ok to iceland now where rivers of lava continue to boil up from an erupting volcano geophysicists say the volcano could continue to erupt for some time drawing streams of lava from up to 15 kilometers below the earth's surface spectators have come to watch and cook sausages over the molten lava since it began flowing more than a week ago it's the 1st eruption in the region in around 800 years but the last one lasting 3 decades. this is all just here are these are the top stories i mean mars seen its worst day of violence since the military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media reporting at least 91 people have been shot dead in the latest crackdown against anti protesters iran and china have signed a 25 year cooperation pact chinese foreign minister wang ease in teheran meeting

iranian foreign minister zarif and other leaders the deal is said to have political economic and strategic components egyptian authorities say they're hoping to reflect a cargo vessel which has been blocking the suez canal for 5 days they have a given stranding is disrupted global shipping because the canal is one of the world's busiest waterways so. it is. visible and the operation is still underway as we speak. managed to create a space with a depth of 18 meters and we believe we will be able to have this shaved back into operation by today the delivery of coronavirus vaccines to developing countries through the kovacs scheme could be said backed by weeks because of delays from a major indian producer it's being blamed on an increase in demand in india which is recorded the highest number of new cases this year. nearly 200 people including

foreigners remain trapped in a hotel in palma mozambique which has been under attack by isis a linked fighters several people have reportedly been killed. the hindu nationalist party of indian prime minister narendra modi is hoping to secure an unprecedented win in west bengal as voting gets under way for state elections polling is also underway in assam the 2 states are at the core of tensions about a new law the grant citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims thousands of people have joined protests in bangladesh against a visit by the indian prime minister they gathered outside a mosque in dhaka a day after demonstrations turned violent leaving 5 dead the protestors accuse modi of stalking anti muslim hatred in india those are the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's up front by. one half scottish and half lebanese so

diversity is really important for me and al-jazeera is the most diverse place i have ever worked we have so many different nationalities and this is east brought together in this one nice organization and this diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage giving a more accurate representation of the world we report on and that's a key strength of al-jazeera. as turkey pulls out of an international treaty protecting women's rights we ask renowned author at least affect 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 san suu cheez ousted civilian government this week headliner dr sassa.

thank you so much for joining me out front thank you so was on to 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 you the international envoy are in hiding at this very moment where does your fight go from here. will these regional rows. are the one who have committed a crime against humanity war crimes at nick hansen's as genocide is toward at nick minorities for so many many years they include catching the girl in shan mordecai

and change their own brother and sisters so this is up to international community right now to stop these military generous from killing 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 for my country will have to go through the creators see the 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 you know 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 been waiting for diplomacy to work for business 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 000 mm 0 on 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 general as are the enemy of democracy they are the enemy of freedom. to me of justice

india was there is no justice no democracy there's no freedom this is how they have ruled the country for 5 the gate continuously yeah so this 2000 a constitution that they created easy by the military to the others for the military generous just imagine their power of power steering how do you work men do for the so how about it guns guns that it 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 have 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 u.n. said should be prosecuted for genocide crimes against humanity war crimes what do you say to that. this is 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 be done they say it is that some terrible mistake have been made happened but again it said what are some of those mistakes that you would say a sense that she has made with regard to human rights war crimes etc where to go

wrong i think one situation was there are war situation who are in debt most feel when you cannot exercise your freedom when the your freedom was taken away by smoking guns so the 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 then 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 there 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 that they were doing to kill me yeah if i am in a cult that i 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 and of a sense 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 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 real thing 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 hoss tuition 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 uncensored she bears some responsibility for that extraordinary awful violence no. it's not ours our city fault it is not ours ours was the order it is the military commander in chief general thing about 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 an. actress i hear but 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 iraq in a cane 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 further a democratic free union of myanmar where everyone will have a future no one should be left behind every crime that have because we did should be given to get it 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 cry they had been taken place should be even the good in prevention 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 alternatives 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 reinventing 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 survivor 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 but surely the rest of society can get on board

to. last weekend turkish president to 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 or the one announced that turkey would be withdrawing from that is temple convention there of course is 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 true in 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 inside and with the violence in turkey is an alarming metals and instead of implementing this some mention which was signed in 2011 eastbound and the e.u. and since then has been signed by 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. exact opposite president or ones 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 have been killed so far this year why has gender based violence increase so much under edwards leadership. so the government does not release their numbers but we know it's trying to get as asians have been doing their best to understand the expense or this tragedy or this human rights crisis that we are going through and we didn't know that the real numbers are much much higher because there are so many 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 me

stories we never hear about the scenes i mean religion sequence sort of the fact that the government is not supporting it is sounding 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 the like who killed her husband after he tortured and sexually assaulted her and threatened to kill her daughters the prosecutors call it a 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 doing 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 of 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 many problems that we have in turkey is in the courtroom the system of the judicial judicial system almost always favors the men perpetrate is yet 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 his wife who was trying to get a divorce and as he was arrested there was a group of man on the street are moving him 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 carriage of the she's this will be assault on it so our people want we need a proper and so 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 and 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 when 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 their appreciation for diversity we women and minorities we have much more to lose because the 1st rights that would be true and who the religious right someone wants 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 parents and still keep 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 or hurry but i also think man are happy men are deeply deeply unhappy especially young man who do not want to be given description of muscular unity their lives are very difficult as well there is

a particular type of masculinity that's constantly being under lights and people as neatly only full of men who really charged up together and look for the what is that 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 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 check constantly being produced by. so openness 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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