in japan are finally aware of the problem that women can participate in society at the same level as men but by letting women attend the meeting as a service without the right to speak would make it look like women are participating with the same rights as men i feel like this is cheating to manipulate people's feelings and i not. only must i think this is unacceptable because it's been 20 or 30 years since the idea of gender equal society was brought up but women are still in such a position of participating in politics only as observers. the top stories on al-jazeera at least $280.00 peoples and staff are thought to be missing after a man kidnapped people from a school in nigeria at least one student was killed while several more wounded in the attack were taken to hospital for treatment the state run scalding kagawa was overrun early on wednesday but no group has so far claim for sponsibility

presidents condemned the mass abduction while the state's governor ordered the immediate closure of boarding schools the government in niger state senators 27 people have been kidnapped and again a few hours later that number went up to 42 now when i would use or spoke to an official earlier today he said in this school with 1000 student population. a census was conducted this morning and that 280 students who are missing what is not clear was whether these students were taken all of them were taken by their doctors or some of them might have run away from the school and actually sitting at home the nigerian government is saying that they have directed all security chiefs to ensure that the students have been rescued. protesters in myanmar are keeping up the pressure on the military to release their ousted civilian leader and same suchi some demonstrators angry at the coup pretended their cars are broken down bringing

traffic chaos to the center of the biggest city young gone elsewhere in the country security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters. the u.n. has warning that yemen's humanitarian crisis could be worsened by a new advance by hooty rebels the united states has joined condemnation of the assault on the central my rib province which has remained a government stronghold it's causing an influx in the number of people seeking shelter at the 125 camps for internally displaced people in the area. the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in kigali charged with terrorism and murder paul. who is a critic of president told the court it can't try him as he's no longer a rwandan citizen or those are the top stories stay with us the stream is coming up next a go. after

me ok q watching the screen by now we're all really aware of some basic safety protocol for looking after yourself during a global pandemic wash your hands wear a mask so shoot distance but what happens if you live in communities where you're tightly packed together you don't have running water you have limited access to health facilities and you have limited resources this pretty much describes the roma and traveller communities and you covered 19 the situations have become even worse i would love you to be part of this conversation you know what to do you can

jump into the comment section on you chew on ask questions to. be part of today's show we stop we might get my turkey who is very direct about the biggest challenge facing roma and travelers communities and that is racism the time for governments to recolonize and act upon racism as a held any economic emergency is long overdue we need stimulus packages so forth for essential and inform our workers access to the cation health care and on our long term we need economic anti-racism measures to overcome structural inequalities and on 0 racism. this is such an underreported story i'm so happy to have these 3 guests with him to tell us so much more about roma and how that means to the degree at this time deanna shellcode jonathan

welcome deanna telling me who you want and what you did you know my name is the alabama beaches 9 spoke person for a good time in movement no man seen before me and i am known as. second to have you. introduce yourself to the level winds around the rooms. go under which i'm working with the oversight found a source for the core of our work is that it's going to work when the talk about the response criticism that this is a political issue and all these courses political organizing and political participation. good to have you can't wait to hear more and jonathan good to have you on the stream it's your self to have us. family thanks for having me my name is jonathan lee i come from a romany family in south wales in the united kingdom and they work for the european roma rights and we're primarily

a litigation organization so we deal with discrimination cases all over europe yes i really think that an important place to start is to understand what roma and traveller life was like prepared demick because then when you have the pandemic on top of that you get an extreme situation so can you give us a good understanding of some of the roma and try to communities around here how they live and the prejudice that they have to handle. so for the audience that doesn't know much about roma i think it's fair to say the beginning that our community is came many centuries ago from india and in europe we came in peace we didn't come late many others to come here and fight and kill we came in peace but we found immense cost cost billeted all were central is this do we quit celebrate country at 65 years. after the

abolition of slavery in romania in many other countries we will face the systemic racism that muslim a package mentioned at the beginning and of course the during the 2nd world war where we were persecuted and murdered in her own communities but they face moved people times higher unemployment multiple times higher and it took a shit we leave in the worst. conditions that are at the level of. developing so-called developing countries really in europe that claims to be the most prosperous and most peaceful continent we face immense violence of discrimination and racial segregation for many decades and before what we did that was a situation of a permanent crisis for us corbett just added additional layer. i'm going to

bring in some such each that was filmed of beginning of february and this is a hung gary and roma family and to talk about how they get their fuel how they get the heating remember when to time and indiana i would love to talk about the families that you're working with in italy and compare and contrast let's take a look at this family and our burning plastic because they don't have enough weight . but. a lot of men willing to or not if we were to buy the monthly amount of words then we would have no money left for food therefore i have to go to the forest or the junk yard and if we find plastic or rubber we burn that for fire but not during the day or the neighbors can see and you can also smell it we throw the rubber and the plastic bottles and such things on a night matter not as a digital or a d n a how the communities get you. and are working with in italy how are they managing

