saying the switch to renewables can wait i think we're going to see. that. magic. but it's. really. and we're really on. the path may be uncertain but in new york the goal of eliminating carbon emissions at least is no longer up for debate christine salumi al jazeera new york. let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here and now police in the u.s. are using tear gas to try and disperse protesters in the minneapolis area the mayor has declared a state of emergency people are defying an 11 hour curfew tensions are growing over the police shooting of an unarmed black man she have returned she has more from washington d.c. before the curfew there was a video for don't tell right elsewhere in the city

a lot of the folks there who left that curfew there and did gather once again outside the police department in brooklyn center and we saw an uneasy standoff for several hours but largely peaceful and then what was i think rather golding for all of the protesters when they 1st arrived there was the the police had actually hoisted a blue lives matter a pro police thin blue line flag up on the flag place a really quite defiant from the police despite the fact that one of their offices including is accused of homicide right now against a young 20 year old a 20 year old man george floyd's brother has testified in the trial of former police officer derrick show of and in minneapolis felonies floyd described his brother as a family man who loved his siblings and had a one of a kind relationship with his mother. japan will release more than a 1000000 tons of contaminated water from its ruined fukushima nuclear plant into

the sea people have gathered outside the prime minister's residence in tokyo to protest against the move south korea and china are warning they'll take necessary measures to ensure the health of their citizens. israel's prime minister has declared iran the greatest threat to the middle east vowing not to let it gain nuclear capability his comments come after the apparent sabotage of iran's main nuclear facility the e.u. is calling on the international community to act after a report found the syrian government likely use the chlorine bomb in 2018 the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says there are reasonable grounds to believe syria's air force used the bomb on homes in the rebel held it live region injuring 12 people and the government has denied using chemical weapons during the civil war. those i had lines for about the top of the hour. on counting the cost m.r.i.

in a hall that is changing the world of vaccines not just with over $1.00 thing big business and place that are thousands of millions of dollars and not fungible token we demystify the world of crypto art helping because on al-jazeera. i couldn't accept their reality in my actually going to go on a rubber boat and cross the aegean with 60 people to seek asylum in europe i don't care the color of your skin i don't care at the city please cook my food but at least respect my guts to come here navigate seeing your chrissy racism language barriers to borders and statements and then rebuild your life is by itself a success. for protesting i was arrested and tortured and. i travelled across the agency

through the calorie count and on to the u.k. we must zanjeer you can sign see you you see. i am passed on a card a filmmaker photographer and refugee from syria. on a restaurant of entrepreneur and activist i don't want to know how many michelin stars a restaurant i want to know how they treat their staff the diversity in the workforce i want to shake up unfair social hierarchies and elevate women. i've witnessed for the extremes of humanity the worst in serious prisons and the best in the people i worked with as a hospital. during the course of our spending. just us and

uses camera i use food as a storytelling to foster equality and combative justice. the whole point of having an all female café was it should be like analysis food is not just about what to eat us about nourishment and healing and center to speak with us and about our journeys how to cultivate community and make this world a fair place to live and join us in studio b. unscripted. schoolhouse for tell me i want to start off with the syrian story 1st what politicized you. i wasn't always political because it wasn't an option you know and. growing up attorney i didn't have

a voice because you have to go by what they tell you to do now when the arab spring started and and naturally it found itself in syria i was living a very comfortable life but i could not condone what the syrian regime was doing and dealing with protesters so 10 years ago when these schools and. scribbled people on the downfall of the regime on the walls of their school there was an uprising people started protesting i got involved and my role was small i was protesting but i was also trying to document protests to show the world what's happening in my own country i got arrested in a protests and i got treated very badly so i i was tortured i was. and then i was released i was sacked as a teacher and then i was arrested again and i was going to feel safe anymore there was no way in life that i would have left damascus i was having an incredible time

and i had never thought that i would ever be a refugee because before that we've had lebanese refugees we've had iraqi refugees we've had palestinian refugees i never thought there would be 11 day but then you're faced with this decision you either leave or you die no i have a question for you you have ph d. in law but then you turned to be a cook. and since coming to london you've been using your platform. to pass some other voices i'm so interested in it's own i think i was always driven with this need to be useful to play a role to play a part in my father always would tell me you know you are very privileged you are by birth you must leave a legacy you must do something and when the day is ending you must feel that i did something for someone you know my father very sufi philosophy really kind of you know that was part of my d.n.a. and i felt it and when i was doing law and a lot of people who are watching this who are south asian will understand this

