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after me ok you know what team this stream today governments or absolutely if they citizens not going to dig deeper into 3 protests that made headlines this year in india in poland and on the west bank and in gaza it's going to be a thaw moving shop so if you and you want to comment jumping right into the comments section and be part of today's discussion we start with a massive protest in india. rather than sort of god will be can i do of these.

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your. animal is a trot and i as al-jazeera as india correspondent and i have. covering the protests 5. for the last nearly 4 weeks now. if you look at these protests the idea behind the pharmacy bills was you sure it's like how do we make life better if the pharmacy. and how did the government. keeping miscalculate. well judging by the largest protests since this government of prime minister in that interim or he has been in power for 6 years i think that they have miscalculated i mean you have tens of thousands if not more farmers blocking 3 major highways into the indian capital region they've been camping out for weeks and they say they're not going anywhere until these laws until these laws are

repealed i mean the atmosphere at these protests is one of complete defiance and it's also incredible because you know you have so many people and that the one of the most incredible things about these protests is the atmosphere i mean you have you know what you have at most protests you have the states with you know people making speeches against the north against the government all the time and then you go that a bit past the stage and then you have these huge tense with massive kitchens people content groups of tens of men just sitting around peeling vegetables cooking all day to feed the 10s of thousands of people there and then when you go past that you get to i guess what you could call like the accommodation part of the protests and you can see people are camping out in their trucks tens of thousands of people

that are not planning on going anywhere they're sitting around they're reading newspapers they are playing power this sleeping drinking endless cups of tea and again 3 really big protest sides and everybody there say they're not going anywhere. these images pick up on the endless cups of tea the sun that you've been showing on twitter this is monday seen of the internet you can job in chamber of commerce organizing a truck full of food and water truck to feed the pharmacy expected at the farmers protests farmers dinny charo so you are picking up on these stories these these protesters the farmers what do they want the farmers bills to actually go away it's got what they're asking yeah yeah absolutely they've had many different talks with the government now and the government you know said that it's made

amendments to these laws which they're not happy with but they're saying that nothing short of repealing these laws will do and that's because they see these laws as an existential threat to their livelihoods and the agriculture sector in india has been in crisis for decades for a number of reasons just one of them is very high indebtedness by pharmacy farmers are in a lot of debt and they think that these laws will see the end of guaranteed minimum prices for their produce and that will drive into debt and so they're saying again you know they're not going anywhere until these laws are repealed and the man that you're referring to who came to this protest site with a truck full of food and a truck full of water and he told us that you know farmers feed the country and it's his turn it's the people's turn to help feed farmers and that's just gives you an example of how many people. have

a lot of solidarity with farmers around half of india's population works in the agriculture sector so at these huge protest sites you know with is kitchens feeding people all day a lot of them are farmers but actually a lot of them are other punjab you organizations because a lot of these farmers who are protesting at punjab being sick organizations many of these farmers belong to this sick fate and then there's just people like monday even other organizations which are coming to the protests in solidarity with farmers. i want to go again to defeat because as you were out reporting you took us along via social media so we could get deep into what was happening in the protests themselves have a look here on my laptop and we see we mean holding up peaches of their loved ones who have committed suicide you touched on this a little bit but how difficult it was and it is to be a farmer right now in over the last 7 years and so many farmers are in debt from

a suicide is something that is a threat to the farming business can you talk to us more about that yeah that was a really striking moment because most of the people at these farmers protests have been men because the women have stayed behind in punjab in how to ghana and of the british for the farmers have come from to look after the families but you know we have seen women here and there but this was the 1st time that i walked into a protest site and it's just all women and there were hundreds of them and most of them were holding up photos of family members who killed themselves because they are in debt so when we talk about indian farmers being in debt it is a real issue more than 300000 and in farmers have committed suicide in the last 25 years and that's a conservative figure because they are in debt. and so these women had come here

to make it known that for then these laws are a matter of life and death one of the woman that we interviewed his younger nephew killed himself said if these laws are passed more ringback farmers are going to kill themselves because of the financial situation that the laws are going to drive them into. i will show he some of the comments as you've been speaking up are current the protest is right the central government is only aiming to improve the status of rich people to mankato or new farmer was a complete in favor capitalists and against poor farmers but he's the pushback is i want you to to to wrestle with this one this is kush back to the farm was a not as bad as projected they do have some issues of farmers have their fears that the courts will take over then that so the know what is back as farmers think.