it. when they let me tell you a concrete example there is no one small city. and there were many is one small scene people me john and the family that is living in that place but at the years they were living in a space for years their workers with many to carry this war all the children were going to school and in the beef just before of me they knew me just decided that he didn't want trauma in simply anymore and you see so she a victim then without any kind of solution of the solution and since then they're going around in currents and canberra's in the air and parking lots. by the police at the g.c. then in asking them to more weight without anything so the chance of the not let me

say shit cancelled them from the no a register so they got results any more as a citizens of the same c.t. even you nearly been there for generations so when. they found themselves without water. and they were going every day in the bunny from things to the. assistance so what are you getting at that point we now going to the city so they could not they were in a corridor they could not. nonsense. nay were totally without any kind of assistance so they were staggering and then we see funny looking at musicians they don't want to to then not even with the food because the or last day they're just in the 1st week or for a slowdown. and then in 20 years quentin childer they were regularly going to school just. lost any kind of chance to continue to do connecting to.

arm and school because of course they didn't have any kind of the last any kind of . why fire without having the city and where they were in lost any connection with the school institution for months and in all this story they were really from them not to so much as some of the situation in very short time the meeting people that are staggering that without a job without electricity without who are now we don't know anything in the us immediately in equally something like 45000 people that are living in this kind of conditions and not to speak of or also about the peace it is as their own and neighbors whereas here. these cans are issues segregation that you can 2003000 people in many. you know. smaller police

or together so they were really heroes during the period when we're now kiran because. in this in this situation or so the helping people developing over south problems have been you helping them see. yeah because no one was helping them to live in this pandemic has revealed the full lines in our societies around the world we already knew about the previous what's were you shocked are you shocked could you be shot by what's in here. no i don't think anyone who is over romany or who works. in romany activism are shocked by this. just building or something jellicoe said earlier about the level of poverty which i think most europeans who would would not a match in that this level of poverty exists in europe and to the us and 21. and

also dealing with on magda said earlier it's important that this poverty is not a coincidence it's not a coincidence that the poorest people in every single country in europe happen to be roma this is a consequence of centuries of screaming nation. and all of the you know some point to stand all of the things that happened during the pandemic the headline grabbing things we talk about police violence. talk about quarantines of romany neighborhoods a lot of these things aren't really anything new for roma particularly police violence i mean in the year a sikh we currently have around 150 active cases the largest percentage of those cases that we have about priest police brutality. you know unfortunately for many of the most segregated romany communities particularly in eastern europe the sight of dawn police raids tear gas men in riots riot gear with batons

isn't really anything unfamiliar to them. this man demick has done is open people's eyes to the situation. i don't know if i may i want to people that we're about see something pretty her think but you wrote a story for us on how to see or not i'll come back to that story in a little bit read it was about the number of hate crimes that have gone up because of lockdown paying attention maybe had no nobody's out there paying attention watching and also the number of priests attacks that were happening as well there's one in particular that i want you to talk about which is that by our police chief of roma people and it's awful so i'm going to play that for the end they scream in ok everybody so here i want to watch this and give you enough time to walk away and then jonathan come off the back of the fit in and give us your thoughts let's take

a look 7 . around the world of the. people. who are. jonathan so what you can see there was in buntin vale in romania. the shonda rhimes the national police were called out because roma were seen having a barbecue outside their home. it was against lockdown measures but the promote the response from police was to send an arm squad dragged the man out of the house's

nylon tie their hands behind their can put them on the floor and then it's just out of shot but what they're actually doing is 2 officers one of which is the chief of police of the town is beating the soles of the man's feet with his shoes off. at the time people who were filming were warned of consequences if they were to release this. and to be honest you mentioned if we were shocked by things like this before this isn't i mean this would be a bad case that we get but this kind of abuse is not uncommon particularly in romania but also where we had lots of cases in slovakia in serbia in bulgaria. and as i mentioned in this article that while the most extreme lockdown measures were in for sort of april may last year this was when racist police officers knew no one is watching no activists are coming into the field media relying on

someone like me to tell them on the phone and the judiciary is paralyzed so no one's going to go to court over this and they really were aware it was. disheartening to see how quickly it turned to this when they knew the eyes of the world were not watching them. i want to go to you she and deanna and put this to you this is from my bananas nyman says roma children need good schools and health services let's start with the health services so it's not possible cannot be something that comes out of this catholic 19 situation where. the health care available to roma and travel community is so bad that he has to get better because a perfect 90. right well the bits and exactly what this is at the core or for our analysis that that on our face specifically collier respects than any other

group in europe because of our preexisting conditions just to illustrate the life expectancy among that arma got in comparison to the rest of the population is shorter between 7 to 20 years to 20 years so that is just that isn't all for the british and in which people believe the living conditions that died a few 1000000 segregated settlements 30 percent of people in a remote communities in europe with of course there are 4 to 6 without oil. and bus coming in within the houses and these are humans are usually overcrowded homes are overcrowded and in this environment of course a child mortality rate is higher than the. average a population at the level of developing countries that's why the risks for him up

