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passage to the far east to europe and the united states. any money money money in these mountains is open. drug trafficking politics in the area and pirates just. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump's personal twitter account has been permanently blocked follows the storming of the capitol building by his supporters on wednesday the social media platform cited the risk of further violence particularly around the inauguration of joe biden in 2 weeks' time al-jazeera was how does your castro has more now from washington d.c. . well it's difficult to overstate the significance of this trump has tweeted more
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than 56000 times since taking office he has used his twitter account as a weapon to kill bills that are pending in congress to fire cabinet secretaries and now most recently to incite violence and so he tried in vain after twitter banned him from the platform to use his secondary accounts potest as was his campaign account only to have those tweets quickly deleted as well and so the reporting is that he has gone ballistic since these actions have been taken by twitter and the white house ultimately put out a message on behalf of the president saying that this was twitter silencing him and that he was in negotiations with other sites and possibly even developing his own platform to communicate with his followers going forward is a man who went once he took office he once said that he was the hemingway of $140.00 characters so it is. undeniable that twitter helped enable his rise
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and his political fortunes and the fact that this platform is muzzling him in his final days of this presidency is a dramatic bookend to his time in office meanwhile trump is facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment trial a group of democrats drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week accusing him of inciting insurrection if successful it would likely block him from running for president again biden stopped short of supporting the move north korean leader kim jong un says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and to expand his nuclear arsenal speaking at a ruling party congress kim said the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish new relations bride has more from seoul. there has been an awful lot of talk about the developing nuclear program of course the last few years with all of this summit diplomacy that's been
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going on between north korea south korea and the united states we have played down from north korea any talk of the development of nuclear weapons well latin it now seems to be in the past because we've had very detailed sections about where the nuclear strategy is up to in north korea and the takeaway seems to be from kim jong un that nuclear weapons remain as far as north korea is concerned they key to its survival its development of nuclear weapons is very much into linked with developments in its relationship with with washington and it does seem to indicate possibly a return to the old ways the old acrimony before several years ago it does seem as though the trump here is now at an end of the north korea doesn't place much store in what might come from you by didn't ministration we have seen a suspension of the past couple of years of these large as far as north korea is concerned provocative military exercises between u.s. and south korean forces well may well be the case you bite the ministration will
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reintroduce the spring exercise between u.s. and south korean forces which always causes a hostile reaction from north korea so we wait and see and north korea waits and sees just what the policy will be from the ministration when it comes in at the end of january. the u.k. has reported more than 1300 corona virus deaths on friday that's the highest daily number since the pandemic began more than 68000 new cases were also confirmed london's mayor has now declared a major incident for the city as hospitals struggle with a high number of cope with 19 admissions one in 30 people in the capital were infected with the virus in the week leading up to jan in the 2nd and the head of the world health organization is urging wealthy countries to donate excess vaccines to the group's kovacs facility he says vaccine nationalism will hurt global efforts to curb the current virus pandemic those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statements of watching by foot.
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frown off grid lock out the little. town i want to stay on the side of. this is where we're owning our home so we're taking pride in the way we look. down there is a really nice thing out before and people think they're playing for a version of. what is a hillbilly facility easy not familiar with modern times this is why we're calling our classic like a better flag dock type job when you left a on the end of. the walk for me but don't live when i'm not goes last night ma'am an inch thick and magnum whack whack my interview go whew talk about them both but i was going on only this time them birds you know brian doing the body because the good of you was my sister the follow my own you gotta get to know me
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a lot better to all. these are represented the bowings that we fear is america talking cannot tell the sun it did just that just to his house. oh shit i i grew up in appalachia watching my grandfather shows like. i in the beverly hillbillies. i hated those shows growing up going up that's going to. do you care if you don't. like jam. there's a long history of stereotyping has plagued the appalachian region. they don't trust voters really are the dumb troll vote she is they certainly all sally as tacky and as stupid and as mind blowing lee ignorant as he does. in the run up to the 2016 presidential election i was making
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a film about the trails of appalachian people in pop culture i news coverage about the region exploded and suddenly everyone was talking about the great divide. bloomberg has read urban vs were all in one region my hometown region was singled out as the reason for trump's rise. my hometown came for kentucky right in the heart of the appalachian coalfields so when most people hear my accent they assume i'm from the south. appalachia is a region with a history and culture that is complicated and all its own the term hillbilly was born here and more recently the idea of the heart trap country. oh. oh.
