protesters with a group called mute kelly gathered outside kelly's chicago studio on wednesday. i discussed it as a black woman. they returned to their parents some observers say there are reasons out like asians that go back decades have drawn little scrutiny until now. primarily. and. kelly is held responsible depends on whether the alleged victims prosecutors are seeking respond to their calls and what they have to say john hendren al-jazeera. saudi arabia plans to cut its oil exports this month and is promising further cuts in the near future the kingdom plans to reduce exports by eight hundred thousand barrels a day in january and by one hundred thousand in february the move is meant to

restore its market share offer for oil prices saudi arabia is world's top crude supplier. one of the world's most famous comic book characters is celebrating his ninetieth birthday generations of young readers around the world followed tintin's international escapades. racism campaigners say the books are filled with offensive stereotypes and the reports now from belgium. with his distinctive has style and fluffy dog tintin is one of the world's most recognizable comic book characters belgian artist l.j. created the intrepid young reporter whose adventures were first published in one nine hundred twenty nine ninety years on he continues to install franz and at the l.j. museum in belgium anniversary preparations are underway. tintin is an invisible link between children across the world the books have been translated into two hundred languages and two hundred million books have been sold this character continues to

fascinate people tintin solves mysteries across the world from china to north america and even further afield. nineteen years after his creationism tao the temptation is still very popular but in recent years some of the stories have become controversial with some readers saying they propagate racial stereotypes like this one tintin in congo when this was created congo was a belgian colony the story reflects a colonial vision of africa congolese people often sketched a savage is stupid or lazy tintin is portrayed as the intellectual and cultural superior this author says that l.j. wasn't racist but simply drew on the colonial materials available at the time he's published a book that puts tintin in congo in what he calls historical context. to judge

what was created in one thousand nine hundred eighty s. with today's values is artificial of course. just throw it away in the dust bin of history. for more than a decade this activist has waged a legal battle in belgium to have the book banned he says it's offensive and could negatively influence the way children feel africans are now this book was a tool to motivate belgians to go to congo it gave them a sense of superiority so how can a book that serve to commit crimes be accepted in this way without any discussion of books like tintin in congo on acceptable and should be banned for children. congo gained independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty some campaign is the european nation has yet to face the brutal reality of its colonial past they say that reassessing the impact of tintin in congo would be a small but significant step the tasha buckler al-jazeera lou violent earth belgium .

so the little check of the headlines here on al-jazeera and opposition candidate felix to scaredy has been declared the provisional winner of the long delayed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo. i know how many of you find it hard to accept but i say with sincerity i pay homage to president joseph kabila president of the republic today we must no longer consider each other as adversities but rather as partners and democratic change in our country. where runner up martin has dismissed the results as an electoral who out to suit you all those who learned of the truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national bishops a possible conference sankoh and the church of congo through your historical observations we ask you to reveal to the congolese people and to the whole world the name of the person who really was our peoples choice. vision good reject

categorically the result published by the election commission president. president told trump has walked out of a meeting with the democrats after they refused to fund a border war with mexico he called to me to be a total waste of time and tweeted afterwards that he had said bye bye to the democrats stand off and seen the government in a partial shutdown now for two and a half weeks u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was in egypt where he'll be giving a major speech on the trumpet ministrations middle east policy his stop in cairo as part of an eight day tour of the region the cities where former president barack obama delivered his address to the broader muslim world in two thousand and nine or wednesday pompous stops in iraq to reassure government officials about america's commitment to the fight against isis sources have told al jazeera that turkey's prosecutor is working on a list of saudi suspects accused of murdering jamal khashoggi indicating a trial in absentia is likely to take place in the country where he was killed just

a few days ago saudi arabia and now its own trial for eleven suspects but has yet to name them but the u.s. said that day is same day questioned its credibility and the u.n. called for a trial with international involvement thursday marks one hundred days since john this murder all right you have to take with headlines here on al-jazeera we've got more news coming up right after the stream from it clark it's goodbye for now. talk to. you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the. listen if you want relations with india all that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter. for me ok in your in the stream today how can architects change the world for the

better how to think about this not only are they responsible for the zion and structure of built surroundings but they also have an incredible impact on communities the environment and even on culture they literally shape our world you can see that back here with some of the world's most iconic buildings now we are asked you our stream community to share some images of how architecture has impacted your world and i bet on covert shares these photographs and she says that this office buildings in the center of prague and it was designed by my friend's father huge positive is a combination of nature with the urban features we need more buildings like this ideally as eco add sustainable as possible sure lodging says images from rock island thank you sean he's in illinois and he says these two community projects are part of efforts to improve rundown and exactly park property while depicting how we teach one more from h.g.

