al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your own. hello nor trailer nandan the top stories on our jazeera fires are again burning near to a greek migrant camp that was all but destroyed by the overnight blaze it's left thousands of asylum seekers without shelter but locals blaming them for starting the fire people are reportedly fleeing the area again as the new bases take hold around 12000 people were housed at the morea camp on the island of lesbos officials say the fires were started by refugees forced to self isolate after testing

positive for the corona virus concerns of a public health crisis arising with the whereabouts of more than 30 migrants with coded 19 i'm known to answer is there. you can see over my left shoulder the fire is still burning well rather it's burning again because the fire that had been lips that destroyed the main morea camp was post house on wednesday morning but now with the high winds whipping up in the evening more fires have been lit they've been spreading rapidly as we've been watching for the last 2 hours throughout the hillsides covered in pines and 200 year old all of the groves that surround the camp and where many people had made their homes in tents under the canopy of the trees. trials for one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines have been suspended testing of the vaccine developed by scientists at the university of oxford and the u.k. based drug astra zeneca was poor after

a participant fell ill the company says the whole hold is routine and the cause of the illness in a british volunteer is unexplained america's top infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci says it's a normal part of the process that's the reason why you have various phases of trials to determine if in fact these candidates are safe this particular candidate from the astra zeneca company had a serious adverse event which means you put the rest of the enrollment of individual volunteers on hold until you can work out precisely what went on you alert the other sites to see if they see anything similar to this or related to that and then you proceed cautiously as you go forward making sure you're on the alert for this type of an adverse event but it's really one of the safety valves that you have on a clinical trial such as this so it's unfortunate that it happened hopefully they'll work it out and be able to proceed along with the remainder of the trial

but you don't know they need to investigate further. far warnings are in place along the entire u.s. west coast as blazes grow out of control a state of emergency has been called in oregon or there are concerns that warm winds could fan the flames in california more than 14000 firefighters are now working to tackle 25 major blazes in the state with particular concern around los angeles and san diego. and russian investigators say 2 senior opposition figures are being held in custody accused of destabilizing the country lawyer and activist maxime's that has arrested by last man on wednesday it recently spoke out about the escalating crackdown on dissent area callers nick over disappeared on monday she reportedly ripped up her passport to avoid deportation to ukraine the country's leading opposition candidates fetlar to kind of skier says she hopes to start talks with ruling powers despite the activists detention

a lot of people are still in hospitals lot of people some people were raped. and it is. it was a great shock for all their dealers and people because we really couldn't even expect that such violence could happen in our country in the at the moment. the regime is trying to scare and demoralize demoralize us but eat relies on the on force we rely on our solidarity and vision of a new bill rose afghanistan's vice president has escaped a bombing targeting his convoy umbrella salai received minor injuries in the attack in the capital kabul at least 10 people were killed and several others injured former intelligence chief has survived previous attempts on his life. do stay with us witness is up next life now.

we're going to tell you about a piece of. the bearded man you know you've been doing in. the 1st year there were 50 of us in our time and 16 year there were like 20 we had to see people that we knew very closely our friends not coming back to

school. it was a very odd figure and a very high figure well we're going to accept the increase or we're going to fight and we were clear that we're going to fight. to space we don't have a language we don't think that we're the most destruction favors students. if you think that you know there's no way students can never win anything. but clear message that we have for the diversity is that we can't continue like this. i must know of 3rd no no no. right.

it's enough what do you want in south africa why don't. you know do you know. this is something that you look at the freedom charter and the police and army but our fathers were martyrs see the grief that you see that the that you wanted this university of lyon to see which started started on yes. we have beaten as black people excluded from the education system for such a long time if we are interested about the sting called transformation then we have to ensure that this justice. this is like a food security project whatever food is produced room goes to the food fan and gets given to the students that have been fisheries of the food bank program.