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this is me. during the election this was my facebook page. this is my granny shelby. around the time of the election this was her facebook page. donald trump grabbing. me i just can't believe my grandmother posted this on my wall. i may be the only person from kanpur kentucky in los angeles almost everyone i know here despise a strong but back home the perspective is quite different. the 2016 election made painfully clear the disdain that urban liberals have towards so much of rural america particularly appalachia. i relate to both worlds. as a progressive feminist and filmmaker i was curious to visit my hometown during this
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divisive political moment. we are on our way to meet house hauler which is where i grew up and where i lived until i was 18 years old when i was accepted to the university of kentucky and up packed up a u.-haul. and moved out. this is me when i was 9 i won the spelling bee that year. i was a member of the speech and drama team i was on the homecoming court. i graduated at the head of my class. there's a photograph from the day i moved out. i had no idea when i was standing in the
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driveway what i was about to experience. moving from rural kentucky to urban kentucky was the greatest culture shock of my life. people identified me as someone from the mountains their reactions to the way i talked or insulting and made me feel silenced. i moved to los angeles years later and to this day people still ask where do you get that accent where you're from. oh my goodness gracious. this this made house hauler and la childhood home right before us. we moved out of that house and not the 98. is that rebel flag right there in the middle. and this was my bed or what here my dad did all this brick work for
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the record this flagpole was not here when we lived here and there certainly was no . confederate flag flying high on our property. my mom was a nurse and my dad worked in the coal mines until he got laid off he became a brick mason. he once said to me that people would look at him and my mom as embodying the american dream they went from living in a single wide trailer to building their dream home. i felt fortunate as a child. for most people in my hometown of that time there are basically 2 job opportunities call and wal-mart. i will kill. you in the get rough. well you know when. you know
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me in the best way you can. just. find some of the poorest places in america one road out. that's right next door to . education is the only way out when i was 9 years old. news program which made sweeping generalizations about people from my region. like we were all to be paid so this is. that show made me feel shame for being from eastern kentucky during the war. more than $3000000000.00 to build highways. for the rest of america but the university. would take to get away. from. that t.v. news program had a lasting impact on me it was the 1st time i saw my community for trade as poor
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white trash a legacy that goes way back. to. the . war. in america. i. worked for a trip to the roots of. the war on poverty is complicated. some people. welfare programs like food stamps and medicaid it led to an influx of volunteers and journalists from around the world their efforts were confusing and troubling to some folks like my dad and his 2 sisters who were children at the time living in eastern kentucky. somebody. parachute just have to jail was full of ugly that's what the government i guess
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thought we needed it was an interesting to have people coming in to look at this area but it became very evident. it was critical and we're dead set on the for my wife. so when i say the failed depiction of the poor appalachian mountain people. may because. as that. it's where my granny shelby lived. a. fairly. good time just put this my flaming on me and i'm going to give you high baby it's a good thing you know what group fleet you. grant you the slots clipped on your belt so that it i don't ever built you actually how. i'm going to agree to get
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right to let you keep me here for. our brains see perfect because i was roosters are. roosters here birds out there that's one of the 1800 question you actually got me are you to l.a. for so i want you find me. some on stage or some talking i'm not kidding or should truck it he's been wearing trump shirt. which we all have. a cell implant with. to the brownlee. you're going to look back at this election and say this is by far the most important vote that you've ever chairs for anyone at any time because it was unfathomable to me the trump could beat hillary i just could not understand why my
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family who voted for barack obama supported him what is it about donald trump that makes you want him to be the 45th president will not say well the man knows how to make money. you know he's got over $10000000.00 he has know how to make money so i believe he could actually bring the jobs back and create jobs i'm not saying probably the safest stopped it should have been say the locker room talk about. abhi honest which i've not made anybody who hasn't done something similar to that and they just blow it out of proportion that you all expect to be this enthusiastic about the election because it's been very intriguing to. see some of these posts that have been going around i was a democrat all my life and the primary i'll wait and change to republican just
