we need this from para 6 white and he was the one that stressed the need for cooperation for more cooperation among the members of the american trade blocks as i was mentioning before vaccines are crucial to implementing a lockdown in many countries in latin america is a major challenge mostly because of the economic situation in the country in argentina and brazil people are struggling to make ends meet and imposing a lockdown will definitely generate a lot of strain as we saw that it was happening in religion a dock area today and that's why vaccines are this for you in latin america are crucial to save lives thank you very much for one is ours to raise above thank you . look at the main stories now at least 32 people have been killed after 2 trains crashed in egypt more than 100 people were injured in the collision which happened in the center of the country 360 kilometers south of cairo the rail authorities

saying the emergency brakes were triggered on the 1st train bringing it to a sudden halt the 2nd train which was traveling in the same direction then slammed into the back of it. ethiopia is saying eritrea is agreed to withdraw its forces from ted grey where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that ethiopian prime minister ahmed finally admitted eritrean forces are in the northern region fighting broke out there in november after the local take great people's liberation front attacked federal army bases. as an increasing number of people arrived at the u.s. border with mexico politicians from both sides of the aisle a visiting immigration centers in texas house democrats say they are that to fix the inhumane situation of child separation under the policies of donald trump but a group of senate republicans are saying the influx is a crisis of joe biden's making. 80 percent of undocumented migrants suydam seekers

have family in the u.s. who they can be reunited with but there is backlog because of successive republican democratic it with assertions that we don't spending the money on the bureaucracy to humanely process that inevitable by great free flow in the springtime it happens always to every other year certainly in so they're spending billions of dollars both democrats and republicans on on militarizing the border not giving clear pathways for legal migration often for people in central america and france was not complicit in their london genocide but overwhelming responsibilities for the events a commission set up by the french government has found the state was blind in its support for what it called a racist regime behind the killings about 800000 mainly ethnic to see people were slaughtered over the space of 3 months under the hutu grazing. i'll be back with more news in about 25 minutes time i will see that coming up next on al-jazeera it's outfront.

as turkey pulls out of an international treaty protecting women's rights we ask renowned author what this means for gender based violence but 1st protests and strikes continue unabated against the military coup and me and maher hundreds have been killed and thousands arrested as the hunted doubles down on its brutal repression so what's next for me and more well as the international envoy for aung sun suu cheez ousted civilian government this week headliner dr sassa.

thank you so much for joining me on up for. me the crackdown on dissent since the military coup last month in myanmar has been brutal more than 2500 people have been arrested according to activists over 250 people have been killed by security forces the leader of your party own son suchi has been detained the international envoy are in hiding at this very moment where does your fight go from here. military to the rose. are the one who have committed a crime against humanity war crimes at nick hansen's and his genocide toward at nick minorities for so many many years they include catching the girl in shan mordecai in chains the roving virus sisters so this is up to international community right now to stop these military generous from killing the

people mia on now if there is no action it's strong and coordinated targeted action for me to last in a community i'm afraid so my country will have to go through the creator's civvy world that we have never seen before the people of myanmar are now in a situation where they are to do or to die so that means that we are there protesting every day risking their lives every day and that means that the all the people 54000000 people of myanmar are now on. risking their lives every day so that we can restore democracy in the freedom of just these lands fault so this idea that the people are ready to die rather than to live under oppressive circumstances raises another question because so far we've been talking

about civil disobedience we've been talking about this idea that people will be willing to protest nonviolently but the question for me is are they willing to take up arms are they willing to engage in armed resistance and would you support such a decision if they did we don't like to go down to the road of any form of violence but the people of myanmar are now being led we know trice because we have you waiting for diplomacy to work for between us and a community that means that they need to take strong good actions again disability that he james right now before it's too late so the people of myanmar will be forced to defend themselves in the end of the day we cannot die like a soup we cannot be kill like a soup on the street of our own home our own floor that means that the people of

memo will be forced to defend themselves but in recent years myanmar has been a very interesting space with a kind of tightrope that you're walking trying to balance power between a military and a civilian government and a kind of power sharing agreement led by our own son sushi and the military but a source told the wall street journal that suchi engine or lang rarely met or communicated and that they didn't trust each other given that relationship was the military reassuming power and navigable. well the military is 1st we have to we have to know understand is the military to literal as are the enemy of democracy they are the enemy of freedom the enemy of justice india was there is no justice no democracy there's no freedom there is how they have ruled the country for 5 the gate continuously yeah so these 2000

