desire to knows better than most he was and i saw fighter this is video of him when he was with the armed group he joined for idealistic reasons he says he left when he witnessed the brutality. i saw was very cruel to everyone they killed people slaughtered them they used bombs they did whatever they could i had to leave here survive three assassination attempts the last a few days ago when a magnet bomb was attached to his car in a crowded marketplace killing one of his men and badly injuring him the people here are scarred and scared by ice all the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear two goals nine sons were killed by eisel one was hacked to death with an axe. i don't have power to take my revenge otherwise i would have hammered him all over his body from head to toe i would keep him for a week and then let him die slowly because that is what he deserves. with the

afghan army overstretched in the fight against the taliban militias are the first line of defense in one the hard province where some that there's an alert they are tucked in not far from here if we leave this area they will come back to destroy this place again but we will fight again until we die then. these militias have only basic arms and equipment they say is insufficient to really fight i still they need more and us air power alone is not enough to destroy eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans dropped their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s.

paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel . local commanders say that i still hear as men from church in your turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan the. trouble is that this was the foreign fighters are very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone the local i saw have at least some feeling for afghans but for an isolator crew are their hearts are made of stone on the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out or talked of this. but there's not people who want to use the university for political reasons

against the guard and no one can bring that ideas to work again the interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to encounter the battle hardened men who will lose syria but not a cause tony berkeley al jazeera or eastern afghanistan the u.s. acting defense secretary has met the afghan president during a surprise visit to kabul patrick shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's efforts to end a seventeen year war there during discussions with ashraf ghani he reiterated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban the group has so far resisted the government's involvement regarding it as a us puppet shanahan also met u.s. troops stationed there. still to come this half hour massive crowds on the streets of tehran as iran marks the fortieth anniversary of its islamic revolution. and a new warning that a dramatic decline in insect numbers could cause

a catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems. we've got some quater weather coming into western parts of europe over the next couple of days further east we will see things getting a little more unsettled while piling over towards hungary remaining pushing up into ukraine they'll be some rain that we state that we some snow as well down to the southeast and cold some wet weather pushing back towards city parts of grace western areas of key still wanted to flare is there over that never counts but for the the main alpine region in looks like dry over the next day or so when there's asset a weather over towards the west nine celsius in paris could get up to twelve degrees in london feeling pretty good as well with a gentle south westerly wind similar picture has been going into wednesday into

well into northern parts of england darlin that indeed to scotland the winds to pick up but for a good part of england itself it doesn't see bad some pleasant sunshine also coming through that twelve will be the eight that we have in athens right sleet possibly some snow coming in here as we go through wednesday very wet weather pushing its way over towards turkey that could lead to some localized flooding want to see showers a possibility across the north of libya maybe into egypt as we go on through the next couple of days but for the northwest is fine and sunny. else geology. why are they so pure emotion. we're trying to form a good. toxin when essentially you know where the more we would place them the more

they push back we do is come to question was do we sit and wait. to be surprised what are you. going to run to the top stories around jazeera brazil has agreed to store tons of humanitarian aid at a center near the border with venezuela after welcoming a new ambassador sent by venezuela's self declared interim president on. thailand's election commission has disqualified the king's oldest sister from running for prime minister in next month's election the king said it was inappropriate for

a princess to go to rock to stand because royalty should be above politics. and a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand i came on a raby who fled to australia and twenty fourteen was arrested in november on our honeymoon. iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty is the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution he told the crowds in tehran that the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program so we know how to report. it's an honor we'll rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central to her and to celebrate independence from us dominance this time of public is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with

the united states and the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the u.s. withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile

development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it will able to pass this crisis the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolutions ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is barack obama part of the official discourse until the united states changes what he calls its evil ways that. will improve any time so. says. the pressure what trouble calls the radical regime

in iran. some american officials. rejected that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what will honey has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters. we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leave their common name no matter how hard the situation and the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies center for their. send us ravi was in amongst the crowd celebration anniversary in mashad in the northeast of the country. here in motion the iranians have braved a cold windy day to attend one of the most hotly anticipated events of the calendar