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so i could vote for trump going to caucus here people when i'm out as a bloc that i or i'm from really didn't want to have her back before isn't just the same old thing empty promises yeah. you know there's just too much stuff on hillary just all the investigations and stuff like that so what we had to loose vote trump did you vote for. i voted for hillary clinton oh. i did you all i thought of water was getting sour looks wrong i know i did full disclosure i did a vote by mail application and i did the ballot would have mustered up the birchwood you girls just run. a shitty l.g. upset them. and they too burp. and you've been the whole lot smarter but i'm. pretty sure that you know you we're still
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a lot of good in there oh man if it did lead to me becoming a radical progressive we still love you no matter what oh yeah we do. manually. for god that's. why. this is interesting this is the story that the city paper didn't like saying 10 i think the question was where do you see yourself in 10 years i would have been 18 here and i said cross angela and that's what happened and my family has lived in eastern kentucky for 6 generations he was the coal miner my grandparents on both sides worked in the coal industry. you were probably 6 right. my whole life i was told to get out i never questioned why. i want to serve
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a country of the people just sort of wrote them they talked over me like i wasn't even there they think just because i grew up in the city and they talk with more pronounce words especially when i know fans but when i served in california that was the worst i was looking. the brotherhood i don't. need think that was all somehow related to their stereotypes of mountain people or to yes. they still think northerners are wasted they'd always think that they're above the elite hillary said we were all deplorable according to her we're all nazi we're
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a bunch of backwoods people that are under her feet. you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorable zz. right. people in california and all these other states look at the hillbillies. they have a certain perception of us because whatever they see on t.v. well bobby i am 5 is when i was that youngster at 18 years old going from the holler to the big city in lexington kentucky that sourav felt you know i was a journalism student and you know journalists are supposed to speak with a midwestern accent which is meant to be no accent so that you can pick up and move and it basically just like sterilizes any kind of culture or regional uniqueness that might be and i was told you got to speak correctly which meant i was speaking incorrectly and of course i believed it like one of the teachers the professionals
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you know i was working for the n.p.r. affiliate i worked at the city newspaper i was the editor of the student paper i was the editor of the t.v. station and changed who you were what you were. right. i would have never hurt him any more than i had heard you. say like ours you got this kind of like florida panhandle thing going where is what you really want is more of a self i am actually i don't know them but i know there are a lot of them got. arkansas' kind of there it pulls back after the cuts and so arkansas alabama yeah. i guess they are not we think of same time and again from these media portrayals is that it produces shame and so if i to it i mean i work with a lot of young people who don't people know where they're from but i want to change the way they speak i want to escape the region as soon as possible because they're
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ashamed of it. as somebody who grew up in the region have always fill several layers of being the other always describe this film are perpetually immigrant because we've been here so long i mean my family has been appalachian for a generations yet. to some extent we're still treated like immigrants were treated for from another country when we go out into the rest of the united states in such a strange moment on the polls speak slowly to us and expect that we're not going to you know get common references a woman once asked me if johnny carson was you know because i was from appalachian she didn't like we had tb no but it was literally. appalachia was a construction it was a social and cultural invention for example iowa is a construction to the difference between iowa and appalachia is you know when
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you're in iowa because there's a sign there that says welcome to iowa there's no such sign with the appalachian. everywhere in the world. there are happy latches and therefore everywhere you thought there are hillbillies if we think of the hillbilly as sort of an outcast group this your 1st trip clean your. i collected an article in which the official chinese news agency criticized a group of chinese people living far away from peking as the equivalent of hillbillies everybody has an appalachia everybody has somebody that they can feel superior to. we all do. why they help bill is the image of a guy with a corncob by remote ignorant barefoot lazy and so has really been a way to mating the dispossession of the mountains it's
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a region of people who are to prevost not part of the american dream they don't really deserve the kind of resources and wealth that live beneath the land of appalachian particularly coal it's only a region of trash so. why not trash it. in the flooded by ways of the appalachians about 20 people are dead 20 abaza have been moved out in helicopters and row boats to blame for the flash flooding is being placed on extreme erosion cycle operations strip mining and large tree clearing that allow the water to cascade in the rivers with great speed there were immediate problems of temporary housing for a look at all government but no trailers have arrived yet no maybe if anything we were but then we do need help and this is what we do need help. why do we need to go if we came to. the coal industry created the
