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peace accord between the afghan government and the talabani any of us that have served there have long known that what's going to be required is a negotiated peace settlement in our afghan leading to that peace a moment and so when i think about it with you know when you say we're going to withdraw i don't think about it as we're going to withdraw i think about we're going to initiate in or afghan ideally leading to peace and stability for the afghan people and again afghanistan not being a sanctuary from which we can be attacked as for iran the both want it see the standing up of what they're calling operation sentinel the coastal operation to ensure safe passage through the strait of hormuz as far as whether the crisis with iran is over as 1st said that so far so good but he wasn't willing to say that things have actually been resolved when it comes to the matter of dealing with loss and china esper stressed it's very important to understand that the priorities of
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the u.s. military have to be focused on dealing with those as well as other unknown emerging threats in the future. among the stories still ahead what facebook is doing to prevent meddling in next year's u.s. presidential election. and we meet refugees and migrants forced to go home because a plan for help in mexico isn't working. hello they're mostly characterise much of the middle east however the house means an cloud showing up in a few hours into more southern sections of pakistan is this monsoon rains we could see some a shot thunderstorms as we go through thursday it could of course leave some localized flooding elsewhere it's fairly dry still very hot in baghdad again for
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the next couple of days and by friday we could also see some showers working their way across areas of georgia armenia and eventually pushing on into azerbaijan but fairly pretty nice back here with a high of 24 degrees celsius further to the south the temperatures are high but also we've got a fairly high level of humidity through much of the city so doha fairly warm in the 40 celsius shown here and then as we head off into friday time to really staying about the same quite a bit of cloud into the southern sections of the saudi arabian pushing up into the northeast of oman said maybe a mix of cloud into moscow but even so feeling pretty good with a high of 32 degrees celsius southern africa it is mostly clear that we've got place guys too much of madagascar across into mozambique where we have got the cloud is around the cape 15 degrees in capetown on thursday and you'll see it sliding up the eastern side so durban's maybe without clouds certainly by friday meanwhile in johannesburg temperatures well above the average $28.00 which is 8 degrees above. where the sponsor can sound and.
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this is a dialogue to decide not to have children and it's what the stake is really. everyone has a voice that has started to put our community because of course this is a debate and it's a he didn't want it to be asian literally being put into a ph ideally join the conversation people i think if only they knew what is happening to. they will be with us and they will be honored to 0. talk about you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now britain's
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prime minister barak's johnson has moved to suspend parliament the middle of october this leaves his opponents very little time to push through legislation preventing the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. without deal. italy's prime minister just epicanthic may keep his job after a breakthrough in coalition talks the head of the opposition democratic party says he's ready to put rivalries aside and govern with the 5 star movement counter resigned a week ago. at least 13 people have been killed and 30 others wounded in moderate to norma in northwestern syria during strikes on civilian areas aid agencies have been unable to access the area they say hospitals and clinics have been turned to rubble. security forces are said to be arresting large numbers of suspected fighters and sympathizers in gaza it comes after a double bombing on tuesday that killed 3 families spend from gaza are
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a force that reports. at a cemetery northeast of gaza city to hamas policeman key. building tuesday night's attacks brought for burial in all 3 policemen were killed in 2 separate blasts hamas says gaza police chief was here to mourn his men and promised a strong reaction here and that yeah we have made arrests and we are investigating people to assure good to anyone who could be responsible for the attacks but things are under control and the security status is good daily life is back to the horrible. gaza's interior ministry says 2 suicide bombers carried out the coordinated attacks on 2 checkpoints 2 policemen were killed in a bystander injured in the 1st explosion the 3rd policeman died in the 2nd blast minutes later. by day police were back on duty with their colleagues had died reinforcements stationed on streets throughout the city hamas announcing a general alert for all the instability and violence the people of gaza have had to
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get used to in recent years these attacks are still sent a ripple of around the territory targeting the very institution that is supposed to provide internal security and right here in the heart of gaza city. the attacks are widely believed here to be the work of salafi groups with links to eisele in 2016 hamas agreed to help egypt in its fight against eisel fighters in the sinai peninsula restricting their movement across the egypt gaza border i believe that as we see further security coordination and cooperation between have a security services and egyptian security apparatuses it seems to me that we see a further tension between how the us and i said further bloodshed between hamas and i said as we so saw it last night i don't think this is going to be the last incident this month has already seen increased instability with rockets fired into israel attempts by armed men to breach the border fence israeli airstrikes and
