perper how did the ira had the time and its programming to go live on the amazon to go live to work another story that may not be mainstream but the fires are still no more normative. by. the way that you tell the story isn't what can make a difference. back to bill in doha with a look at our top stories on al-jazeera we start with breaking news and the container ship that's been blocking the suez canal for almost a week has been partially every floated the ever given ran aground in one of the world's busiest water weighs costing billions of dollars in trade every day alexey o'brien reports. cheers of celebration in the so is canal and horns blaring.

as the ever given finally appears to make a move back of. the days and despite a multinational rescue effort the vessel has hardly budged now finally it's been partially roofed floated. waged across the suez canal the scale of the problem has dwarfed the machinery seen as a solution dredges and diggers have removed thousands of cubic meters of santa from underneath the giant container ship and a team of at least 10 tug boats has been trying to dislodge it for days since it ran aground to tankers and cargo ships carrying oil gas and grain have stacked up at either end of the canal delaying global trade and costing billions of dollars every day around about 70 percent of the world's oil trade goes through the series canal arm and it can't any any ship has the choice of taking the longer route round

the south of africa takes around 2 weeks longer obviously cost more because of the additional i'm shipping cost so ships are having to make their decision do they whites are in that queue of $300.00 or do they take the a longer trip the crisis is already having an impact on syria the authorities forced to announce a few rationing supplies from iran a stock the news coming out of syria is deeply deeply worrying the country was a ready heating crisis point with cannot make collapse hitting syria and the daily lives of syrians and now these. delays to fuel shipments will make going to really bad situation worse but had been fears an operation would be needed to lighten the ship which is $20000.00 containers on board requiring a crane and other equipment that's yet to arrive but it appears a flotilla of tugboats and a higher tide may have deemed that unnecessary alexy o'brian al-jazeera

thailand's prime minister says his government disrepair in for a possible refugee exodus from myanmar it follows moire strikes by myanmar's military targeting separatist fighters in karen state thousands of people are fed their homes with many crossing the border into thailand tony chang has more from bangkok. they seem to be being pulled in by the military themselves i think there was we've seen a lot of statements from the various ethnic groups and some of them at least. they would intervene if if they saw violence continue on the streets again is questionable about to what level where they would intervene or how capable they would be of intervening in many of these armed groups are relatively ranked particularly given the capabilities of the military dozens of people have been killed in the town of power in northern mozambique following a 5 day among the victims are 7 civilians ambush as they fled the hotel some who

escaped have arrived in the port city of. nearly 5000 people have been fight scene fighting in venezuela and taking refuge in neighboring colombia the military is carrying out an operation against an armed group near the border foreign companies are being warned not to mix business with politics if they want to continue operating in china a growing number of western retail giants are facing a boycott in china for expressing concern over alleged use of legal force labor to produce cotton and change on the spot a backlash on chinese social media with dozens of celebrities dropping deals with the brides and national civil rights leaders in the u.s. are calling for justice for george flawed they held a prayer service alongside his family jests hours before the start of dairy. let a child a former minneapolis police officer is accused of killing floyd last may the case is expected to center on what led to florence death here up state with headlines on

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my name is roberta hell i'm from the mohawk nation grammar territory. a survivor of the mohawk institute residential school i was here as a student from 1957 to january 961 and i came here with 6 of my family. a lot of their memories here knows for sure. these are really familiar to me. used to play on these on the girl side i was playing down in the basement and the girl side and my mother had come out to the visiting area in the little kids had said your mother is here you want to go see her and i and they were in iran but when i got to the door way over there i

froze right in front of the stairs and i couldn't move and i just stood there crying crying crying and the more i cried the worse it got and i could see myself i could actually like an out of body experience i could see this little girl crying. and it was me but i and the little girl said well if you don't want to love your mother don't you want to see your mother and i said you know and i did i really did she say she's going to leave you you know she's going to leave if you don't go see her so at that time i knew that she would goal then i things just kind of came back and i just like i just took off running up those stairs. and i went and sat on my mother and let that time all i did was cry. i just cried. when i was in because of you i was here i loved her and we just saw her have to part with her year. because my brother was you lay she was a really good mood you know.