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towns we grew up in it was the centerpiece of life and the livelihood and identity of so many folks in my hometown while it sustained our families it ravaged the land without a whole. you have very little if anyone in our area i like this area should be very happy that corporations such as our us steel and others are here. for decades companies came to where we grew up and took out a truckload after truckload of coal mining calls floods and destroyed homes and left our creeks orange and lifeless. a brand a good a good thing to say i mean don't play your thing may be but you have it is going to fight it better. than lose baby i'm not black. because my granny i remember these massive floods you know the flood of 77 floods it took homes floods that you know people had to raise their houses and they suffered deeply from that and didn't
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get support from the government like my granny remember her whole life was fighting for support and stuff this is the flood plain here. what we wrong is for fema coming in and help but i mean people this is this is it's a shame. it's more than the show. they don't care about people like us that live out here in these areas. that have. water that it will. only support we it was. owned by a well i would call the news. in the flood. and get them to come over and take a chance the government is supposed to be for bad people but that isn't the way these appalled when they get novelists they know who to take care of because they did once take care of them i certainly didn't agree with my granny's
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politics but i knew she had a long list of resentments against the government which helped me understand her point of view. you know the biter is to assert. it is so down that they've been treated so badly that they haven't been voting they haven't been going out and voting like they can and that includes members of their family that have left the mining business let members of the family they've left home i think at that time if somebody would have asked her when she ever for someone would make a comment that he freely would grab. i think she'll have a very different answer at that time in her life. frank assessments go colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with
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twitter account trump has been trying in vain it to put out his message on secondary accounts the potest account which is of course part of the u.s. government as well as his campaign account but almost immediately twitter deleted those messages only to have the white house press office then release those statements to reporters which is really how things have worked for the decades before twitter came into play meanwhile trump is facing the possibility of an unprecedented 2nd impeachment trial a group of democrats have drafted formal charges of misconduct to be presented next week accusing him of inciting insurrection if successful it would likely block him from running for president again north korean leader kim jong il says the united states is his country's biggest enemy and has threatened to expand his nuclear arsenal speaking at a ruling party congress kim said the u.s. must withdraw its hostile policy if it wants to establish a new relations reports out of the u.s.
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say the white house coded 19 task force is warning of a new and more contagious variant of corona virus that it believes the mutation maybe 50 percent more transmissible and behind a recent surge in infections and the head of the world health organization's urging wealthy countries to donate excess vaccines to the group's kovacs facility he says vaccine nationalism will hurt global efforts to curb the pandemic the u.k. reported more than 1300 coronavirus deaths on friday it's the highest number since the pandemic began more than 68000 new cases were also confirmed london's mayor has now declared a major incident for the city the united arab emirates is reopening its air and sea borders with qatar as part of a u.s. deal saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain egypt agreed this week to restore ties with qatar after 3 and a half year blockade. so so those were the headlines the news continues here. after witness statement that solution i thought. you.
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was under the story emerged in ways the then listen to the story. now really did lead this is harlan county u.s.a. . i saw this movie when i was 19 everybody go out on the picket line and will wait you're right it's well i'll stand it. it was the 1st time i remember seeing the people of eastern kentucky represented with dignity on film. this film inspired me to make documentaries oh. that was like an aha moment i mean i grew up in a rural place and public education and it wasn't you know a space of radical far ideas and i think that that very much set the tone for me and for the direction of my life and i was interested in telling stories of marginalized and vulnerable people because i grew up in a place where
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a lot of people are marginalized people are vulnerable i mean it's really incredible the way that media works and how these stories can get told. in the immediate aftermath of the civil war the local color writing presented up the latch as a sort of quirky in quaint people's but as industrial has become interested in the region for minerals for lumber for coal the people that were living there could also be seen as a kind of potential threat or at least interference with their economic plans and so a new conception emerges of them as a dangerous and threatening people who might threaten civilization itself not just talking about hillbillies i.e. people who live in the mountains we're talking about poor people who live in the mountainous they're the ones who are going to cut your throat. regional and national newspapers promote the mountain people as dangerous and threatening if they stand in the way of progress.