many academics find themselves throughout the year being approached by students for money to buy food you have put the students who have to sit in the same cross as students who were in their 1st year when they pass matric the parents buy them a seat has been told b.m.w. so they can drive to university. the inequality is far more benefits at a place like that university and other former you know english speaking war you know the top white universities and these things contribute to the kind of consciousness and the politics that have evolved in the feast must for movement. you sit in these institutions and you think you in cambridge there was purposeful

these institutions were made primarily for white middle class men. these institutions were in fact a primary part of holding and developing a party to south africa and colonial africa. the the. the. not only a students oppressed by the violence of the system in that they financially excluded but so well costs right and to an even worse extent because workers have even less agency than students to write in some ways the university needs us to exist as opposed to workers who can be more easily replaced. and not employed by overheads but knew where and contracted companies in 2001

when this outsourcing started the employers who were employed by beds they now became ex vets and and what they lost was up to half this the lebanese and they no longer had medicaid 8. was. on was. ideal it's part of the same struggle you want a more just society you want a dignified society and you want to dig commodified university. where others are but a lot of that in my field go back into our communities and to make sure that the uplifting and. i think if you're doing that you have failed as

a student. the. history is a nightmare from which we're still trying to. if you want people to have a shot it changing the social economic reality that. they've inherited then you have to prioritize higher education. post 994 we get a message occasion which means that these universities can open up to black people and to poor people and to woman in ways that was he started to not possible as you have this happening you have the state withdrawing subsidy. there was an argument made in the ninety's particularly by people in positions of power at the time that we needed to think more critically about priorities and it was felt that higher education wasn't one of those priorities like.

the big universities the ones with. the ones we the elite used to go and preach the fees by double digits the logical thing to do because as the subsidies get you in the reading quality you. the poorer universities couldn't do it so they did increase fees but by no one month. this is a special moment for me as i symbolically as. the vice chancellor sort of that's your bicycle and. i'm not sure i'm right and god was.

was was. they didn't make me sit on the floor i came to them and i said. i was criticized by the questions they said i gave birth to the struggle to give oxygen to substances their right. i did i do you know those who didn't want. to do a good music you know do you know the 2 new don't want to do to you think you understand was. was and it is to keep this university. quality institution and that means i need to keep its

income streams so there's no way i'm giving. until the state makes up the. i don't have be but in his student days was probably the equivalent of what we are now. i don't know i know him that he wasn't life but we hear that he was progressing. at him sees himself both as a scholar of the left and as a participant of the left now finding himself in a position of authority in which that authority has constantly been challenged by this emerging student. i believe profoundly that the world will be a far better place. if we lived and created a more egalitarian outcome. the struggle for a free education system is an important player in that together to.

limit. the league i have. had a meeting of this nature taking place where the university management the executive committee of council would have to sit in front of students and engage with the students it is what i wouldn't tell you who's in who's who didn't. know who's under new management and not management in suits and the.

bad news. of which there's only been 9 university assemblies this is a creation where the entire university comes and decides on a particular issue a burning issue. had blocked off suddenly the class that completely shut it down did the private security temples control the but campus control was on our side was and we understand that they wanted to walk down the lawns because it's much easier to disperse people in an open area. around 1 o'clock they still hadn't opened it up i was off to oahu

the power structure in the university been immersed and actually the students really for a moment for a while were in control the reason was. was . that in the last time we had a significant generational conflict was the sixty's early seventy's. and i think we entering that moment again you're beginning to see it in multiple manifestations you seen it in the emergence of student protests in south africa. the was that statue symbolizes the exclusion of black bodies from a particular space and it stands there proudly at the entrance of the university

and that's symbolism is a representation of how much needs to change was was. judging. if you can have an education that is number one effort centric way african ideas. at the center and important and over emphasize as whiston ideas ah we have african ideas being valued. african knowledge systems being valued. then for me that is d. couldn't i say should.

we got comfortable as settlement house. it was so important in building new nitty instantly down amongst ourselves. that. education team also started to playing around with the idea of what with a decrease library looked like so it provided also in no tentative it created a world we wanted to live in we opened the room of philip to us to come in to see if your ideas will find expression let's put them to a test this thing through together. i mean there was something about affirming a way of knowing something that has not been affirmed in this place was a language a song a grandmother sang with you to feel something you know in your whole life has been affirmed. and for you to claim like that space is to take you own the land.