whoa pharma say that they're the even worse than they think and that they're what they're going to lead to is leaving farmers at the complete mercy of large corporations now i read through these laws and what they do is completely deregulate the farming sector at a time when the indian pharma say they actually need more support they need better prices for they produce they need assurances of minimum prices for their projects they point to what happens in the us and europe where the government spends tens of billions of dollars each year subsidizing the agriculture sector and they say that that's what's needed not less regulation and allowing some of the world's largest corporations to come into the indian market and also you know when heart of india's 1300000000 people work in the agriculture sector pharma say it cannot be up to large corporations to the free market to decide what's in that interest i mean it's

not going to be small farmers are not going to be in the interest of large corporations. let me bring one more voice the entire conversation is and this is a problem shank a shot from the supreme court in new delhi he was wondering about why there wasn't more discussion with farmers. the indian this evening under the impact of the live mendax quality product which would actually have been car this lead car bricks monopoly in a moment in hoarding and getting the rest is in one big rigs and these acts have been routed through the environment i'm not going to discussion that in and therefore he's got a mini test of constitutional law making it has to be tested on that co the atmosphere was i'm going to leave him out of it it is not going to come to the family we have is the may remain the law we don't discuss it in this state borders

which i don't does 60 percent of the 1300000000 population in the got into the hands of i don't is this the man we do not own citizens like scratches on a footpath in the marketing or. where are we headed there are highways around new delhi you can't get to the people living there as food does protesting happening what next list will easily. i mean one of the things that makes this whole issue so interesting is that it is a complete standoff and this is unprecedented like i said in the 6 years that promise to modi has been in power on the one hand you have a government that does not back down a prime minister who doesn't back down on the other hand you have farmers who are the backbone of india's agriculture sector you know which employees. as i keep saying around aha of the country many have solidarity with farmers so no one knows where this is going right now not even the government the supreme court has weighed

in it's jested to the government that it shouldn't pass these laws it is just a suggestion but if the government wants a face saving climb down from these from the backlash that today's laws couldn't take that suggestion but again it's a government and a prime minister who doesn't back down elizabeth cohen i'm from al-jazeera one of our correspondents you've been keeping up with the farmers protest in india thank you so much being on the scene today. we go from india to poland in october citizens and out onto the streets to complain about new rules around abortion in has been dumped the women strike has neve barker with no. defending war demonstrators say a reproductive rights opposition m.p.'s brought protests to the floor of poland's

parliament on tuesday chanting this is war. thousands of joined daily marches across the country in defiance of code 19 restrictions in the capital warsaw streets were blocked bringing traffic to a standstill. i am so sorry i need to fight for my daughter's future i cannot imagine not being there for it but. it follows last week's ruling by poland's constitutional court that abortions in all but a few cases are legal the move paves the way for the governing rightwing law and justice party to approve a fireable terminations even in cases of fetal defects and when there's no chance of survival outside the womb abortion will only be allowed in cases of rape incest or where there's a threat to the mother's life. joining us on the stand today we have demanded do you feel introduction to south koreans around the world to see.

to see to well i'm a polish impi i'm part of the left coalition in the parliament you could see my colleagues say in the parliament protesting that. restrictions in the material just a few minutes before and. i'm actively i think for women's rights and. on the streets in the in the parliament it's my 1st. magic you've been in this you've been protesting why is this issue was abortion a women's rights what is it keep coming back in poland people take to the streets to the state to the streets. between government and citizens and then there's a standoff where are we right now. well actually what we're seeing i think it's something that's not very specific to poland at all it's something that we're

seeing all over the world the fundamental fundamentalist organizations coalition that is trying to push the abortion a low. abortion balance in many countries and it's happening in poland as well the 1st trial was in 2 say 22 in 26 scene where we had major protest when when the conservative fundamentalist coalition called stop abortion tried to ban the abortion for the 1st time and they attempted it actually this year as well through bill proposal in the parliament but remembering the massive protests 4 years ago the ruling party or though it's very partial to the to the anti choice movement didn't decide to to proceed with the law in the parliament what they did instead was to try to move it through the polish constitutional tribunal which is now heavily dependent on the ruling party and on the october 22nd.