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artillery fire targeting gaza now a source of internal instability has been made fatally clear how mass is insisting it will maintain security and punish those behind the attacks are a force it i'll just hear a gaza. now report is raising more questions about the brazilian government's management of the amazon reuters news agency says funding for the prevention and control of fires has dropped by almost a quarter since president general sonera took power he says he'll only accept international aid to help fight record fires in the forests if brazil can control how the money is spent. earvin tens of thousands of fires this year that's an 85 percent increase on 2008. stories about when to see the aftermath of one fire the state of. these are the images president. does not want you to see. he says the fires that have been affecting the amazonia
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region happened in the forested areas but this place proves him wrong. father. part. of my little. 1000. the problem now is that 11 percent of it has been devastated by the fire but the government has banned members of brazil's environmental agency from talking to the press or grand them access to locations like this one. has been living here for over 30 years he says this is the 1st time this area has been affected by fire. i don't know why but there are branches nearby maybe the fire came from the air what's behind it is the attempt by a group is nice to grow soybean it's very sad because this place is filled with life they want to turn the forest into money you no matter what gets in the way
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many here fear the president words when he insists he wants to open up the amazones for business this area is known as the doorstep of amazonian the whole region includes 7 states and brazil the fires are still ongoing i'm not sure if you can see there's some smoke right over there been a little muddy morn has been studying the rain forest for years he says amazonia meats to be protected this free like this. this size is trunk we have tons of carbon dioxide is storage into these trees this act as a few tearing of excessive carbon dioxide from that the most for this. isn't for us can. compensate all the emissions of latin america the man says brazil's culture of death arrest in the region needs to change because
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we have a disco to slosh i'm born to create new year areas for agriculture pastures to produce meat and to produce so i been discovered sure we have to change this culture because slash and burn is a very primitive form to use the land each time the forest burns it loses its capacity to absorb the carbon dioxide blamed for global warming thousands of actors of forest have already been devastated for now it seems the force of nature will endure the question is for how long did he said war i was just feeder shaped by the only more days brazil. now australia's prime minister says the country will support the rights of a citizen arrested in china despite being told by beijing not to interfere writer yang june is suspected of spying a former chinese diplomat who's been detained since january a modest straightly in officials described as harsh conditions will stand up for
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a citizen and will will expect him to be treated appropriately and his human rights to be respected is their own justice process that they'll follow in china and that's appropriate but the suggestions that he's acted as a spy for australia are absolutely untrue and and will be that will be protecting and seeking to support our citizens as we have been doing there for some period of time we've got no apologies for standing up for one of our citizens facebook is tightening its rules for political advertisement before next year's us presidential election labels will be placed on ads to verify the organizations behind them and groups that run ads on politics or social issues will need to post their contact information online platforms have been under pressure to prevent a repeat of the 2016 election during that one russia was accused of meddling via social media to help donald trump when we know there's going to be tampering probably already has been in the democratic primary as well as in the national
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actions and not just presidential but also of the house and senate races so i think they're going to have to make a show of doing something because the company has enough reputational headwinds that they don't want to be implicated in any kind of misadventure of any type around 2020. now the un says a 1000000000 children around the world live in poverty and they're not just in the poorest countries child poverty rates have been getting was in the u.s. state of california a lack of affordable housing is a big factor rob reynolds reports from the town of watsonville just south of san francisco. less than 50 kilometers from the vast wealth of silicon valley the shell basara her daughter and granddaughter who live in a dilapidated trailer without running water or indoor plumbing think why do we have summer to stay you know because the hardest part we've been going everywhere to the shelters in every place trying to find somewhere to live 3 year old busy
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phoenix is one of millions of american children living in poverty a family asked us not to show the toddlers face to protect their privacy we basically told it we're going camping for the summer so that's she's thing she thinks we're going you know that we're here camping nearby a community service organization called loaves and fishes serves free meals i'm saying that the salvation army shelter it's really hard especially i have 3 kids one way 88 it's hard to get the president gets right now raymond conoco runs the watsonville social services organization community bridges it's really you know 2 things it's the rising cost of housing and it's the stagnant wages the reality is that the needs are systemic they're systemic based on a capitalism that has gone awry the amount of affordable housing for very low income families fell by more than 60 percent since 2010 the trumpet ministration
