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but it's in public places like this that the sport is getting the most attention inspiring others to join in well some simply appreciate the art form such big al-jazeera strong. play that this is al-jazeera i mean for the headlines dozens of people including 7 civilians have been killed in an attack in the northern town of palma following a 5 day siege in northern mozambique their convoy of cars was ambushed as they tried to escape the hotel that they were hiding in hundreds of locals and foreigners have since been evacuated some arrived in the port city of penn. nearly 5000 people have now fled fighting in venezuela and taken refuge in neighboring colombia venezuela's military is carrying out an operation against an armed group then near the border. he has the latest from in colombia on the border with venezuela the people here are getting ready for another night in the one of the 18
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shelters that have been set up in the town of otto i would keep an eye on other town and other towns along. the border as more people are arriving daily fleeing the fighting that continues to miss weyland sides people here are sharing for are stories of abuses on part they say of. security forces and gyptian state media say efforts to refloat a container ship blocking the suez canal and now on pause until more tugboat power is in place it's been almost a week now since the ever given lodged itself in the waterway and the blockage is having a devastating effect on an already oil straps area which has begun rationing fuel. indonesian police have identified the 2 suicide bombers that drew themselves up outside a packed cathedral and casa at least 19 people were injured the indonesian president
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is calling for unity mexico has revised its coded 1000 death toll up by nearly 60 percent on saturday the government said the number of coroner virus deaths is about 321000 not 201000 as previously reported mexico's testing rate is low and its health care system has been overwhelmed the e.u. and the u.s. have condemned me on laws military janitor after at least 100 protesters were killed by security forces on saturday it comes as 3000 people from corrent state have fled across the border to thailand many spent the night sheltered in the jungle after the military launched airstrikes targeting the qur'an national liberation army billions of christians around the wilds have been marking the beginning of the holy week ahead of easter the head of the roman catholic church pope francis held mass at the vatican for the 2nd year now only a limited number of worship as were allowed to attend well those are the headlines i'll have more news for you here on al-jazeera after up front stay with us in
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russia. to. bring fame. and power are going to want to win the game on 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.
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dr so i thank you so much for joining me on up front thank you so was on 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 is your fight go from here. will these military to the rose. are the one who have committed a crime against humanity war crimes at nick hansen's as genocide is to award at nick minorities for so many many years they include catching the girl in shan mordecai in chains the roving brother and sisters so this is up to international
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community right now to stop these military generous from killing people mia on now if there is no excellence strong and coordinated targeted action for me tonight in a community i'm afraid to 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 falls so this idea that the people are ready to die rather than to live under
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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 been waiting for diplomacy to work for the international 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 ship we cannot be kill like a suit on the street of our own home own floor that means that the people of memo
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will be forced to defend themselves 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 never will. 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 their enemy of justice india was there is no justice no democracy there's no freedom this is how they have ruled the country for 5 gates continuously yeah so this is to target
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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 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 us to g. 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 in 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
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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 they are 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 they say it is that the some terrible mistakes have been may happen 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
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in debt most feel when you cannot exercise your freedom when 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 the moment there's the moment when that the minute that he will state a coup of declaring your majesty just what they have done just a few weeks ago last month you know not a charge with high treason for 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
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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 that i not don't kill me this 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 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 on that and the same for our brothers is the wrong so we have been
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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 and 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 are signs who she bears some responsibility for that extraordinary awful violence no. it's not us us or she fault it is not us with the order it is the military commander in chief general. this should be evas the gated for the crime yeah these should be investigated distribute to massena inquiry investigate these
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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'm 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 dead because we did should be evil 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 clearly all the crime they had
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been taking a place should be even the good it investments 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 outfront. 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
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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 for japan at 38 and if every u.s. state were a country. 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 brother 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
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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
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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 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. surely the rest of society can get on board to . last weekend turkish president to one issued
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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 heard the one 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 it drew him from some
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convention at a time when remeet 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 they're inside and deal with the violence in turkey is an alarming levels and instead of implementing this summer correction which was signed in 2011 eastbound and the marine and since then has been signed by hutu 5 countries turkey at the time was the 1st country to sign 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
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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 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 me stories we never hear of me i mean imagine sequence some of the fact that the government is putting on doing the exact opposite to me is just just.
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one of the things you're pointing to is the timing of this obviously withdrawing has its own consequences whenever 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 doing right now are those women would be alive the kidney so community pete is is just unbelievable the things that this woman has
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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 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 his wife who was trying to get
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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 parish or that she's this will be sold on it so our people want we need a proper answer national treaty to solve this the region's crisis or i mean if you talk about the need for proper international treaty and you also talk about the appeal by the ruling party by the u.k. people us 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 or contradicting traditional family values president everyone has railed against birth control saying that it will lead the turkish society to
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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 stupidity said that he doesn't believe in gender equality that's when we start but as you also write 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
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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 their appreciation for diversity we women and minorities we have much more to lose because the 1st rights that will be churned will be will strike somewhere in our. 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 it had a pair demick within a covert 19 pandemic but why is the hole in the domestic sphere such an unsafe
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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 fractures in our societies and inequalities we need to talk about male parents and stop using a more passive language and stops the speaking as if this is a women's problem if men also do not being getting this conversation we cannot move forward well of course consistent women are unhappy then are really but i also think man are happy men are deeply deeply unhappy especially a young man who would not conform to the given description of muscularity their lives are very difficult as well there is a particular type of masculinity but it's constantly being under lights and people as the only form of manhood really charged up together and look for the what is
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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 a very careful about quite a opposition where we check constantly being produced by populist rooms so all across the world they make it sound as if the feminist movement or moods or 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
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happy and of course we don't want that kind of family and of course we don't want those kinds of battles but i find it very important that 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 in our. think it's not a redefinition. all right that's our show up front we'll be back next.
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