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working on the phones or. you know i'll be the one that was shepherd seraphs so i don't know if it is a problem but. i'm not sure i'm not convinced. and it seems i am not the only want he was not convinced just look around you you call me sick people cannot put their devices away the very long. time is so precious we want to spend as much of it as we can making digital contributions the thing is we're not even ashamed of it. evil is a way this latest picture from the artist banksy shows just how much this is now a social issue a couple's loving embrace interrupted by the desire to see what others are doing. the increase in the use of hunting technology is the most rapid in the history of humankind people are taking to these increasingly although i mean just talk us through the way people of adopt
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a digital devices over the years ok so ten years ago social media didn't really exist at all and now we're at this stage where three hundred fifty million messages are being shed each day on facebook we've got about four hundred million photos being shed and eight years worth of video is created on you tube every single day and really social media has become part of the fabric of our everyday life it's into woven in everything that we do whether we like it or not it is part of our lives and it's there to stay and if anything we're going to see the rate of growth increase dramatically over the next few years so where do you see it going that are you say it's going to be increasing dramatically how dramatically we're creating more data more information than ever ninety percent of all of the data that is being created by mankind is actually being created in the last two years and that's going to grow exponentially we expect in the next two years four times the data that is ever being. will be created and that's made up of largely consumer data
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plus a lot of selfies it is an awful lot of selfies and the thing is that that's being stored for life and consumers don't understand that the photos selfies that they take today are there forever. is it worrying when you look at for example this week we saw the announcement of this new watch people are going to be tracked more and more and these these organizations don't just sell these devices as a salute or make phone calls or something you can check facebook or twitter or their markets it is everything you can take photographs you can control things is that deliberate to draw people and. what these companies are doing is they're responding by and large to consumer needs in consumer demands while i don't know if you could say that they're creating them as well i think of steve jobs as one their customer doesn't know what they want until they show it now what customers don't know is they don't know the device they want but they know the benefits they want
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so if you ask people they say what would you like they're not very good at explaining the technology or even the social networks they want but they know the benefits and so what organizations tend to do is create the hardware or the software which meets the needs and some of those needs are about south presentation about looking good about expressing to other people all the great things in life that you do and particularly that's part of digital addiction that people want to make themselves look really positive to their friends want to show off their lifestyles and so owning the right kind of device at the right time is really important to you and it gives you a social currency and devices that enable them to do that seem to be very successful. the global adoption of hunter technology has been aided and abetted by the seductive lines of the latest sleek designs global giants like apple a synonymous with the almost religious fervor that surrounds the products. each
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event seems to feed an expected following addicted. i arranged to speak to one of apple's former in-store tech support and. and that the so-called genius bar he's day after day he had to deal with the anxiety of customers waiting for the repair of the faulty device previously critical of apple he's asked us to keep his identity a secret whether ever signs of violence or real you know extremes that are absolutely absolutely there. there is not much secret made about the loss prevention teams who are exploiting her sex swat teams who patrol partially because what you have x. what teams in the stores and certain services sure why. partially because there is such
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a high amount of expensive stock you there are several million dollars there are in the back of the store so about that works a certain amount of protection but a certain amount of physical protection for the employees also has to do with the fact that people grow very angry when they feel frustrated or when they feel confused or when they feel stressed and that happens a lot with technology that happens a lot when your technology doesn't work that you personally if you feel these products come here that absolutely i am happily addicted to my own devices i feel that most of the people who work with me would say the same there's not too much reason not to be to be attached to your device and where it's sort of to feel as though you're just more attached to the world. the incredible rate at which this digital revolution has hit means that it's tension we are now living in a digitally divided society there are adults who can remember a so-called simpler time and age when there was no internet there were no connected
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content to try says. a man approaching adult hood the know nothing else they having to develop new sufi patterns of online as a kid and behavior challenge never faced by any generation before. do you ever do you have a crush on somebody stole from facebook yes. you do know you said that without even thinking about something. you would do it. not exactly facebook but the. site you see the first to look like a. good album like every single. i wouldn't do that so. for them and have a look what they're doing to. create the you know way that you know like every single you've got to be careful because when you scroll down you can accidentally like if you. think you're going to be like from like eighty three weeks ago everything is