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they're nowhere now now now now now you can still hear that that piece of music and so you lock the car doors just in case the car were to break down. the aisle but if they are playing. and the live rants there is this horrifying right. now if you hear that black on the band. brings up this image of rape. in deliverance there is an acknowledgment at the beginning of the film with the images the mountain being blown up and knowledge many of the cities exploitation of the world are going to reach this whole damn landscape of great. extremes.
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are you nervous little they are going or. don't. want in that way. used to be my culture and. we had to direct and look. in time how they come in our. got to look in. the same person that i was when they put that make up i have my heart. and it and they get kind of. i think one of the things that makes deliverance work on lots of levels is that. billy's character and my character were able to sort of connect. having that scene work really put this film on a different level. which was the break of my life and i guess that's probably want
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to great moments ever put on screen it is there anyone out there who hasn't seen the motion picture deliverance scene at a large number of times but there is a moment there when he plays the banjo with a retarded boy and they suddenly discover each other and ronnie plays the guitar and they do dueling banjos and i guess probably one of the most electric moments on the screen i get goose pimples just thinking about it it wasn't nominated for academy awards the 45th annual academy awards presentation and it's nearly always listed in the top 15 or 30 of the best films of all time looking ahead. how much money did you make for your role in delivering. new
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food and i wished i would could be an actor. i just love to go to. this blundering. i'm hoping that i'll get there one day. but i don't think it's going to happen. billy was only in the 4th grade when the directors came to his school. he had no idea how the movie would be used or that he would become a symbol for the entire region. deliverance from billy well. but his hope and his hinderance. when i 1st seen the movie i didn't know that part were going to be in there. and i thought to must fail the people that's going to say that movies go if i manage this
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tracer robin county. sports bar that has a white trash theme it's called the rest of mullet. caution to me is taking someone else's culture and exploiting you know and using it for your own profit. there's a lot of ironic redneck shooting and i think it only bothers me in the same way the white people are telling their black through adopting a pop culture that's not your experience. but. it would be the day it is called the white trash party oh my god it's not me just me but the best get 7 at me this week and pretty good do you. know.
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where do you get your ideas about what trash looks like wow i see a lot of imagery on the internet i see where they called memes or memes internet means if somebody will put up a picture of like torn jeans with a local white trash or minister turned into you know drinking glass trash and so a lot of deliverance when i was a kid. if they knew hipster let roughly know like white trash the point here yeah absolutely. sure. a lot of pictures that are maybe dressing like this don't even know where appalachia is or understand any of the issues about it oh you poor west virginians still have to like mine coal to get your electricity when like 14 percent of the power of new york city comes from west virginia coal these hipsters these are going
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to be the people running our country and do they know like that say for instance west virginia has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation from opioid use but they're wearing our clothes in trying to look hard look in. vegetables and drink moonshine. the co-option of politicians there's a long history there. mcconnell in the senate won his 1st election running a t.v. ad in which he used how. he played the hillbilly. george w. bush is seen as a redneck that's exactly right here in august trial which. totally different. ones on the show one side the country. there's
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a cultural politics to the success of more right wing groups in this country and it hinges in part on the depiction of white working class people so from the right you get this depiction of the salt of the earth you know the people that we lift up and from the left you get these stereotypes a vicious voted against their own economic interests because of guns because of gays and because of the 3 g.'s their own behavior is precisely what people on the right point to in listing. white working class folks for very rightwing cosseted i mean they have contempt for the poor the culture for the middle class for rural america and they're now admitting it's really important that people who consider themselves progressive understand what harm they're doing i'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country because we're going to put
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a lot of coal miners and called companies out of business. we're making a movie ever since nations never watched american people so what do you think is important 2060 how minds for one is of my own thing the jobs they review or the commons is gone it's got really bad a lot of well you know think about the election. anyway it goes there's no we know it's going to lose a lot of kentucky people jobs. lot of people not be able to. support their family. now. well i like because he is very rude to women in this. day or crisis and rice is what do you think about all of us to make america great.
