to early hoping to heal. you know the violence the broken families the loss of identity the various forms of abuse physical mental emotional homelessness substance abuse drug and alcohol and that can be drug and alcohol around the kids and ultimately the kids being embroiled in that substance abuse themselves. astray is first indigenous psychologist professor pat dudgeon says substance abuse is a symptom of largest social issues i think that indigenous people are still dealing with all the problems that are a consequence from. all of that prying has been left unattended and just manifested through the generations

and that pain passed on to the children and so for has led to the children that we have today who are at the end of that pain trying that and understand the prime that i must understand where it comes from and i don't understand why they must endure such crying. this fifteen year old who call cameron is one boy who wanted to end his life. she kind of man you just. don't feel lucky lauzon. now so awful. what do you do with that anger. so my friends do bad things and then i just hang up the crandall's. that's where you find the nuns and stuff like that with a little help from nature david cole is trying to show these adolescents how to isolate their problems. it does violence broken family if there's been past. whatever it is every challenge every problem that. always on your mind

i want you to get iraq i want you. to the war. the bigger the problem the bigger the wrong. how do i feel is it hurting. and that's what problems do you if you refuse to find ways of releasing it you will have to carry this pine tree a whole lot you have to learn you have to be willing to learn how to let go of the sort of pre. going to give us. young people need to be given. that they. are being cultural activities and feel that they part of the community in a cultural community. so we're only going to a small. meditation and.

this is the healing circle. and indigenous version of a counseling session. which is going to go through a very. reading meditation technique. in accordance with aboriginal custom the young boys to speak at the healing circle but they're encouraged to. go to. it but we are. both. cameron says the camp has made him feel stronger. like you and i. respect and. the

challenge lies in keeping these boys on track after they leave the balun you camp it's really hard it's hard for us because. thirty percent of the kids are extreme heart risk area and they were kids to be deeply involved in substance abuse are the ones who are looking at it as an option from the sky. with their lack of resources and lack of appropriate funding and support we we can't do adequate follow up marion scrymgour is an outgoing state minister in the northern territory government she skeptical that money from a controversial government package is reaching indigenous communities under the northern territory emergency response there was an early story billion dollars that's significant tax payers money that's gone into what people think has gone into these communities a lot of their money is spent on bureaucrats consultants

a lot of people fly in fly out from these communities there is very little money that goes into programs and for working with families working with communities so that they can build it and start dealing with that with the trauma. she says she's leaving politics because she doesn't believe it's hoping aboriginals enough heck can i sit in this job any longer don't know what i'm doing. we've got i ten year old young kids killing themselves. it's clear something is wrong. their communities have got to start taking some strong staying. because there's not going to be a generation left if. we're heading east of darwin to the picturesque and largely indigenous land just

a few years ago the king. it hits gave me the highest rates of having time no well at its highest point average for the elderly ladies decided to take matters into their own hands. is a ski beach she says it was the hanging suicide of a twenty one year old that sparked a cluster of other suicides in her community he was the first one to commit suicide the first time his community in this community. also committed suicide that was when her family took action seven years ago creating a volunteer service called the mangas suicide prevention group what do you do to prevent suicide in the community. walk me and my sisters we walk the

streets and listen for the noise where it's coming from. the women run a twenty four hours suicide watch often patrolling the streets with only small torches they mediate in family issues and mental troubled youths will probably up the next day go to their house and sit down have cuppa tea read with their parents then and so they were letting their angry with the brits like cancelling. local police say the group's work has been invaluable for boys that since they've become operating i think there's been a source. in their area and while suicide numbers have dropped there's been a shop rise in attempted suicides looking at the figures from thirty two thousand treated to have an eye where there was forty or ten now and just as two year period two and a half he's the one hundred thirteen that's

a significant increase. is nick still bears the rope marks from his suicide attempt to weeks ago. galas group intervened just in time to save the twenty three year old. yeah two months. the reason i've been doing this was because my biggest problem is with alcohol and once i start drinking alcohol i start losing control i would think things like my family doesn't love me and i want to go hang myself with the moon i don't want to learn to new i want to change my life a better life so that i can spend time with my son go hunting and fishing with him and do good thing on the. back in mowanjum terence told me he wants to cut down the tree where he attempted suicide. or look. you know man.

to me that's a staple of someone going forward with a positive move. but then remove something of a symbol that. they want to end their life me. in its own way the community too is giving itself the space to heal the trees were families but people commit suicide it's up and down but we don't actually care because the time it takes to grow back gives us the time to get over forget about it. while suicide remains a scourge in aboriginal communities across astray it appears that family and culture is indigenous australia as best hope to saving their young.