elation are much higher during the whole weight because of preexisting conditions and because of the. abscess talk about their health care that is most of the time. lies by racism by the doctors were short our study in 2017 done by dog shows that the moment all the public institutions some of the all civil servants the medical stuff is by far the most racist against that also how good what duwayne and what can i do you wouldn't have how would medical staff be racist against patients that's not a joke their job is to treat cheney ismay smiting right what are they doing that's racist. sort of 1st of all settlements in bulgaria were actually one where basically that ambulance doesn't come pulled out almost uplands and this is also

the situation with serbia with italy with most of the army oh it is an immense are remote and most of the clients. are our core they don't necessarily get the service also when they approach the doctor they are not welcome they are shocked that especially on the women that are in particularly difficult situation in in the middle in. a war on the over there who the population doesn't have health insurance represents just the longer i've been is that the legal reason for people to not get equal treatment. i'm going to get us to me feel it now because you not just sitting there documenting all of these charitable prejudices and biases and basically racism you're also asking and and i'm really asking for a change let me just play this to you deanna this is cyprian i'm going to need to use about more now you're doing what you're hoping to did knowing what you know about roman catholic communities drink and he simply you know all of behind does

a slogan on the opium commission for recovery measures well unfortunately or has been slaves human remains for 500 years and only how many 65 years this was abolished we're going to get those like less mentors on 20 or february however the station i mean this was a very dramatic and does because artist to do keisha docsis to has access to labor and access to housing what the supply was the problem i think in most of our communities because poverty or 3 leap was something that was awfully fight during the pandemic period. the plan now which is that a week after me and you're. now there is something that important i want to say before any new what are our fights in our nations in. regards to education. and. in this case because we

had the recession a national level and we realize that 40 percent. during the 1st slowdown in italy was never ever contacted not even once. made to schools by their own schools so. we can say for sure that 40 percent of. kids in italy he's totally gutted out from the educational system. and all these together with the big problems there are people less bending to us that for sure for example as many schools 100 people and many schools and refusing. it once wanted to do to register in the schools. saw this is not only sure a relation with human rights insurance fundamental rights in one of the most

important entries. europe and it is not only that problems were for all men because we lose our future a place if our kids are not able to go to school and their communication system this huge measure we are losing our future but this is also a problem for the state i mean if in 10 years these children will be durance will be persons and if you exclude them now from education a system in 10 years you will share her. relevant the economic costs ensured social costs for the state so i think this is all up for too many for us now to say needs to be out in the magic division we were live for in them at the situation now we are really dramatic dramatic situation but this is also an

opportunity for us and force in our states to realise that after aren't big and recovery is an opportunity not only to include iran in the society society but also to us to be their ressources and help but the gallery of our states and you want to be day we want to be arose if we want to do that and we are expecting from our nation has ceased to to use us in arrests as a mess as. as there is a person as it can contribute to the future about mansions i'm so glad he said that we could fuel echoing. a sentiment that eating any he spent us was a 2nd he's like we have the documentation we know what it's been going on now we're having over to u.s. authorities now you need to act he and i mean 1000 have negatively impacted the situation from what in ukraine limited access to medical services or housing and

lesser job opportunities are key challenges that roma face in ukraine discrimination that's also intensified especially in the on one sphere. hate speech sure was used by public cheaters and was also met was in june and from our side we document in one huge or such cases and urged the train in a sort just to provide shear been resolute response to this change for same as discrimination and hatred. we may remember that i sent that jonathan wrench a piece for al-jazeera adult company seizing kevin 1000 pandemic as an excuse to abuse froma when markedly this piece ngs on an optimistic note jonathan. optimistic and

it. says business is doing racists. we take craziest authorities institutions police forces to call it when they abuse the rights of roma. i don't oversell to his him but what we've seen from all it being is pandemic a lot of larger issues being an opportunity an opportunity to interact. maybe enough to have a snippet after the show i don't blame maybe it's very little longer but what we've been different about the wave of police violence now is which i think might be partly attributable actually to blacklist matter is that in the past we would always struggle to litigate police violence because it was no evidence. and something's been happening a lot more now as people have been doing that they've been pulling out of phone and filming even when police threaten them and threaten their families threaten to

remove their children everything you can imagine they're still a few brave people are filming this and putting on the internet. and what i mean that means that it's much more irrefutable evidence that we have then when we try and bring cases against racist police forces thank you so much to really to appreciate all of you for joining us here on the strain today to talk about so really depressing topic but the more we talk about it the more it's out me open the mortgage having 1900 shines a light on it the more likely people are to appreciate what is going on with roma and traveller communities around the world i mean mary guests are amazing we're wrapping up there's always more to talk about you know show you this i'm looking at the end of the show so i'm so sorry but we will continue this what's more not be the national we're going to talk to them we've been talking to me listening to jonas and me and.

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i'm a foreigner in london the top stories on al-jazeera at least $280.00 peoples and staff are thought to be missing after an armed man attacked a school in nigeria at least one student was killed also 4 more wounded in the attack were taken to hospital for treatment the state run schooling could gar was overrun early on wednesday amid interest is in a bitter it's difficult because there are so many numbers going round 1st the government in 1000 state senators 27 people have been kidnapped and.