constitutional tribune the rules that the that the the abortion in the cases of people the facts this is unconstitutional and it should be banned so that's what actually happened they did it in the middle of the pandemic in the middle of the restrictions in poland just like in many other countries it's banned to demonstrate the protest on the streets and they were expecting people to stay at home to maybe you know protest in the internet maybe you know do some selfies well you know the cards up. the women's rights with or whatever but instead women and men took the streets and we in 2016 i remember i took i was part of the protests and i remember the feeling of being part of something amazing of something really big that they were told those were the biggest. that's on the women's rights ever in poland but what's happening right now that is the biggest protests in poland since

the transitional sense of the democratic transition and it's been it has changed a lot how we're talking about abortion how big how we're talking about women's rights and who's participating in the fight because if you see the materials if you see the photographs there are many men joining us on the streets today and there are many main men saying this is this is our fight as well because this is not only not to the abortion it's not only a war against women's right reproductive rights it's also a fight with our basic values so it's trying to. introduce a religious view of very few on the majority that this. strongly opposing the abortion ban and actually advocating for legalisation of abortion today. i would bring in one into this conversation one is carolyn's felice you see looking back from this most recent protests and seeing what the impact it is having on

society so listen i think that you know mentions of this protest that are going to stay with us the 1st one is person challenge to yoke women's rights and gender issues and politics in poland and this is likely to intensify the 2nd one is the role of youth and why geographic spread of spirits and mobilization so what we see now is new generation and that has already started in the black in 2016 against the 1st strict abortion compartment of poland that we see a new generation that is taking to the streets formulating political demands and that also acknowledges the sensuality of women's rights and gender issues in liberal democracy. i want to leave you with one last headline she's from al-jazeera when they were covering the women strike 2 lines mass protests for abortion rights this is a war that was one of the signs that this very popular meant to if you're looking at this and looking at this as families and activists really looking for their

women's rights to hold on to those means rights in poland where were you in the war well i'm definitely on the side of women i'm on the side of the citizens who are fighting for their pride to be able to just make their own the sessions about their own life and that's basically it's a fight for what's right it's a fight for for people for women and for their families to be able to just decide for themselves how they want to organize their life if they want to have children when they have to want to have children and just a knowledge that women are human beings that they are adults capable of making in responsible positions so that's the that's the main issue here and if you want to if we really want to talk about abortion talk about that about the nitty about the care about health care as a whole some. matter thank you so much for talking about the women strike and its

impact on ongoing protests here in the stream did a prediction so we go from poland to some middle east countries arab countries into e.g. challenge each agree to normalize relations with israel this is how some palestinians reacted to that news have a look. then all of the other verb out of for us to be a. part of a good would emerge out of the bones and argument out of a. more than. a general way to go. i want to express my appreciation to the majesty for joining the board in my regime

for. going. to working with it is really. understands. the my and welcome back to the stream good to see you again we remind our audience who you are south. high that i'm a little am a writer and researcher and i'm on the palestine. marry this idea of normalization between our countries and israel what was the impact on the gaza strip. in terms of people taking to the streets and and actually showing that especially that this was happening did you see much of that image that you. so the thing about normalize ation is it's basically legitimizing israel as a normal state and not taking into consideration that in the end it is occupying

a population by a military rule so when when we want to speak about their reaction the palestinian reaction. it's not exclusive to it's not an exclusive to the west bank it needs to encapsulate the voices of palestinians in jerusalem and historic palestine and those in diaspora but in terms of palestinians here and protesting against these normalise ation efforts i think palestinians have been in a perpetual state of protest for 70 years that at this point that are. for for just like is an act of protest now the normalize ation efforts. within the context of cove it within the context of a deteriorating economic reality within the context of fragmented social cohesion

so the impact of it is lived but our voices are really will to go further out because they've been silenced throughout the years they've been violently were oppressed they've been dealing with generalized and right now we're just out of breath really. i wouldn't begin to. joe he's thinking about. working in a different strategy now because of how many countries it normalize relations with israel have a listen to this my. with normal vision this would be ok but the core of the opposition to the caucus calls for we're not invited over to this rubbish would be in talks or secret talks or behind the scene talks with israel before use of book tickets but the approach should be on the merits of the quite a few minutes are in conflict these thieves of them i have of course frenchness we

can be a lot of pressure on israel for pursuing an issue and or saw less inclined to pressure israel to do. so i think of palestinians will have to find your way. to this emergency or. i am not fix our can you kid you don't cut the law for me. i mean there i completely agree in terms of. we do need to find new strategies we've been reliant on not just the arab world but just on the globe generally to try and bring about change for palestinians and that's just because we've been crippled. financially we've been crippled socially politically that we have to rely on the outside world but i don't want to agree with that. this doesn't add pressure it takes away from putting

pressure on israel as it is even there that's the assumption and i think it's a very false assumption in the end these are regions trying to maintain themselves that these are regimes that are oppressing their own people and populations very violently so to expect otherwise would be just naive. from palestinians and the world. well ambiguity is always a pleasure having will come in tricky on the street thank you very much and thank you to all of i guess you didn't send insight into protests that were happening in india a close to the end and also on the gaza strip as well thank you for what to listen to this.

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