year it was on this day forty years ago that the beginnings of change the upheaval that ayatollah ruhollah khomeini had envisioned for iran had taken hold and towns and cities across the country began to shift into the hands control of those towns and cities began to shift into the hands of khomeini supporters ha ha while the event is to mark a serious historical moment victory day is a public holiday in iran and here in much of the rally is a family affair and has the feeling of a fairground complete with balloons life performances and carnival games you could only find in iran. i. hear is it is in cities across the country as the act of remembering the events of forty years ago is about more than just an excavation of history it's an annual opportunity to live in fortune actualized slummy ideals answering question sentiment of that time

connecting the past to the present as a way to live force the shoshu and political status quo in iran today we met one woman who said she loved the supreme leader ayatollah ali fulminate more than her own husband who was standing right next to her at the time perhaps a testament to the supreme leader's charisma but more likely an example of how people in this part of the country subscribe wholeheartedly to the idea of an unquestionable supreme islam make leader overseeing the affairs of the whole country people here revere from an a as a kind of saw on of the family of revolutionary elites often downplaying the significance of iran's billick to political leaders and if anyone has any doubt. that's the level of the fear if slavic system of government here in iran they need only look for objectives that the revolution had published shows of support like this in iran religious part. is president donald trump will address

a rally in the texan border city of el paso later on monday where he's expected to speak about his proposed war with mexico it comes as california democratic governor is reported to be planning to withdraw all three hundred sixty of his state troops from the southern border last week the democratic governor of new mexico ordered most national guard troops to withdraw from her state's border with mexico. you know the nations has condemned nigeria's president going to war hari for suspending the country's top charge ahead of saturday's election judge water on again would be have been the main arbiter in any dispute over saturday's result of an address reports from my degree on preparations for polling day. the nigeria's president was in the final push for votes ahead of the country's presidential election it's been a long tough campaign season the his main challenger is businessman and former vice

president i too caught up in worker who votes to deny him a second term. as a complaint to a close attention shifts to the election commission which has come under close scrutiny and attacks. will we go to the left the ruling party accuses us of pandering to the opposition party will we go to the right do position party accuses us of plunder into the weeds like a piece of the of the of the of the ruling party with us a commission we have sworn to do what is right to look at the justice of the case and also to make sure that our primary cause you to see remains the nigerian people and the and the voting public. voting machines have been delivered across the country ballot papers will follow. last minute tests are under way the election commission has registered ninety one follicle parties some one to three of these are vying for the post of president election officials say they are ready despite

the logistical challenges now waters on the other hand face some difficulties of well they have to go through a list of ninety one follicle watches on the ballot to choose their candidate. some three hundred thousand policemen will provide security during the boat along with thousands of other security personnel. the army is also ready to help. but it's warning it's all just to stick to politics. not. bad but rules of engagement. because of conduct. no provisions the biggest task goes to the voters more than eighty four million people are registered their job is to elect the president one hundred nine senators and three hundred sixty members of house of representatives two weeks later voters will be

asked to come out again to choose governors and members of state but. other trees i just need a way to go to the northeast nigeria. a new global scientific review has revealed that the world's insects are disappearing at a dramatic rate and could soon vanish altogether that would trigger the collapse of natural ecosystems and threaten our very survival they're in a hunt has more. they're beautiful sometimes bothersome but withouten six scientists say life on earth is under three a global review of studies into one sick population shows they're declining eight times faster than mammals birds and reptiles at that rate the wilts and six could disappear completely within one hundred years as. maize. is built in six and nine six disappear in a hole. if the insects disappear we're going to disappear to the whole

agricultural system depends among other things on the insects that are most vulnerable to extinction to control the other insects which compete with us for our crops so this is a a brilliant paper but at the same time one that scares the pants off of any biologist who understands how the world works it's not just the place of in six in the food chain that has scientists worried that poland that plants purify the soil and waterways recycle waste and have an important role in paste control and then numbers are declining by two and a half a cent every year while climate change and zation are affected as scientists point to the intensification of agriculture as the main culprit the report's authors say in sick decide to have little real bearing on food production part of the solution is the art of all of how the will grows its food to be more environmentally friendly it's an overly optimistic paper because it mentions the

things that we should be doing in order to avoid the extinction of the insects the point is we're not doing any of them. this isn't the first time scientists from around the world have issued a warning about three pts to humanity the first was back in one nine hundred ninety three the second was just last year the problem is they say too few of paying attention made in the home and al-jazeera. a state of emergency has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by poet bass you know i had seventy a capella ago which is home to around three thousand people is located within the arctic ocean dozens of polar bez have been roaming the area even going into residential buildings and offices and polar bears are increasingly coming into contact with humans erica here from the university of washington's pota science center says this is usually because they're hungry and looking for an easy source

