and you mean there. aren't more. but i know it's even more spectacular iceland is a juvenile country in geological terms i mean it's 20000000 years old it's frequent growth spurts and adolescent temper tantrums are expressed in. the regulus peninsula is usually calm it's the 1st eruption recorded here since the 12th century and for the moment it's a minor one certainly nothing is disruptive as the eruption of a few at york in 2010 then the huge plume of ash shut down much of europe's aspace and cause travel chaos for almost a month will reach helen's al-jazeera. again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour countries across europe are imposing restrictions to cope with another surge in corona virus infections 16 regions and

france including paris are among those returning to locked on for at least 4 weeks rio de janeiro has closed its famous beaches on saturday's intensive care units in brazil near 100 percent capacity argentina has imposed restrictions on chile is reporting new infection rates close to record highs of last june. brazil's local authorities on the president have conflicting approaches on how to fight the virus . these measures by the author it is in rio de janeiro to close the beaches there are also stopping buses coming into the city bringing tourists to those beaches they've done that before the question now is whether they will police it whether they will stop people massing on the beaches they also have to put up with the president of the country job also noddle encouraging people to go to the beaches and take in the song he's saying that's a good idea so they can focus victim in d. we should allow them to fight the covert 1000 virus hundreds have been protesting

in turkey after the governments withdrew from a european women's rights treaty president tried to tie a bird a while and ordered the removal through to create the dream into a signed by more than 45 countries and 2011. the rebels have admitted responsibility for a fire at a dissension center and yemen's capital sana'a earlier this month at least $45.00 ethiopian migrants were killed and hundreds injured the kofi affiliated ministry of interior says 11 if its fighters threw smoke bombs to stop protests at the facility . thousands of protesters have gathered outside the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is residents calling for his resignation similar rallies have been held every weekend over the past 9 months it comes just 3 days ahead of israel's general election warning on al-jazeera at the top of the hour for now it's inside story thanks for watching but by.

and why is violence against asian americans on the rise a mass shooting in georgia is the latest example of what some call upon demick of racism with deep roots in american history so what can be done to stop the hate this is inside story. alone welcome to the program and that clock the u.s. president is calling for unity to combat racist attacks on asian americans on choose day a white man shot dead 8 people in message policy and spas near atlanta 6 of the

victims were women of asian descent police have not called it a hate crime but many say it's hard to see it any other way a california based group reported nearly 4000 cases of harassment and assault on asian americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year gabriel elizondo has this report trying to console the nation president joe biden said on friday evening that hate crimes against asian americans needs to stop too many asian americans have been walking up and down the streets and were waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked. scapegoated harassed. they've been virtually assaulted physically its own killed the comments came in a previously planned stop by president biden and vice president camila harris in

atlanta where on tuesday 8 people were killed 7 of them women 6 being up asian descent the alleged gunman a 21 year old white man was arrested and charged with the murders investigators have so far resisted calling the murders a hate crime but on friday vice president harris herself of asian descent as her mother was born in india said racism is alive and well in america ultimately this is about who we are as a nation this is about how we treat people with dignity and respect. everyone has the right to go to work to go to school to walk down the street and be safe and also the right to be recognized as an american in new york where there have been more than 10 documented

hate crimes against asians in recent months a peace vigil was held calling for an end to the violence really holds i really hope this is the culmination of the hate and bigotry the asian americans have he said clearly that they will not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech of hate against even the president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night and it led to but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels on dough al-jazeera washington well former us president donald trump has been blamed for a few he hates against asians. when the china virus invaded our sure's corona 19 the china virus comes lou i can. 90 different versions of they. repeatedly use racist terms to describe covert

