henschel muslims 2 years ago are being accused of committing other war crimes recently and this international says are armies western commanders attacking ethnic rakhine rebels soldiers from the same units are suspected of genocide in 2017 as 3 quarters of a 1000000 people mainly minority fled to bangladesh i think it's force another 30000 people to leave this year. activists in argentina have resumed their battle to legalize abortion politicians are presenting a bill to allow borsch and up to the 14th week of pregnancy after failing last year following pressure from religious groups. legal abortions in a public hospital that's what these women are demanding. thousands of them marched to congress to present a new abortion bill last year the no one house of parliament voted for the 1st time in history to decriminalize and legalize abortion in this largely catholic country

. however the no was rejected in the senate in a very tight. but people like seal if you had to say they will continue trying. to get. the chambers the same it's going to be difficult the same dinosaurs as last year but they need to understand abortions are already happening in the country and women die many of them are poor they have nowhere to go and places where their lives are at risk. these green handkerchief has become the symbol of the demand to legalize abortion the name argentina for women here it's a matter of public health because already hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions are already happening in the country thousands of women end up being hospitalized because of complications during the procedure and. there we saw the risk of prison if a woman is found guilty of having had an abortion argentina only allows abortion.

case of rape or a risk to women's health oh. they're powerful catholic church continues to be a major obstacle to legalized abortion in this country but friend says who is argentinian has repeatedly said that abortion cannot be condoned. says the pole preschool rect shown when i was in that aggression they come with their green handkerchiefs and think they are right they're not justifying killing an innocent life and the law won't pass because it's the same chamber as last year also some form of presidential elections will take place in october this year and most lawmakers acknowledge that debating abortion won't be easy it's a highly contentious issue that has polarized argentinean society. precedent makea said he would sign the bill if passed. it's us here in the health secretary at old photo in spain says argentina needs to address the controversial matter.

where it needs to be an issue of public health of women dying of the hospitalizations that end up in mutilations that occur when complications arise aside from believes values and attitudes there is a problem that happens abortion already exists we cannot stop it poor women who do not have access to the pharmaceuticals or procedures to interrupt a pregnancy go to unsafe places and end up in the hospital or dead. even though it's unlikely the law will pass this year women say they will continue to pressure no makers they say legalizing abortion is crucial to save women's lives. that is how we're going to society. and we shall carry with the headlines on al-jazeera chinese tech giant has stepped up its legal fight against u.s. sanctions the company has filed a motion in court to have bans on its business deemed unconstitutional as federal

agencies and contractors are barred from using weiwei equipment for national security reasons chief legal officer says the u.s. is targeting the chinese tech giant for political gain. we believe that u.s. colleges should say are you a scene inside was good it's an excuse to get in kabul because support for actions they'd be signed to achieve other goals these actions would do nothing to make matters worse. they provide a full sense of security and these direct attention from the real challenges we face sudan's military a transitional council has criticised a nationwide strike says cuts to electricity or water supplies could put lives at risk the strike is now in its 2nd day or test leaders are hoping it will force the

transitional military council back to the negotiating table its national security advisor john bolton has leveled more accusations against iran it says he's almost certain iranian naval mines damaged oil tankers off the coast if united arab emirates earlier this month made the comments during a visit to the u.a.e. and did not provide any proof activists say syrian government air strikes have killed another 10 civilians as attacks across northwestern provinces a day earlier at least 27 civilians were killed mainly in the un says more than 300000 people have been displaced in the last month and me and maher soldiers implicated in atrocities against her henschel muslims 2 years ago are being accused of committing other war crimes recently amnesty international says the man maher armies western command is attacking ethnic were kind rebels soldiers from the same units were suspected of genocide in 2017 as 3 quarters of a 1000000 people mainly and already fled to bangladesh by adding as force another

30000 people to leave just this year so the headlines keep return al-jazeera the stream is next. al-jazeera. swear every. ok and join this train today how can they be used to promote peace i mean they could be glad we chat with developers about using video games to build communities and tackle social issues tell us what you think by joining the you tube chat or tweeting us out. you know being a refugee come in it's just not easy you know what is nick what are you going to

leave tomorrow you know going to leave tomorrow one day my mom to buy for me a computer. and money for the 3 years it was like a gunman that just done everything right everything is possible for me 73 percent of the population in south sudan is under the age of 13 they are born with the raise up in the wall so the a mindset and i did you just want to. i decided to teach my so programming so that i can make a peace. as a refugee living in uganda and had to walk 3 hours to an internet cafe internet cafe so he could charge his computer and play video games and now is the founder and c.e.o. of the new games he's winning awards partnering with other developers to create games with a social impact of course is not alone in the pursuit of video gaming is