acres to tousen the created east by the military age in the hours for the military generous just imagine their power power steering how do you work men do for the so how about it guns guns that they can take any time they want to power from you so it was the power of it was tough 5 years for our leader us our city for our party and l.t. of course they can pay the power any tab you want this war they just have done it 1st of february it was is the tough part of choice you talk about how challenging the last few years last 5 years you say have been for aung san suu kyi but for many people the recent years have also witnessed a shift in her own either in views or her actions she was what seen as a global symbol of democracy and now she's become a politician that many people see as aiding and abetting human rights abuses

possibly war crimes she has defended military leaders at the un said should be prosecuted for genocide crimes against humanity war crimes what do you say to that . it's a very simple in depth if you're working in her shoes they can kill harm any time if they want yeah and they were sister nato and it had a warrant and now india killing so many people already as the world watch this is what the military has been for many many years to the people of myanmar yeah of course and nor say their mistake has not been done and they say it is that some terrible mistakes have been may happen but again it's a what are some of those mistakes that you would say sense and she has made with regard to human rights war crimes etc where'd she go wrong i think one situation was that our war situation who are in debt most fear when you cannot

exercise your freedom when your freedom was taken away by smoking guns so dead means of course it was just a twice not even a mistake i will say of course the mistake means the way how we had our own could have been differently you mentioned earlier that she could be killed at any moment what was her failure to condemn the military's action or to understate the violence that was happening down out of fear that that the eve there was that you know the us has kind of struggled emanation against the minute of a change of course you know she will be the moment there's the moment when that the minute that he will stay to cook it declare your majesty just what they have done just a few weeks ago last month you know now i mean charged with treason if i speak it for democrats in the freedom just imagine just for speaking out i do not kill anyone now and it gave me these you know high treason charge that carried

that penalty so damaged that they went to me they were doing to kill me yeah if i am in a cult and i'm not don't kill me it's very simple. there's been times where your leader has used language that was somewhat troublesome she actively failed to condemn the violence against a range of. that seems deeply troubling and for many people inexcusable for what will you condemn the violence against them definitely yes 100 percent yes 100 percent it's not only to a good shrink up people or it has been laid down to the country people are coming to people it is some people i believe the chin people yeah i would think it means minority has suffered terribly in the hand of these military team for the last 70 years to say for killing the same for change the same for our shot and more of a kind yeah and to save our brothers is the wrong so we have been condemned me for

70 years but it's not just enough to condemn them they have to go away they have to be removed before condemning condemning them would be condemning them would be a start i appreciate you condemning them why why didn't some sushi. well in mean as i said again horse to reason is different 700000 were displaced from their homes 10000 people were killed thousands of women and girls were raped sexually assaulted and about 400 villages were partly or wholly destroyed. you would agree there on the sands who she bear some responsibility for that extraordinary awful violence no. it's not ours our city fault it is not us was the order it is the military commander in chief general. this should be even as the gated for the crime yeah these should be investigated distribute to massena inquiry investigate these all militaries in the us for their crimes so does crime has being just laid

there without punishment there's a chance that this i here's what i'm not following she's the one who went to the hague to defend this she's the one who said this stuff is fake news she dismissed ethnic cleansing and rock n roll came as muslims killing muslims the very thing you want the world to know about she seems to be dismissing how do you reconcile that i cannot go back to the past i am only looking for the future so the future that we are looking is the fender a democratic free union of myanmar where everyone will have a future no one should be left behind every crime dead because we did should be investigated no matter who no matter what it has to be vindicated it happening to relink up people to happen to shout look at you know kareem's all the crime they

had been taking place should be even a good investment of as you would never have been again or we'll have to leave it there that this i thank you so much for joining me on a front. thank you very much where even. despite making up close to 5 percent of the global population the united states is home to nearly 25 percent of the world's prison population so is it time to end mass incarceration for producer. has this week's reality check prison a place none of us want to go but where you kind of have to break the law and hey it's unpleasant we need to put away people who commit crime to protect the right well not really mass incarceration doesn't actually make us safer in the united states the crime has declined over the past few decades that's been almost completely because of other factors improve graduation rates wages and consumer