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has proposed slashing $8000000000.00 for subsidized housing and to triple rents paid 570-0000 of the poorest public housing residents in local elementary schools here. most children receive free meals $30000000.00 u.s. children get free or reduced price meals at school recent proposed changes by the trumpet ministration would strike half a $1000000.00 from the program nationwide there are nearly $13000000.00 kids living in poverty according to the activist group the children's defense fund that's nearly one out of every 5 children in the united states poverty affects kids' ability to learn the number one indicator that actually affect education love and they keep that level of poverty raising a family in poverty is an emotional burden for caregivers like michelle but sarah and i think i was already
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a pretty humble person but now i just feel degraded you know and just look down on . humiliation hunger and homelessness in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest country on earth robert oulds al jazeera watsonville california a deal was reached 8 months ago to allow people seeking asylum in the u.s. to wait for their colds hearings in mexico the refugees and migrants from central america promise jobs and shelter they remain in mexico but that's not happening home and explains in the border town of tijuana. rolen his son the well are heading home they too have an estimated $40000.00 u.s. asylum seekers mostly from guatemala from salvador and like them from honduras but over the border into mexico to wait for their process to play out it's a relatively new deal before they would have waited in the u.s. mexico's president promised work health and education while they're here for over
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an oil that hasn't materialized enough alone on the final play when all we haven't got the documents to work here and we can't leave the shelter because it's dangerous around here and my son can't go to school either to go back to work he says given all that in the 5 month wait before his asylum hearing next january he's got no choice but to go home it's happening all over to quanah where there are close 212000 u.s. asylum seekers. churches and charities not the government running the show that housed them providing classes for their children a meal since many have been issued the visas to work. the government has a double discourse it said there's a lot of opportunities for migrants in mexico and they welcome the team practice we haven't seen a lot of support. but we reached out to several minutes can migrant shelters in different cities they all said the same case is written that those in june
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president will put obrador why the government wasn't doing more he said it had a plan 440000 jobs in border factories for the migrants and it would cut through any visa bureaucracy was a few months later i want to board a factory owners so they do have those vacancies but the government hasn't helped to get them filled if we are ok with our work they're doing. now i think they have to work faster at the end they have to. not fast enough they don't. meanwhile. there's a solemn seekers continue to arrive private shelters have actually had the government funds cut despite the lack of a state shelter here i asked the federal representative why shouldn't. they've been founded by altruistic people but then not part of the stays the big problem is that the state never took care of migrants but now it's doing this it's
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providing a shelter for them. he says that there will be a governmental shelter working from this week ready to house 5000 that's been promised to be fool not to live it was like a problem if it does appear many like roland the whale would already have vanished and their american dream with the. john homan out 021. and let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson has moved to suspend parliament until the middle of october well this leaves his political opponents very little time to blunt the threat of a no bragg's that deal. it is a constitution that rage this is an attempt by a prime minister who was elected by a very small number of people in the country as serve to party membership to ride roughshod over parliament and prevent any legislation or debate that would stop
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this country leaving me you without a deal and all the problems that it would cause he seems to want to run headlong into the arms of donald trump. more determination to see this before this is explored. italian prime minister just epic contest may keep his job after a breakthrough in coalition talks the head of the opposition democratic party says he's ready to pull rivalries aside and govern with the 5 star movement whose candidate is calm take a contrary resigned a week ago. aleutian really really really problem entirely we told the president that in light of the current balance in the parliament we have accepted the proposal of the 5 star movement to suggest the name of the president of the council of ministers as they are the party but the relative majority. at least 13 people have been killed and 30 others wounded in moderate or normal in northwestern syria
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during airstrikes in civilian areas aid agencies have been unable to access the area they say hospitals and clinics have been turned to rubble. in yemen saudi jets of bomb international airports followed an attack by who threw rebels on an airport in the saudi city earlier on wednesday houthi say they fired a cruise missile at the airports hangars they've launched several drone and missile attacks on saudi arabia facebook is tightening its rules for political advertisement before next year's u.s. presidential election labels will be placed on ads to verify the organizations behind them online platforms have been under pressure to prevent a repeat of the 2016 election russia was accused of meddling in that election via social media to help donald trump win those in the headlines the continues here on al-jazeera after the stream.
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where ever it suits. i am very ok and i'm really good in the stream they are making the world a more accessible and inclusive place for people with disabilities we're talk about that with disability rights attorney. and we want to hear your questions and your comments on improving accessability tweet them to us you do stream or share them in our lives.