ah. by monday we had a call to meet the minister and when the minister had engaged us the idea of the 6 percent which is inflation no real increase. we bought into the.

stakeholders agreed to encourage their respective constituencies to engage in institutional new causations at universities with a view to achieve if each increase of not a higher than a c.p.i. of related increase of 6 percent for 2 into 16. years even if. the students don't accept this will. students must surely if you think i'm. the anger among students had left those had joined us. students had entered the back of parliament and 11 side in the gate was open in the frank and me just end it was when you got inside that's in the heat the fan.

please respond differently to white protesters and so quite spontaneously whitehurst curtis is what os 2 to offer themselves into the front of the march such that they could protect some of the black students and it worked once or twice but when it got to parliament and people realize that they these people doesn't matter what color they're going to storm this parliament this is like and he started given that we need to stop this. was. i had never seen the power of students like that i think back it was was. it. was. it was it was just. like

you were doing this for your children also you can't afford these studies as well and yes yes i'm just i. was. i was i thought i was i was too i was. the emergence of some sort of beginnings of a national coalition that exists outside of the control of the n.c.a.a. movement but it really just represents a growing movement that people are realizing that we need to work together and other to make it against who thought. a lot of it went to my movement was. i was.

walking home. and was. with him and she's standing there on the stage and i see because this is not going to have this guy must come down it was all staged to be assume they knew there. was. evidence for movement came about organically it belongs to everyone and no one at the same time and i think that's something that i'll do sometimes forget that we're stuck to the new very different way to the politics the thank you stuart. i got a call from the presidency saying what is after consultation my v.c. i released a statement saying the university vice chancellors a back street. there are some people who said that well this is

a flip flop actually i don't buy that we see ourselves as progresses but in a kind of managerial position and who are governed by the systemic parameters. and when spaces open up we take the opportunities and when systemic that i mean to open up afterward his name only who hate you take the gap now flip flop it's understanding how social struggle. works and to actually think engage in what i call a structural transformative struggle. was . that there will be a 0 increase of university fees in 2060 2

was. the one you know that has been taken up until now from here on the fee for people from the oval office and just going to some of the north . was was. was. the. theory. we want to continue to use the nursery keeping your younger. but. what is your farm to for you to find out we're not. going to. give up my. yacht.

yes vits when we got there we saw flames we as leaders felt that it would be irresponsible to take students inside. the fire and. we sold showed us that we went exactly as united and as on the same page as we thought well or resort as like kind of middle class activists was these guys taking the cops on and wanting to storm the union building. these are students from poor black high education institutions who in fact been struggling around exclusion for a long time was that. not that stuff and i feel it was time it got to come as they were inside solvents marching politely on the outside and one of its one students wanted to jump on the bus some of these other students were in the end wanted to attack them and say this is how you guys go back to your restarted the white institutions and settle for

north percent and everything's ok we can do that we're going to be excluded next year because we can't afford even the north pacific was. the is nothing more violent than poverty and we come from poverty stricken homes and that is why we are fighting for free education you say it like you will not be cheap you would not stare into as if it's a choice but it really isn't because if you do retreat what do you lift weights. the. corruption it is the invisible find a wall of silence. is not something to be told that there. is

a beginning. no country. let's destroy this wall. in 2020 the for. it's based on what encourages the heroes who are fighting against corruption this helps our communities to save the resources that we need in order to address the burning problems that affect us all. shine a light on your anticorruption here i. nominate now. 967 and the 6 day war was at its height a u.s. spy ship the u.s.s. liberty monitored the conflict from international waters suddenly she was attacked by the warplanes of america's closest regional 9 israel over $200.00 were killed and wounded the front part of the ship was just red with blood what happened that day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery mouth the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on how does iraq and image can change the way we see the