the don't. know much. to say were good times here they are all written by the bed and bed is enormous there is a tremendous amount of evil that went on here. so the whole institution itself was run by fear so it was very regimented more like a military style you lined up for everything to line up for your meals and lined up to go to school you lined up to go to church just like that follow that routine and you would be ok if you followed and didn't break the rules you know so you just follow the rules. i didn't have the freedom as a as the child or is it young teenager and always kind of wonders

if her vision of somebody but we got a boat 6 o'clock and we were sent down of the cold play room and it was always cold and in the basement early morning still a lot of children here and yet they put us in the big cement. and we had to keep warm where we could. be there and all kinds of farm were they work on a farm so long that. i picked up a certain discipline the were hard worker to get me were i'm going. and i think at some point there was somebody here that i don't know if it was a kid or a supervisor told me i would never leave here and also that really stuck in my mind that i was going to be in this place for ever. here isolate it all you see is this world around you this is it that was my world i didn't learn about all those. other

things that were going on until my adult life i didn't know there was all those other residential schools i don't think anybody in canada knew that much so it was kept very secret and yet when you start to look at every residential school across canada you find the same think this name came to the morgan city we're going to is . 6 or 7 years old and i spent 6 years here. i was picked up an indian reserve really and. walking on a road. we're going to visit my grandmother one day and they still a day like in 1904 like there is for us in one girl my sister. and we came over that little rise over there and they had burned down here say in

the black car for long so i know us. and we didn't know it was that. the driver said you know they were right there. he said no we didn't know who they were. we kept on walking and they kept pace with us in the car. and they kept trying to get us to get in. and we are feeling for. a 100 yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant in terror. and i had a scream there to a thinnish we all loaded back up in the car but they never went back the way they came they went around away from the reserve i fell asleep. and i never woke up until we were coming up to the moon against him. when after i

got old enough i realize i was kidnapped like i said my dad didn't know the firm indian affairs in new jersey they didn't care how they not the children here. i believe it was february about 2 years ago i was on the board of sessions that are

chosen united church and chisholm township is about 5 miles out here and my 1st set were the sessions meeting effect in there was 2 other members and the minister and myself. and the minister was going through the agenda there were to talk about him she mentioned the residential school system. and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying. had no idea oh i. i didn't know what this was about a tall. and from that i ended up for going to my doctor and for some depressed help for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north bay. and took her probably 20 minutes to determine that the biggest part of my problem was from that incident 50 years earlier. but i was stationed there in the r.c.m.p. and we had a territorial jail there which most times i was in jail guarded night and in this

day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of 64 and april of 65 on a day shift i was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up 2 children from a family in fort smith northwest territories i went to the door of this home and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that there are 22 daughters who are being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably 6 and 8 years old. and i took the 6 year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his current car took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never saw him i don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the courage.

at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me in person being in the r.c.m.p. had no alternative who couldn't complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the uterus a dental schools was a place where the you had formal education and i didn't see any problem with it. since then i've come to realize what they were a boat and i know differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell . it took up maybe 5 minutes of my life. and i buried it back in 6465. and about 50 years later it came back to haunt me. and of course.

we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table we're sitting at this very spot. at a board meeting. you remember ron you were on the board at the time and and the board at that time had decided that they wanted to study this book called a healing journey for us all and part of that took us into residential schools well let me let me say 1st clearly that i think the residential school

history within canada is one of the the the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's it's the damage that's been done to so many lives and. the damage that it continues to be done and that will be felt generationally. is is just it's beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in. feel. presidential schools are schools that were set up by the government of canada and there are other countries that have the same thing but it was

a policy that was put into place to bring all as many indigenous people as possible into these schools to educate them into the european way of life to take you away from your culture your language all your traditions and that's what it's about. in order to sever those ties in your culture in your language they had to separate children from families and communities we wore uniforms you all dress the same you had your hair cut the same you were all one and it was to assimilate us and make sure we didn't have an indian left in us when we left here.

the took us as a church or recently we had say prayers and things like that. we weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but it wasn't indoctrination like you didn't put us in one room and you just indoctrinate us all day long or anything like that just the way. the routine of the place it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english. well you went to the white man's school you went the way miniature you were the way a man's clothes is all those are built in was in the classroom lecture thing it was it was in green the system there's

a libyan years the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures nobody said good night or come and see you if you're sick or something or no we look empty except that they put is in a big player room similar to this dining room. and we sort of loot looked after ourselves. what was going on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children are being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had him now i may have

europeans everybody should have had a residential school not just one race of people is a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was is to kill the indian in the child and pretty much they've done it. so you get punished for being who you are. it's a school where you're punished for the 3rd least of interaction saying. the the punishments were. severe. and punishment for things you never did you never did. i i don't think i ever did anything wrong that would deserve a strap never and you got it. you never knew it. when you went over the line they let you known they give you d.d.

