that stress. they were queues for the country laid on by the mexican navy and the buses going to a newly arranged job fair but the semblance of order can't last. this makeshift camp is almost food but you can see people are still arriving daily here soon.
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