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tv   NEWS LIVE - 30  Al Jazeera  December 7, 2018 8:00am-8:34am +03

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unable to return to syria to the ongoing war he documented life inside the terminal in a series of viral tweets eventually attracting the attention of canadian activist groups who organized to file a refugee application on his behalf we're pleased to welcome to the show from his new home in whistler british columbia canada welcome to the us and i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet from justin himself there is a will there is a way if there is a chance in a million to do something anything just to do it the result is breathtaking trust me canada is awesome and a picture there of you so i want to show you some of the reactions to your tweets from people just as happy that you made it to canada this is ken who says welcome to canada house and please don't hold our winters against us another person writes in this is sherry she says i'm very happy for you welcome to canada vancouver and whistler also i'm so have you skiing and snowboarding soon hope you enjoy your new
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job at your hotel in whistler and best wishes hasn't talked to us about what it was like stepping foot in vancouver canada after such a long journey what was going through your mind. before. i realized for the first time that there is a moment in the your life that is a moment where that become more beautiful than the dream itself. staking overlimit . i can't believe how the people kind generous they are the minute i put a foot on the. international airport and how that immigration officers treated me i told them that i have a bad experience when it comes to dealing with that if you are with immigration officers in both u.a.e. and malaysia and you just changed my mind. i keep receiving gifts and free things from the community here i get like that an invitation for skiing with equipments as well. invitation for the nutter for going outside or showing me
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around it's so what i i could not imagine that it would be that that good and that's a beautiful i feel really relaxed i'm safe and legal finally but i'm still thinking of those who left behind the people who lost it is suffering and how i should be thankful and grateful for the rest of my life. i'm actually much more lucky at. sixty five million of the fish in this world who are still suffering until the very moment i want to share their audience someone who shares that sentiment that of course you're not alone but she's also very happy that you are in canada this is lori cooper one of the women and one of the people who helped sponsor your journey there this is what she told the stream. when i first heard about his son i really didn't know what to do he was in a terrible situation he couldn't leave the country no airline would sound an airline ticket and malaysia wouldn't allow him to reenter the country because he'd
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overstayed his visa we eventually decided to raise the money to sponsor him and with help from the canadian government and u.n.h.c.r. we got him to canada but he's just one of over sixty eight million people who are displaced from their homes and we and we need to find better ways as a society to support these people talk to us about how you came to be stranded in that airport. it's a long story but the short version of it as a two faces bear some of and do it on one with we need you to the same conclusion i all of that piece of documents say that i poured in syria and for that part of that only the international community the global system since two thousand and eleven when the syrian war start are judging us because if it not because of our own mistakes and crimes even some allies are not alone thus the war than we are not allowed to use europe or set them what's in europe just because we are syrian even
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a pluckers it stop its heart this inuit i will face is i'm upset story. global system has failed us and how individuals like. a lawyer. they can make a difference they can change the law to change life if they decided to they are out of the e.u. he was either and they are. in the i was a a moment with no choice. but we decide. what is lost what is mean what and ask what i believe it's my human rights as a human. and you remained hopeful and did it in ways that look like this i want to share with our audience this is a tweet from has since twitter feed although i keep losing weight i wanted to try my new treadmill treadmill and doing some heavy exercises trying to make use of billable resources hashtags syrian stock at the airport and you can see there in this week doing doing a few actions i was there so with that in mind our audience has this question for
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you. and how did you remain hopeful under those circumstances you're always accompanied by a smile. but there was also i'm still a human and there was a lot of. moments. i did not share it. i thought people injured they have their own lives they have their own problems they have their own tragedies they it's a better to explain my situation not to complain about it but are to deliver a statement with a smile. there are better than an anger or upset or depression so i decided to go with a smile and i realize now life i can understand life from a different perspective hope is the main source for everything hope despair some cannot love going to war going to do anything even will wake up in the morning give it we need to understand that giving up is that is old not an option but is an order that's trying enough. given up so quickly. it's not like this it's
