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around the wilds. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. around a virus pandemic special coverage on al-jazeera. in 1998 the good friday agreement was signed brokering a peace deal between republicans and unionists in northern ireland. nearly a decade later al-jazeera visited belfast to explore ongoing divisions in the city . the film you're about to see was 1st broadcast in 2007. there's not be a lot to laugh about in northern ireland over the last 40 years the old mantra for

god and our stuff has a new twist these days the fact that it's now possible to make a joke about it is a sign of the changing times in northern ireland. and yet in many respects belfast the capital of northern ireland remains a divided city the physical evidence is there for all to see. the modern history of northern ireland has been dominated by one thing the troubles and bitter conflict both political and religious between those claiming to represent the predominantly catholic nationalist of those claiming to represent the mainly protestant unionists. broadly speed. the nationalists more so-called republicans want northern ireland to be unified with the republic of ireland while

the unionists wanted to remain part of the united kingdom along with england wales and scotland. i think this conflict was probably brought here to. the people of my community and i think of taking the problems to the theatre and you can achieve nothing ever said by people civil rights and human rights people are dying marched on the streets i'm a big an awful straits and then the british army come in. there catholics and i says here actually had no basic human rights the had no full rights the had all those traits taken away from them. but in 1998 northern ireland political parties signed up to the good friday agreement breaking 3 decades of deadlock it established a power sharing assembly and paved the way for the withdrawal of british troops on the disbanding of our military groups. after many false starts the

assembly assumed its full power in may 2007 the sworn enemies of yesterday unionist leader ian paisley and the republican leader martin mcguinness became 1st minister and deputy 1st minister. of what northern ireland has now is not so much peace as an absence of conflict far from disappearing the walls have grown instead of reconciliation there is partition and all tempered stalemate of separate identities and separated lives there is huge pressure situation in very large particularly the working class groups whose. kids go to school in different schools structures corning. quarter century but it would just not make such. a consequence of the moves in the movie the segregation

divisions were there before the war and the movies kind of fit into that and then the further segregation was continued from there so we're now in a situation where there's more. after 13 years of the peace process and there was truly a conflict. segregation is a fact of life and of life and over 35 years of america people aren't going to get over the very very quickly or very easily. the 1st of the so-called peace lines began as the length of the bomb was rolled out by the british army to separate the warring communities in 1969. from then on they became more common and more complex today there are believed to be $41.00 deliberate barriers across belfast we estimate that about half

of all the parents have either been there and you will have been explained. in some way. most notorious burial was the one between the warring communities of protestant shanksville and catholic falls road the flashpoint of recent years has been the wall that separates the short straw and isolated catholic enclave in east belfast from the surrounding protestant areas in 2002 it was the scene of the worst riots in the city since the start of the peace process. a catholic lives with his family in the shadow of the short strand. as vivid memories of what happened. there was widespread.

on the smaller of short straw. and. a lot of it because a trigger thrust at this particular spot because this was seen as a formal spot on the wall was floor to time. here will leave. the whole everyone the. girl george bush destroyed. our. children and students in both came true. both in. 2000 people were hurt i mean. covered up through everything it was very dark going. to not use the. lives with her family place the side of the wall the protestant side

i actually moved in here in the troubles in 2000 today because. the other people in here had children. and. by the people next door. we needed people to move in here that want to freed 11 here so i. and i moved in. she was at the head in the back and that was just and the allies over there. just said their manual. talking to. the wall here between the 2 communities has become the focal point of this conflict this is not a spot between neighbors but the battle line of a war between 2 traditions 2 denominations where os them mentality still exists. they nearly killed us. what can we do the police don't stand up for us we did sandra people obey commands they attacked them back they

went home and now. they have to be shown that we are not by ourselves that other people are there are ready to command and protect us they have a sense of insecurity they've had it for 400 years here they still feel that they need the wall to keep their foothold there and they have got away with getting their own way. 10 years from the same. and they out of the government has give give give them all the time of the time they want to squash our culture our politicians have no choice but to go when a government with. all sorts. of bitterness felt by the protestant majority. being compounded by the feeling that their own politicians have let them. need to be tribal leaders rather than

statesmen above the their own communities and they defended their own communities interests as opposed to looking at the broader needs of the wider community is. the difficulty and those with an strong strong moralist aryans or staunchly republican marion's. they feel a sense of betrayal because the politicians are that they were never sure of with republicans for example. and all of a sudden in a very short period of time. and they were sort of. laughing and smiling. more politics. a lot of our news here that is a step backwards. even today politicians in the new northern ireland assembly still locationally seem locked into their old mindsets. with republican ministers in the.

she represents the maine republican party. the 1st republican. still exists between her. colleagues. that they are here. i still. subscribe to.

it is this. place. great through the streets of belfast. but this is no carnival bending on which side you're on the marching season is either celebration or provocation.

for the marches the victory of the protestant king william of the irish catholics in 6090 is at the very core of their conviction that they are and will always remain part of the united kingdom. will prevail in this very much a way of life a cultural expression of oppression take down but especially from the problem community. that's a celebration of a battle which took place over 300 years ago at the bowling. celebration expression of freedom expression of liberty expression for turning to. something which is not on a level to american independence day to. the celebration of the boston and france to the celebrations which we have and see and many other countries where people celebrate their liberty. for staunchly warless people know this i'm

a libertarian about war against the catholic church basically it's part of their cultural identity. for the wider unionist community i think it is. a symbol of the right on to bring not a strong as someone else made them it's a very. hot from a catholic perspective the drums and triumphalist gestures calculated to keep old wounds open. you have to understand where where the only common out of a complex situation there are people here 11 and those areas that have been murdered by loyalist paramilitaries and i think that it's insulting for them to have to to watch an orange tree have walked at a school bombers off loyalist paramilitaries francis you know it's but it's very hard for us in the state to take us. on both sides the pos is ever present with the brits the by. more than 3 centuries ago.