of food the number one driver of human political conflicts the number one thing that brings polar bears around to people is generally attractants there is something in a community that smells good that brings polar bears in their smart curious animals they want to find out what smells good or what smells bad because they're always looking for something to eat so that's the number one cause of most conflicts between humans and polar bears there's a long history for both polar bears other various species of bears coming to garbage dumps they get conditioned to human food they become a safety hazard for people in this community it's a very dangerous situation so the number one thing it's often easier said than done but it needs to be done is to reduce these attractants these good smells and whatever food reward animals might be getting from the dump it's not uncommon for bears to become habituated to humans and the more habituated they are the closer they are in proximity to humans the more sick dangerous the situation is for

everybody unfortunately ok when you can catch up any time on a web site al-jazeera dot com. zero has a reminder of the top stories brazil has agreed to store tons of humanitarian aid at a center near the border with venezuela the move follows talks between envoys sent by venezuela's opposition leader. and brazilian authorities or door declared himself interim president last month and is now in a test of wills with the government of president nicolas maduro which is blocks the aid from entering the country there is a book as well from caracas there's going to be an enormous demonstration expected to take place in venezuela this coming tuesday and demanded by one weibo and members of the opposition to allow be aided piling up at the border between venezuela and colombia to be allowed into the country the government would only

thing that they won't let that aid into the country they say that they will have enough to supply its citizens but in spite of that what we have been able to see around him now that there is many many people in this country in desperate need thailand's election commission is disqualified the king's older sister from running for prime minister in next month's election they tie rocks a chant party shocked the country when it announced princess who will rot as its candidate on friday breaking the tradition of royalty staying out of politics. a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia are to bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand or a b who lives in australia was arrested while on honeymoon in november on rainwater to extradited from bangkok to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism. u.s. acting defense secretary has met afghanistan's president on a surprise visit to kabul after shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's

drive to end the seventeen year war there he held discussions with ashraf ghani on national security issues and retreated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban. and iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution he told the crowds in tehran that the country will continue to expand its been a stick missile program so that i was do stay with us at the stream it's come out next one years after that i sort.

of family ok and join the stream today it's not a new story but it's one that continues to astound why is maternal health in the united states so bad but take a look at the statistics the stories behind the numbers and the work that some are tirelessly doing to reverse the trite i'm really could be and this conversation of live on you tube where we welcome your questions and your comments for our guys this is a show we've had a lot of feedback on already with people wanting to hear their stories so here are just a couple. i knew the statistics of black woman and our maternal health i knew of the stories of black women dying in childbirth and it freaked me out when i became pregnant because i did not want to be a statistic i went to every appointment with lots of questions i would ask everything i wanted to know and it didn't matter because five weeks before my due date my daughter decided to arrive early my birth plan was out the window so i

asked all the questions again in the hospital i found her doctor i would make notes because i knew that literally her life depended on my questions thankfully we left the nicu a week after her birth and were here healthy and happy eighteen months later i had a difficult pregnancy where i didn't feel like myself at all and i wasn't sure what was going on but i knew that i had to do something i later found out that i was suffering from congestive heart failure this made me realize how important it is for black women to have quality health insurance to ensure proper medical care prior to pregnancy to potentially save lives. there's a lot to talk about today and with us onset brianna green is the director of operations and a parent nato community health worker at mama toto village in washington d.c. mama toto is a nonprofit organization that creates career pathways for women of color in public

health and provides accessible perinatal support services and las vegas nevada dr joy a career perry is founder and president of the national birth equity collaborative she's also co-founder of black mamas matter and an obstetrician gynecologist and in atlanta georgia charles johnson the fourth is an improved maternal health advocate and founder of four hero for moms his wife here at johnson passed away in twenty sixteen hello everybody it's good to have you here thank you so much for making the time i want to take you back to two years ago in april and that's when kara and charles were in the hospital and baby langston had just been born and there was so much joy and happiness in the hospital have a look. with . me thank. you very. very so