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hard it's lonely it's cool it's anger but if we believe in it we need to stand and we would reach a point when we be but out of what we are doing in love what you are doing god's that is us hearing that story we got this comment live on you tube julie says i hope one day that all oppressed people will feel this kind of freedom how was your experience impacted your feelings about these kinds of restrictions on refugees so in taking that has and what would your message be to an international audience watching you right now would you what would you want to say. we are living in the future of language we are speaking the future language you know there's a lot in the social media and the media so we don't they don't need to go all out to protest with a sign they can make a difference a white sitting in their living room by sharing by commenting by liking something out of their principles they can make a difference and believe that we've it's the moment when their rights will much in
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their duties it's not only to do it their right to speak. freely or to expose themselves it's also the duties and there is a lot of hostile environment in social media they can make the change. and they should do so so that negative people will go back to the caves and there's a lot of love in this world and together we can fight all the negativity and we can make this world the but at least for us and for that if you choose as well has an imperfect way to end this segment thank you for sharing your story with us on the stream inc you very much appreciate it thank you we go now to israel where women throughout the country hit the streets on tuesday calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his government to address the uptake and femicide and domestic violence take a look at this video of the rally posted to facebook by women's rights activists some are selling me. thanks to the
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settlers . let . someone joins us on the phone now she's the founder and director of not arab women in the center also with us in tel aviv allison summer is a journalist for the israel. newspaper ha'aretz welcome to both of you start here with a hash tag it's in hebrew and it is all over instagram right now. translates roughly to i am a woman i'm on strike and you can just scroll down and see the people who are posting this their self protests alison talk to us about how this movement got started what brought people to the streets. so actually if you see the words
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written on the people's palms it says emergency situation or state of emergency is the strike and the demonstrations that took place on tuesday were an outcry of rage over the inaction of prime minister benjamin and tony i was government to the fact that femicide the number of women murdered by domestic partners by husbands by close family members jumped more than thirty percent in the last year last year it was seventeen and this year which isn't quite over yet has been has risen to twenty four and so part of the demonstrations was having twenty four minutes of silence in memory of those women and the outrage was sparked first of all by the murder of two young girls thirteen year old and a sixteen year old an arab citizen of israel and refugee asylum seeker from from eritrea who were both killed on the same day which just happened to be the day
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after the international day recognizing violence against women and it was also a day in the week that the government had rejected an earlier approved proposal to to give funds to fight this phenomenon so it was really an outcry of protest against the indifference by this government and a demand that the people in charge start taking this phenomenon seriously and address it as seriously as they is they take other security issues i hear there alison i want to share this tweet we got from someone whose handle is a syndicate they say if there has been a concrete accomplishment and sail from the me to movement it has been the demonstration of solidarity and carrying that israeli women have shown in their demand but the government mount a real battle against gender violence someone i want to go to you with this because as we all know to sadly on forth. julie is that violence against women knows no
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boundaries no race religion culture it happens everywhere talk to us about that idea of solidarity between women first of all thank you for posting this issue we cannot ignore that fifty percent of the femicide victims inside the israeli state of palestinian woman and we are twenty percent of the population that's mean that we are more. as a victims and. out of woman and inside as a society is much much less than a jewish woman the oval fact that. two hundred thousand women are abused women and israel and the fifty four percent of them them but istomin woman also. you know the woman into the street together last two days ago and under and of the state of which you know so-called democracy we have this
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expectation that a low and a law enforcement will take a will at least. be equal you know and to treat our women as. jewish women are victims of violence or domestic violence as equally but we see that when eighty percent of the are up there betrayed the results killers are not behind bars and one hundred percent of the femicide cases against jewish women are sold and someone is saying you know what i brice so this is another kind of discrimination in the israeli society which has pushed us to translate our struggle as a feminist movement of palestinians a minister movement inside the israeli society and and it when this week it was too much to take from this chauvinist extremist government to give us a slap in the face and then became as any extreme. right wing government.