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just life when you've been so he doesn't quite fit in the next well it's like the people you've been. that know that you know hold still for you just. because they see in the next day it's like all right there's the whole is like a big games like a whole there's ways that people with people talk to each over if you're applying for the set of a time you start to get like the wrong idea of things from i have a texting is you can always read what i'm trying to say to you because you can hear their voice you can sort of see them sort of nodding i always find myself when i'm texting. and i'm sort of as if it was a conversation and i find myself thinking well how do i say about the text. that cross when you're texting because it was like quite mean but like sarcastically so right really serious people just take it. from it's a good selfie by getting the right facial expression is good because i just want to like you know present yourself with like you know all happy and smile you cannot
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turns people the trend nowadays for male selfies is like when yeah like you squint and then you saw like for your eyebrows and then heads your forehead. yeah it's true a lot of bugs in the butt. yeah the self i'm pretty guilty of that to say that i like a second. and older members of the community seem to fall into two groups you've got the heavy uses of technology for work and play and those who are even citing this is the staus of the end of society but all of the people i spoke to all uses of some sort when somebody you pursue your facebook and you get somebody clicks like this pops up it's felt like your status how does it make you feel when i first started using facebook i was quite cool you feel quite good perhaps you have seen through it now my ego is ok i think. it's what you know you know
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when i put stuff out there and you know you put a photo of people put comments and. i remember going back and looking to see if anyone's liked it or not but i can't be doing that anymore i've had enough i just think that the business of facebook is emphasizing the egg a centric nature of people a sort of breathtaking arrogance and people who seem to think that other people were know. about their lives i just find that so often. i wouldn't want to be sharing that you don't want to know with a problem absolutely. well i mean really what i'm having for lunch but i couldn't care less what you have. i wouldn't say i was addicted i think. perhaps a lot of people music is addicted and they're actually made perhaps it's more of a compulsion to keep wanting to have a look at facebook or instagram or. i don't like the feeling when you go on holiday
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and you haven't got a very good signal that spoils my holiday to go camping is the caraway get away from oh yeah you get away from certain things but i don't like getting away from feeling connected if the signal bar drops down too low or the snow for each of us that's a holiday ruinous. and there are three g.'s look at about you know internet these days yeah you're a preacher but i must be addicted because. i have a mobile phone and you know i carry a locked up around with my number. so i'm not left behind it's a great tool for following your family when you're not close it's. like skype built these things are terrific to see if they used properly i get i get physically i physically excited and stuff makes me smile if i see a bit technology and i think while there's somebody here that is going to either save me time is going to be useful you know if i didn't look at my email for a week i'd have five hundred years and
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a lot of them would need need actioning i'm brutha this is a is i mean there are some bambaataa just haven't gotten to manage to reply to the full. does. me slightly i kind of feel like this. need someone to tell you that i have to do x. you know. i think i'm going to fly the flag just irresponsible joy it's not attached to the demands of other people either through work or just because everybody's out there and accessible. i'm starting to think that my use of technology isn't really bad it's certainly not any more or any less than lots of the people who i speak to so surely we can all be addicted can we check it at a clinic in connecticut with dr david greenfield a professor of psychiatry and the man who claims to be able to cure people with a digital addictions could i be classed as an other by yourself diagnosing well i
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don't i don't know if you're an addict i mean the question is do you feel uncomfortable if you don't have your fix of technology or have your phone with you all the time so you probably fall into a category. at least abusing it and somebody that we might look at their level of use we're going to help you begin to desensitize your use of digital technology or the internet and the way we do that is using a device that uses a technique called the b r stands for a movement desensitisation the reprocessing so what we're going to do is i'm going to ask you to imagine. on a scale of zero to ten. what it would feel like to not have your phone with you for a period of time your eyes are going to follow the lights as they move back and forth and there's going to be an audio signal that will also move back and forth what
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this does is. it is the hemispheres of the brain and what i've seen when i've used it is that it can actually lower the experience of discomfort or craving for something and somebody has lived through this natural physiological response and what we know is that the use of the internet and particularly certain tahn tent on the internet elevates dopamine just like gambling does and just like cocaine does and other drugs. what the internet is is it's the world's largest slot machine every time you go on it whether it's to search for peace of information check an e-mail a facebook update a tax it doesn't really matter the fact that it's unpredictable in terms of what and when is what contributes to the addictive nature of the internet because that variable ratio reinforcement schedule is the way a slot machine operates that's why people stand in front of the slot machine all