great. to meet together so you were going to be. that is one and some baby so that would have happened so many years ago this coming april charles what happened next. thank you so much and that video scope with the smile on my face. that was one of the happiest moment of our lives and it quickly turned into a nightmare so shortly after my cousin was a liver by routine the theory and direction they took us back to recovery and and i mean they're soaking up all the pride of becoming a father the second time langston is just relaxing in right like august the toaster with the incubator and here is resting i look down and the the catheter from your

bedside begin to fill with a broadly tension in the doctors in the staff of peter sinai medical center and they came in they ran tax including. blood work and a c.t. scan was going to be that in. long story short that they allowed cure a condition to the teary a doctor from most in hours before they finally secure a back to surgery by family and i advocated we thank you played with the staff at your son not going to take action and they kept on telling us well we'll just wait we'll just wait we just wait it finally when they did take her back to surgery. when they finally open her out there were three and a half liters of blood in her abdomen and curious are stopped immediately and there's nothing they can do to save. to save her don't to what do you make about you know the child and i have been together every time i hear it so i am always.

but i so i really appreciate the effort to be really really waiting for so long as a failure of our health care system in general so listen to the mothers of this in the father this is charles manson the brother there since and right away we find that over and over again from some you know william others that a lot of times our patients are our family members and that listen to them that hers and then that value that we really have to work as a community and of the century to think about why is that why don't we listen to and believe and what our faces and our family members or since. and this brand this occurred at cedar sinai which is a major hospital system in los angeles california here in the u.s. so keeping out of mind i wanted to bring up two perspectives here this isn't a i'm a who says that these stories remind this person that the element of class and affordability contributed a big deal to this imbalance we're seeing but he almost immediately got some

pushback from someone who wrote in this is fair on twitter who says a black woman with a ph d. has a higher chance of dying during pregnancy childbirth or postpartum than a white woman who didn't graduate high school this disparity is not due to poverty or being more unhealthy it's an equity due to racism and discrimination on many levels who are we talking about here is there is there is there are a certain type of person is there a certain circumstances there and what does that look like i mean. she was exceptionally she was. she was. in the country. because she was the. child so when we talk about. structural. you can jump in here because to say you know in times like mckenna he can't like any less structural issues is that code for. m. and i. really. think of it as i'm.

thinking about racism. and how we treat. well it's now because. naturally. when they do receive it expect to get a period about. their next few. billion so the steps it's. going to get data show it goes. into that point it's not them the mothers you know

job to. take care of herself or educate herself in a way that her providers inherently be doing you know so that it's not the mom's fault they're being blamed for things that are not their responsibility they should be going to these institutions and expecting that they're going to be receiving care that is the most integrity and respect as any human would come into a hospital brianna i want to share the story with fantasia graham because it really emphasizes how horrific lack of k. can be when you're having a baby. in a national geographic. spread and in the national geographic spread they're looking at maternal deaths in baby steps in the u.s. and why they're so high this is fantaisie a story have a listen have a look i was in and out the hospital i was alive. i'm dying. and i they just ignore me this and i you know when i checked.

you know and go back home everything is fine. and i knew di deep down in my heart everything with not fire because my body was given a light so much frying. i was among roma. you know you know ready for school i just saw a lie and i knew that something was wrong and i saw my grandmother and she was i go to the hospital like now when i got there they did all. and they told me to day did i hear a heartbeat brianna she knew something was wrong she knew her own body then what happened she knew something was wrong and we i went with her several times to the hospital on those is that she's saying she was sent back home and she was articulating to them something is not right. and not being

a medical provider she couldn't say exactly wasn't right what wasn't right but she knew something wasn't correct and every day she was sent back and we went probably about four or five times i went with her personally so. when she lost that baby at that visit she was actually alone when she went to that and she sat in the hospital waiting room for about three to four hours before someone actually called me to common be with her and once i arrived there we sat for another several hours before someone even actually came out and spoke to her about what her next steps were going to be can you explain what those next steps were i will never forget what the next steps were so we went back to speak to the doctor and the doctor told her. it was the day before thanksgiving so they said you can have the delivery maybe today . and the baby the baby had to have died inside of her yes ok so this is you can deliver this baby today by induction or if you want to go home and have thanksgiving tomorrow you can come back after the weekend and when they told her