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violence against violence against. the jewish woman so you've listed there what women are calling for in organizers are calling for want to share a few more demands on twitter thank you for reaching out here are the changes we'd like to message violence is not just physical the government must provide financial support for women inks experiencing domestic violence and address the wage gap another person writes in this is emulation says i think the government should immediately implement a sixty seven million dollar plan that they planned one point five years ago and stalled and i think there needs to be additional oversight to ensure police and other bodies adequately deal with this problem but alison we know that prime minister netanyahu has come under fire why. well because he is viewing this through a political lens i mean he views most things through a political lens but when he was asked to visiting a women's shelter last week with his wife as to why he had led his government
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coalition to reject a proposal to have a parliamentary committee and of inquiry into why this domestic violence was not being addressed adequately he answered that he had opposed it because the opposition had proposed it and his wife sarah who very rarely contradicts him in public said this shouldn't be a question of opposition or coalition she said this should be a political issue it should be beyond politics and she frankly appeared shocked that he had indeed made this move so. you know most of most of his failings is that is that he sees this as a quote unquote leftist issue and his government is a right wing government but i think that the message has now been heard after the massive protests that really had no political stripe on them right or left women from the entire spectrum of israeli spoke out on tuesday so i think maybe going to
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take some action is political there is no feminine struggle without it politics inside it we are talking about power and the balance of the power and in the gap between the jewish and palestinian authority we are under this before again under this government for decades and it's going from you know on gender issues we require it day we see when government doing side like oppressing and five million behind the wall and the west america and we see that what's happening and with the bill being a woman in the fight we cannot say that it's a social struggle and feminist struggle political struggle and we have to. yes it does and i don't know what position under coalition because we saw what this guy shouldn't do it right so much so i have to pause there i don't do it for fun i
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have to be there unfortunately because we're out of time for this but i hear and take your point that this of course is beyond politics mohammed here on you tube says it's very sad news to lose twenty four lives all in the name of domestic violence so we'll pause this part of the conversation in this role right now thank you to some of us in amy and allison summer for being part of it finally to the u.s. the mid atlantic coastline and the debate around offshore drilling policy that could potentially harm many species here's how one environmental rights group campaign is addressing the issue.
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last month the trumpet ministration and obama measure that prohibited offshore drilling within fifty miles of coast oil and gas companies will now be able to use seismic air gun to test for fossil fuel but a coalition of business owners animal welfare activists and politicians oppose the decision michael jackson is the director for the marine mammal protection project at the natural resources defense council and he joins us from new york welcome michael to the stream. to you hi there this is from mali who says it is so upsetting that seismic blasting of the coast got the green light this will have serious impacts on marine life and the existing coastal communities that depend on a healthy atlantico so we're definitely hearing from people who are opposed to this but before we get too deep explain to us in layman's terms. what is it why do you find it so problematic sure well first of all make no mistake what we're talking
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about here seismic blasting is a precursor to offshore drilling and that has very significant impacts on the environment but seismic blasting is something that has significant impacts and that itself in order to prospect for oil and gas miles beneath the sea floor industry to raise of high volume behind vessels. that every ten seconds or so united for months on end it's just imagine having an explosive go off in your neighborhood every ten seconds for months and that is what gas industry the trumpet ministration want to subject. the marine environment off the east coast to. the temp ministration for this discussion we reached out to get a comment from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration the u.s. government agency that's monitoring climate and here's what they told us. we have
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also while under finalizing these authorizations we've also carefully reviewed and ensured propre is the best available information scientific information available in meeting the requirements of the m.p.a. the endangered species act national environmental policy act and other and implementing regulations for these geophysical surveys. and with respect to the endangered species act to ensure that the effects of the authorization should not result in jeopardy of and dangerous threatened species under the e.s.a. and have prepared and signed a biological opinion documenting that analysis so michael it's a bit of alphabet soup there but her point is that the.

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