beating so it's a symbol but it was more than that it was terrorism that accompanied each beating. for tell me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment or for punishment lesser crimes against humanity and yet different things and i've heard of other guys have an electric currents and they brought us into a place they called the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we went in or one of the time and got a good shellacking with the letters leather strap and. everybody's. i was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later i just remember them crying there was a lot of crying in this place a lot of tears. and yet we find out it was like. thousands upon thousands of children that were being abused despite the beatings and the ferocity of some in

the beginning we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how he's over 60 boys. displayed this number each of us are lonely beyond a spear. from within we each had our own battles to fight. we were lost lonely scared and confused her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. her laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know that we all clicked through the new kids are being raped and will se in large numbers subtle ways babies. no one could know no one would ever know. i saw him in the learn had to be a nicer place so he tried to escape.

the colonel seeing when ironing those cut were ferocious they'd been relentlessly beaten with the other machine or belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the earth the need money the burns down the lean way up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us tried to least once to escape that worries prison the hellish place with demons all over.

ethel and. i was a boy others. at that far and got my lesson time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there. so you wouldn't miss me somehow. another error came. just came out of there feeling so dirty rotten low nothing you can imagine and i thought every kid over there knew that i had what happened to me. but. i think it all happened then because none ever bothered me and i never asked what happened in there i think we all got it on fire. but it is a nasty dirty place. but here's where i got him a lesson here. saying against the wall here and he had his way with me.

and i was his mo that i. see a time in my life when i felt so and so so. bad we don't in the boiler room and he took my clothes off. and they just stand here a little guy just discussed where he was doing.

he. it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know all assist i've heard too many different stories for it to be all lies if they're not buried here they're probably buried somewhere on the property and it's just one of those things that in time we may come across it but this this we can investigate if there's any truth to it if there is anything in there just just from the people that i know from the survivors that i know that say that yeah they remember this being something and you don't just put a window at the bottom of a basement for any for no reason. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to people in thoughtful conversation

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i like finding old friends and when he has what i know her by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we 1st went in there we were my sister and i were separated into groups and i had one older girl that took me under her wing and my sister don when you look after her well i don't you know when i was there i don't even know i remember going there i don't even remember the people that to me outside of my home i don't remember that. all i know i was just there so then i met this this older. person on this on the girl kind of took care of me when i was growing up. and she

told me when she's ready to leave because she was in 1213 maybe for me she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and take she to take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she she. she got hurt. her hurt bad i think. i think somebody hit her on a tree. and i don't know i think she died but i'm not really. sure but i don't know. why anyway. i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her

and i was there. what happened to her. just. 3 sometimes a nice dream of her she would come to me in a dream by that it hurts to talk a lot. because i remember when to use that. to get back we are there. the back and we run in with the play and. then when i got her to pick me up. and give me a hug and sending them to christ it's. like the way we should we did when we met and. after they smashed her in the tree. you know that sound sometimes you can hear it on t.v.

on the. river shows. that's that's a song. even if a glass breaks today or how it's green and sometimes my family get mad at me. i say who are i care how that's the sound of it scares me and. makes me would like. it's. the scene is a drawing child who just surely with 4 was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he

slips under the surface is briefly trying to catch him in that leaf say to breath but he knows he's going under for good what tears run upon this child's mind knowing can imagine. those sites will go down with him the want to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks his here is silky and wavy in the room still removing so slowly and reaching for a new purpose except his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except the end of the curtain the time was a physically a long 1000000 into oblivion. i

left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me and i they didn't just attack me i think they attacked everybody. but. i wrote a book called art legacy and. since i wrote dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morn beat the whopping. i haven't forgiven them and they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had on 1000 people in my time.

and it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world. and i'm shamed to say i'm canadian because of a government it's not. the government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all the natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here 1st so the government i guess determined rather than go to

war with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i've norm they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when the refinish there their parents didn't accept them if they were native and the white community did not accept them because they were native so these people news 150000 children grew up in limbo with no roots no background and no place they could call home. i knew ahead of time when i believe i went to school that day in and it was the last day of school in summer. everything seemed greater than the grass seemed greener the sky was blue or. and it was just

a great day. he come home and they're like you're a stranger i'm a stranger to them but they're a stranger to me too so i had to go find who my relatives were how was i connected to this community i knew 'd where i came from i didn't know that but i just didn't know holly fit in. a 150000 people the children were taken from their families. and as rural a result of that 7 generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i have known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things

she can tell us about her 1st nations so. having my father my aunt and my uncles. gone to residential school my father never discussed his upbringing he was silent the home that we lived in was silent around who he was and how he was raised so prior to the age of 30 i had no idea or no understanding of what had happened to my family and i knew that there was something up like there was something wrong but i didn't know what that was when i was finding all of these things about residential school when i was 30 and my father had already passed away my mother was still a life and i started asking michael my aunt questions it began to i began to realize how strange everything was and it began to see

what those schools did and what the effect that we had and why my brothers and i had struggled so much with our emotional life this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will it just blew me away and then when ron when you had the courage to stand up and see that this was wrong and that you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad at. i can't tell you what does for people. i really can't.