forests sharing this building in camden in london and shows us how environmentally sustainable design can also be aesthetically pleasing absolutely now in today's program you'll meet some very influential architects who work at the intersection of building design and social justice and here are the thoughts of one architect who does exactly that down a sink. i am most excited about architecture right now is that we're finally getting rid of the idea of the architect a solitary genius architecture and other design disciplines are getting sort of fuzzy and are woven as we start to see how connected the ideas of social justice are to work built environment architecture planning transit urban land use policy even economics of building a public health these things are all connected in creating a fair and equitable society and the built environment has enormous influence of those issues we're finally starting to see the architecture discipline embrace the idea that the hero's journey may not be about stark texture but maybe about doing

a quiet community collaborative service in your world. joining us from lagos nigeria can lay out a yemeni is an architect designer a researcher is also the founder and principal of n l e in niamey in the g.m. out am come on is an architect he's also founder and principal of that mass on need she was a founding member of united for design that's a global collective working on projects in the u.s. afghanistan and cher and yasmin laurie is an architect she's also co-founded c.e.o. of the heritage foundation of pakistan she's also pakistan's first woman architect it is so good to have you all here everybody our audience has got a very specific idea of what an architect should do for instance our modern power like says architectural design should be get accommodate modern day disaster management equipment to fostering peaceful coexistence and meeting the needs of all . james in areas where there are heavy rains for many months houses should be

designed to keep the rain out without having to put up plastic sheets to protect the home so the public is thinking about this in a very practical way yasmin from your perspective what is the role of an architect . well you see i really believe in kind of barefoot architecture is very different from what we see normally and i sometimes call it also i'm not an architect but it is something that you know we i believe that need to use their expertise to perhaps you know lift people out of poverty this is what i try to do and that means that we have to democratize architecture and also that you know we need to provide social and also ecological justice as well as i think the comments that we just saw about climate change the impact and how do we deal with disasters these are all issues that are really relevant to us today what is democratized architecture actually meaning reality well it means that you have to design so that it relates to the

world the majority that lives in many of asian and african countries and that we make sure that these are low cost that is you know carbon and you know waste because we have to think of the planet and to make sure that we don't deplete the resources of that that so that is what it means that it will be what everybody has to be pro quo it has to deal with you know majority of the people that live in very impoverished conditions money and i want to show our audience one of the designs that they used on in this and it's really striking what was it that made you want to be an architect. actually i wanted to be our get a long time before i actually became one because of second career for me i used to be a software developer for many years. but i just could not shake desire you know to do architecture and the thing that actually allowed me to make that plunge with this realization and i think this is what everybody on the here can relate to that

is really this realization that what architecture you can have such a powerful impact in people's environments and in their circumstance and in their economics as was just said there is an ecological responsibility that comes with all the materials there's an issue of identity of culture all of these things and those are all issues that i was seeing as being really salient and important and just. were guiding everything in the environment i grew up and coming from such a poor country and so all of a sudden i just realized that you know more than just the design creates which was my initial reason for the architecture i could actually make a small contribution towards working on a lot of the issues i was seeing in my home country so that really encouraged me to just take the plunge can a fashion school at e.m.i. . people whenever you talk to people they always ask you about the flesh and school

. is that you know heat building do you think is is that the one that will always be identified with you wherever you go. i think. we want. to do a lot of other projects. it certainly is one that. had quite a lot of impact. and. i don't. get most of my work. good thing or bad thing for you i think it's a good thing. if you like to make the pages of your favorite song over and over and over again and that's something twenty years ago when you still have to play it because that shit. people want people like. me we always we were constantly. on the.

so i guess i want to be honest about this architects do have a reputation for being somewhat aloof where do you think that might come from. the tech have a real reputation of being somewhat aloof where do you think that might come. i mean i think that that's probably because our. profession that sense of focus within our. within the small community. sometimes we you know we're in the sort of dream world of what we think. and i think. the issues that actually determine development in the world much more complex. require an architect think

more outside domain of architecture. think work with other collaborators. address challenges that are beyond just show i want to tell our audience about an architect called michael arad michael arad to you may know is the designer of the memorial for the nine eleven victims he's here on my laptop hey you can see the memorial in the background more recently he designed this which is. a memorial for another tragic event which is the emanuel nine memorial to commemorate the charleston church shootings you may remember a gunman went into the church and killed people in the church so michael spoke to us a little bit earlier and told us what he felt was the role of the responsibility of an architect have a listen to him here i believe our country has very important role to play in affecting. our public. our selection of who we are as.