19 some say though it's not all trumps fault this comedians tweet pointed to a long history of xenophobia jokes in popular culture and historians say sentiment against asians has been made in the united states since the arrival of the 1st immigrants back in the 19th century. or let's 1st talk to a coven son who's an emergency physician in new york city about his experience as an asian american working in the current climate at the calvin thanks for joining us here on al-jazeera as i say you're an asian american doctor you're a staunch advocate of asian american rights what were your thoughts 1st of all when you found out about these deadly attacks. when i 1st found out about these tax which attacks the ones i grew up with but when i was growing in graham in new york city at 34 years ago. it's about the attack this week it's

exasperate it's hasn't changed nothing has changed if anything they've gotten worse but like it's getting more attention i've always said about the penn demick their health care system all the problems in our health care system were not new problems a pandemic just clarified and it just seems that it's doing the same thing for these decades generations and generations of trauma that are you know people enter sectionally not just even americans but all people of color and people who have been oppressed you know since the dawn of time have been you know distant highlighted and i think we're just getting more attention because the vehicle the lens in which it's portrayed through the pen demick has been just been bombards a form of front of the mainstream so we're finally getting our you know our 15 minutes but i worry that it's only going to last for so long for people start forgetting or scapegoat us further or i say it's always been there but to what extent do you think what we just heard from the former president just what do you

think how much is he fan the embers of this with the rhetoric he's been using. it definitely didn't help anyway i'm a big believer that every little bit counts bottom up top down we need all the help that we can get and. people sometimes you will need that when they're when they're going through whatever they're going through is that push whether it's from a leader they look up to or a background tension of you know being through a pandemic all these these these years and years of the of this racism or discrimination or all these things that they have and had this towards and want to take it out and so it scapegoated people can bring up to the forefront with a little push from the words of a leader that they never met before but look up to so definitely the rhetoric of the an administration that we voted out that only benefiting help.

or hurt us even more of something that's been existing long before that they have been around give us a sense of what it's like to those of us who haven't experienced this what kind of racism you have personally face to what kind of things are said or happen. it's all from the big things and obvious things i mean everyone will notice a grandmother being punched in the face those people who can who watch those images on the screen can relate to the pain and trauma that they would feel that obvious islands and it goes all the way down but think about all the things that all the factors those micro behaviors that lead to those obvious actions that people feel right now think about all the little micro aggressions and behaviors and i want people like mike regressions i heard that word before and it's about what does that mean and it's all those things where people have good intentions but have bad behavior we judge others by their behaviors and only ourselves by our intentions

the road to hell is paved with good intentions people wait come to you with good intentions seemingly to say one thing to want to compliment you but the actions end up running over my foot or end up hurting me and old me that's what we judge others by their behaviors how much they have harmed us even if the tensions are good but you may have good intentions and break my put by running over it with your car by what is still broken it doesn't help me any further i'm the one injured even if you have the best of intentions i am now deeply hurt or permanently injured by these well intentioned behaviors then enough harming us and all of the factors whether it's not quite really understanding where we truly are from even though i'm born and raised in new york where that's not really truly understanding that we are mad as american as anyone else around us and not understanding that we're not a perpetual foreigner and even a small little behavior that you have that we are very sensitive to knowing that you never would ask someone else that is an asian american where they're truly from

where they are or you know whether they're truly america or not or even the way you behave toward them that your subconscious subconscious bias where you get the same thing as how we treat black and brown black and brown brothers and sisters out there when you know people. at a certain way when they clutch their purses a little tighter or they feel a little more unsafe around them and they are sensitive to that and that adds up all the tension that builds up it boils over when you have an administration or a leader that says the if you will right in the wrong thing that is the straw that broke the camel's back all right calvin sun thank you for your insight of the window or your life as an asian american thanks very much fascinating to get that perspective but let's move on to our panel now from san bernardino we have brian levin who's director of the center for the study of hate and extremism at california state university and from monterey bay is who's a historian and assistant professor at california state university welcome to you