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in a new memoir the 1st death blind graduate of harvard law school reflects on childhood ever try any for european identity and journey to becoming an outspoken advocate for disability rights while a student at harvard helped develop the digital braille device that allows her to read information typed to her through a computer keyboard today she travels around the world promoting a message of inclusive ety and shares her life experiences as a deaf blind black woman and a child of refugees has received orders from leaders including former u.s. president barack obama and german chancellor angela merkel. she has also become one of the leading voices in improving the accessibility of the digital world grows life so far is told in the book ha been the best line woman who conquered harvard law. joins us today with her typhus clear balti also our viewers might notice the box in the corner of the screen today and that is because our conversation is being interpreted in american sign language everyone welcome to the stream
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of it i'm going to get started with a beautiful picture of the you share your cellphone father say which is a picture of your dad and he's reading and he's asleep in your sleep lying on top of him and he's trying to read and it just gave us some insight into the closeness that you have with your parents can you tell us more about that. yes so my parents will love than it dora me they also are a little protective like many parents and growing up we struggled with the challenge of my parents wanting to keep me safe and protected and me wanting to experience as much as the world as possible i'm deaf blind i have limited vision
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and hearing and there are a lot of negative stereotypes about what people with disabilities can and can't do and that's the heart at the arguments i had with my parents growing up there was a situation where i wanted to help build a school in mali west africa and my parents said no it's not c and i told them you are from africa and my dad grew up in ethiopia my mom girl that is eritrea how can they tell me it's not seen. it was because they were feeling protective as parents it had nothing to do with africa even if i was building a school in say montana i was sure they would have told me no it's not saying you so i tried in this is a story of advocacy so i advocated and i told them i know my abilities i know
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what i can and can't do and i can build a school and they still said no i was really frustrated i'm sure lots of kids can relate to this wanting to there's a thing in your parents saying no so i asked some ways of how can i convince them they're not believing me even though i feel like an expert when it comes to my abilities so i asked myself who else can help convince them that i can do this so we brought in the program manager who takes students to developing countries to help build schools and she sat down at lunch with me and my parents and they asked her how can happen build a school she can't see how would that work and the manager told them i don't know but we'll try we'll find a way it's ok if you don't know how to do something as long as you try to seek
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solutions as long as you try to figure it out and make it work. and we did i went to mali i helped build a school and i literally mean building a school we were shambling making bricks taking the latrine so that kids in this village in mali could get an education the harder the program is about teaching high school students that we can have an impact in the world even if you have a disability you still can have an impact in the world when i came back home my parents were more convinced but only slightly even even after graduating from law school there's still nervous and still protect. that probably will never end as long as they're your parents have and i wanted to
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also bring in our community here we got a tweet so many people follow your work online love what you stand for and love what you advocate for this is a brit hume who's one of them on twitter says i watched your text talk and i must say you were super intelligent we both know too disabilities are the same we all have our uniqueness but how did you cope with growing up as a child in the states. able ism is a problem all along with the world in the united states in eritrea and ethiopia able ism is the believe that people with disabilities are inferior to the non-disabled so employers thinking don't hire someone with a disability they won't do the job are teachers thinking we're not letting kids
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with disabilities in our class because they can't learn those are harmful assumptions and we need to get rid of them when i was a kid i didn't know how to advocate i missed out on so many things my high school graduation there were so many speeches that i missed i had no idea what they were saying because they didn't know how to add the key and slowly growing up i started to advocate then i started to how more access and not only need every time i advocated i removed a barrier and it helped the students who came after me that's really what drove me to become a lawyer realizing that when i create positive achievement and benefits our whole community. is a way that you write that takes us into your world we see inside the way that you often king we see through your eyes we see what you see and sometimes it's not that
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watch we try and understand the world from your perspective so for instance in your living room there's a step are you sure exactly where that step is so you do a job so you can pretty much guess where you think that step is and then you jump so you are navigating the world and we are navigating the world as a reader in your memoir food you. that way of describing things for people who do not have disabilities how have they reacted to understanding more from your perspective. so there's so many ways to experience the world seeing is a one way if you don't have access to visual information really you can hear it if you don't have access to sight or hearing mean you can feel it so throughout the