confidence maybe the government should be focusing on those issues instead but that's not happening with over $2000000.00 people in prison the us has the highest incarceration rate in the world at $639.00 people per 100000. compare that to canada and a 100 for germany and $69.00 for japan at $38.00 and if every u.s. state were a country el salvador which right now has the 2nd highest rate of incarceration in the world would drop to 30 seconds but while many suffer at the hands of america's obsession with mass incarceration it's big business rather you may have heard of the military industrial complex but how about the prison industrial. by 2017 the cost of locking people up in the u.s. ballooned to $182000000000.00 more than 5 times what it was in 2000 part of that money goes to telecom companies who overcharged inmates for phone calls and held

the companies who profit off serving prisons as well. a big part of what sustains the prison industrial complex is also what people go to jail for in 2000. 16 almost half of us state prisoners were there for nonviolent crime. and more than a quarter there for misdemeanors like minor parole violations sitting on sidewalks unpaid traffic tickets and jaywalking. really jaywalking and with so many laws rooted in racism and slavery black people make up 40 percent of people in prison even though they only account for 13 percent of the population and then there's the us is reliance on mandatory minimums and long prison terms more than 200000 people are facing life in jail in the us that's more than 113 other countries combined and the fact is locking up all these people isn't even working research shows that a stint in prison can actually increase the likelihood of inmate 3 offending so one

of the alternative monitoring and controlling offenders outside prison is one way it's being used successfully in australia in new york alternative to incarceration programs have helped dramatically reduce the number of prisoners while crime has also gone down and in norway despite sentences being kept to 21 year rates of violent crime and re-offending are both lower than in the us but you might still say hold on what about survivors of violent crime shouldn't they have a say well a 2016 survey showed nearly 70 percent of survivors one of the people that hurt them to get community supervision or treatment rather than spend their days in jail if they understand mass incarceration. surely the rest of society can get on board to. last weekend turkish president reject the one issued

a decree withdrawing the country from the landmark european treaty to prevent violence against women the convention according to women's rights groups femicide a hate crime where a woman is murdered on account of her gender. has tripled in turkey over the last 10 years why now and what will it mean for the safety of turkish women and given that gender based violence has skyrocketed worldwide since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is an international solution needed joining me from london to answer these questions is a fact award winning novelist and women's rights advocate and there's a fact thank you so much for joining me on up front. thank you last week the president of the world announce that turkey would be withdrawing from the ystem ball convention there of course the international treaty to prevent violence against women and domestic violence the world health organization estimates that 38 percent of women in turkey are subjected to violence from their partner given these realities why would turkey withdraw one of the government is

a true in from some convention at a time when we meet this convention. more than ever before is quite alarming to the audience and i find it's totally unacceptable because as we are speaking well there inside and out with the violence in turkey is at an alarming level and instead of implementing this mention which was signed in 2011 even and the new and since then has been signed by hutu 5 countries turkey at the time was the 1st country to signs but now instead of putting it into practice instead of doing something to help the victims of violence the government is doing the exact opposite president everyone's justice and development party or the a.k.p. came to power in 2002 and since then we have seen a stunning rise in violence against women we've seen for example from 66

women murdered in 2002 to 953 in the 1st half of 2009 after that the government simply stop releasing data on femicide but women's rights groups say nearly $100.00 have been killed so far this year why has gender based violence increase so much under edwards leadership so the government does not release the numbers but one is trying to get as asians have been doing their best to to understand the expense or this tragedy or this human rights crisis that we're going through and. i didn't know that the real numbers are much much higher because there are so many i want humans and i use only killings quote unquote because there's not one in these killings there are some really suspicious new sites and that i mean stories we never hear of me i mean religion sequence sort of the path that the government is putting on doing the exact opposite to me is just just unthinkable

one of the things you're pointing to is the timing of this obviously withdrawing has its own consequences whatever but the timing of this seems particularly curious the turkish government right now is under fire for the case against me like who killed her husband after he tortured and sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her daughters the prosecution is calling for life in prison describing her husband as a family man effect was on trial less than a week before this decision to withdraw from the treaty is this a coincidence is this some sort of political strategy we should be thinking through what's going on here. we do know that if this now who mentioned have been implements it's because it's not enough to sign a treaty you need to put it into practice if this had been done hundreds and thousands of women who we are learning right now are those women would be alive the kidney so community pete is is just unbelievable the things that this woman has