both great to have you here on this important story 1st of all so as we've been hearing racism against asian americans is is nothing new give us a very brief overview of it steeped in history if you would it goes back to the very origins of modern america doesn't it. yes and haitian violence is nothing new. what we seen in atlanta are part of larger and longer patterns and he should violence. that dates back to add to chinese violence during the $1000.00 century the passage of the akan $75.00 page law that was directed at chinese banning chinese women but in practice ended up stereotyping all chinese women as prostitutes we continue to see banning japanese immigrants with the 924 immigration act and then in the late are the middle to late 20th century we see us imperialism in asia and the establishment of military camps towns in

korea that condoned perpetuated sexual violence against korean women during the cold war and in other us wars and jobs and so all of this picks tree deeply informed what we saw happen in atlanta and why historians are calling for the fact that racism and sexism must be understood as part of the factors that contributed to this hate crime right so there is this kind of underlying seem if you like racism it's always the chrissy can erupt to any at any moment as we see there are particular moments we've seen athey asian violence that arise during great depression like the 1930 s. watsonville riots where white mobs chased out the latino's. because of the global depression that was occurring and even during now we are in the midst of

a depression there are people who are out of work and men are former president tries to pin the blame by racialized on the virus and called it the. you know the chinese flu and this and mabel white mob to start attacking. asian americans across the u.s. stop a p i hate an organization has tracked that there were 3800 reports . submitted to them many of them were acts of hate towards asian american women and so asian americans are scared there in this time period brian brian levin said for the policy or more since the pandemic begun already we've seen this despite can asian american hate crimes give us an idea of what you'll see and if it represents a true picture of the scale of the problem. then q and let me just begin by

saying we stand in complete solidarity with asian american brothers and sisters today just like we did decades ago when we started the center and we're not going to stop we stand with you now if i could answer your question we started seeing particularly in early march the convergence of 2 things one. an escalating number of hospitalisations particularly in new york city which had the most anti asian he crimes of any of the official reports that we've gotten and if you're doing a part of your question what we're getting with reports is minuscule compared to what we know is occurring across the country and that's why our friends and stop a.p.i. hate really illustrate just the breath of it but we have some really interesting

data that really fits hand in glove with that so what we saw is around the beginning of march an increase in these hospitalizations but we also saw for instance a congressman on march 8th make stigmatizing ethnic statements with regard to coded and then around the same time a secretary of state come pale on march 16th president trump started using these terms and he used it about 2 dozen times through march 30th so we saw hate crimes go up along with that at the same time and many times. offenders have said things that minute what they heard from these leaders so that was terrible so in new york for instance 12 out of the 28 hate crimes they had last year were in march alone and what we saw is just in 16 cities alone

122 hate crimes. and that was 149 percent increase over the previous year we're talking historic surges in this war as a nazi or very sudden seems to correlate with the donald trump's rhetoric crissy there was a suggestion there's a suggestion out there that these attacks may not have been directly a racially motivated that this could be more about the man's and the gates is such an addiction in itself raises a question about how asian american women are perceived there is a longer history of hyper sexualized asian asian american women i did discuss that the page act in $875.00 which stereotype all chinese immigrant women as prostitutes and then us imperialism in asia. really recent little 5 the stereotype asian women as prostitutes by condoning sexual violence and military camp towns so

this idea of a sexual addiction actually carries on this rhetoric of treating asian american women as objects as beings that need to be objectified or hyper sexualized a lot of this is continued through us popular culture movies t.v. and social media and so that this hypersexual a basin plays a huge role. in casting the idea that asian and asian massage parlors asian workers. are a sexual addiction and might i add that. work oftentimes. it's stereotyped as sex work but massage workers. do not necessary but not necessarily consider themselves sex work but this oriental list conflation is part of the problem rather abroad do you think that attacks against the asian americans

a cold up enough for what they are they recognised that as hate crimes and such. no absolutely not and unfortunately this is occurring not only in the white community but it's something that affects everyone once that bigotry that that that white supremacy or the massage gets out there that toxic smoke spreads throughout the society and one of the things that our reach or research has found is that when leaders like vice president howard us and president biden who just this week condemned this type of violence when they make those statements it actually a correlate to changes in behavior so for instance a couple of quick examples 6 days after 911 president bush spoke of tolerance hate crimes drop precipitously the next day into the next year similarly. when we saw