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stories in my book i describe environments in multiple ways i talk about the feelings tables the wather food tastes mounds there's so many ways to experience of the world some people ask why would people travel if they can't see the sides and as a blind person that sounds like a silly questions and there's so many experiences to how when you are out in the bout i went to dubai several years ago and it was so interesting to feel the different changes in weather to meet people and learn about the different cultures the different foods smells so many experiences. and so many of those experiences are detailed in your book which is excellent it's a quick read. and i'm not the only one who thinks so so there are some members of
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our community who are already in love with it once and as the video called it her name is monique home and she's a teacher of visually of the visually impaired and here is what she wanted you to hear of and i just finished reading your book and i found it thoroughly from beginning to end your wit your tenacity your love of learning in family and certainly your humor show through all of your experiences i mean t.i. and i highly recommend your book for my students their their parents as well as from my family and friends who often ask me a lot of questions about why this community and love to point to your book as a resource for learning more and also just because you know for memoir you touched a little bit and very matter of fact kind of way on your multiple marginalized identities at one point you spoke about being a black death and live woman at a harvard law school event and i'm wondering if you touch a little bit more on that experience because it's not often talked about the violence community and how that nuance perspective it perhaps the work you do today
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. so her question is about your multiple identities being black being blind and deaf and a woman at harvard law school how did that inform your time there. so that comment 1st of all i think you need them so the real thing you enjoyed my book in the story is that specific comment comes from the sea where i'm at harvard law school and there's a networking reception for law students to meet with real live lawyers and i had the networking reception i stood out. as a woman who is also black with a dog and a funny computer so i was ultra visible i had the same time i was also invisible because when people seeing me they think of all the assumptions all the
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images we have in society blind people the color most common images of the blind beggar and with that comes a low expectations and people assuming she's probably boring not going to talk to her or she probably can't work at my law firm i'm not going to go meet her all those negative assumptions then throughout our history the words down and dumb how often gone together which hurts the deaf community so many of us are extremely intelligent but people assume we are incompetent and they miss out on talent they miss out on opportunities so all in my identity is interest sucked creating. by society creating more barriers with
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society's assumption and able ism and reason and sexism so when we address disability rights we also need to advance opportunities for women and people of color no one advances if someone is still left behind there's a story that comes to the book which is when you went to the white house at it was a celebration of the american disabilities act you have the opening speaker for president obama at the time a vice president joe biden i have a picture of hugh here with your bro machine but even behind this amazing celebration of people saying what a great speech the preparations were still a challenge. so when you wanted to go up to the podium to check it out as every speaker loves to do there was a challenge involved in that when you solve that problem tell us how you solve that problem. so the
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white house was celebrating the e.t.a. the 25th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act so this was a disability centered a band all about inclusion and access and i still feel stiff area and my point with the story is even among family even disability events i still find myself advocating partly because i have such a rare disability blindness is rare it's hard to find spaces where i'm automatically included here's what happened at the weight house when i arrived i brought a tape ista and communication facilitator named cameron who was highly experienced and done all kinds of events with me and they told us she could not go on stage with me and we asked why she is really skilled and i want someone who's experienced
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and they said sorry it's protocol they wanted me to go with someone who had not had experience with blinded to bits or. there was no time. to change the system so what i really quickly is a train that person and i taught him how that guy the best way to guide for me is to communicate environmental information that we dance or communicates music so through your shoulder and our oh so we practiced going on and off the stage and i taught him how to use the keyboard and real display luckily it worked out well by. people should trust organizations and institutions should trust people with disabilities when we request accommodations we are our experts we know
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what works for us and we need society to listen. if i may just a sneaky little story off the back of that i'm going to show a picture of president obama at the time live in you and he's typing to you he decides he's not going to speak anymore he's going to type directly to you and then in the background we have to forward the vice president joe biden and he wrote a little message to you as well to remember what he wrote to you i want you to tell the world because he's known for his empathy a rather warm approach to meeting people. warn the approach in. tell the world so when i 1st met him the various thing he said as not high not nice to meet you but 1st thing he says is i love you aydin i am. so i said i think you but i was thinking did he just declare love what does this
