the musicians signed a petition for his release they say the so-called gag order prevents free speech spain's left wing government has moved to change the law but that come too late for her cell. protesters here say they'll continue to raise their voices against the silencing but the outspoken rapper. you're about a man be out if there are. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera an arctic blast continues to cripple large parts of the united states and has caused the deaths of at least 30 people and millions of without power the national guard has been stationed across texas which is among the hardest hit states the governor says it'll be days before the situation starts to improve facebook has blocked australians from viewing all sharing news on its platform because of proposed laws to make tech giants pay for

journalism they're straining the government has slammed the move and demanded its pages that have gone blank be restored soon as possible facebook was wrong facebook sections were unnecessary their way heavy handed and they will damage its reputation here in australia their decision to block a stray and access to government starts be they have bad support through the pain to make mental health emergency services the bureau of meteorology were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the senate meehan mas military has issued arrest warrants for 6 celebrities for encouraging people to join and take to protests crowds continue to rally in young gone demanding the release of deposed civilian leader aung sang suu ching. jailed hong kong media

tycoon jimmy lie is back in court to continue his appeal against a ruling denying him bail he's accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security will the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda has gone on trial in kigali facing charges including terrorism and murder paul rusesabagina is a critic of president paul gami is accused of supporting the armed wing of the rwandan movement for democratic change is credited with saving more than 1000 lives during the run genocide after hiding people in his hotel. cambodia's government has unveiled plans to set up a fire wall similar to china's to control and monitor online traffic official say they want to maintain social order and protect national security but critics are calling the move a violation of democratic freedoms so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station that's watching buffalo. to only sarah

. tell us are we in a case where i was compensated severely as we listen to the only music you hear is your the most beautiful music in the world and so i want to meet with the global news makers and tweet about the stories that matter 0. 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 short 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 tube ask questions talk to our panel be part of today's show we start with my maternal who is very direct about the biggest challenge facing roma and traveler communities and that is racism the times for governments to recognize and act upon and the roma racism as a held an economic emergency is long overdue we need stimulus packages so forth forests and show and inform our workers access to the kitchen health care and on a long term we need economic anti-racism measures to overcome the structural inequalities and my racism. this is such an on to the portrait story i'm so happy to have these 3 guests we've had 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 a more did you know my name is the absolute spokesperson for a good can in movement going on man seen before me and i am known as. second to have you. introduce yourself to the level winds around the ones. who are always them working with the oversight found a source for the core of our work is the response to the work while the talk about the response criticism that this is a political issue and all these forces 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 yourself to have us. i mean 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 i guess i really think that an important place to start is to understand what roma and traveller life was like prepared them 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 we came in peace but we found immense cost for still it the people were central is this too 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 most of them a package mentioned at the beginning and of course the building the 2nd world war where we were persecuted and murdered in holocaust 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 probably it 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 for. 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 at night methanogens which is on full of. d n a how the community you. and i 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 no trees once more seen people emily trial and the family that is living in that place look at the years they were living in space for years their workers with nary precariously or all the children were going to school and in the beef just before the new me just decided that he didn't want trauma in simply any more in his city so she a victim then without any kind of solution of the solution and since then they're going around in currents and compass in the air and parking lots. by the police at the g.c. then in asking them to more weight without anything so the chances are that they're

not let me say shit cancel them from the normal register so the result anymore is a citizens of the same c.t. even you nearly been there for generations so when. they found themselves without water. and there were going every day in the bunny from things to the. assistance the water to getting at the point we are going to the city so they could not they were in a corridor they were 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 then not even with the food because the or last day they're just in the 1st week or for a slowdown. and in 20 years clinton children that were regularly going to school just. lost any kind of chance to continue to to connect into.

