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their commitment to stop cooperating with the national terrorist groups over common goal it's clear afghanistan should never again serve as a haven for terrorists to attack our whole nouns so our presence is conditions based while north wants to stay in afghanistan longer than necessary we will not leave before the time is right. this is just there and these are the top stories me and ma thousands of demonstrators a back on the streets a day off to some of the biggest rallies yet the calling for the release of deposed leader. close to 500 people have been detained in the past 2 weeks scotland has more from bangkok we're seeing again them the protesters and who protesters gather in front of foreign embassies this today this time around it is the russian embassy
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this is part of their their effort to raise the international view of what's going on in myanmar raise what's going on there dissatisfaction with the military coup to the international community so they will do something and obviously we have been hearing from different nations we have been hearing from the united nations but they continue to do that and really stage some of their larger protests out front of these embassies. a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken by the ob gang is unknown but hundreds are missing it's been confirmed one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run schools and. at least 30 people have died as freezing winter weather sweeps the united states the historic storm has left millions without electricity and covered nearly a 3rd of the country in snow. so barbara is starting its 1st coronavirus vaccine rollout on thursday using the chinese made sign off on jab the country received its
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200000 doses on monday the 1st phase will be voluntary and prioritise frontline health care workers. facebook has blocked users in australia from viewing or sharing news on its platform as a response to proposed laws to make tech giants pay media groups for content blackout also affected some government agencies as pages carrying health and weather warnings went blank the government has criticised the move as heavy handed . japan's former olympics minister cycle hashim otoh has been named as the new head of the tokyo and the brics organizing committee less than 6 months before the games as the most who has competed in 7 olympic games as a cyclist and speed skater and quit her ministerial post to take up the role of places your shooter morty who resigned last week after making sexist comments. buzz the headlines i have more news for you here on al-jazeera bought off that the stream of life and i. think you said it it's time for
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a different approach so let's leave them quickly to the headline joining me as i take on the lies this many of the misconceptions and debate the contradictions are marc lamont hill and it's time to get up. and i have of your cake you watching the screen by now we're all really aware of some basic safety protocol for looking after yourself during a global pandemic washoe where a mask social 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
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of today's show we start with my maternal kate who is very direct about the biggest challenge facing roma and traveler communities and that is racism the time for governments to recolonize and act upon and. 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 creation healthcare and on our long term we need economic anti-racism measures to overcome structural inequalities and my racism. this is such an under the portrait 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
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alabama beaches 9 spoke person for a good time in movement no man seen before me and i am just. sick it to have to. introduce yourself to the level winds around the weren't. there 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 its box 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 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
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guess 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 travel 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 conquer and fight and kill we came in peace but we found the immense cost for still it the center is this week with celebrate complete 6055 years. after the abolition of
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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 holocaust own communities put a face and 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
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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'd 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 they are done in 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 who don't follow. d.n. how the communities get you. and are working with in italy how are they managing it . when they let me tell you
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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 look at the years they were living in a space for 30 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 going at 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. than 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 the result anymore is
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a citizens of the same c.t. even you nearly been there for generations so when the coverage chain they found themselves without water. and they were going every day in the bunny from denise to the. assistance so what are you getting at that point we are going to the city so they could not they were in a corridor they were not there nonsense. nay were totally without any kind of assistance so they were standing in the municipality looking at musicians they don't want to hand and 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 clinton children that were regularly going to school just. lost any kind of chance to continue to to connect into.
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online school because of course they didn't have any kind of the last any kind of. why 5 without henniker 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 known not to so much as some of the situation in very short time and the meeting people that are staggering that without a job without electricity 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 our own and neighbors where all. these cans issues segregation that you can 2003000 people in many. you know. smaller places though there
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or together so they were really heroes during the period when we're now kiran because. in this in this situation also the helping people developing over south problems have been you helping them see. yeah because no one was helping them do it in this pandemic has revealed the full lines in our societies and 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 you know i don't think anyone who is over romany or who works. in romania 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
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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
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isn't really anything unfamiliar to them. this man demick has done is opened people's eyes to the situation. so you 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 right it was about the number of hate crimes that have gone up because of lockdown that's paying attention make no new nobody's out there paying attention watching and also the number of priests attacks that were happening as well as one in particular that i want you to talk about which is the beat by our police chief of roma people and it's awful so i'm going to play that for the end they screaming ok everybody so you know 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. around
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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 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
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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
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one's going to go to court over this and they really were aware that 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 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 perfect 90. right well the bits and exactly what is at the core or for our analysis that there are face specifically higher risks than any other group in europe because of our preexisting conditions just to
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illustrate the life expectancy 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 is out of the relation in which people leave the living conditions that died a few 1000000 segregated settlements 30 percent of people in some of 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 cold which because of preexisting conditions and
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because of the. abscess talk about their health care that is most of the time. after eyes by racism by the doctors were shot were a 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 lane and what did 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 do they do next racist . sort of 1st of all settlements in bulgaria were actually one where basically that ambulance doesn't come to church on a settlements and this is also the situation with serbia with italy with the
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muscles on you know it isn't moments are remote and most of the kinds of weyler are called 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 lot on the over there who the population doesn't have health insurance represents just the lumberman is the only 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 not only curious about more now you're doing what you're hoping to did knowing what you know about roman catholic communities think that he said. no of behind does the slogan of the
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european commission for recovery measures well unfortunately or has been slaves here remain young for 5 years and only how many 65 years this was abolished we are going to get those like less mentors on 20 or february however the station committees was very dramatic and does because artist to do case docsis who 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. now what you didn't really care for me and your. now there is something that important i want to say before then you want our fights in our nation's in. regards. and are meticulous and. in this case because we
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have 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 illegally he's not only cut it 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 of people are ending as many schools and refusing. it once wanted to do to register in the schools. they saw mrs 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 the problems were for all
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men because we lose our future a place if our kids are not able to go to school and their communication system in 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 are sharing. relevant the economic costs ensured social costs or state so i think these. are too many for us now to say. we are in the magic division we were league for in them at the finish and 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
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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 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 arrest as. as it is a person's it can contribute to the future of yeah. i'm so glad he said that we could yell at cooing. 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 when you create a limited access to medical services or housing and lesser job opportunities are
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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 how to seal adult company season calving 1000 pandemic as an excuse to abuse froma with markedly these peace ngs on an optimistic note jonathan. optimistic in that. so the. business is doing racists i would say.
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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 pound taken out of the larger issue being an opportunity an opportunity to do in fact. maybe not feeling opposite after the show i don't blame maybe it's villa 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 there 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
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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 more they're 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 was more not be the national we're going to talk to we've been talking to me listening to jonas and me and. and also. not so you can find them online they have more to say but for now i'm
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going to thank you for your comments and you haven't seen the next wind in the stream of edition since what you. said tis only change because some people believe in a post that is bigger than they're. trying to make a political my city around the state representative they put themselves out to make the changes something that we. should have taken this long and they're going to learn about their mess condemnation learn we have a disco to slosh and more to create new areas we have to change this culture i am one of the fortunate ones who can lead an establishment about how to fight but all the people and on that majority of these illegal of us are talking about just good
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hard working people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to being more . in india identity politics on the right is what we're seeing is the construction mills partitions and cuts and loads of the unions of people across the country and there's a dockside in detroit is do see the grid from his office at the street of the him fix it to something more like the team i didn't see of the british when i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. they may not be top of the table. they might not have the biggest stadium. they stand as titans in the face of the fascist far right movement. if you want
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