world it could spark mass action or serve the interests of the powerful it can obscure truth forged narratives and rewrite them the listening post gives you the fruit picture just 0. 00. 00. 000 m. or taylor none of the top stories on our jazeera fires are again burning near a greek migrant camp that was almost totally destroyed overnight on tuesday investigations are underway after the blaze at the morea camp on lesbos little thought is think could have been arson is that thousands of people without shelter and fears of a public health crisis as the whereabouts of 35 people with confirmed code 19 and now on. the island is

a major route for migrants entering europe or the greek prime minister using his response to the fire to say the situation is untenable transfer across is almost close. as you can see over my left shoulder the fire is still burning well rather it's burning again because the fire that had been lips that destroyed the main morea camp was put out on wednesday morning but now with the high winds whipping up in the evening more fires have been lit they've been spreading rapidly as we've been watching for the last 2 hours throughout the hillsides covered in pines and 200 year old all of groves that surround the camp and where many people had made their homes in tents under the canopy of the trees. trials one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines have been suspended testing of the vaccine developed by scientists at the university of oxford and the u.k. based drug firm astra zeneca was poorest after a participant fell ill the company says the hold is routine and the cause of the

onus in a british volunteer is unexplained thousands of people in several countries are involved in late stage trials of the vaccine far warnings are in place along the entire u.s. west coast as blazes grow out of control a state of emergency has been called in oregon where there are concerns that warm winds could fan the flames in california well the 14000 firefighters and now working to tackle 25 major blazes in the state a record 2300000 acres in california has already been burnt afghanistan's that vice president has escaped a bombing targeting his convoy and ruler sally received minor injuries in the attack in the capital kabul at least 10 people were killed and several others injured no group has claimed responsibility for the attack former intelligence chief survived previous attempts on his life there stay with us witness continues next on the back out of that with news there.

it was a very very difficult point in the movement because there were clear reasons why we had to continue and then there was just not enough momentum. and not enough energy. and. we've come undone and that if is best for you sort of thing if we enhance what i was to get that if i could issue the 0 percent fee increment in $1.00 week maybe if we can push for longer we can achieve more. we have the university by the scruff of the neck i do we'll lease it out when we can squeeze more out of it. the number was less significantly less than

it was before but the workers were still there in the original number that they were so it was very difficult to look workers in the eye and say to them we are done we'll see the issue later really i mean really the last night in the future you know what on offer was that if it for next year. much not nice for what they needed to do you know 11 percent anymore but not a lot and about me saying you do remember that you you know i haven't i'm bashing something i don't know about you but if you haven't answered the demand for you let them see you and she could say yes immediately. but by i would be in violation of my mandate i would not have to understand the financial implications of the decision i cannot make a decision now and declare bankruptcy 3 months later that would be a response. to the. over

the hill worry. or. was. was precinct is an education is able to transform medical society what is the primary resource of a university it's not the papers that get annoyed in a gimmick journals it's the young people young minds that come through an institution. this is been a system that has really almost a he didn't curriculum to everyone who comes to a university that it's ok to treat poor black people as if they are sub human we've

managed to show that if we united and if we're mobilized we actually have a very strong voice and we have a very strong influence over what happens at our universities and if an employer society. we have to find the money now arjen 50000000 cut you can do once you can do it again and if you implode this institution you break the institutional mechanism that can address inequality in this. when i brought in the votes security instruction is no guns. no purpose but. to give every chills but you can't are weapons of aggression if you like the strict controls. of the air monkey you know. it was a ridiculous amount of effort to ensure that students didn't have safe places to meet it was about telling the movement. the university space as

a space of intellectual robust intellectual encouragement of open democratic discussion debate need to be protected protests must be seen as part of in my view the learning exercise must be seen as part of what students in cage with because there was no occupation we didn't have the time. i now wrote a lot of issues and really deal with the heart of what we are fighting for. in the ended up fighting a lot in meetings and obviously the louden prominent voices would be the ones that are heard when we spoke as women you could tell by the our body language is likely to get bored up until one person stands up and say you know what we will not be led by women. and we will not be led by gay people because this thing of gay ness it

was started by the creeks when they were thought. so 4th of april happens after the is this history. books as a way number line of of of existing and revolting but then it was also a way of saying that we're tired of being those wonderful fragile people we won't stand up for ourselves and we will fight. but. the make up of the movement is as important as the outcomes of the movement because who makes up the movement translates into like the movement become. the. other.