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day long pushing that button hoping that they're going to win something because every once in a while they do what that means is that you have to not get what you want on one of these devices for a long long time. before you put it down and not pay attention to it anymore. having how the therapy i've got to say it didn't really relieve my desire to be connected but his theories do seem logical and they've set me thinking about where all of this started the reality is that our addictions the gadgets emerged from our use of new technology developed here tech central also known as silicon valley you only have to drive around to see who the big residents saw in this neighborhood the home of startups and global brands like apple and google this place has a reputation for turning small ideas into life changing obsessions in two thousand and thirty social networking giant facebook was the name on everybody's computer
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tablets and phone with the stock market hotel the creation of the world's youngest billionaire mark zuckerberg originally working with mark in the early days his sister randi she subsequently left and written about tech addiction and the message from her is clear do not get hurt is there almost like a collective responsibility for this place to to say to the world you know you need to just watch out here after i left facebook i spent a year about traveling the world and just talking to people and saying you know is technology and net positive in your life if you feel like it's not why isn't it and i think people and suck about it it's easy when you're here to get caught up in that world of you know what are we disrupting today what are we innovating let's go let's go but when you pick your head up and you talk to people people are scared of technology and all this rapid change they're overwhelmed by the change that it's
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bringing to their families to their work to their love lives to everything we're walking this really fine line i think all the time with tech because it's creating all this innovation is creating so much opportunity but with any new innovation there are all these complications that come after. the fact sometimes along after the fact that we don't know for example we don't know the effect of this technology on young children's brains maybe it's completely rewiring their brain in a new way that's going to render our current education systems just completely moot i think as a society we're getting a lot more conscious around what wellness means and it certainly doesn't mean being glued to a device twenty four hours a day worrying words from someone who wants advocates is always on and being always socially connected and the irony is that just up the road from silicon valley is somewhere trying to help those who just switch off tomorrow i will enter a digital detox program called grounded i'm going in as
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a journalist but i'm going to be on the cover because i can once we've handed over a lot of knowledge we are in there for food days we can't use our real names there is no talk of work allowed the outside world might as well not exist question is something like this really and our obsession with technology. reporters retreat in a brutal civil war if the commodore hadn't been the israeli invasion would not have been so well for the commodore had become a journalistic center you could be in the safe and play and then you went out into civil war i started off leaving this of a suite at the commodore hutto the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison so as a hostage beirut the commodore war hotels on al-jazeera. algy
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israeli forces have killed three palestinians and separate operations the first happened in the whole city of jerusalem israel says the suspects stabbed two police officers two other raids took place in the occupied west bank the military says there were planned operations to find suspects linked to attacks on israelis. minister theresa may is headed to brussels to meet leaders she survived a leadership challenge from her own party on wednesday two hundred voted for her one hundred seventeen against many are unhappy about may's proposed deal this has been a long and challenging day but at the end of it i'm pleased to have received the backing of my colleagues in tonight's spot while so i'm grateful for that support a significant number of colleagues did calls to vote against me and i've listened to what they said. following this but we now need to get on with the job of
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delivering bricks it for the british people building a better future for this country a brics it delivers on the votes that people. the us senate has gone against president donald trump on the war in yemen and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi iraqi led coalition have until friday to decide on that resolution for a similar move were struck down in march after donald trump donald trump is voice strong support for the conflict and his former lawyer is going to prison for three years for tax evasion and for violating campaign finance laws. guilty to lying to congress and paying off two women who allegedly had affairs with trump canada's foreign minister says that the extradition process of wild ways chief financial officer should not be politicized chrystia freeland made the comments after u.s. president onil trump said he's willing to intervene in name one shows case if that meant he could strike a trade deal with china she was arrested in vancouver eleven days ago and released
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after agreeing to bail bond said the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come thanks for your time. my campground experience starts to soon as i join my fellow companies on the morning bus right there. when we get done. about how to get on that we know that. it is a no holds barred american experience games city songs on the final opportunity to get our last internet get. it. out. there we are the costs of our was. there was.