a multi-billion dollar industry and as it's grown so too have the number of civic minded game developers organizations and conferences working to educate players about humanitarian issues from the plight of refugees and migrants to the horrors of war so. welcome to the stream and you so much new friend this. is the president of games for change that's a nonprofit organization that brings together game creators and social innovators and around me it's now is a video game developer and co-founder of the netherlands based studio. he also helped start the game well developer conference hello everybody it's good to have you here i should really say thank you to your mom. because without my mother sitting it will literally but also because the subject matter let me just i looked around the internet i found obama here he is right here the story about how you

got into gaming was all about what your mother did in order to help you get into gaming you spent all of your life in a refugee camp and you love video games how did you even get to play them. from a country with a civil war. started a long time ago. to flee to the roof and when they were going to the roof and you come i was born on the way learned from their growing up as children who love you know the good thing about video games it doesn't matter with him. where you you have to make sure that you have to find something to play and formula growing up in a refugee camp i never thought i'd get a game of credible people for that just for from having. read everything is ok i'm going to talk about it and one day i went to like. refrigerate just christian center and i saw a computer and i was asking my mother like what is that and she said as a computer and i were like i want to use that one day and then like i went to

internet cafe and my friend stole for me a video game called drop that was all right then i started playing a show like like when i stopped playing i was like you know this is a great video game and how can we be able to use game 4 for impact game to bring peace i knew mrs saw that because most kids when they're playing grand theft auto i'm not thinking how do i change the well because i think you have any point that the reason is because what i was saying in the game was actually what is happening in my country and i was like how can i use this to be able i because i'm from a country that has 73 percent of the population is under the age of 30 these are young children who were born in what they were raised and when they start playing this kind of game because it can be able to change their mindset and i went and i told my mother need a lot of and she love me and see like what are you going to do with a computer and with no money there's no place where you can charge it and she spent almost 3 years looking for $300.00 to buy from a computer so one day when like this is the money and i was like wow what do i do

and it is the best. so like a highlight work every day because i know making video game is the best thing that i can be able to do because video game can be able to you know change the mindset of people and people can be able to play it and the whole idea is about you know when you play a game it become part of your life especially when you play with a friend when your friend kill your career you feel like why did you kill me it's like why did you kill my character and become a part of your life and us were like when we have kind of impact it can be like and you see like. industry grows every day so for the a handful of people in our audience who don't play video games because our audience think they actually love this topic and i want to share that i want to share with them this this page this is grand theft auto so this is what really caught your attention there it was actually grand theft auto by city was just one of the wind sway on line we got a comment from someone who writes in on twitter that 1st person shooter games

what's your grand theft auto could arguably be considered one of those glorify killing and they glorify the military so you talks briefly about the link between theme that game and seeing what was going on in your own country but then how did that how did you take that next step to say i'm going to turn it on its head and i won't be glorifying killing i won't be glorifying shooting and that's why i will become a game because what we have to identify the problem and the solution that we want to solve and for me i saw a solution of conflict you know what is opening in the world today i believe true peace is something that is built over time and when i start playing video games that we can be able to create something like grunts that want so we can actually turn it around depend on what is your what is your solution to the problem that you want we want to solve. we have

a responsibility to be able to create things that can bring social impact along a lot of them and that's why i would like susan to talk about the game. balances and. such an extraordinary sight when a wonderful way to solve a private have. you found you know how did you find. that if i was not mistaken what was your 1st. as for moten is his game and he had been invited by the organizers ms festival to show this game that had gone viral through social media actually. to the point where it caught the attention of the men organizing i remember meeting a law in law you were talking about you know being so amazed by that community in south africa very young infant unity at the time as well and people helping each

other sort of wondering about whether something like that could exist that homeless outside on. in the refugee camp and they come to the conclusion that you could just make that yourself if you want to. and it was i remember being very impressed about that already we've got to do you mind if i'm just going to say that while the festivus call that the lal you grew up in a refugee camp in northern uganda maidens at home it's called sam well what's known as you counting carol when people say oh. this was this was a phenomenal demo obviously as low pointed out games are an international language day extend far beyond. far beyond just the stories that we tell playfulness and player such international such international things. i travel a lot or for my work trying to promote involvement in emerging territories in