rhetoric against muslim people by the president after this san bernardino terror attack which affected our community hate crime spike another 23 percent on top of what we saw from the terror attack one last quick thing listen to this on march 23rd president trump uncharacteristically spoke of tolerance after a.d.h. s report said he asians are going to be targeted here asian americans and you know what on that one day where he tweeted and spoke of tolerance we didn't have anti asian hate crimes new york or los angeles on that day but then the next day or 2 we started doing it again and we saw a continuation of these terrible attacks against our asian american brothers and sisters yes i suppose i think chris is now if rhetoric can home he can also heal and biden's approach is the polar opposite to that of donald trump well i want to highlight on the ground organized by

a small american community organizers activists artists professors that have done the work to reframe the narrative to. identify that racism and sexism are huge factors in this hate crime where law enforcement police officers and national leaders were unwilling to call it a hate crime right so we get to this point now where asian americans be ringing the bell on this issue for siloam and raising the the red flag and you know as we've seen over the even 200 years more than nothing has actually changed so what now proceed must be done asian americans have called for solidarity with asian americans educate yourselves on the history of anti asian violence. take bystander training. check and with your asian american friends and neighbors.

what you know volunteer to walk with asian americans and if they if they allow you to going to supermarkets or. elderly that are walking there there are community organizations that are organizing around carrying elderly folks so that they're not walking alone. the stigma type thing sex work supporting sex workers rights giving a living wage to service workers to nail salons to massage parlors do you stigmatizing some of their care work and then understanding care in a broader sense that the these massage parlors are are respectable work and they are work that should be paid a living wage and brought from a legal perspective is the law in america are actually capable of accounting for the many ways in which american that asian americans experience racism in the

united states. not enough we have to have non agents to stand up and say this is wrong this is un-american and as we seen these messages from the top carry weight but also one thing i can tell you our community was attacked in a mass killing and it's important for the whole community to stand up for these victims and recognize this attack for what we believe it to be irrespective of the limits of the law here in the united states one has to prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt motive so let's let this investigation continuing at the same time acknowledge the pain and the intersectionality that often exist with hate crimes we had many transgendered people killed in the united states last year a recent high. and that intersection was a lot of people of color black people who are also transgendered and we think we're

seeing another example here you can have a hate crime that has one or 2 or multiple causes and you can have an intersection between race and gender for example and we stand with our fellow citizens and residents of this country because this is un-american and we have to speak out those who do who are not members of each american community and say this is not reflective of what or national ideals and aspirations all chris if i could end with you tell us to tell the world about how your daily life how much it's affected by this kind of racism and how it is and how important it is that the solution is sort i have been reading with american communities and. it's been a very sad time i have family and atlanta at work the

rebbe locks from the site of the killings and the murders. and i have friends in atlanta who are scared and and so i feel all of this deeply and i am part of an organization known as the anti so in squad we are a collective of sowars that have made mass at the start of the pen demick we send our mass home in mass to the communities that are most vulnerable and have been the most impacted specifically by t.o.c. communities that have suffered from histories of disenfranchisement we prioritize their health and safety by sending those communities last. and so as part of the anti sewing squad we'd put out a statement by standing in solidarity with the murdered workers and really calling for

a reevaluation of how we treat service workers in industries like massage parlors nail salons. and other service jobs that we need to respect their work we need to care for that we need to treat them as human beings. and also we need to identify a longer history of racism and sexism and call for more creative solutions and we oppose an increased reliance on policing ok. we appreciate your time we've we've run out of it but we do appreciate our time in focusing on this important crucial story thank you so much chrissy lao and brian levin and calvin sun thank you and thank you for what she you can see this and all our previous programs again by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to up facebook page that facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter we are at a.j.

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