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a reply at the bottom of my foot away because it's out with a very tight but quite honestly i'm a shy brit who is way to step i may be smiling on the outside but inside filled with friends the next few days still. get me. to put away experiences like the first place cool i'll put milk on the first place i found it a little bit lonely festina been here a few hours i was thinking in the real world what i would all be to search my phone about you know just fiddle as a kind of way of not feeling like you know i'm sort of the outsider here but
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a confidant and it's like come situation where you have to make an effort you have to talk to people. you know and if you're shy which i. in some circumstances then it's kind of weird having to do that but that's what the whole experience is about. what camp rules are really clear they state that we must lock away all of our devices for the anti a generation of our state we will see them again of course but at the end i've got to say it feels really awesome honey and one of my most treasured possessions i want such done we're pretty divided into individual taps blamed after animals so square as budgets and so on i am in the bear camp and our mascot as a psyche pink bear joined by our jealously guarded camp flag the new likes six or seven even although as you go by a small village called the bird species and like a whole lot. of science which we're probably going to later in front of everybody
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will be really weird. started off with meditation which i went into you quite closed minded lee. and then there was some weird bonding games. you know there's always people so shouting things to be really quiet corner quiet little brace life my. this is this is totally wrong he's. there and it was a real effort to to join in and not kind of just sort of look at it like her as an outsider. what is going on here because it's a night is going to be a pair of shoes about this whole welcome thing it was like an m.p. fear to which they were going to there's
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a fair was her day. was it was. the other was to take yes for show how. they would be really weird if we didn't have you guys here. and so we're going to get into. a weekend of play and dance and the ability and sharing and cry and creating and making and acting and singing injuries and sitting in your incentive with people that are named silly news and then i brought. that up and we're going
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to have surreal moments. that they're honoring that have been in my head in. the must of mind behind all of this is the charisma. leave betson out here by his company. so i was working in los angeles as a vice president of a tech company is twenty four years old and building technologies that help nonprofits get the word out and raise money so good great job fantastic environment working sixty hours a week at i phone and a blackberry had multiple laptops left on my phone and my bad you know living the kind of silicon valley tech dream in los angeles and so one day i felt really sick so i stopped at the hospital on the test of my blood and found that i was actually down to about thirty six percent of my blood left and i found a small laceration i saw for years and i didn't bleeding internally for like a week you know hadn't realized it so i was so busy caught up on twitter and facebook and social media and building technologies that help change the world that
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i was so disconnected from my own reality and so we have it with you that we've come to get away and we can see and play. and it's amazing. after taking a two year retreat in southeast asia he came back to the u.s. now knowing what to do and ended up there and says go i got on a street corner and i got on a bus and everyone on the bus was like this and i just left southeast asia where i was on buses of knowing about my language connecting with everyone now i'm back in time to save my home and i can have a conversation with anybody because everyone's face and they're going to hear us so a few months later we realize that everyone is always on everyone is at the level that i had been on for years before having followers and and always connected to their devices and worried about their own personal brands instead of their own personal families and so my girlfriend my partner and i decided let's take people on retreats and so that's when we want to tamp down summer camp or.
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i'm on the cover in the camp to try to have an authentic experience that makes it difficult to come and tell you just how i'm really feeling i find a moment. and join the cum fire to sneak out and speak we just heard another big session about what's come fires with lots of singing we sang the campground the theme song which was all about facebook and tell you my book prof and your i phone going out of the tree. it was a really cold we experience didn't warm to it that's all i felt quite excluded up point and that was when i want to just kind of immerse myself in my own little world you know quite happily i would have pulled off own interests other than played with it in the end i just sat there for the with my life since test tried to look like i was really enjoying it made by the end three three i'll be feeling for the a lot different. but. tempo
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does change a lot throughout the day it's probably been put together very scientifically you know there's probably some kind of psychology involved i'm sure there is take this morning for example we were one came first light. since time is band here they only time is now that's where you told us this. i assume it was about half past five. or so and. we got up on some coffee and then there was yoga which was very nice and peaceful it was first light in the sims two trees and i was very pretty. and then we went back to. the village villages we'll have breakfast together you know and it's kind
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of all eggs and granola natural stuff and then we have a bonding thing where we come to create a den you know it's like being six years old again there was an old top hole and there's an old sheet. christmas tree. oil white reflection tied very hard. as well can. and then when you go in. the hibernating for the council out to lunch time they. don't pull in a lot the fairway. sits