endured through throughout her marriage more than a decade or abuse and violence and on that particular night she was assaulted securely assaulted she was stripped naked tortured beaten and threatened with death in front of her young children by her husband as a self-defense she her husband and narratives is so important for us but as you pointed out one of the media problems that we have in turkey is in the courtroom the system of the judicial judicial system almost always statements the men perpetrate is another another to use in which a killer who had been just released from prison due to court it would meanwhile of course you need to bear in mind that there are many intellectuals journalists in prison in turkey who are not released because the committed but these people are so she was released he went on he killed his wife who was trying to get

a divorce and as he was arrested there was a group of man on the street when you are calling him a crazy and probably the chief of man so this is a lot that we need to question in turkey and you cannot say that if we just leave it to traditions to hammer to the she's this will be assault on it so are peace want we need a proper answer national treaty to solve this the region's crisis or i mean you talk about the need for proper international treaty and you also talk about the appeal by the ruling party by the a.p. but also about others and in the turkish society and indeed around the world too. honor and values in some of these big picture ideas that are deeply troublesome to many particular feminists. convention for example has been criticized by the a.k.p. for challenging of contradicting traditional family values president everyone has railed against birth control saying that it will lead the turkish society to

extinction he's talked about women who don't spend their time in the home is deficient and incomplete the un has warned that this concept of family values in particular is not an innocent idea that it can undermine the rights of women and children how do conservatives again not just in turkey but really around the globe reconcile these ideas these so-called values around family with what we clearly can see are the limiting of women's rights. absolutely but as you pointed out this is a president who said that he doesn't believe in gender equality that's when we start but as you also recorded now it's not only happening in turkey really seem similar discussions in hungary in poland from time to time in brazil and time and italy and it's not a coincidence that whenever whenever we see the country sliding into some kind of

populism or populists or hurricanes and we haven't we see a rise in all true nationalism and religious fundamentalism we will also see a rise in sixes and we will also see a rise in such any and homophobia the things always go hand in hand this is not a coincidence that is why i think when countries lose their democracy and when countries lose that appreciation for diversity we women and minorities we have much more to lose because the 1st rights that would be termed will be will strike somewhere and once you are it's women's rights groups say that gender based violence in turkey has only gotten worse during the crawl of ira's pandemic but it's not just turkey when the pandemic began incidents of domestic violence increased by 300 percent in or by china 25 percent in argentina 30 percent in cyprus 33 percent in singapore and 50 percent in brazil it's been caught a kind of pear demick within a coven 18 pandemic but why is the whole on the domestic sphere such an unsafe

place for women around the world. i think we need to talk about how universal this is and how urgent the says well of course the candidate did not create this problem but i think it explores the existing structures in our societies and inequalities we need to talk about male violence and still using a more passive language and stops the speaking as if this is women's problem if men also do not engage in this conversation we cannot move forward well of course consistent women are unhappy then are really but i also think man are hockey men are deeply deeply unhappy especially a young man who did not want to be given description of muscular their lives are very difficult as well there is a particular type of masculinity that's constantly being under lights and people as the only form of manhood really to charge that together and look for they want

to start with what does that look like they're how do we challenge what some are quite toxic masculinity. in a space where popular culture religion tradition in our normalizes are unhealthy forms of male domination of violence of patriarchy of rape culture how do we begin to uproot bet stuff and replace it with something more healthy and humanizing. i think 1st of all we need to be very careful about binary opposition where we chat constantly being produced by populist rooms so all across the world they make it sound as if the feminist movement or moods for equality are a threat for traditional family values or family values in general we need to look beyond. our house in which there is. violence is an extremely unhappy place when i am happy there man i am happy their children are

happy and of course we don't want that kind of family and of course we don't want those kinds of battles i find it very important that no man also start to engage in these conversations because they feared things you know in their daily life the jewel the words words not oftentimes not something starts with words and then things get serious so to warn you to speak up speak out without getting defensive i think it's extremely important the fact that you so much for joining us and for. think it's not a redefinition. all right that's our show up front we'll be back next.

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