within the last decade the. time has not been. as. of expression. officially the conflict. is over. more than a decade into the peace process many of the sectarian ritual. as a means of distinguishing reinforcing. the 12th night of every july towering. trees over the 66090.

year when the hate symbols chiefly irish flags go up in flames. and. told. the put to mark a. couple of weeks. you will see a visible sign. of foreign flags. and. straight. scottish flags not from a foreign country as

a foreign country. the symbolism doesn't always take the form of flag waving some of the writing on the walls that have divided northern ireland have been raised beyond propaganda to an art form with its roots in another country. conflict. but 5 years ago by the locals i was. well into the peace process and i think what they were trying to say was to let future generations know the individual the characters because i remember watching funerals of palestinian young people killed in the west bank and at the funerals of a carry pictures of these people and i thought i would like to know who that person is what they represent why did they do this such a young life being taken and i think it's also transmitted into. the spheres this

young people young man young woman they asked the question why. a republican who honed his talent while serving time in the maze prison is now involved in the unlike. the son of one of the best known protestant loyalist leaders. who in the past chronicled the troubles each on his own side of the walls come together to bring a new message to the city in a northern ireland separation has generally become more entrenched since the end of hostilities it's a remarkable act of collaboration. with him that were never known before that's when the impossible tamar 15 years ago. it just would not be a no. i would never consider the notion 10 or 15 years ago it's only been

a lie possible to be me a possible through the work at all or people of the on the ground. as just carried on through miss out on the army which is an engagement that needs to happen at every level of society in my community the walls were used it was all that there was censorship mostly with being with a she's the one else. we focus on and the images you see in our walls reflected the feeling. within our communities so we were too and we were vehicles for fear or anger or frustration is taking place within our unfortunately community the murals were used. by like different signs. that were used to mark territory by groups and organizations 3 fair channel related by the political leadership of the tank. i believe that my community missed an opportunity we're here also concerned. now the 2 men are determined to use the meal also as

a force for unity rather than division. mark and danny's hope is that their own writings on the wall may dismantle those of the walls the virtual ones that have been erected over the decades. we met accidentally they are so many buyers and from the people holding people back and if those can be programmed that my kids my grandkids can meet up with people from mars to move them and their faith in the sea and i got sick a chemist was so inspired as was his wall start to fall trying to change people's main sets because that's where the party or success than the making. but for both men optimism unrealism finely balanced we don't know but hopefully even a small part of the we can add something to it we have lots of hope that will may or not it's what. but that's right but it's worse definitely worse a little. but whatever progress may be made at this individual level some parts

in the communities are still bent on division and the moment there's a decision waiting to be implemented to him to to build a fence just a couple of miles from where we are now around to score between 2 communities we need to get to a situation where there's no more barriers being built and not only that the idea of building the barrier is considered to be unacceptable. the lesson of northern ireland is the dismantling a wall is far harder than erecting it wars are indicative not just of division but of mistrust in belfast the day the walls come down is still a long way. they wanted to straight and made it all get it but they reacted in the process. i am not going to justify anything else i love my

country i love my culture a lot. just. the way i would do their heads as a toyota before you measure what spatial for. nearly a decade after this film 1st ad we return to belfast to catch up with danny devaney he's still painting the city's walls so what is your focus on a shop well that's right across the arts there was no no toilets space where the are. you maybe having a look over a chair laying towards a solo artist is a problem see a projection light up the straw. that the political work of danny and his nearest brethren have become world famous but some of their canvases are disappearing. in 2016 the fast rule began to come down here and the catholic republican area of

joint. ministers have vowed that all the rules will be demolished by 2023. the demolition of the are doing will is a symbolic milestone but not all of its structure has actually come down yet. danny meets local residents to find out why they were here at the residence to feign see if we need to be at a certain speed when they made secure because they're the ones you know but if you look further down the road you'll say another part of the wall that was put up. on the back of people's homes so what does sachs what it was about this strike that the that more people at the minute just don't face see if the article. just got to the. bit when the. joint is an area historically notorious for violence. fear that these

conflicts may continue to flare up today leads many to seek protection behind the wall. but some residents believe that barry is not the solution to today's trouble . where they were 1st cheap. with those. you know a lot of people are told the troubles will do you. look at. the profile that it's. all said. but the. all the sectarianism still exists the government is now attempting to give the city and new image. encouraging artists like danny to find new subjects for them. and then. they want to. and he's still collaborating with protestant mirror nest mark of vine. always

a stock. going to rather than call the reimage in the should have called it reinvention because really outs what they're trying to do the trying to reinvent those communities but nothing ever really hop on here you know and as tommy says sort of sweep it on the carpet i don't enjoy talking about a mentoring or understand thoroughly what's that or. as well as remembering the struggles of the past danny believes murals should reflect the community's aspirations for a peaceful future. if the murals are changed it is because the main set of the people and whose community distances. today that painting from northern islands next generation. i think it's our form was surely to be part of the solution we use and how it is for that knows what they are to try and say it's our kids who struggle and politics

the solving they come to us all through dialogue done white shoes and all that. there are people in the world who want all forms of verification to just go away so we need people fighting against them we either trying to see if it's a fake video may be in syria but in a different time they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play as we've been targeted by cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous and through this conflict kept. truth in a post truth world are now just 0. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army

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