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in and then all of a sudden athletes. they decided that we were all going to sing songs of course you know this is very important we had to replace every single limerick with the word me out so you know it sounded surreal. it was a real contrast last night and i lost like ethel skipping around the room i was thinking what the hell is going on here where on my knees like a brace today it's like interesting character in the form. so was this like a real temperature and it's quite emotionally draining but it's also this feels very rewarding order so far. at the camp were provided with lots of creative activities presumably to keep us distracted from our devices and maybe to fill the void left over by hunting our phones. to remind us how reliant we've become all technology there are the other log. you now have to use human powered search engine this wouldn't inbox
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a disposable camera and of course we have to use a typewriter if we actually want to write anything i decided that i was going to write a diary or a journal as the color and there's an area just over that way which is called the typewriter range which is a converted shooting range let's just a bank of eight or ten so my writers. all modern technology here is not. he would have walked past this in an office back home you say you wouldn't notice it but actually a really beautiful piece of machinery you know i mean it really frustrating because every time you slightly catch on a letter to the top together they get stuck in your stocking to pull market in color of your finger. to make she calls. herself and also and it breaks the concentration of many funnies of drifting off your things. which. you wouldn't do
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if you said you were locked up because you just could be placed on focus. but still we all find ourselves well i i know i'm not alone in this pulling off phones out of our pockets and just checking the anyway one of the three not in there but we do it the other why us so kind of hope that somebody is trying to get contact with us. people have been talking about this on some vibration thing where people where they are imagining the phones in their pockets vibrating which sounded kind of weird. and a bit farfetched but it happened to me three times yesterday i had my disposable camera in my pocket you know there's no there's no. power in that at all it's completely mechanical. and i actually did feel vibrations in my pocket and i mixed in that and realized that what we doing nothing in there was my camera. but it was it wasn't
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what it was a mental thing i actually felt it so. the disposable cameras vibrate and. probably not maybe i'm just going crazy. but you know if this is what going crazy feels like then a quantity of creating it's very nice. people are at camp grounded to escape being interviewed for television is definitely not on their agenda but two of my companies for beats and lego have agreed to appear on camera. we find that you feel science full of it it was like the problem was it was a real issue part of it as i did on one with sort of being in the moments you know my scene on facebook and why i used to be and i got off by about three years ago and part of there was i find myself i found myself always. finding
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a moment to share and realizing i actually did enjoy the moment it was more about i got these trees how can i share this moment with other people as opposed to me just enjoying the tree enjoying the scenery and so i found that to be a poem i found myself never really being in the moment always trying to have other people be here with me he will they were never there you know we'd be at the dinner table i might go to lunch with three or four coworkers and you know one would say now you know always takes you know you talking to work and she put it down and now first i get upset because i g.'s let me do what i need to do with then i started realizing that when i sort of seen other people that i understood. why i was so bothersome you know because it was like what is it. what is it that's so important out there that i took the time to sit down with you that you have to do something else and i realize that that's what i was doing as i would like and i'd be take just half an hour with this person. riccio story reminds me of the life i'm trying
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to leave behind i'm just not so departing in a day or so and come to mind i'm like you and i consider some weights and you know when you detox and fight life's. so you and i both leave right we go have another conversation our friends and we're both really trying to engage and they're checking their phone the whole time we're going to say to me so annoying right how how i think about like that like what's that going to be like am i going to say something i'm going to be like can you put that away for a little bit can we have half an hour like how my going to deal with that because you know i think about that if i'm going to put energy into this conversation and connecting with you in the right eye contact how long we've been looking at right now. right with no limited or no distraction right when does that ever happen outside of here right because someone will break it right and probably because of a phone yeah yeah interesting so that you know my my mom died last year i lost my.
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thank you i'd never. thought about it and so you just mentioned it then but she was ill for a long time and she was. especially me that was one side dining room and then became her bedroom. ice that she got when i'd go home to see her and she'd be talking to me and i'd be on my phone you know and. she was trying to engage me in conversation and i was just you know that you know you know everything away treating some people who i don't even remember who they were you know now so. and talking. in the quiet seclusion of the forest is giving me the time and space. i need for reflection. and before our evening meal all of us are being encouraged to go back to our villages get changed into white clothing and take time to pause to reflect and to prepare.