that she was she literally was dumbfounded why would you ask me something like that it just felt so. so so heartless it didn't take into consideration what she was feeling at that time when she was devastated and then that just added to her devastation so we did go on and she had that baby that same night so tough to hear and of course even tougher to have to live through our community is weighing in on that as well one person just wrote on you tube stan says they see her color and they do not see us as human beings so it's that idea of being dehumanized here but i wanted to push on just a little bit to try to explain this from a medical perspective and we got a video comment from the twin doctors and full disclosure one of those doctors is my brother in law and they sent a video about why they think this is have a listen. so i think a big part of the problem of poor people care and postnatal care for black and

brown women has to do with the fact that we don't have universal health care we need universal health care to provide care i think the second issue is a social safety net we don't have the social safety net that allows people to get to the doctor you don't have with your doctor you don't have some of the watch your children having health insurance is going to do it no access to care is certainly an issue for minorities but another issue is the fact that minorities are typically caring for by the majority and so you have issues of implicit bias and so what happens oftentimes with implicit biases majority healthcare providers when they look at minorities don't relate to them what that would really maan their sister their brother their neighbor and so oftentimes they're kind of put it when there is an emergency this developing and oftentimes they don't recognize that there's an emergency the need to be addressed dilip becomes an urgent life threatening situation. so dr there when we talk about implicit bias bias here in the medical field when did you realize that this was a problem did you learn this know. what i tell the story when i was in school and it was in my mind that long ago and it's like one thousand nine hundred eighty two

thousand i was taught that there were three races mongoloid. and stillness in this country where we've been teaching that didn't attic space that graces our position so that allows them to be to believe in a higher value because that's what we didn't start that really we could use to him and they could see thousand three and still we have a lot of medical providers who still sleep with braces met a dynamic that means that when we say things like the spirit when they hear those words what they hear is of course you're going to hear words because your genetic material and that history if you didn't expect history of metal even that with the same is embedded in how we provide care and embed it is that the implicit biases with every one of the clear people are treated not just based upon a feeling but the act of we not sometimes there are marks of the foot they explicitly believe that we are different so that is implicit and explicit in what way different. different meaning that we are not genetically the same blackness in and of itself our skin is sick or we don't feel pain in the same way we must have

higher rates of i'm sure you get time at the get higher rate than five percent to get higher rates of diabetes with that except innately broken about it and it's the same if we're all cynically the same in this thing that it's farming this is the link that we're living in sort of in this country and people come from africa from the continent that us they have better birth that than african-americans or black people who live here for generations because once you've been here and living inside of the system that treats us differently based upon our skin color you have a health impact that we are not. but. i mean it just resonated with me what she was saying as far as the you know the outcomes of women who are living in this country who would expect to be able to have the benefits of being in america and yet still you know african-american women who have been here their entire lives are having horrible disparities there to people who are coming here and the great and here. there's this idea here that i want to bring up that based on what both of you are saying i want to get this you charles. writes in that there's

a lack of black doctors doctors disbelief of what their black patients tell them blacks get less pain medication than whites healthcare system itself the maternal care desert in southeast d.c. not too far away from us here in the studio all contribute to the statistics health care is racist in the u.s. so this is one person's view there but charles i wanted to pick up on this idea of the disbelieving of what patients tell them because i know that that can then be internalized and then not wanting to seem pushy or like we know more than the doctor when we're trying to talk about a problem talk to us about your thoughts on that and what it felt like to know there was something wrong and not feel like you could speak up absolutely and so appreciate you guys rock. because i'll be transparent one of the things i want to me is actually a big night tomorrow what could i have done and what should i have done differently

and i asked my so maybe if i had been more vocal maybe if i had been more active maybe if i had grabbed a doctor by the collar. maybe if i had raised my voice maybe if i had made a scene maybe my wife would be here today but when i was in the moment and i was at the hospital advocating my wife my thought was that a black man i have to remain calm because if i'm seen as a threat and i get removed from the hospital who's going to be here advocating why and that really haunts me to be honest with you and it's a did difficult thing to think about if i was caucasian probably would have felt that i had the latitude to make a scene of my life the air. but you know what you are advocating now and i think that's really important because we have spent a big chunk of this discussion talking about the issues in the problems but you also know the solutions briana you are one of the solutions explain. a little