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mean but. sometimes people when they're encountered with that when they encounter something new they accidentally blurt out things that just touch on the answer of what they mean so i try to see the best in the situation and assume that people mean well. and i took it as a complement and him trying to communicate respect and admiration. so many of these instances and you do tell a couple of them in the book. hinge on that on people meaning well but not knowing what to say and it leads to sometimes some awkward circumstances so i want to share a couple of tweets from on twitter who says the way to diffuse those situations is humor she writes humor can relax everyone when you make a joke of your limits after which people can then listen better she goes on to say i have so many questions for hoben blush question one how do you find happiness in
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life you always sound so happy so call him and compose so hard and i'm hoping you can answer both of those questions one how do you find happiness but also how do you then use humor to diffuse potentially awkward situations. humor is only to happiness humor dispels any disability related awkwardness people and their prostate ribs also end up finding that humor is a great tool to break that eye and help people feel comfortable it shouldn't be our job to me non-disabled people feel comfortable but it's a tool if you find yourself in that situation to help break the ice and hopefully teach them inclusion teach them to be better advocates how do i find happiness
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happiness is a process be honest with yourself what are your struggles what are your challenges and once you accept them and trust them you can work towards solutions so happiness is a process of constantly having those conversations with their song. there's a way that you advocacy in the book which is by storytelling you tell a story you use it as an illustration you give some stats and you say you do better this is how we can do better i am showing a picture with our audience of you in juneau in alaska added last year and that was the time when you were hoping to get a summer job you were super qualified really smart student and you couldn't get a job and you share the statistic of about 70 percent of blind people never work so this idea of being a person with disabilities and not being able to work out you're working to change that. that's
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a good question so when i was in college i really wanted a summer job just like lots of other college students and one of my friends told me i know a place where there are lots of summer jobs alaska. and he was raped there's a larger tourism industry in juneau alaska and lots of some regards because of the tourism industry employers would see my resume and get excited and invite me to interview is i was valedictorian in high school really good grades in college lots of volunteer experiences and still employers didn't want to hire me able ism assumptions that i was incompetent i would not be able to do the job i applied to all kinds of jobs dishwashing shelving gift shops folding laundry in
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hotel these are tactile activities they don't require sight but they still assumed i couldn't do it and they wouldn't hire me. that taught me that introduced me to employment discrimination and mean we realized working hard is not enough we also need employers to get rid of able ism stop assuming that people with disabilities are incompetent and then chile that summer i found one employer who was it clear. she hired me to be a front desk clerk at a small gym in juneau alaska so my responsibilities included managing the cash register the machines in the gym cleaning the changing rooms she didn't care with their used site our non-visual technique as long as i got the job done lots of people with disabilities have alternative techniques and alternative
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techniques are equal in value to mean stream techniques employers need to know that one day a woman came to the front desk of the gym and she said a treadmill isn't working i followed her to the chad mills and i pressed the on button and nothing happened i tried the other buttons on the machine nothing happened so i thought the machine from top to bottom and on the bottom i felt a switch i flicked the switch and the machine were to. believe as only goodness i didn't see that switch i told her i didn't see it either. although that sometimes that discrimination also extends to the digital space and so i want to share a common problem a disability rights lawyer in berkeley in the bay area of california where it is also from have a loser. digital accessibility is a human right of disabled people around the globe and here in the united states we
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have laws to protect that right people have been using those laws for more than 20 years to make sure the digital world is available to everyone recently domino's pizza has asked the u.s. supreme court to try to limit how disabled people can use laws to protect their right to be part of the digital world we don't know what's going to happen with that and we won't know probably for another year but we do know that people with disabilities and their lawyers will continue to fight to make sure the digital world is inclusive i'd love to hear from hoben about a lawsuit that she worked on that she talks about in her book that made a digital library with hundreds of thousands of books available to everyone so haven't we have just about a minute left in the show but can you talk about that lawsuit
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in my book they talk about a lost it where a library didn't want to make their website accessible they said under the americans with disabilities act digital places don't have to be accessible and we took them to court and the quite decided yes on line places do fall under the americans with disabilities act and after that the library scrapped settled and agreed to meet there when sarah to make their digital library accessible to blind readers. business is the choose inclusion team or customers there are over a 1000000000 people with disabilities around the world it's smart to choose inclusion. thank you very much for being with us holograms the deaf blind woman who conquered harvard law is the name of her memoir i can't think of a better way to end this show that here on my computer watching hoppen celebrating the release of her book the swing dots of course enjoy.