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for the trust him once because it was the summer solstice it was the longest day of the year so there's going to be some salsas dana. let me reach hunt is a stray small brown envelope envelope inside it some just a small piece of able to talk about how fears of things that hold you back. that it was a small pencil and that it's such an everyone should want the one fear they have or the one thing we feel. fear all regrets because we haven't done it tonight. the big bell rang. and everybody likes on bees just started to turn around in the trucks started walking towards the towards the main area to this kind of gently moving queue which was leading towards
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a big bonfire they've been set up before going in that they were they were throwing the final. fine for it's the the week writes the fee is the things that they were told that they should get rid of. we have signed into the a long table it's a far table set outside it was obsolete he said. to some music going on the use of chanting but everybody was asked to eat the food inside there. you told you the reason for this is you pretty shady more i don't know it sounds a bit crazy might be watching this thing through what is healing well but it's actually worse you know i unfold my not can i am i supposed to as it unfolded in thought you know in the moment do this and soaps look at the patterns on it and
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then came see eating the food you know i don't see really quick and so on. i had to really slowly i was thinking i'm really enjoying toast this is a really nice this is a pretty nice meal actually. i did in the house in church it for some of the time some this time it felt i felt a little bit cultish like this was some kind of weird religious cult if you've ever seen the seventy's movie the way come out if you know all these kind of weird people just walking around on that as this kind of big battle be wrong of this people throwing things on fire no one's talking. or saying this is some kind of science some going to happen it's news of the supply chain it pops in minute. but i thought about the thing that i put in that regrets. it was like it was and i know that sounds really silly. watches to think he's going crazy he's become
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assimilated or it's been affected by this group mentality cult thing but. you know because i know what it was and it's something that i have always regretted but. i don't regret it anymore because it's gone now it's done and it's prostitutes or if i feel like it's left me. it is really amazing. that a bunch of strangers. get weird and feel normal that. way. you know this kind of whole weekend has gone so slowly right it's. just because it's lasted forever and there's been this kind of clock ticking towards the last day and i think people were. you know sort of dreading the end of the exact reason everybody has had just the most amazing fall some time.
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this has been just a completely. incredible incredible experience almost incredible experience of my entire life this place you know i don't say i like me because my right here hated it actually hated from last year a few hours. and i was kind of thinking you know i'm. kind of feel changed. it's weird but i don't know i just. i feel like i don't want to house this thing. is there all the time anymore this device that kind of ruled my life. in so many ways that i personally said was insignificant things that really matter. i feel so much more optimistic. i feel like a very different person. i've
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. two months have passed and now i am back in london campground it seems a world away a lifetime ago. i had every good intention of starting over but it began with a text then an email i didn't have a choice i have a job that requires me to be connected maybe that looks like an excuse that's what politics do right they try to validate their behavior but there is some truth in it there's always some truth in it. it's hard to give up something you like doing and for me that is being connected and not wanting to miss out on things again i am back to where i started i'm as addictive as i ever was maybe my friends were right
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you know somebody once told me that for an addict to really recover they have to state their name and they have to state their affection some maybe i should try that. my name's full of l n i an addict. anti fascist anti establishment and pro violence despite the recent official disbanding of its militarized wing a basque separatist movement is found alive and well on the terraces of a bill vile stadia. a place where political revolutionaries share a platform an ideology with violent football hooligans. read all death on al-jazeera. hello there we're still scenes of fairly disturbed weather over parts of the middle
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east at the moment the latest satellite picture shows that the majority of the cloud is currently over parts of turkey making its way towards the caspian sea there towards the south there are a few showers here as well but nothing quite as heavy and persistent as there is for the north looks like the showers here will continue to break up as we had three days they should have a pleasant day with a top temperature of around seventeen degrees and the temperatures will be climbing even further as we head through friday friday does look a little bit calmer for many of us across parts of turkey as well meanwhile for the east largely find a dry for many of us here to see a maximum of around fourteen degrees here in doha there's no major changes expected in our weather over the next few days for top temperature here will be around twenty five degrees for the south it is a bit milder here over parts of say a lot less so thirty one will be our maximum maybe thirty as we head into friday down to was the southern parts of africa will also showers here they're stretching from angola all the way down towards madagascar and some of them really are quite heavy over madagascar on thursday they clear away though as we head into friday so
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madagascar will have a brighter day still a few showers just not quite as many of them for many of us in south africa you should be fine job or get twenty nine twenty one. in malaysia schooling is a luxury for children of writing or muslim refugees but. every child deserves an opportunity for faith and creativity the arms them with the skills to overcome any hurdle and seize the threat to his schools existence as a test of his faith. school of hope to the viewfinder asia seems on al-jazeera. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tigers nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure
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peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brittany's happiness is what we ensure it's if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. the parliamentary party does have confidence. the british prime minister survives a confidence vote but now faces the challenge of reworking brags that would be easy you.
