attempts to control what unions do and limits our right to strike series a started this but now a new democracy has taken up the baton workers of further infuriated by government plans to keep a database of unionized employees and only allow union votes on strike action to be done online union leaders say that amounts to state surveillance the bill also weakens the union's power to negotiate wages with employers by making it more difficult to go to arbitration if talks break down the government says that by giving employees more discretionary power the new law will create jobs it's pledging to double the current growth rates to 4 percent and also to cut taxes labor bore the brunt of greece's long recession minimum wage was cut by a 5th and even so unemployment swords to 28 percent unions were effectively silenced when collective wage bargaining was done away with even the public sectors

right to strike was temporarily abolished unions now fear that those erosions of rights will be made permanent in the name of growth obviously in a doctor's pay has roughly how it hovers just below a $1000.00 euros over time is either not paid in adequately and our salaries simply do not compare to what doctors are paid abroad which leads many people to leave the government says flexible labor laws will attract foreign investors union say an obsession with growth is being used to oppress workers' jobs. phones. a humanitarian ship carrying more than 180 people who were rescued in the mediterranean as docked in italy the migrants were picked up a week ago by the charity vessel ocean viking when they were attempting to make the dangerous crossing from libya to europe france germany italy malta and finland agreed on monday to share the responsibility of taking the name for. spain's

supreme court has ruled its government can examine the remains of former leader general funk siskel franco he lies contentiously in the valley of the fallen more than him for the civil war dead and his victoria gates and the reports the decision has divided public opinion. to many spaniards general francisco franco was the hero to many others he was a dictator son of the for the relatives of the republican victims who died fighting fascist forces in the spanish civil war the supreme court's decision was one they'd long campaigned for the frankie's remain should not lie in a publicly funded state muesli in the valley of the full in name of dread is dedicated to old spaniards who died during the civil war in the 1930 s. judges unanimously rejected in a pail by frank case family and approved the removal of his remains on the ground. frank i must speak sheer and because the valley of the fallen must become

a memorial a reminder for all those who suffered and gave their life to achieve something that today is being stolen from us. you was a dictator i wouldn't even call him a person he was a dictator and a criminal and because of that he shouldn't be in a public place the controversy has divided political opinion in spain was the ruling socialist government and prime minister petra sanchez that wanted franco's remains removed to a private family site for burial opposition parties accused him of exploiting the issue to win votes he made them busy general election franco died in 1975 but his legacy still divides opinion some think he was an anti communist hero others point to widespread human rights abuses throughout his almost 40 years in power most people. are. he was again. you got to be in

not. from your words but words. this is court ruling it looks like finally ending decades of controversy over way he should be buried victoria gay to be al jazeera beijing's new airport has opened ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china the phoenix shaped port like a that in southeast beijing will help relieve pressure on the existing airport capacity constraints there frequently cause flight delays. talk a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera u.s. democrats are opening a formal impeachment inquiry into president donald trump claims he sought political help from ukraine house speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement of the trumpet

knowledged he discussed joe biden with his ukrainian counterpart. french president emmanuel macro has again met iranian president hassan rouhani on the sidelines of the un general assembly urging him to meet with president trump. and we believe. we've now we think it's pretty tough to get fish out of. the on if you don't miss it he's got to put the. relations between the u.s. and iran became even more tense following attacks on 2 major old facilities in saudi arabia this month washington says iran was behind the attack a terror on denies the claims. you have prime minister has cut short his time at the united nations is heading home of the supreme court declared he acted unlawfully by suspending parliament house of commons will resume on wednesday there are no calls for him to resign but he's standing defiant in the brags that will go ahead on the 31st of all time but. obviously this is

a verdict that we will respect and respect the judicial process i have to say i strongly disagree with what the justices who find i don't think that. it's right but we will go ahead and course paul will come back i do think there's a good case for getting on with the queen's speech anyway move do that but the most important thing is we get home and leave a break to it on october 31st and this is clearly a the claimants in this case are determined to try to defrost straight that into it and to stop that i think i'd be very unfortunate if parliament made that objective which of the people delivered more difficult to get on an earthquake has hit eastern pakistan killing at least $25.00 people and injuring hundreds more the $5.00 magnitude quakes epicenter was close the city of near poor in pakistan the minister of kashmir dozens of homes and cars were damaged when the roads collapsed