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putting. perception is validation we believe what you see but in one life time we cannot seen everything that we would lie if an experience is of others and the legacies had previous generations. i think testimony we let you know very little. with this documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera. september on al-jazeera up to gears of war and famine al-jazeera looks of the dramatic transformation emerging to the inspirational stories of for diversity
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p.o.b. times israel elections can benjamin netanyahu to form a majority in some time another town listening post to 6 the world's media how they operate and the stories they cover do not succeed been made to his him president to subsea join us for live coverage as to his humans a documentary that examines the worst atrocities committed during the war in libya . september on al-jazeera. well i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people
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are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where 2 worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. in 2 hours to get on juries in the rest of central bankers about the same time but more importantly to cultures north and south america has to teach to very important place for al-jazeera to be. britain's prime minister sparks outrage by forcing the suspension of parliament weeks before the break that deadline. on sammy's a than this is live from doha also coming up yemen's government says it's recaptured parts of aden fine thing that's deep in the rift between our lives
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a massive police been buried after being killed in the gaza suicide attack blamed on supporters. plus how an address can determine a life span below the gap between rich and poor in the us. it's being called a constitutional outrage and the political coup the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson the suspending parliament so in the middle of october well this would leave his opponents very little time to prevent the threat of a no deal bragg's it but johnson supporters say it's a decisive move that respects the referendum verdict 3 years ago lawrence lee reports from london. it was is and remains an idea about the british parliament taking back control of the agenda setting its own laws and making its own rules so
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what's the make of the decision by the new prime minister to block it from sitting at all for a 5 week period at the most crucial moments in the entire process. with one eye on a very possible national election johnson insists it's about setting out his new government's plans and that m.p.'s are not being frozen out of having their say over bricks it will be time on both sides of that crucial october 17th summit ample time in parliament for m.p.'s to debate the e.u. debate breaks it and all the other issues. but those m.p.'s who have vowed to do anything in their power to block a no deal bricks it's even threaten to set up an alternative parliaments if their views are ignored describe the johnson move as nothing short of a constitutional outrage a step on the road to dictatorship it is a constitution that rage this is an attempt by a prime minister who was elected by
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a very small number of people in the country has served the party membership to ride roughshod over parliament and prevent any legislation or debate that would stop this country leaving me you without a deal and all the problems that it will cause he seems to want to run headlong into the arms of donald trump it's more determination to see this before this is extraordinary johnson have been thought to have been getting on better with european leaders of late and hope had not been lost among them that some new deal could be found but time is now extremely short and there's a genuine sense of crisis among those who fear the hardest of bricks it's the great conundrum of a brecht's it has always been whether it should simply fall to governments who execute the will of the people or whether parliamentarian should have some kind of final say to determine what thought of brecht's it they think people actually voted for by taking m.p.'s out of play at such a crucial time johnson is effectively testing whether they have the will the
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resolve to try to overthrow him his government and potentially the referendum result as well that. attempts will now probably come sooner rather than later national elections will almost certainly follow something surely must happen now to resolve this sense of democratic crisis in the u.k. lawrence lee al-jazeera london. barca has more on the protests that followed boris johnson's announcement. the past 2 years since the bronx referendum the conversation the public discourse surrounding leaving the e.u. has grown uglier and uglier who would have thought only a few years ago that the word coup would be used in relation to britain's democracy but that's exactly what these demonstrates the calling the decision by boris johnson to suspend or paroch parliament next week so how boris johnson of course sees it he sees it very much in somewhat procedural terms as a way of making sure that m.p.'s are out of the way not in the equation anymore to
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make sure that the british government can pass much needed legislation when it comes to the humdrum day to day stuff of running the country things like roads education health care and so on and so forth but these people and those opposed to leaving the e.u. without a deal strongly disagree with that standpoint point believing very much that boris johnson wants to keep leaving the e.u. without a deal on the table until the dying moments just before the 31st which remains of course in legislation when the u.k. still will leave the european union according to m.p.'s the knives boken to including hillary ban the prominent opposition labor m.p. who is the chair of the cross party committee on leave in the european union they intend when m.p.'s return to palma next week to challenge the position for a much in the same way that they challenge to reason may and her vision of bricks