village which is an organization that is working with at risk primarily women of color how many black women we are located in order seven of d.c. which for those who are not local is one of the most at risk areas in d.c. and so what we're doing is we're really on the ground trying to make changes within our community. by providing not just maternity support but we're also accessing their entire families supporting these families and identifying that the fact that a lot of our moms are having their outcomes not just solely based on their physical pregnancy but also the other factors that impact their lives food insecurity homelessness mental health issues environmental stresses and so it's also we train our workers to really address the whole woman all those issues that are affecting her in order to give her a better outcome i'm looking here at one of the post mama toto and looking here about building your home visitation skills you giving people that agency in order

to be out to help other women who are expecting really and a lot of a lot of women who are in our program who are working with these mothers were actually served as mothers prior to coming to our program and that's part of the beauty of this program is not just accessing you know people who are not accessible to this community or familiar with the community but also bring people out of the community to come back and serve so it's the creation of services jenny here agrees that your work matters jennie's as midwives can mitigate the inherent risks of birthing while black and bearing the disproportionate burden of risk during pregnancy birth and postpartum and another member of our community here brings up the black mommas matter organization dr joy monica says community engagement and participate work is essential see the holistic care of these worker. she lifts she listen here talk to us about that holistic care we better alliance created among their midwives dealers and o.b. g.y.n. to create a paper because the black faces and it's really holistic care for black mothers and

what this place is like on the set of beliefs which is a part of the paper as well as in d.c. the center there is if we see led by the way everything are there is a birth center instead of think about having access to that midwife in a community that's usually marginalized it's important for us to have spaces that value. the data in the data a way of looking at having to talk to him to care that allows there's no longer or access care it doesn't matter in fact or their insurance status and so the bill that's when the doctor said earlier that we have a country that doesn't have full access to health care basically we don't care essentially that have to have all those things are not only are flexible and that in a sense the right women are doing to the side we don't have access to all the social safety that the. wealthy as we are should have and we use racism in the not

invested in child m m d's i cany saying that maybe we didn't do enough but now you as a consumer impacting so many more women full came a full mom's right hand on my laptop can you explain what it is that you advocating for and how you doing it. absolutely so this is an organization that we created to pay tribute to here of not only cure the tens of thousands of women that are impacted and have been impacted by this crisis so we're doing a couple things first and foremost working diligently with the help of programs like yours to raise the awareness of course this is been america's dirty little secret that we have this crisis going on in that we're working. toward legislation and policies that will make america a better safer place for mothers and babies and lastly working. in cooperation to create programs that will better serve all families but particularly mothers of

color and one of the things i wanted to say and i have to say that. people like but specifically briana and dr joy are are much she wrote right and what you heard from them is talk about a lot of the expertise that organizations like mama tell it to bring to the table and that black mama matter a wise man that they will but one of the things i want to be clear that they bring to the table the next thing is they bring compassion and whether or not it's arena williams whether or not it's keira dixon. the thing across the board that we're finding at that somebody did not listen to these women and they didn't bring a level of compassion that is sorely lacking in our country and so for that i'm grateful. legislation would be remiss in this conversation without talking about legislation that passed not too long ago preventing maternal death act of twenty eighteen and see it on my screen here not very pretty but it happened dr your

thoughts on this great we've been trying to get a bill passed for two years it's been ten years that. we've been trying to get workers to count the number of deaths in the united states we have not been accurately counted in the time of death and that's where you see everything that i would do the dirty little secret the united states and so this bill allows us to invest in housing we're going to have and then really having robots interviews with family members and others to see what really happened if you look inside it and. see section that isn't so huge story this think that charles got his way this is the charles talked about the fact that in that moment in. that number of black people that community deliberate will and they're having a baby there's a number of medical benefits they're going to ruin and i am going to present never the baby it's important we build it so that it's. thank you doll to say much and also charles for sharing such a personal painful story really appreciate you being on the stream today. and the

ending sentiment is this that we've seen several times from people online but song says it's difficult to understand that this is happening in the usa we thank everybody. for camera for moms online also look at that. page for more details about all of the organizations that may be out to help you if you want to make an improved session of maternal health thanks so much for taking. rewind returns a care brainier people back to life from start with brand new updates on the best

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interim president sent an envoy to brazil where she was declared venezuela's official ambassador soon after terrorism but ondrea and out she had assurances from brazil that it would stockpile tons of food and medicine at venezuela's southeastern border a convoy of u.s. aid has been held up at venezuela's western border with colombia since thursday when europe continues to deny there is a humanitarian crisis in his country they may shortages on u.s. sanctions and it's been revealed that president maduro has turned to fellow oil producing nations for help the reuters news agency says maduro wrote to opec asking for support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago opec has yet to comment the u.s. is one of more than forty nations that have recognized one god or as interim president to as a boy who has more from caracas on the efforts to get aid into venezuela. well you go members off you. know his team have explains who was a b.

