talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. hear it out to see it are we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. the top stories on all jazeera a major far has broken out in beirut at the size of last month's deadly port explosion firefighters are battling the blaze at a destroyed warehouse which was storing oil and tar lebanese authorities say the fire was started by accident. more from the port in beirut. a massive fire raging out of beirut just a little over a month since a massive explosion ripped through beirut neighborhoods killing over $190.00 people the fire cost the street people are still traumatized from that explosion on

the 4th people started to evacuate the area around the port because. there was little information on what caused the fire the lebanese army then issued a statement saying this was not a deliberate this was an accident and. fire that oil as well as tires that were stored in a warehouse caught fire and the army as well as firefighters they've been deployed to the scene as you can see trying to put out the flames helicopters have are also being used to try to distinguish extinguish the flames that are on their nerves this is a city that is still on their nerves the city still demanding answers they're still having questions on what caused that massive explosion 55 weeks ago investigations are continuing. the case has been they've been questioning security officials as well as politicians but still no answers still no official help to account

especially since so many officials were aware of the presence of highly explosive ammonium nitrate at the warehouse and they did nothing about it. thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fars burned for a 2nd night on the greek island allez balls much of the money had already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to stay. as being inside the cap in those balls. it's almost as though we're on another planet everything has been reduced to its elements this site however is where the government insists on rebuilding a new secure closed facility the residents of moria village just a kilometer away from here are absolutely against that as is much of the island very simply do not want to camp here anymore the government says that is the wrong choice that the islanders resistance to such

a camp is actually causing part of the problem it has prevented the government from building a better facility the refugees however are frankly agreed with the islanders they want to leave too this may now be harder than ever for them because we're hearing that much of the paper archive of the asylum service that used to stand directly behind me here has been burnt and that may mean there's a lot of people were stuck here for months longer than they would be because the records determining whether they would be granted asylum and allowed to move to mainland greece or whether they would be deported back to turkey are now gone and many of those applications will have to start from scratch surgeon waterborne illnesses stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people were displaced by flooding in the nile river flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting shake. out fires are raging through towns in force across north america's west coast at least 7 people including

a one year old baby have been killed. newly released audio recordings will u.s. president donald trump admitted them playing the threat from covert 19 in public even though he knew how deadly it was his democratic rival joe biden says the president lied to the american people. i was so blower from the u.s. department of homeland security says analysts were told to alter intelligence reports before presenting them to donald trump brian murphy says he was demoted for refusing to play down threats posed by white nationalists and russian interference and elections in pakistan a search is underway for the passengers of a boat which is capsized 2 bodies have already been found in the indus river another 16 remain missing those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness go by.

we're going to tell you that it will be. better if it is a good day when doing in. the 1st year there were 50 of us in our time and 16 years there were like train teehee. we had to see people that we knew very closely our friends not coming back to school.

but. it was a very odd figure and a very high figure where 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 the way the university structured favor students. of the think that you know there's no way students can never win anything with. the clear message that we have for the diversity is that we can't continue like this you know i'm not don't know if heard no no no. it's enough what do you want intolerably got blah de blah blah. you know do you know did you know this is something that you bought look at the freedom charter and the police and all my fees but our fathers were modest see the greed that you see

the fee that you go on at 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 pretty strong and goes to the field bank and gets given to the students that a beneficiary 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 when their 1st year when they pass matric the parents buy them a c. there's been so b.m.w. so they can drive to university the inequality is far more benefits at a place like what 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 building and developing a party to south africa and colonial africa.

the the. not only are students oppressed by the violence of the system in that they financially excluded but so workers 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 over it 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 least and they no longer had medicaid 8. i'm from the. idea it's part of the same struggle you want a more just society you want a dignified society and you want to date commodified university. where i was at the launch of the body i feel come back into a meeting and to make sure that the uplifting and. i might. fail at. 7 history is a nightmare from which we're still trying to wait. if you want people to have shouted 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 you 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 all of. the big universe. the ones we the elite used to go and preach the fees by double digits the logical thing to do because it is the subsidies get you in the reading.

the poor universities couldn't do it so they did increase fees but by no one among us. this is a special moment for me as i symbolically assume the vice-chancellor stripped of its universe it. was my dad was. was was.

they didn't make me sit on the floor i came yeah i worked at them and i said. i was criticized by the vice-chancellor they said i gave birth to the struggle to give oxygen to the substances they write i did i did you know those who didn't want. good music you know do you know the 2 need to. be understood now. that mandate is to keep this university. a quality institution and that means i need to keep its income streams so there's no way i'm giving zito until the state makes up that money. 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 and 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. eliminate. the leak i haven't. had

anything of this nature taken 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 monos moved to sit in the. news. servants there's only been one university assemblies this is a creation with the entire university comes and decides on a particular issue a burning issue chua. had blocked off suddenly in the class

they completely shut it down did the private security tempest control the but campus control was on our site was and we understand that they wanted to do it on 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 own the power structure in the university been immersed and actually the students really for a moment for a while were in control of this 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. 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 where we have african ideas being valued. african knowledge systems being valued . then for me that is d. couldn't i say shit. we got comfortable at settlement house. it was so important in building new niti insula down amongst ourselves.