online school because of course they didn't have any kind of the last any kind of. wife died without a helmet recently and whenever they lost any connection with the school institution for months and in all of this story they were really from known not to so much as some of the situation in very short. meeting people that are staggering that without a job without it without who are now we don't have anything in the u.s. to meet with any 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 you have. these cans 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 public been developing over several and have been you happens. 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 shocked why what's in her you know i don't think anyone who is over romany or who works. in romania activism is 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 violent 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. well you know if i may i want to people that we're about see something pretty horrific but you wrote a story for us on how to see or not i'll come back to that story in a little bit right it was about the number of hate crimes that have gone up because of lockdown that's paying attention maybe you 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 the b.t.n. by our police chief of roma people and it's awful so i'm going to play that for the end the screaming 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 food in and give us your thoughts let's take

a look. around the world of the american. people. who are 2. jonathan so what you can see there was in belmont in vail 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 unarmed squads drug the men out of the houses

nylon tie their hands behind that 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 your zocor 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 it's not possible cannot be something that comes out of these public 19 situation where. the health care available to roam and travel a community is so bad that he has to get better because a covert 90. right well the bits and exactly what this is at the core or for our analysis that there are face specifically collier respects than any other group in europe because of our preexisting conditions just

to illustrate the life expectancy that our mum got in comparison to the rest of the population is shorter between 7 to 20 years to 20 years so that is just that is out of the british and in which people believe the living conditions that. you might mean segregated settlements 30 percent of people in some of communities in europe with of what there are 4 to 6 without oil. and bathroom in the 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 at a much higher during the 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 doctor it was our show 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 do they 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 misplacement and right what do they do next 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 a woman's 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 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 lumberman it's the elite 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 also are asking and and i'm really asking for a change let me just say this to you deanna this is cyprian i'm going to need to use about war now you're doing what you're hoping to did knowing what you know about roman catholic communities drink and he said. no i have 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 and 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 what you didn't really care for me and your. now there is something that important i want to say before any new what are our fights in our nations in. regards.

to this 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. maybe schools by their own schools so. we can say for sure that 40 percent of. kids in italy he stopped only got it out from the educational system. and all these together with the big problems there are people less bending to ask for us for example many schools 100 of people and in 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. of 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 assistance in 10 years you will share her. relevant economy costs ensured social costs for state so i think this is all up for us now to say needs to be out in the magic division we were leaving for in them at the situation now we are really dramatic dramatic situation but this is also an

opportunity for us and for now our states to realize 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 the ressources and help but the gallery of our states and you want to be direct we want to be arose if we want to do that and we are expecting from our nation is based 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 wheat 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 one 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 of me may remember that i sent that jonathan wrench a piece for al-jazeera adult company sees incoming 1000 pandemic as an excuse to abuse froma when markedly this piece ngs on an optimistic note jonathan. optimistic in

that. 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 pondering 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 been a little longer but now 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 that'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 there's 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 some 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 where guests are amazing where 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 last shot we're going to talk to and we've been talking to me listening to jonas and me and.

and. that's. israel's vaccination drive has been the one unqualified success in its often criticized response to code 19 the aim is to vaccinate everyone over the age of 16 by the end of march prime minister benjamin netanyahu is promising israelis that theirs will be the 1st country in the world to emerge from the pandemic of he's persuaded pfizer to commit to an excel or supply of its vaccine in return for israel being used as a data rich testbed for its efficacy palestinians living in the eastern half of jerusalem the only known israeli citizens getting israeli vaccines the palestinian foreign ministry says israel is neglecting its obligations as an occupying power by

not providing vaccines to the 4500000 palestinians in the west bank and gaza. has emerged between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations israel's own program has outpaced even the richest countries. just how much the palestinians have been left out of the process and how far they've been left behind. there was a lot of there in this community and that is what he lived on the way when they were going to look for to get all the woman he want up with this is our own man she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing their community was not always a key problem auction plan had been bought as a priority and led the way in transforming a difficulty into a success so involving a one to me is standing economy. women make change on al-jazeera. hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young

men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. 'd an arctic blast leaves millions without power in the u.s. state of texas with freezing temperatures set to last for days. along daryn jordan this is out as iraq live from doha also coming up. facebook was wrong. facebook sections were unnecessary thumbs down from the australian government.