those were the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the stream station that's the watching. bodies on the line india's biggest. industry stunt performers are unknown and under one i want mates mates the name and women risking it all for the bright lights of bali on al-jazeera. and here in the stream today blackface control the scenes of the history of practice and how it impacts people of color are there instances a black face in your part of the world chances are yes well what should we do about them tell us via twitter or in our live chat. i just want to let you know this before we get started that today's program will

feature races images that you may find disturbing the latest controversy of a black face involves canadian prime minister justin trudeau last week he apologized for instances in his pasta where he came to portray black and brown people the controversy has reignited conversations about racism and white privilege this is something that i deeply deeply regret darkening your face. regardless of the context of the circumstances is always unacceptable because of the racist history of black face i should have understood that then. and i never should have done it. that face isn't just a painful episode of the past it continues to appear in popular culture and media around the world but faced how it is in europe include blunt pete in the netherlands and belgium to the survivors have sparked protests from mt racism

activists and raise questions over how these traditions impact their respective communities of color so today we want to dive into the rhesus roots of blackface with us to talk about this in montreal canada charmaine nelson a professor of art history at me go to university she's also a scholar of transatlantic slavery studies in amsterdam jerry every day he's a poet and human rights activist who works with the black pete is racism campaign and in new york today she's a radio producer and host of the stoop stories from the black diaspora welcome everyone but it is really good to have you know here hello gerri charmaine and lida let me start here on my lap top takes us back to the beginning of the 19th century william h. west's big minstrel jubilee for a gentleman there none of them are black or wearing blackface champagne 2019 we're still discovering blackface. pictures photographs and not from way back then not even historical archives people are still doing it if they knew where this

tradition came from do you think they would stop. i think many of them would and i think too there's a very unique context in canada where we have suppressed 200 years of transatlantic slavery under 2 empires the french and the british and why that's very very important for us understand it's connected to trudeau's the scandal with brown place in blackface is because blackface minstrel see comes directly out of transatlantic slavery and it emerges at a moment when slavery is ending so we need to think about what replaces the white ownership of black bodies when slavery dies and mental c. was a public stage performance that included instrumental music singing dancing and very while an comedy they would sing and make jokes about and like lynching right smoking like tobacco peeling of like potatoes black people and on the stage were mainly white men who were doing cross cross gender am across racial performances so

white men pretending to be both black male and females who were enslaved so part of what was so horrific and horrible 12 of them and today is that a minstrel he was about in a style job that slavery had and it was also sad that slavery is over and the grotesqueness to have the mask of course was a part of that and central part of that. so that was a perfect what they should wrapped up so so tightly there thank you for that and i think it's necessary because there are people in our community tweeting us that they don't quite understand where it came from and why it is so bad so i want to bring in one voice this is a man he says i'm a bit confused i suppose it's part of a costume for a theme thing and why is it offensive i mean after such is the way in for others here in the u.s. dressed up in white face to play the characters in the white chicks movie and then

goes on to say so someone can paint their body blue or green or purple but if you match your skin tones for trey the character or costume to be more real then it's offensive so the law gives this one to you what would you say back to a man. well that's just it makes me think about when people are doing blackface and they are in situations where they are most likely the only. there are any other black people in the room right and so the idea of when someone says why is it offensive has to do for me with this question of like if you were were a white person in a room full of black people would you still be doing blackface. and i don't i don't think i think the answer is no i'm mean people do blackface because they are trying to be funny as and at some point it's just it's not humorous so i think that when people say i don't get it you know we can all laugh at that you