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don't have one i'm kemal santa maria and this is the world news from al jazeera. if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened after market shoji they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside. your senators debate whether to pull their military support for the saudi embassy led coalition fighting in yemen. three palestinians killed during operations to find suspects linked to attacks on israelis and china rests a second canadian in apparent retaliation against the trial of a chinese executive. so the british prime minister theresa may is heading to brussels to meet a youth leaders less than twenty four hours after surviving a challenge to her leadership she is looking to get more concessions from the bloc brigs that plan still faces widespread opposition in parliament and her simmons'
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looks back for us on a big day in british politics the result of. this evening is that the parliamentary party does have confidence. it was a convincing win two hundred votes against one hundred seventeen. a secret ballot behind closed doors in westminster was because of tories amaze handling of bricks it but she struck a compromise with the conservative party in order to ensure keeping her. promise not to stand in the next election but she made no reference to such a compromise when she emerged to the. so here is a new mission delivering the bricks it people voted for bringing the country back together and building a country that truly works for everyone but some of those who voted against her say
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there's been irreparable damage. greenland's has divided the conservative party and divided the conservative party from. this means. we don't have a majority to govern the country earlier in the day there had been high drama the tension easing only slightly when conservative m.p.'s publicly declaring their support past the hundred fifty nine figure needed for her survival as party leader cabinet ministers led the charge we already have a certain amount of volunteer volatility in the country because the negotiations going on with the e.u. think it is a huge mistake to add to that volatility by having a leadership fight now and all the confusion would go that. the prime minister had started her day in a defiant mood i will contest that vote with everything i've got she immediately cleared his schedule and headed off to parliament to face the opposition and if he
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wants a meaningful data i'll give him one twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen let me leave they are. here i mean. totally and absolutely unacceptable the prime minister not government already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of this problem and it's been an extraordinary few days in british politics to resume a return to downing street on wednesday night still in her job but at the risk of turning herself into a lame duck prime minister and drew simmons al-jazeera london. just stuff to seven am in london in fact so it is good morning to paul brennan outside the house of parliament in westminster i feel paul that it's one of those the more things change the more they stay the same so much happened yesterday so much so mulcher as action but nothing's really changed by the next morning still has to get this deal through some. indeed i mean she's gone off to brussels to try to
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seek those reassurances and clarifications that she hopes will change the arithmetic here in the houses of parliament in terms of the vote that she has to get through parliament over the deal but the do you pity the democratic unionist party which is the party to cheer relies upon to prop up minority government has said frankly this vote of confidence vote by her own party yesterday doesn't actually change the arithmetic at all now what she's looking for is a legally binding and legally operable guarantee that this irish backstop will not be living in perpetuity and there has been a draft emerged from brussels which seems to suggest that there would be the word temporary attached to the language but that is an addendum to the withdrawal agreement it's not part of it the withdrawal agreement will not be renegotiated europe has made it absolutely clear about that. it will be legally binding so she
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can go there she can get if the draft holds in the final communique and then bring it back here and it still may not be enough what's the sort of timeline now paul aside from obviously histories and i said in that report twenty ninth of march next year when the u.k. supposed to leave because you know the meaningful vote was called off recently is there a timeline for this to happen again. the timeline shifts and it depends entirely on events in a week is a long time in politics and we're still learning on thursday it's been pretty crazy here in westminster over the past couple of weeks isn't what you said is that what you called off that vote on monday of the vote was due to take place on tuesday that it wouldn't it would happen definitely before january the twenty first now that gives time to go around europe trying to bolster support going to this european council meeting later today to try and get the qualifications that she needs to bring it back here and then work on those m.p.'s to change their minds to
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support the deal that she's brought back so she's got a window of opportunity there january the twenty first but don't forget it's also possible that labor might try to force a no confidence vote as well i think it's unlikely at the moment because labor are keeping their powder dry biding their time they don't want to launch a vote of no confidence vote and then lose it and they also don't want to box themselves into a corner as well which no confidence vote might do for their policy so that the only date that we have really is that it's going to be a vote here in parliament before january twenty first thank you but we'll talk to you again soon paul brennan is in london developing story this thursday israeli forces have killed three palestinians in separate operations first happened in the old city of jerusalem israel says the suspects stabbed to police officers two other raids took place in the occupied west bank the military says they were planned operations to find suspects linked to attacks on israelis. the u.s.