developing countries and one thing i notice is that no matter where in the world you go if you put a ball on the ground get it to work somebody they're going to pick it back you don't need to speak their language and single use. games to to tell this message that is. you know you would hope is a very global message but it's such a privilege to many of us in the world that we grow up and be nice to see the wall use his experiences and tell old best story to tell that perspective through this video game was extremely. process and then to try to see how to make that a bigger thing to turn that into. a structural effort or both from social and in the industry i was just i was incredibly blessed that i do go on. and see what you've done city's obviously. it's been incredible. the push of me to make this a topic i do you know i'm thinking season it is that you take the platform the gang

platform and then you're trying to do something more with it how do you do that how do you say well this game is different this game is about social change but you're using the tools that you would do just to have some yes so there's a wonderful aspect to games that are different than other forms of entertainment you know games are ubiquitous they are in every home they're every hand through mobile every sparklers but unlike television or film or even of reading a book he has had this interactive element to it rightly player a sense of agency where you can step into the role of another character you can change the outcome you can do trial and error you can fail you can die come back and try again so all of those components make games a very compelling plot warm in which to explore social issues and to do it in an aging way where you are as

a player you are deeply immersed in the experience and that's just an amazing place to start. and then you add in the experts to. climate change or might be an expert in that. in conflict resolution right along with the creative team and the developer team it's such a collaborative effort to build a game that has that kind of connection that can actually come about come away with some outcomes that impact something you want to play or feel what to do what alert that experience and. that is the appeal rami at the appeal for one of our community members so this is a chief lars on twitter who says that games can introduce ethical questions that the player has to choose from a question such as justified killing committing crimes in order to survive sacrificing one to save many cetera games influence thought and critical thinking more than behavior from your take on that yeah i think games when people think of

games they very much think of one specific element of games which is the entertainment slash distraction part of games which are both are important things like any medium games have the power to put us in fantasies in our fancies in different situations in perspectives but the other side of games that people don't think about very often is that games have been used to trained professionals of flight simulators doctors but also to teach us perspective for me honestly the largest part of my history knowledge comes from a game called age of empires which simulated old all in historical bottles right and at the same time i think what is really interesting about games is that we've seen when game started it was that's not that long ago right this medium is what 60 years maybe 80 years old video games are medium and that thank you just weren't very powerful also a lot of what games were built on was this very simple idea of things are either

hitting each other or they're not hitting each other and if they're hitting each other something happens and if they're not hitting each other nothing out of that obviously it's pretty sums up my childhood's. that pretty much means that you're either eating something or attacking something or getting something for shooting something so that's where games started but as computers got more powerful as this medium grew we've seen very interesting is there's a game called police that basically introduces people to the role of the border guard at a fictional use european country in which the player is confronted with. newport some specific ones that you that we've got so that we can show people because it's very hard to to see picture it unless you actually see it so obviously there's a game that you said that we should look at is called that war of mine tell us a little bit about it before we play a clip. yeah this war mind is a game by a published. it looks as an example of what happens when more

people are introduced into in development traditionally the game's history of western history japanese focus and. the internet development tools. like love story you get these different perspectives so what's a world where the u.s. or europe likes to. take a pause because we're going to play a little bit of. i lived through hell with these people. we were a group we would do anything to stay on. never forget stays. things you see in war. stay with you. forever and i'll give this to you this person says that

game's about social change you don't know how because people play video games to have fun not to be preached to do you think that something that you are worried about or should be worried about do you agree with them i mean does a very good question and to me i actually thought about it when i started going to games and though the whole the whole idea is because you know when about creators create a new video game for such a change some of them become independent and the public by their own and when we look for example when we talk about the game or what i was actually last year as the global gaming citizen and to see that here i mean i mean because you look so happy beaming there so to see a video game for such a being for such a good to be being recognized as a kind of a platform it's actually like. people to understand why the industry needs i kind of videogame saw it it's a journey you don't have to give about it even if again it's about the way you

design the game so when you design the game when players because players sometimes choose want to play and that's how i design my solemn game depends i do i do like growth of what i do i do like it but depend on the gameplay and also the way you designed the game so people would be able to play the game by what they choose not because it's a social impact game. opposite. actually exclusionary. there's also. some of that here yes so there are also games that are used that are distributed not necessarily through a direct right where you are competing against marshall games and you have that challenge and we're just to entertain and chop people and basically with a game let's say like we're at that auto but there are other ways in which these games are being used in the classroom platform and which you know addresses you to