know i think the sad thing is it's basically people that are and spaces where there aren't any black people around that are basically poking fun at that culture and that's a question i think people need to ask when when there are certain why this might be offensive to other people can i add as well and i jump in there lila and add as well that you know there's no quickly and between black. people pretending to be white and white people depending pretending to people color who they colonized and in slaves and in the case of black people of african descent we're talking 400 years of slavery from the 1400s until the 800 so what we have to understand too is race as we know it today is a supposedly biological cattery of human difference did not exist before slavery it was created in and through slavery to justify slavery and when you know a lot of visual artists participated in that project and when they were creating

the dire rama's of people skull sizes and shapes and all of this kind of nonsense with a biometric an understanding of a body you know the black person was always at the bottom and the white the european was always at the top so we need to understand too that race isn't about is about power the ability to withhold things from people to to deny people opportunity and to be able to miss rabbet represent people as well we really need to keep that in mind in terms of you know people try to reverse the arguments about . you know you'll be raising our way of dressing up as us why can't we dress up as you let me let me bring jerry into the conversation here jerry because every single year without fail it was lent of the year people around the world are shocked to see dutch people blacking up with the full big lips and the afro wig let me show you here what that looks like there is a cut to known as wate peat or black pete in the netherlands culture as you approach christmas time he is to help with the santa cause that's how i would

describe it but joe you tell us how you would describe this image that you see and it's culturally acceptable and it's part of a tradition that you are trying to fight and get rid of tell us about but pete where oh where should i. i would say that when we look at the tradition we had the office of nicholas. it was hundreds of years you know which was played by weiss and then doing something that explains the 'd. whites in the class were portrayed. elderly white men and all of a sudden they're raised by steamboat and right that white holes through the race of course of the midlands and as a result just what pete pace visas to schools hospitals and other places what we have seen is that it's going up. leave the impression that black people are lazy

that black people are not equal and most shocking that it only shows that we haven't really learned much from a lot of sleep sleep history and colonial history and it's kind of like dressed up but they said definitely blackface and other people act in a blend to it and when we started a campaign we didn't had a lot of people and we didn't had a lot of support support from the a lot of people but recently we have seen more white people coming to the conclusion that this is actually very racist and the old dirty continuous the one thing we get rid of racism so jerry i'm reminded i've been here for a long time at the stream and so i'm pulling up an episode from 2012 and which a member of your organization was on the show we talked about blackface for the holidays and this is the latest update to that so fast forward i was 2012 this is 2019 this from the guardian on what the updated version of word

a thief is going to look like he is sooty now so we asked our community what they think about that update to his origin story this is what one person inside jeremiah says i am still offended use dark and faces instead white people parading and sooty faces darkened faces or any other adjectives with them come up with still boils down to whites using. identity as their amusement so gerri what's your take on the sooty the update to it and trying to. remedy some of what people see as reese's i'm can i show the to the change i can buy when i go for an office and this is the before my laptop everybody so this is pete this is the updated version. i don't know but that not very flattering carry you happy now know. that then is that when. i was part of this company and when we started it i didn't start this company because i was bored i didn't start it because i was looking for

a new started because there was that face which is very degrading to black people and i felt like we need to do something about it so my whole. goal is to get rid of the black face but so that this integration can become a sort of gratian for everyone also making that changes even though we seem small and i do think that a lot of children growing up with 2 other people stop pointing the finger like people are saying you up because now they are seeing the pages can be pete the people behind that is more playful so he's about people not having to sort of bridge not essential black people but at the same time i'm not to feel people how to celebrate disintegration force i'm a poor way of trying to be feet minded as i can but at the same time i would not stand by when i saw this pencil what is black people white people you know the human race to say to that very much that this story is really important to you in the truth ok's because there is points to about the children and what children are

taught and what i at what age when we think about white children learning practice racism trudeau was a teacher he was 29 years old he should have been the one in the school making sure that his students didn't come to that party black face as opposed to being the one to show up in the black face and we're talking about a 21st century occurrence that was 2001 and we have to remember here too this is a background of people like forget you know growing up in canada maybe the you know people in europe etc don't know this but we are inundated with american t.v. so you know i grew up watching n.b.c. a.b.c. you know fox when it came into being c.b.s. so as well as a canadian t.v. show the channel story t.v. channels so.