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it is what every band had to say a little earlier i think the priority is to prevent or no deal breaks it because that's the reason that he is doing this he knows that there isn't probably a majority in the house of commons to support him for a no deal breaks it and he's trying to make it very difficult for m.p.'s to stop him from achieving that the only problem is that time is running out m.p.'s only have a matter of days next week to coalesce around a single idea boris johnson believes that he's delivering the will of the people onery the results of the referendum but parliamentarian say that they represent the real will of the people they will fight this to the end. in italy prime minister just epicanthic may keep his job after a breakthrough in coalition talks the head of the opposition democratic party says he's ready to put the rivalries aside and govern with the 5 star movement conti
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resigned a week ago after 5 stars previous coalition partner the right wing league party withdrew its support aleutian illegally body problem entirely we told the president that in light of the current balance in the parliament we have accepted the proposal of the 5 star movement to suggest the name of the president of the council of ministers as they are the party with the relative majority. at least 13 people have been killed and 30 others injured in moderate unarm and in northwestern syria during airstrikes on civilian areas aid agencies have been unable to access the area they say hospitals and clinics have been turned to rubble in yemen saudi jets of bomb international airport following their attack by hoofy rebels on and their ports in the saudis as you know. the say they fired a cruise missile at the airport's hangars they've launched several drone and
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missile attacks on saudi arabia in the south yemen's u.n. recognize government says it's back in charge of parts of a novice or a brief offensive against back southern separatists victoria gate in the reports. 2 2 yemeni forces loyal to the internationally recognized government of president abbot rabin mansel heidi celebrate victory now agents presidential palace. in a sudden offensive lasting just a few hours the saudi backed government forces recaptured control of the city from the u.a.e. backed separatist fight as the government's offensive started on cheese day in yemen's east in abyan province by wednesday mooning its forces were on the outskirts of aden. as they retook the appleton push towards the center of the city it's reported they faced little resistance from the separatist fighters that's led some to conclude
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a deal with dom between saudi arabia and the u.a.e. ahead of a possible negotiation to end the wool it's a. cheap tactic immoral cheap tactic by the legitimate government who is. using sleeper cells to activate them and to to cause chaos in the city all in. 4 or negotiations. separatists from the southern transitional council are part of the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's fighting against these bought in a dramatic twist 2 weeks ago they took over the city of aden the seat of the saudi backed yemeni government some of the separatist fighters are refusing to surrender the government's own civilians to avoid military camps and areas where this fighting. this morning at least the building where evacuated areas of the clashes but again this. is
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a 1000000000 area that we do expect the most of the crowd to be severely because of the random shooting and random but barring that happening by both sides. yemen has not always been one country north and south yemen came together. in 1990 after years of conflict but it's not been an easy union and the war is deepening the divide gayton be al jazeera. sami hamdi is the editor of international interest current affairs magazine with a focus on the middle east he says the war has reached a stalemate until the u.n. decides that a national dialogue by all the parties that was agreed upon that broadhead this government which is then reneged on with weapons and seize the capital until the u.n. believes that democracy is worth fighting for it's worth sending troops it's worth ousting the movies and force it into agreement then we'll have a free for all in yemen it's a stalemate yemen is renowned abdul nasser went to yemen in the fifty's and sixty's the egyptian army at the time was the most powerful in the region they were
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defeated. in 2009 he wanted to show off to become king his father was a crown prince at the time the hope is annihilated him in the in northern yemen no one goes into yemen to fight it because they know that the yemeni tribes who fees in the history they've had with qatar saudi iran and the u.a.e. it's incredible they're always there like the alliance is always shifting yemen is a quagmire saudi didn't want to get involved in the 1st place the u.a.e. saw an opportunity to control of the ports iran is using yemen just to poke saudi they're not really interested in taking over yemen either and who is believed finally our time has come from the sixty's we've been fighting to try to become the main power this is our golden chance and the sudden separatists are saying 94 we lost the war yemen became united we want to be our own independent state all our resources are going north so these all these all these very different agendas because the national dialogue that brought everybody together for the 1st time is not being supported by the u.n. this is why we have a free for all and this is where until the u.n. a justice approach yemen will continue to be a stalemate. straightly as prime minister says the country will support the rights
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of a citizen arrested in china despite being told by beijing not to interfere running to young june is did of spying former chinese diplomat has been detained since january and was a stray be an officials described as harsh conditions. will stand up for a citizen and will will expect him to be treated appropriately and human rights to be respected is their own justice process that they'll follow in china and that's appropriate but the suggestions that he's acted as a spy for australia are absolutely untrue and and will be that will be protecting and seeking to support our citizens as we have been doing there for some period of time we've got no apologies for standing up for one of our citizens. coming up after the weather. and line cathay pacific is denounced for firing employees who joined and to gump.

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