we make them and they in turn make. in this public place is bringing us together as a community as a group. and i think that is one of the most important things we can do they can affirm our sense of identity as part of a collective. and dr who time are. you know we're more than. our individual. yes me what i find fascinating about your career is that you changed at some point from designing grand buildings designing very practical buildings what happened to you why did you fifty psi that you needed to make an impact on the people in the house seeing in the way people lived in pakistan. with me basically of course pakistan is a really a poor country and we have an enormous sort of high poverty levels and now i work with people who are barefoot they have no shoes so i you know we're designing

something we call barefoot social architecture which is to see that we can change the minds and transform their mindset it's like social engineering but with a dimension of culture in it because what we do is to try to see what has been there when that clip tradition and to try to incorporate that in everything that we do it has to be something that has to be a participatory process where people themselves are able to build themselves and we had them to build better because of the problem in my country in many countries of africa is that people suffer from enormous deficits of basic needs i mean they have no shelter they may not have any attorneys there's no what. there is no cooking facilities so all these are basic needs and also plantation so what we're trying to do is to really implement now these holistic models will people themselves begin to take pride in what they do and they have understand their own self worth and that

is the challenge and asking what we were showing just them was an elevated building because there was people now so much flooding in pakistan jean the monsoon season so the building is elevated it's so simple so that when the rains come people don't have to leave their homes and not displace people in their own land and then there's everything all of the living can happen above the flood water and then that means that that changes their lives so that social impact right. now and in the don't get displaced because that's the worst thing that happens when any flooding takes place or earthquakes happen then you know obviously you are displaced and this is what we have to now guard against we have to really have disaster preparedness everywhere so everything that is built is safe so i have to tell you that i only was bamboo mud and lime i don't know whether you know that or not i do not. was anything meant that is normative that we was meant might have high carbon emissions so that is something that's not very important for the future to think and it is something that people are used to they can work with those materials

themselves and so they can actually raise above it was a day by themselves and that is what we need to do is to give them the tools where they're become self-reliant and this is what the attempted that in all of the work that i did today i am there is this this debate going on within the architecture profession which is about purpose and then also about beauty and art lady standing in that debate tell us about the work that will doing that that straddles that us. i don't really see them necessarily you know two separate things or to compare canuck were exists right because architecture and the function one of the functions of design is you know beauty it is it is a com component and i think it goes often. opposition. between you know good thing for good or making something that is for me be the most people have the least means and building from computer for as do you could not do both

let's get let's give you one example i want to see the market that you designs are going to show the market and you can tell us what are they saying at. essentially we made this market in a rule village in the air and it used to be a weekly market that was just made out of reach and straw and basically that they had to rebuilt roughly every six months and essentially the village was very interested in developing a local economy this used to be a weekly market so they could only really be ignorant. and sell it selling their goods every week and so the idea was to create displaced that would be you know whimsical and beautiful and provide all these playful little canopies where children could play around and maybe feel as though it was this really massive playground and parents and you know sellers and whoever customers could just sort of set up and just want to hang out not just about commerce not just about anything else in order to reading good kind of sense of what pride sense

of place that you want to be instance of beauty because no matter what your income is no matter where you are sometimes there's i don't see why we should say bad just because something it's opposed to before. a village or you know some of the gift rich area that it should not have beauty so we really try in all of our projects to find ways in which to inject something that can make you dream something that's playful something that maybe you've never seen before and i can trust for you outside of yourself and maybe even sometimes as a sort of a condition psychologically these things matter i really believe can i let me put this tweet somewhere in my vector he says architect should allow members of the community to have a voice in the design design should it be technocratic as economics. describes in chinee of experts track human she designs as policies that each one is affected differently i have seen you what with the local community it is a fascinating process how do you do it how to get say this is my design on the

architect but also i'm doing it here. well i actually don't start out about when i think we. go into a community or go into. a condition where there's a need for service and have conversations with people who need to talk talk to them understand the problem understand their challenges but also more importantly the opportunities. it doesn't matter how difficult condition is always opportunity . and that's what we look out for since time is not now academy because the consequences of that many don't tell me how you how you came through that process. so the black rhino academy project and in a very remote village in khorat to kind of been there and we worked with the

local partners and the founder to understand what the material or kind of material resources on the building type ologies and. bricks where. common commonly used. work in the community there to develop a way of creating spaces an architecture that was simple but was also also had. something that was all the problems and also created an identity for the school. yes minister anything that you wanted to ask. about the what doing because you pining even danish when they when they were still at school. starchild well i think what would be really interesting because i eagerly would you know both what they said in terms of good design because i think that's needed in people who are