have different points of entry where they would like for aides who enter the country one of them using the border between venezuela the other one is brazil and s. to t two point where it would also into the country a much needed area we have been there in the past and there's thousands and thousands of venezuelan leaving the country through that border and also we have heard from the opposition that they're thinking of a caribbean island where their help gathering food and medicines with the help of for of the nether lands and try to get that aid into the country as you know the situation remains that so far it's not clear yet when that aid is going to enter the country we know that the opposition would like to greet you money terry and you know you do it most specifically for example in the area of brazil we know that there was a checkpoint established by the military in the years to that area to prevent any type of aid from entering the country but then a member of the indigenous members of indigenous communities carried out

a road block to military checkpoint so that's definitely going to be a tension in that area if the. one way they'll continue to try to to enter aid to the country let's not forget that so far the government says that minutes when that does not meet any type of aid and that allowing that aid into the country would be an intervention by foreign forces in venezuela. thailand's election commission is disqualified the king's older sister from running for prime minister in next month's election. shocked the country when it announced. as its candidate on friday breaking the tradition of royalty staying out of politics. refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand. or a.b. who lives in australia was arrested while on honeymoon in bangkok in november a hearing wanted him extradited from bangkok to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism the number of people who died after

drinking contaminated alcohol in northern india last week has risen to ninety nine three separate cases of poisoning have led to a crackdown on so-called bootleggers you may can sell the toxic drink police suspect it was made with methanol deaths from illegally made alcohol are common in india because the poor can't afford licensed brands the us acting defense secretary has met afghanistan's president on a surprise visit to kabul patrick shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's drive to end the seventeen year war that he held discussions with ashraf ghani on national security issues and reach rated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban. iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution he told the crowds in tehran that the country will continue to

expand its ballistic missile program. there's that i was to stay with us when i was there if taliban oil is coming up next time having more news for you throughout that price to watch us in a bit i think. we

started this thing i mean who the taliban were and i didn't know how radical they were just what they were about. one of the things of the talabani is is that they didn't have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and establish credibility with it with the taliban that we were a real company. mati millet secretly invited to a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no press covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and their figures and the people carved out of ironwood and the people are neck it. and i had one of these.

professors islamic professors checked my house out when he saw these things and said i don't think that's going to work with the taliban. said well the days when you got some black trash bags in the alleys and put workers on the stuff that's what they did with the burkas on the statue. marty miller was vice president of oil companies unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence us foreign policy towards the taliban.

because. the us can't capital of kabul is prepared for any. form forces of mostly was drawn from the afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty fourteen five thousand of them were killed in battles against the taliban. but the taliban hasn't always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of couple's bettas suburbs. during the ninety's he was involved in discussions with the american oil company unocal.

the i will take my add this. comes in with another yet. but the old are new just for watching us and. then one of them one jewish. but as if to. eleven something to the whole thought alluded to before political will come but it's not as if he wants. it both to let the of etiquette i took the lives of others that it be out of it by the homes but us it with us here out of my psyche of. those if i there was that they think it will last . since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant warfare.

during the afghan insurgency the mujahideen received extensive weapons support from the united states and britain in their struggle against the russians. and. the soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. two years later the soviet union pulls some collapsed. you know cows c.e.o. john i saw an opportunity in the full of the i am curtain. time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which shop and more last the same time the great a very senior guy. kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. where you realize that turkmenistan had a huge world's last gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but

after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so ministry on the stock was reserves and no market. unocal wanted to build two pipelines one for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers construction costs would be close to ten billion dollars. of john is done could earn four hundred million dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan government's income at that time the whole area is just in turmoil you know the pakistanis don't like the afghans afghans don't like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then you've got india and pakistan all is just a mess in there.

as you can see there was a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and local schools full of the territory in a for trucks did civil war i. realize. it is only. in the north people gathered around the northern alliance and its leader ahmed shah massoud the so-called lion of publishers. in the south and east another movement began to assert itself in s. nic past june areas they called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. the pakistanis were trying to.