lie. you told us about that track in cancer was an extraordinary game that's played a clip of that and then you can explain is that as an example about how you can educate as well as entertaining as having no. idea how they celebrate offering kids a time when. just maybe you know. it's not good. thanks why should my heart the radiation and how freaks me out. could be another pair. so yes this is a remarkable emotional call that. i can star made by doing that at games and it was a fashion example of how you can tell a very powerful personal story through

a game experience and it's a narrative that is personal for them it was actually about kind of a badass to a son that they lost to cancer at a very young age and while this game was more was produced as a personal expression it has helped so many people deal with loss and understand what that what that experience is like and then the game studio are actually working with pharmaceutical the hospital companies the top to create experiences that help patients go through this the journey knowing that they're not alone and understand how they can challenge the only variant has been better than the kind of examples of how games can be used for therapy games can be used and as i said in education it could be used in training and simulate to me that relating to a sexual harassment we're going to work for you use these tools and things in which they engage people in a game environment and they can be incredibly affect them. and give one more

example and this one comes from a developer who says they can be used to help teach people about the refugee and migrant crisis so we got a video comment from philip de bron x. and he is the developer of a game called today is a new day and here's what he told the string. at today's a new day we produced a game that puts the player in the shoes of a refugee trying to cross the schengen border along the song called balkan route now the reason we did was because it's been 3 years since slovenia put up a razor wire fence on its southern border which did nothing to curb the flow of migrations it only made it and we think more dangerous for everyone and at the same time it prevented some more human friendly policies to be implemented in slovenia as well we wanted to remind people that the fence is still there we wanted to at least open up the conversation but india and we failed to succeed because our government is currently considering putting up even more of the fence so philip

runs a company called today as new day and the game that i'm showing you on my screen now you can see it here is called a razor wire but rami there are a lot of hurdles to getting a game like this on the market and then making a difference because there are things like government standing in the way of people's progress here according to what he said in that video what do you make of his comment. i mean when you think about it every every media around these issues which you discuss u.s. involvement in for example iraq or afghanistan. the worst there is obviously going to run it the u.s. this is happened before questions about the israeli palestinian conflict run into issues on the astore these are parts of creating media. wind larger structural issues we don't. you wanted to push back and i think that is

a very generic media problem right like this is not specific to this is just part of games now you know our folk art people express themselves and how to talk about issues of their life and issues of this world you are you are we discussing talent and you have many things going on including your own company and one of your new foot outside sitting like that. so that's how it's the license sign in the box that people on my laptop what it has is actually a board game people looking at all my laptop then you'll be out to see the board game here is going to look down here and bolting students what happens if we were able to open the box with one of the books but if we were able to do that what would we learn as we played this guy so this is a wider game why the main unit in a robic so it's a game about hoping players to own a conflict and grin your own was a mission to a conflict so the reason why i quit it is because we have a lot of refugees and the access to it to be to them so i made

a conflict resolution games which is for peace and conflict resolution and the game is about i win the auction call i was like god like you know you know it's calling where you can be able to get like you know sit together with somebody and discuss conflict for example the game i ask you what you know what a player trying to do. in a country that is going through a conflict and how they're going to be able to create their own conflict in that country so all the whole idea is by owning a conflict. resolution to the conflict and owning the conflict so lou i think you answer the question of nostradamus who said video games are mostly played by the privileged kids in african homes that's that's their perspective there so this kind of speaks to that but there's another question we just got from zana taxes are these games available for us to try out or buy i got as far as finding to new games dot com but i couldn't find a download link yet we're launching a long game in december so it will be right in no way the game is available on the

website as well so it's a good when you can be able to find a game that you know i was looking at and i was looking at some pictures from. noel's version 2 of game and i'm looking here so this is an image so this is one of the pictures and i'm looking at the background and then there was a picture of the new album she was he was visiting a refugee camp a little while ago in the background what you see i'm wondering if you're really going to affect change culturally you need to understand it completely you can't just be going over this this is cool this is engaging do you need that extra little bit of background to add authentic city i'm wondering yes you just said the words are you know i think in many creative media to be honest and true and i'm having

a sensitivity to the subject that you're exploring is critical and to be able to have someone like well tell his personal story in a way that reaches many people is. amazing opportunity it though you let's say you're a game designer hashan about a subject absolutely or to bring people into your project or do the research so. you had one that you can demonstrate and explore these issues as honestly as you have. here we have i think you're showing some video of. the teenagers making games so we wrote a program where inner city youth in cities across the u.s. where we inspire and empower you to design games or so are still issues that ask ben to dive deep into issues. that have to do with endangered species is right at the very end of the show susanna in a sentence you're organizing what coming up in a sentence. our aims to change festival is going to be a gathering of over

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