australia of last generations so that was back in twenty twelve which leads us to ask how successful have those schemes been in reducing the suicide rate where we're joined now by psychologist professor pat dudgeon who you recognize from the film a former commissioner of the astray and national mental health commission she teaches at the university of western australia and actually runs a number of suicide prevention projects focusing on aboriginal communities it's great to have you with us here on ri one professor dudgeon you really believe then that that local approach works oh absolutely look every channel interest right on the people have been just some pad there's a whole lot of issues facing women not just us and a stride in this old. would remain issues for indigenous people of settler countries such as in new zealand canada and the states where recovery from call on

is a really important issue and what we do on the names that enable people to become empowered to control their own destinies to control their own resources to decide what the problem is and to be given the right information to decide what the solution is back in twenty twelve when the film was made the wood epidemic was used to describe that situation in western australia and i'm not suggesting for a moment that this would be fixed overnight but we are now six years down the track the levels are still high there were some reports which talk about one hundred times the national average in western australia. i mean would you have expected or certainly hoped for it to have come down more local i think that's. sometimes those figures have been a tad sensationalize suicide writes however having said that suicide rites do remind very hard i was still twice the national average suicide is the fifth leading cause of death and some my group's indigenous people are seven times more

likely to type their laws the papal and northern territory actually is a mage in as. having the greatest state average of suicide when you have having high suicide right something is going terribly wrong you mentioned some other countries a little bit earlier places like new zealand and canada what is the common factor with these indigenous communities around the world including the aboriginal australia that leads to the high suicide rates ah look there's a commonality of a range of different things but odd side that certainly i think there is an affinity with those other countries because they were indigenous people in those countries the countries were taken and sometimes very almost tong's very brutally so we've had processes of colonized you know being removed genocides being removed off country put into reserves missions residential schools and then

having new laws dictated to enforce legislation so there's a history told the countries that are about people losing they draw it's losing their countries and losing their human rights which needs to be we need to go into recovery about certainly in a stride. there was denial of that that process of history that's now starting to change around certainly are proud then prime minister kevin rudd's apology to the stolen generations was one of the guys really his. sturrock all moments where there was an acknowledgement of the house. and a genuine polity given full that. i think that we as a nation can stop hailing when i'm in a ship and and there is a treason on a state between different groups professor pat dudgeon former commissioner for the

striking national mental health commission it's been a pleasure talking to thank you for joining us my pleasure kemal and that is it from us or join us again next week and also be sure to check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come all santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us so you can see. our. magic house on debates discusses and dissect the big issues of our times and head to head five years after the revolution voters in ukraine will have a chance to offer a verdict on what's to come sit. in a powerful new film residents of occupied east jerusalem to its own its past present and future. leaders will gather for the thirtieth arab league summit in tunisia join us for coverage and we examine the development of an unusual alliance

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going to check these people as sick president donald trump lets loose as he delivers a blistering speech to his base attacking the democrats and other political rivals also in the news caught in the line of fire more injuries and deaths in the disputed kashmir region where tension remains i between india and pakistan. a push to end the seventeen new war in afghanistan as attacks by the taliban continue. three you right here it's a bit back. and a successful launch that could help pave the way for the united states to resume spend sending out strongholds into. space. for two hours he went off script railing against the democrats on the muller investigation and in doing so got back in the comfort zone after one of the most

damaging weeks of his presidency donald trump has been speaking to the very people who got him elected the largest annual gathering of conservatives in america the conservative political action conference c pac it comes after a bad week for the u.s. president his second summit with north korea's kim jong un ended in failure while his former lawyer michael cohen of course labeled him a racist a con man and a cheat during testimony to congress and so in this speech to see pack trampling on the attack criticizing democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and using profanity over their attempts to look into his personal finances we had the greatest of all time now we have people that lost. unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with ok i i more now from our correspondent andy gallacher he was at the c pac conference in

oxon hill maryland i was president donald trump might have had a couple of uncomfortable weeks with north korea release form a picture of michael cohen giving damning testimony before congress but here at sea-tac this is he's basically he's been talking to them about all the usual issues his relationship with china the booming economy and also immigration but he did touch briefly on the miller report let's listen to what the president had to say. they fight so hard on this witch hunt this phony deal that they put together this phony thing that now looks like it's dying so they don't have anything with russia there's no collusion so now they go and morph into let's inspect every deal he's ever done we're going to go into his finances we're going to check his deals we get a check these people is sick this is. i saw a little shifty shift yesterday. it's a first time he went into

a meeting and he shared we're going to look into his finance i said where did that come from he always talked about russia collusion with russia the collusion delusion so what the president was essentially doing he was energizing his base each talked about the love that was in this room and this theme of this year's c pac really a's trump ism he talked a lot about the forthcoming twenty twenty alexion and he has a theme that will come up again and again he wants people to believe that he's an opposition and democrats are socialists he talked about that in relation to venezuela he will talk about that once again in the future but in this room lots of love the president gone from going forward the twenty twenty large. donald trump also had plenty to say about a democratic plan to introduce what they're calling the green new deal a stimulus program to fight climate change have a listen it's something our country needs desperately they have to go out and get