that. education team also started to playing around with the idea of what would the library look like so it provided also in no tentative it created a world we wanted to live in. in the room of electors to come into the ideas and 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 your 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 .

last. block. was. 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 increase of not a higher than the a c.p.i.

related increase of 6 percent for twin to 16. years even if. the students don't accept this will. help students most for your nephew was. the anger among students had left those had joined us. was. students had entered the back of parliament and 11 side in the gate was open in the frank and me just intake was when you got inside that's when the. police respond differently to white protestors and so quite spontaneously a white person curtis is were asked to 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 realized 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 was. i had never seen the power of students like that i think back i was like you i was it was just you know you were doing this for your children also you can't afford this and yes yes i'm sure he was. was.

was was you are. these are the emergence of some sort of beginnings of a national coalition that exists outside of the control of the a.n.c. allied movements but it really just represents a growing movement that people are realizing that they need to work together now to to make it gets. a little bit for them to move was. i was ok i wouldn't want. to hurt him was. a reminder 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 assumed by us. i'm going to go. was the the old the your reasons for movement came about ok 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 structured in a very different way to the politics that they use to. i got a call from the presidency saying when he says after consultation my v.c. i released a statement saying the university vice chancellors of the construction citizens. some people said that this is a flip flop actually i don't buy that we see ourselves as progresses but in the 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 in gauging what i call a structural transformative struggle. was . that there will be a 0 increase of university fees in 2060 was 2. the. no 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. we want to continue to use the machinery keep them here younger. but. the point is pick your factory for you. we're not. going to. give up my. yacht. yes fits what 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 what 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. he was stuck and i feel that this time it got the commas who were inside solvents marching politely on the outside and renovates when students wanted to jump on the bus some of these other students who in the end wanted to attack them and say this is how you guys go back to your you started to do 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. 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 we will not be cheap to was not there in is if it's a choice but it really isn't because if you do retreat where he lived where it was . from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developing to the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these demands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and vironment leigh sales energy solutions for future gen. the brush passed by a neighboring future energy corruption it is that invisible behind

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that day has long been the subject of cover up and mystery now the truth can be revealed the day israel attacked america a major investigation on al-jazeera. or about us and in doha the top stories on all disease major fires broken out in beirut at the site of last month's deadly port explosion firefighters are battling the blaze at a destroyed warehouse which was storing oil and tires lebanese authorities said the fire was started by accident then a quarter is at the scene of the blaze. fire like you mentioned raging of course. just 5 weeks ago massive explosion destroyed that you can see right behind me the lebanese army issuing a statement just a short while ago where house where oil and tires were stored caught

fire now what we also understand from the lebanese red cross. liberate fire because a few days ago there was a smaller fire at port and. reportedly cause it was it was deliberate so this time around they're saying that this was not a deliberate fire thousands of refugees are still without shelter after fars burned for a 2nd on the greek island of lesbos much of the money had already been destroyed by blazes late on tuesday emergency efforts are underway to find places for the refugees to. record far as a raging through towns and forests across north america's west coast at least 7 people including a one year old baby are being killed a surge in water borne illnesses is stretching medical services in sudan hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by flooding in the nile river the flood waters are starting to recede but a growing number of people are getting sick. newly released audio recordings reveal

u.s. president donald trump admitted playing the threat from covert 19 in public although he knew how deadly it was his democratic rival joe biden says the president lied to the american people a whistleblower from the u.s. department of homeland security says analysts were told to alter the intelligence reports before presenting them to donald trump brian murphy says he was demoted for refusing to play down threats posed by white nationalists and russian interference in elections the house intelligence committee is investigating the claims. in pakistan a search is underway for passengers of a boat which capsized 2 bodies have already been found in the indus river another 16 people are missing most of the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after what this good buy.

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. can. come undone and that if is best for you sort of thing is the emphatic i was to get that if i could achieve

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 is lease it now and 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 in 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 an offer it was and if it for next year. much thought nice for what they needed to do you know 11 i think everyone i'm not laughing about me saying you do. that you or you know i haven't done it i'm bashing something i don't know about you have your hands out and said that's a man and we love 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. here worry. or. was he thinks this 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 arjun 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 valid security instruction is no guns. no purpose but. to

give every children but you can't are weapons of aggression if you like the strict controls. of the yank you know who it was a ridiculous amount of effort to ensure that students didn't have safe places to meet it was about killing 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 to i now wrote a lot of issues and really deal with the heart of what we are fighting for. in the end of fighting a lot in meetings and obviously the louden prominent voices would be the ones that

are heard when we spoke as woman you could tell by the our body language is likely to get bored i can tell 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 at boat. so 4th of april happens after the is this history. books or as a way number line of of of existing and revolting but then it was also a way of saying that we are tired of being those wonderful fragile people we won't stand up for ourselves and we will find. this in. the middle 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 consciousness agenda with its kind of history of masculinity and the sergeant it's very difficult to hold that with intersectionality or the idea that patriarchy must fall true we've had many conversations with with our comrades where were they saying but 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 needed