some of the complications is when you try to hold the b.c. agenda black consciousness agenda with it's kind of history of masculinity and the sergeant it's very difficult to hold that with intersectionality or the idea that patriarchy must fall to we've had many conversations with with our comrades where were they saying but really how can you take patriarchy away from us this is the one thing we have and now you coming to say we must change ourselves what do you mean we still do you. suppose. even when. women leading it was not enough until the mills so that is that it. no no no no no name that we men can't leave. us alone a queer people cannot be here. there is no membership to the struggle even as i want to create you. cation i carry

a lot already and i cannot say ok let us focus and see education now and will focus on me being a woman later for for living is about all forms or symbols of pride of oppression you know all of them must fall in the must be numbered to live. by. the drug price students at the university get it at the admin buildings to hear minister of higher education platonism ideas deliver his cabinet's decision on student fees was that the challenges that turned from all sides. and have concluded that the best approach would be to allow the universities individually to determine the level of increase their institutions would require to ensure that they continue to operate

effectively the fear just men should not go above 8 percent. i wanted to be a biggish it was. wow. so you want to make me. on. several university campuses have been shut down a following the announcement by higher education minister blade nzimande. if you constantly have the privilege on the radio you yes i do question is a good. enough. reason sometimes academics are standing up and saying we must protect you question how you question and basic education as

a public good students made their way up to senate house they were plucked from entering by private security they're already there how do they live how do you. how do we attain feelings the patient is having a conversation about what our priorities are as a society is it increased to monetise ocean is a thing ability for us to exist as equals participate in the shaping of society has equals being able to have an as members of a south african population the ability to realize our dreams.

i must know all of. this no no no. i was given up to die that's enough what do you want didn't turn up pick up. enough to know to follow. the law if you're not good move it was my hero what. exactly. was the situation that you can hate is a bunch of confrontation you need to it's complete the nature of the engagement between protesters and police in the context. we know that in south africa yes we have a legitimate government but we do know more people have died in police custody in

the post 94 period than during apartheid and. had decided that a very significant move forward would be to get the university to publicly say that they support for education and they're willing to do what it takes with students to hold the state accountable they with the students they meet us to meet the students develop a pledge they would support the goal of free education then we asked will you back as i go to the senate and council can i say will you walk march senate and council

agree to sit in council it agrees to the goal of the education sciri have a general assembly you agree to that. the university was demanding that if they were to come to the university assembly and commit to this that we would end the shutdown both the university and students knew very well that immediately when we opened our gates when classes started properly we would lose all bargaining power with the state. it is a deep blue gets the real moans the principal mint of the general assembly that was to be held today. the protesting students effectively one to the general assembly and the one to the much to the constitutional court to continue but they refused to comment that the academic program will commence on monday it was previously we had

discussed. to do you think it was going to be tough yes and what would you have out on the mat need to lose the academic year so that's the question that i was confronted. with they were saying to us we don't want to talk to st jude you know police in other ways one could say that to the university was basically outsourcing its response. was.

last. january. was. after running battles with authorities on of its campus the students and then were pushed off onto the streets fronting. he drove slowly down. the roads shooting and shooting to liberty into the church grounds extraordinarily.

through things. like getting from the right and my friend had. a very. big is absolutely no reason for the kinds of scenes that we see it's a place like for you to do this different from us characterize that for what to do and looking at the throwing of storms and so on that's a vandalism it's something that should have no place in a democratic south africa no matter what the issues face and jacob zuma has set up a ministerial taz team to normalize the situation entire education institutions.

this is an authentic a.n.c. government that. by elements would not be able to power through the ballot box and they went to discredit. them and turn after all the ultra left elements. who have never really had put it develop power inside africa. i'm shouldn't be surprised the political parties have an interest there of course they do but this was one of the most important protests in the post 94 p.d. and but within suggests that the student protests have been orchestrated and controlled by an outside force it's either deliberately mischievous.