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senate has defied president donald trump and voted to begin discussing a resolution to end u.s. military support for the saudi emirate he led coalition in yemen they have until friday to vote on it for a similar vote was struck down back in march has more. at stake what us republican senator lindsey graham called a defining moment for the u.s. and for the future of saudi arabia there are a lot of bad actors in the mideast and we just don't need to condone any more than we have to and this is a situation where you don't have to they need us a lot more than we need them. since two thousand and fifteen the u.s. has provided logistics support to the saudi led military coalition fighting against who the rebels in yemen in august a bomb believed to have been made in the us well on a school bus full of children killing many starvation has killed eighty five thousand children since the war stars and
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a cholera epidemic has swept the country if united states with very little media attention has been saudi arabia's part in this horrific war we have been providing the bombs the saudi led coalition is using refueling their planes before they drop those bombs and assisting with intelligence but it was the october killing of the american based journalist jamal khashoggi that's pushed the u.s. to tell saudi arabia enough is enough the cia says saudi arabia directed killing and dismemberment inside its consulate in istanbul something the kingdom first denied maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes the resolution to withdraw u.s.
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military support must still clear the house republicans there moved wednesday to make that more difficult and a final signature from president donald trump who is publicly back to saudi arabia is unlikely president continues to claim is lower than affection for the crowd and the saudi regime but that is not have. in my view the american people feel it may be a long time before the message from u.s. capitol hill turns into action but the important thing supporters say is that the u.s. is sending a message at all heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington meanwhile the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations says saudi arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in an interview with u.s. media nikki haley said the crown prince mohammed bin salman is responsible because
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he is the effect of head of the saudi government of course killed at the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second. i think we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone this we won't give you a pass and don't do this again and then i think that the administrations have to talk about where we go from here what i can tell you that so important is that the saudis have been our partner in defeating and dealing with iran and that has been hugely important more in this with mohamed van who's outside the saudi consulate in istanbul it is an interesting position for nikki haley to take mohamed given it is completely at odds with everything that donald trump says. yes that's right here in turkey the those lines by nikki haley were carried in the newspapers as usual your papers here and the general public opinion in turkey are very keen on what's going on in the united states in terms of the discussion about
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what to do with the saudi arabia and the crown prince mohammed mr mann in the framework of the story of them out how should john so and so they carry every line and analyze it here in turkey the government also is waiting for that discussion in the us between the several branches of the government to get to come to fruition a kind of result with regards to you know the position towards saudi arabia so it's a very interesting line here in turkey but also as you said nikki haley's leaving her post in a matter of two weeks and probably she's no longer you know she's no longer willing to you know continue to toe the line and say exactly what i'm saying we understand the president has a different position even though he has some time is talked about the horrible horrible killing of them are casualties and he didn't even want to listen to the tapes and so on the same time he comes at the last minute to say i still support him hundred percent man and his family in position as the leader of saudi arabia so those contradicting positions within the u.s.
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are of high interest here in turkey the government is however busy with other things is that they present everyone was talking more and more about an operation that is imminent inside turkey and also newspapers and the public opinion very busy with with that situation however the story of the investigation is still very high on the agenda here and turkey is still waiting for saudi arabia to respond even though that they are very frustrated with with that regard and they think that they don't have high hopes for saudi arabia you know cooperating and the talk is more now shifting to was discussions with you and about the possibility of moving the file for an international investigation thank you mohamed val for the update from. and just another story out of turkey at least seven people have died in a train crash in the turkish capital ankara dozens more people injured investigators say the high speed.
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