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do you still believe or am handy leave my kids are your beliefs i have. i thank goodness. that it didn't work but don't mess with the color temp now after you do it we can go and make adjustments but i don't actually think it's up lou it's really beautiful. you know it's so rare that you see. through the eyes of an opposition person and like new york city. you know in the new york times or something. there are storytellers here who are able to critically examine their communities and tell powerful and honest stories and that you don't necessarily
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always have to find somebody and to tell that story. in memory of the black i watch that show that they're finally down to the fact that there's a small black community given it in this place that i didn't even know about for all my years of living as. i am i was pretty much completely changed. it's really got me in touch with my community and just. how people don't have to be alone in the world that they live i do they grow up in college her parents really races obviously she's white her parents had a very negative view of black people are lazy and dangerous all kinds of stuffs. we had a day in secret and. we did almost for 2 years and our parents pulled out of school once they found out that we were dating and i was either since 12 was a really it was a heartbreaking thing for me it's tiring to have to hog who you are as
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a person everyone should be able to say who they are as a person. i was always very big tomboy went to school developed a crush on a girl like i would lay in my bed and just cry. every night because my entire family when they found out they would hate me like just disown me sometimes people come in and they haven't really had to hear what it's like and used to be discriminated against or for a person color in the group to be discriminated against so i think it's creating a bridge of understanding between young people and their own community. there's a guardian article that came out about my hometown they were doing a series about poverty in america they said something like the average yearly
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income for a household in lee county kentucky is something like $13000.00 or $14000.00 a year unless you are over the age of $65.00 and then that drops down to like $6000.00 something dollars a year. not only is this a place where people are so overwhelmingly poor but also it's a place in america where people are overwhelmingly quat and the vast majority of them always vote republican i'm not. conservative. but i think it's wrong to say oh you guys are stupid you're just doing it to yourself you're vote republican so you're a student to yourself that's not the case. just things like. you know if they're not blaming you for being republican and thereby me for being you know. if they're not done for that you are not by me for that then you're lazy
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after this article came out there are all these people who outside the community are saying things out of this article is really sad i feel so sorry for the people who live here ok like this person so you know the bra people get up and move to places with opportunities which is what brought people always do it's the brain drain they're telling the people to do the same stuff that teachers said to me when i was going to hospital and you got to get out you can't stay you don't need to be here you got to get out there's nothing here. that made it like turn around the way that something now so yeah i don't know i don't know what to tell you you. have like a big circle you know like say if we're going to do a montage of you know. what is here to show her. you know to get stronger to go in the race for president voters head to the polls to choose between the 1st woman president and the businessman running for his 1st
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elected office point the team has truly been like any political race we've ever covered before trump was eager to tout surveys that show him gaining ground a lot of good polls out there that what still unknown is the outcome on election day. turn on a winner. what's up america let's take a president ahmadinejad of the r block and again our time there. reading that he along. new hillary. can't read this without a list hopefully this is the most important election i've ever. participated in. using for i really didn't care who i voted for. this time of day. lots of pictures of people with the i voted stickers on. people seem to be voting
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against hate. here but we'll see what i think will make up in a moment what kind of hangover the would be in them. i was getting there is. a family night break in or something. went out with the panel so. i'm going. to get a lot more votes in kentucky the people think she's not aware. there are lots of little blue dots all over the threats though. i was voting for my daughter's i was for mean joyce than the couples i know who were able to get married from one. on one for. lauren.
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to see a decision like that on their own to donald trump wins west virginia it's a state where his measures played well which coal industry is taking a beating the map filling in tonight teams like told those to trumpet this early hour. might just get those most of the children up for this. is such a hard question because i love these people as people maybe people people that have peace of basic people so i would i just hope manly and it's historic to. but what's unfolding right now it's not over yet we're watching every state every electoral vote without a doubt by one the most momentous night state in american political history modern the bank here the secretary thought and then you want to pull out you say here's the issue. they're smaller and there are just only 24 percent of the vote.