profound lack of understanding of the student politics. and. so they wanted to the protest could allays us but only after that will 'd the 'd 'd do anything with us will be justifiable because what could not but. student leader meanies to appear in the huge problem at just report this morning and what police say was part of an investigation into the intimidation and violence that we've seen in several of my meeting has been denied bail by the johannesburg magistrates court let me is facing charges of malicious damage to property theft assaults and position of dangerous weapons. political arrests are now being used to kill the movement.

then it was a situation. to try to do that much so that it could be no trying to contain students you know. at 4 o'clock in the morning you know people coming to see you know the minister wants to meet. in pretoria his house and it is then that we realized that actually what we're dealing with is bigger than you know. and now we knew that it wouldn't really touching the new and old who would defend ourselves was to stay in the public ah. well you know i plan to be here on your property. but i know i know about. the safety in numbers as well as being public and we numbers with a but this is definitely a targeted to it i mean that was sitting in prison my colleagues are sitting in hospital we are you know has to go into some form of id.

we are on the list and there's no doubt about that. but i always say that i can't hide like around we have to come out and do what we have to do obesity to not be alone with with with student. that's us in the space but also you know if they're going to come for you they're going to come from. oh we were walking to an open area of grass and along that walkway that particular group of police had just kind of popped out of nowhere. i tried to speak to the police officer and you know me trying to have an interaction with him as i walked forward they formed into line and already i was scared but i had to try and be very you know brave for that for the students who

are working fine as the. information better student leadership was believed shot 10 times is still receiving treatment and they're. being pressed at this stage have to run a center here on the university's campus. i tried to speak to the police officer try to i tried to speak to him i tried to. explain to him that really didn't want any trouble and that if they wanted us to disperse we dispersed peacefully but we didn't even get to that point because it it didn't seem that they were there to make a decision it's in that all the decisions had already been made.

at the end of it seem to have been that it was 13 rubber bullets it just felt like a spray of. things hitting my back and i couldn't sit or lie on my back for about a month. all of that is insignificant to the kind of disgusting this appointment you have with a government to toot its own children. from a short maybe it would have made sense because i perform a question in almost all the time which you know is always painting when you know please and all is asking that we approach it differently paul is asking that we do different things differently when they 'd did that to show you that we knew that this is actually akin to precocious

as a general thing our academic program was completed and that was our responsibility it was my responsibility and every academics responsibility to ensure the 2016 academic year was not. the spirit of his must fall just found room in our bodies and he used us and would pray that to find room in other pussies. we love i will continue fighting for free education until we get it but not the same way the same strategies that we were using they're not sustainable anymore so we will do what we did in the beginning will surprise people in the south. i can stand and talk about the future of the movement but it would be disingenuous given

that this movement doesn't belong to me i don't decide it is a collective process that we hold in very sacred to god and students will ultimately take this way it needs to be and i have faith that we will achieve. our demand for free decolonized education but not without a fight. hello

there if you shine as to coastal areas of australia and see the clouds here the last year as where we have. they got a bit of a warming trend is across south australia it's ahead of the next fronts this is where the shells away as we go through thursday sydney up towards brisbane showers across both new zealand and then this front is sweeping across the great by say not bad across western australia begin to clear sunny skies on friday but ahead of that front very wont particularly into adelaide the showers and some fairly brisk winds working their way across towards tasmania more rain as well in britain as we head

towards the end of the week but this is what i mean about the warm up ahead of that front in adelaide and then we see. that in the time it is coming back down but even so very nice and some nice sunshine similar scenario in sydney temperatures actually warming up as we head through the weekend some nice sunshine there as well then we head up tools asia plenty of cloud across northeast areas of china this is all the remnants of a recent typhoon we could have some localized flooding here the rain is very persistent doesn't remove for the next couple days there's some very heavy downpours particularly through areas of honshu this is a frontal system it's slow to move friday is the same sort of story so again we really could have some localized flooding and some very heavy rain again through the small southern sections of china but dry up into shanghai. but. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry but is it happening fast enough we don't have any time to waste any

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