and i don't care what things you might have done in your life. i know what's a whole lot because. they were that. they were completely erased. but what you don't hear about is what happens to people when their kids are ripped away. and those kids come back broken but they come back to adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok. too.

ha ha ha but the bank and ask all of the survivors to stand up for a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children in the grandchildren of survivors please stand up as well things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning in the 1980 s. but not really successful until the mid 1990 s. when the courts finally ruled that they could sue the government for the abuses that went on in schools and the churches as well the root of the t

r c as in survivors themselves survivors said we demand attention and we demand recognition for what it is and was that we experience in the residential schools i had a problem. i had a hearing problem i would mock i went he. i would not. have it and i wish. i was for it so that it. was. the station for me to be still. we were the recipient of their most private moments in their life often and we as listeners had to be there for them because we weren't just representing the commission we were actually representing

a hearing of the entire country. well as the commissioner for the truth and reconciliation commission listening to the stories of residential school survivors it was difficult emotionally very challenging but there's no doubt that when they cried often we did as commissioners we always made it a point to repeat back to the survivors what it was that they had told us because we wanted them to know that we had heard them and that we believed them. so please be aware anything it took me. to publish. why bubbly for what i put the children.

i could i could tell my grandchildren. i could tell oh what a great privilege of north. eagle of the. but with my own jailor it i can't. it hurts it's certainly the think boat. what i missed. it was a very emotional. very emotional time because the more you got into it the more the more things started to come up about residential school that you would start to remember that you'd listen to everybody and. it was a very very difficult time so i was involved right from that right from when the lawsuit started so the truth and reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an air of being victims of the residential school experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing

a better relationship with the government or with the church as the story of the truth of residential schools in this country is a story about the resilience of children they have supported me in this work but at great loss to the relationships we could have had and which we will now try to recapture. were. 2 2 6 residential schools there's. a real week in canada. this is not.

only about. resilience there's a whole lot of truth said to has been shared it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth conciliation in my telling or in new york dying it's going to take 2 or 3 or 4 generations. to work all this out to get is the history books and have become commonplace that the guy next door know that in the future of canada will students be told that this is not an integral part. of everything we are as a country everything we are as canadians that is a promise we knew from here all of us to get.

through the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a 5 kilometer walk from gatineau quebec to the city hall inaudible it was approximately $7000.00 people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups and civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the commission work ended almost 7 years later that we had established the credibility of the commission not only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country and the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now includes this history.

the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the tear see. but more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country have asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i

don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. that. there's still. a problem. with the. if you see though on. the theory they. need to be made clear in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see

action i want less talk and more action so we all know that something is changing in terms of healing for the native folk and for white and brown and yellow canada. on. the phone now from. our office or i'm going to sing again. after. him. and i'm going to.

say when there is unique they're expressing their. their culture and. good and genuine things aboard. the color of the old sits for. the dances the songs.

when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. until they're healed i will be and i'll keep talking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we don't. you know the house has to be home. when i look at my grandchildren i think yeah there's a lot of hope. i see positive things 5. wind

is a feature of this time the years around to rabea and we have a very obvious when doing lying down the gulf where the strong northerly so temperatures have dropped as one example by about 10 degrees the sand all the dust that came with it is falling out into the empty coat really of of saudi arabia's not particularly dusty after all and the typical view is one of sunshine and increasing walled it's still only 16 on the levantine coast they still caught a wooden blowing dying through egypt so it's going to included and the red sea and that's not going to change substantially of next days in fact it might even strengthen as this show mile when that's when it's cold becomes a little lighter because the weather in turkey is turning briefly back to winter

and that tends to enhance that wind with it i think we'll find quite dusty conditions in egypt but probably nowhere else. now equally typical this time of year the wind direction does affect how it feels in places like cape town port elizabeth that's not a particular culture rection so you're still in the twenty's but it's not a time to find many showers there are few running into the su to for example but the main rain band the seasonal rain band is further north going up through angola and east was so enjoy the sunshine for example in jo'burg. april on al-jazeera from a photo wave to the vaccine rollout will bring you the latest developments from around the world a year into the coronavirus pandemic one a one east skeins rare behind the scenes access into the secretive world a japanese soon. good president introduced a b.

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