it but i'll take the other side of that argument only because i'm mandated to amend it but they should stay with that argument never change. no planes no energy. when the wind stops blowing that's the end of your electric let's hurry and i. don't like is the wind blowing today i'd like to watch television. when we all like to watch television let's make some television with political analyst eric have joining us from washington d.c. hired i mean at times it felt almost like a sort of stand up comedy routine in the audience on his side and that's what all this is about isn't it it's preaching to the quire doesn't work when you've had such a bad week as he had does it work as a diversion tactic was for this president he has made his base he has made his home on the right on the far right and so now after

a brutalising couple of weeks where he sees his declaration of emergency on the u.s. border wall threaten michael cohen threatening both his that ministration and his organization and of course the southern district of new york closing in this is a place where the president can be at home where he can be around his supporters and where he can feed red meat see pac has now become trump pac and if it's a place of political conservative red meat today donald trump was the prime rib oh . does it show us that he has got all that he's held the support that he got in twenty sixteen that he hasn't lost that base and and maybe even that it's gross. well absolutely the president's support now even among republicans is around eighty percent of very high and unfortunately what we're seeing with the president among independents and democrats of course his numbers are at

a astonishing low rate in fact if you look at texas a conservative state a state where no democrat has won and more than twenty years right now in a hypothetical match up with democratic challengers the president is in a dead heat with joe biden bernie sanders and camila harris and so right now we're seeing the president if the election were held today it would be very difficult for this president to get to the all important two hundred seventy electoral votes so right now what the president needs to do is is he needs to ensure that his base hold strong because unfortunately that's all he has erick when i watch a speech like this ok it's donald trump giving the speech we know what he's like we know what he's always been like but he is standing behind the president of the united states one day you'll views on whether that matters or not you could talk about this and say well he doesn't look very presidential but maybe this is just the new norm now and we just get used to it and you almost can't separate don't

trust the man from donald trump the president. well keep in mind this is a president who now we know has paid off pornstar we see the president under sea from politically legally and so unfortunately this has become normalized we are looking at the fraying of relations with allies the united states and have held for decades and so everything right now from our treaties from our allies even from the us constitution is being frayed is being pushed to the brink right now and what we're seeing under this president is reality television at its finest however what it means for the presidency i think is anyone's guess. just a thought twenty twenty saying is really everything we see now is viewed through that twenty twenty prism isn't it we know everyone who's lining up on the democratic side as far as republicans go yet the incumbent president will always

run again is there a challenge is there potential for a challenge here or is this just what we see he will keep giving these speeches because he is the one making the run for twenty twenty. that's a really good question and fact we do know that mayor hogan of sorry governor hogan of maryland is actually looking at a possible challenge to the president this is a governor who actually was just recently reelected in the twenty eighteen midterm elections what we saw so many democrats blue wave actually cress but here you had a republican get reelected in a very deep blue state and so many are thinking that he could be a potential challenger to download and we know that he has come out very vocally against the president meant i guess many of the president's policies and of course the president's presentation and how he opposed himself in the office and so we are looking at a possible challenge we don't know if governor hogan is ready to actually pull the

trigger but we know that he is meeting with potential donors and he is actually looking at a potential run it is something to keep in mind isn't even good to talk to you about that eric ham joining us from washington d.c. well donald trump told the conference he is confident of victory in twenty two and he's not the only one on the other side u.s. independent senator bernie sanders is making his second push for the presidency and he hasn't lost any of his trademark fighting spirit he launched his campaign with a rally in brooklyn sound as told supporters he expected to win the democratic nomination for a candidate who also took aim at donald trump calling him the most dangerous president in modern american history this is what i believe from the bottom of my heart if we do not allow transmitters friends to divide us. if we stand together. by and large you know asian american

native american if we. didn't end well thought south east and west if we stand together not as red state and blue state but is working people fighting i think with i if we stand together believing in justice and human dignity if we stand together believing in law and compassion. if we. brothers and sisters the future of this country is extraordinary and there is really nothing we will not be able to accomplish. let's move to other news funerals being held for some of the victims of the latest fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tend to remains high between the two

countries were fighting resuming just hours after pakistan released an indian pilot in a gesture of peace the pilot was captured on wednesday when his jet was shot down he has now returned home to jubilation so help raman reports from new delhi. it is missing military pilot is back home and people are celebrating on the streets . the blood of the man's fighter jet crashed in pakistan administered kashmir on wednesday after being shot out by pakistan's falls pakistan's prime minister it run car ordered his release as a goodwill gesture which was welcomed by new delhi it's the only story and turn around yet the government's message is clear pakistan is not off the hook. in the past twenty four hours there's been ongoing shelling in the kashmir region it be an administered kashmir officials claim three members of one family were reported to be killed in the area.