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here. who are. all of those verses in hillary but i guess you know believe. this you lost and i was happy and it be that as support and it be that my vote helped you get there i just really believed that hillary clinton was going to be the 45th president of the united states i believed it so much and i wanted it so badly you had your hopes on being to be able to see the 1st woman president now voted for in your dream was crushed and i can accept it you know i'm not in that camp of like this is a deal breaker and i want to like in my relationships with people who voted for donald trump because we all know people who voted for don don and i know another problem that was clearly revealed in this campaign is that hillary was unable to
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appeal to rural and i think that hurt her i want to see like what a girl could do but i don't want to really know what that pristine can also mean. shelby gold. i will be a big. don't touch that i won't look all that looks like it would. look like it might burn a little a 20. 3 if you hear my stand my ground i have. i've been on about the 500 calorie diet if the last 4 days it's not intentional i'm just i'm. just in the i haven't eaten a whole lot granny so i'm starving i'm very excited about this fine mail that you are preparing for us. i had to cook. when i was growing up were you
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responsible for making meals for your siblings and your family for mother's day you know have them wow mother didn't believe that girls should get made. she wanted me to stay there and take care of kids and washed dishes and sweet force and stuff and give school i just want to. experience life. that's what a dream was get now don't create and now make something of a self i do not doubt about you i've never heard you say that you had a consciousness about leaving that makes me feel like i am. living your dream in a way you know. that want and desire that you had and didn't get that gets transferred to mom and then amanda and i like as it came to us we had up to.
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i'm so grateful for granny i can't tell you the. just to be able to go to school it's so meaningful because everybody doesn't get that opportunity you know. appalachia is a wound and of joy and a poem not of complication. but you cannot know what place without loving him and hayden and phil and everything in between something inside you has to crack to let in the law so your brain and heart can't just properly. those attempting to patrol the region must become immersed in the region in a special kind of way they must go to the mountains drive these winding roads i'm a certain job for a while with folks on the front porches must attend weddings and high school
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graduations they must study the history of the place and come to understand it they must set awake and look at the lines on the faces of the people the calluses on their hands they must understand the gestational and generational complexities of poverty and pride culture. i must stand for a while. and smell the air started the gravestones on the hillside that await the inscriptions of names alone the people not statistics not stereo. look in the lens. sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. and other times you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding.
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under silent storm. they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud. parliamentary elections ignite fierce rivalry that will determine the future of this defeated and politically divided community. a microcosm with selecting the plight of a nation witness venezuela a sinking revolution on a just. when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in india and mr kashmiri people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate the sky with their home we simply don't know if we can thank you to bring you more award winning documentary and liveliness on
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a and online. the weather in turkey is going to turn wet and windy at least in the west during saturday there's a bit of breeze elsewhere a bit of a shock trying to set up down the gulf might draw attention very hard reso and where the winds converge in the mountains rising west and sorry there will be a few more showers maybe focusing on back up and i would want to guarantee it that's the only real wet area in the arabian peninsula and surprisingly there is significant strong winds good deal of sunshine it's turkey gets the brunt of the changing weather and we've seen active weather you know in in southern africa significant rain has fall in and with the cloud as it is you think is going to be more on the should be it is the wet 3 months for many countries in southern africa and that's big focused in zimbabwe in malawi in the next 24 hours or so and through namibia a few shasta south africa. in cape town your far in quite
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a lot of rain seems likely in some parts of towns near and ernest madagascan of course you are then drawn to this is a tropical cyclone whose forecast is hard to grasp it looks like it will just be a big storm system nothing too severe but it will get very close to mirages on sunday and monday. when all that seems to matter is the headline there is always 2 sides to a story when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the leader on the one hand the enemy is over neither on the other hand the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see them on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias people believe things because they want to believe them done covers the uncomfortable truths do you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts on al-jazeera the us is always of in fact the people
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