very poor they will appreciate good design and where there's deficit you need more design rather than less to really support who needs the services of good architects but i would say that i'd be really interested to see if francis really could really designed something in bamboo he saw things that could be involved bamboo rather than wood or muddy and could design her world and you know rather than one brick if that could be mud bricks and that we could pass on the information about how to use lime because lime is an amazing material it makes it absolutely waterproof and that's what i do in all our modern buildings we actually mix lime and it's true the light is the soil and it makes really very strong bricks so i would really like to see good architect getting involved in humanitarian was because that's what they're really needed urgently because i might just explain to you that there's a hole in their food system i believe where people are you know there's a market there which is like for the barefoot market where transgressions can take

place and if you can train these poor people how to be able to help to build better that is the best thing that we can do to help me just give you an example here of why pakistan chula i don't know whether you have an image of that or not which is a story with an urgent job in the platform to direct compliance floodwaters on defected and yet there they are and i designed it as an urban platform with really this particular kind of you know two story with angel and i give them the but i feel that my work is like you know creating a canvas on which they then begin to innovate and they you know produce something that after the extraordinary out of these forty thousand jewellers and we just heard that we got this world happy thought it was for pakistan for the audience to each one is a unique project to see. so that's where we do them if you allow them the possibility of. our audience is very concerned about the sustainability of

architecture and new buildings and jamal says that the world needs more sustainable architecture it's our responsibility to build cream green and clean smart cities and then peter here talks about architecture on the positive side has been critical in recycling waste an example of construction of buildings using recycled material in los angeles you're also doing something very similar in the share tell us your take on marble for instance where should marble be used them why should marble not be used i think it might just wake people up just a little bit. well i mean i think really when it comes to materials you use what you have right and so the climate and the geology of the place you're in usually would determine that if there's no marble in and i have to import it from italy we have a bit of a problem right especially because country we're far away from italy it would be under looper hitter's and that's the least sustainable thing we can possibly do if

you're in a village in italy that court is marble then by all means you know include the marble it's not a problem and so in the just for example we have let's write the soil that's amazing and we make our projects making these earth breaks and unfired and we just use. a press to to to make them stronger and. draw the raw material that we use. in the direction but also even the metal that we use is a true recycled metal we have in the jar has this great. ability and a bunch of people who have really really high skills in transfer from metal scrap metal that didn't melt down and turned back into tubes and. sheet metal which is not structural but it's wonderful for doing for example the kind of piece that we made in the project that you just showed and so we end up recycling these things over and over again and turn them into something else and then harnessing the local

skills to do the necessary the skills of the people who live there but the skills than all the workers that can transcend with they're used to doing which is also something that's incredibly important in terms of reidy furthering the skills are already there and putting forth challenges and providing new designs and new kind of ways of putting together the things that they already know how to do which ends up for us creating a situation where at the end of a project we always have the construction workers or the metal workers who always comment about the fact that oh my gosh i've never done something like this before and when you do. i thought it was absolutely crazy but oh ok you know i'm happy we did and for us that's absolutely most gratifying thing that we can possibly have in our work. can i i'm thinking about future generations of architects i know that you're already inspiring if you could tell them one tip how to do architecture that actually changes people's life what would it be. i think.

my explain to our kids. it's one that we do on a time so it requires a lot of focus on the art. and the trade and for that reason i like the architecture is not a sprint in the market. i want to show a little clip from a film yassmin helped us make it al-jazeera some years ago it's called rebel architects and you'll teach chick you're teaching a class i don't think this woman comes apart from yourself but you have a mission in mind and i want to share this clip with everybody this is from rebel architects and this is yeah spent just a few years ago teaching about architecture. if you haven't heard of.

one. of them going. to give you money and we can you know. have you know more than brainwashing of young people and their memory when we start. yasmin briefly at the very end of asho how is the brainwashing going in pakistan. being i mean is going well let me be getting more and more involved and picking up more and more religious learning to dig of these forty thousand to learn really does know will be there in the debates this model being applied but i have to say that i really would like to you know that we should really really weird that the rest indebted to more basically i don't believe in handouts i believe that people are going to think them so we have to invest into their training and they really would like i need massive amount of help from tech giants because i need communications you like google or i

don't know microsoft. and they just meant that this is the end of our conversation when i'm impressed that you are using this opportunity as a platform for getting more people involved with fuel style of architecture i appreciate that says here architects able to make the world a better place by responding to climate responding to users and then making it special can lay and yasmina merriam thank you for making this. episode of the strong special i'll always. take it. that.

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