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 feed 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 the left. side of. the rubber cross students at the key versity get it at the admin buildings to hear

minister of higher education platonism id deliver his cabinet's decision on student fees was that the challenges that tend from all sides. and of course good at that the best approach would be to allow the universities individually to determine the level of increase the institutions would require to ensure that they continue to operate effectively the fear just men should not go above 8 percent. if. i wanted to be a biggish it was. the hour. to complete. several university campuses have been shut down and following the announcement by higher education minister blade nzimande.

it comes to me this is not a privilege on the radio you yes i do question if you think you. know. you sometimes academics are standing up and saying we must protect you question how you creation and basic education as a public good students made their way up to sit in the house they were blocked from entering by private security they're already there how do they do you know how do we attain fiji cation having a conversation about what our priorities are as a society is it increased to monetise ocean is it the 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.

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 to us and 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 algates when classes started properly we would lose all bargaining power with the state. it is a deadly get it the real moans the principal moment of the general assembly that

was to be held today. the protesting students effectively want 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 was 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. after running battles with authorities on of its campus the students and then were pushed off onto the streets from continues.

$30.00. the rage shooting and shooting to liberty into the church grounds we know extraordinarily. through things. like getting from the right and my friend. thanks for bearing with. this is absolutely no reason for the kinds of scenes that we would see it's a place like for you to do this different from us gothic that i was there for what to do and looking at the throwing more 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 jacob zuma has set up a ministerial times team to normalize the situation entire education institutions. this is an authentic a.n.c. government that. would not be able to win power through the ballot box and they went to discredit. them and try to fold 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 do anything with us will be justifiable because what could those 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 a meeting has been denied bail by the johannesburg magistrates court let me is facing charges of malicious damage to property theft assault and position of dangerous weapons. political arrests are now being used to kill the movement. within it with the situation minister of stupidity. added to the no trend context to this you know. at 4 o'clock in the morning would have you know people coming to see you know the minister wants to retreat in pretoria these halls 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 the who could defend those those words to stay in the public ah. well you know i come to

your own board. but you know i know that i've come for. the safety in numbers as well as being public and we numbers with you but this is definitely a targeted attempt at it i mean that we're 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 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 were working for us the. information that better student leadership was believed shot 10 times is still receiving treatment and they're. being pressed at this stage i 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 discussed in 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 but you know it's always painting when you know

the prison and all is asking that we approach it differently all of us can that we do different things different when they 'd did that to show you that we knew that this is actually akin to break us as a general thing our academic program was complete and that was our responsibility it was my responsibility in every academic responsibility to ensure the 2016 academic year was not. the spirit of his must fall just found in our bodies and he used us and we pray that to find room in other pussies. we love visa as for 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 the next am. 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. mr

struction and despair a group of friends resist. rescuing books from the rubble they build a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. witness. a library under bombs on al-jazeera.

well so good to skies across much of south america even cloud a clearing away from argentina and you're a nice day 21 the one who's had his woman in with 34 but the shows they come back on friday so are all the damn time when he says a very warm and sunny across into rio hi there 36 plenty of rain showers but much of central america we've had some very heavy downpours particularly in cuba for the last few days more of that some very heavy rains also across into florida already to streets and about a lot like this so unfortunately the rains will not help. in the for call friday and heavy rains again developing nation today across the central and southern areas of florida that's united states we could do some rain out across the west that is

not where we're going to say you can see here is of course the remnants of the recent winter storm meanwhile out across the west the winds have been strong all this you can see this is smoke blowing off the coast now the winds of i mean skies like this because the particles falling lower towards the surface the hate is really pacific northwest not as hot as it was further to the south throughout california the rain will work its way east as we go through friday and then what we really need of course is rain across the pacific northwest and eventually we should see that monday and tuesday appear to satele. global community we are out of a. crazy response that looks like be part of the debate. jump into the conversation right away when no topic is off the table here not afraid of anyone taking we just going. to reach are getting richer

and the poor getting poorer it's not to destroy the system it's just to look at the system down. this street on out is the. al-jazeera. although i'm rob matheson and this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes on the move again in search of a home the scramble on a greek island to find help for thousands of refugees after a fire destroys europe's biggest cound. the floodwaters begin to recede in sudan but there's no relief for the people affected waterborne diseases have become the new threat. of fire erupts at the barrier.