you're below you're a doctor there's like you here there's your whole life and i thought you know this will please my parents you know make my new strange husband because out of our arranged marriage so i was trying to impress him as well i thought yeah great you know i study law and i don't think i'm so smart and then all of me then got to work out that way because i realized that i was so all soulless rootless hollow in this country i felt bereft and i remember my 1st winter in cambridge dutch ing the bark of this very bare wrought tree and i felt this was me i will never have a spring the tree will never have a spring i had to cook to survive to live i know that sounds very extreme but i didn't feel i could live i felt so cut off i couldn't really go home because there's so much shame to leave a marriage and go back i knew the only way i could go home was to cook but you know

talking of journeys i nor so many stories of people making these journeys across but i have to say and i'm very ashamed to admit the 1st time i actually met someone who has made this journey how was it so. to give it a context when i left. syria i did not want to come to europe so there's this misconception in america in europe that arab men or muslim men are told from the cradle go to europe go to the west's and it's not true even when i left i stayed in the regions or wherever i went there was an expiry date on my id and that always made me so anxious because i knew that there was no way that i could go back home but i cannot settle somewhere where there is an expired on my id and i want to find i am in pursuit of a new home so it was 2015. it was the peak of the refugee crisis in europe and my cousin had fled also he felt persecuted in damascus and my best friend also

fled so we made a decision to travel together and. we found ourselves in is mirrored in turkey and i couldn't accept their reality there was this denial through during the whole time back in my actually going to go on a rubber boat and cross the edgy and with 60 people to seek asylum in europe when i was a teenager listening to them and i never expected that this would have been like literally because this is what you see in films this is not going to happen to me and then so we went on a boat. the smugglers lie to us as they do to everyone and our boat sank because there were $63.00 people including children and women. we got picked up by the turkish coast guards we were sent back and we tried the next day so we made it to greece and then we trekked all might like everyone who was with us wanted to go to germany or sweden which isn't bad then was easier but then i wanted to come to

britain so i got to cali is a small town in northern france and then after 2 months of trying i finally made it here in september 2015 so yeah it was a crazy tourney incredible journey yes i'm going to move away from the journey a bit and i want to talk about food because i'm from damascus and. damn it seems that it is incredible yes even had a pizza restaurant and you are a cook so how do you use your pseuds as a storytelling mechanism it's very very important for me that you acknowledge the honor that is due to my food because what has happened a lot in the west is that ethnic food culture and food are separated i don't care the color of your skin i don't care ethnicity please cook my food but at least respect my roots and the problem is that a lot of people see ethnic food is cheap and cheerful in orders as like so one of

the things that i was very against is that you know you break bread on my table sit down listen to my stories i want to tell you about the burman in my family graveyard the ones who taught bases dishes i have the right to be respected food is part of our d.n.a. you and i understand that you know that but death marriage is food is there and i you know i studied law i did a ph d. i don't know how there are people in families who say or you know look at her you know not using her law degree i use it every day i use the skills of advocacy to use to food as my conversation food as my bridge had been me and my host nation and you and i came to this country for different reasons i came here as a new bride full of hope and you know excitement but suitcases full of true saw that my mother had collected for years on my beautiful handmade you know soak in clothes and jewelry i'd come here to start

a new life so our journeys were different but you know it. it didn't take me long to understand that you know what i left i needed to find a way to tell the story so that someone who looked like me someone who looks like you you know we have a story don't separate us from our food our stories and then call us names and put labels on us this is the one thing about labels that you know people use the lowest category when they describe the outsider i want you to explain to me how this is a problem and what you think it's demonizing when you label people. when i did my journey i filmed it and the reason why i filmed it is because i read articles in british tabloids describing us as cockroaches and invaders and coming here to steal jobs so that is very day here by dehumanizing and it's very problematic and the

reason why i filmed my journey and i it was it was made into a film which millions of people watched it is because i wanted to tell the story i want to people to walk in my footsteps the difference between a migrant and refugee is purely a choice you know when you're a refugee you were forced to flee. for your persecuted for your sexual orientation or your political views for your religion when you're a migrant you were not forced you made a decision to leave for reasons to study family unification better life and a solemn seeker is someone who is applying for refugee status to become a refugee now the last 4 years have taught me that there is such hierarchy and there are fiji world itself because i'll tell you about britain as an example us syrian refugees are on top of that hierarchy you know we are seen as the most acceptable ones and there are 2 reasons in my opinion a because most of us are white passing. and be. britain is

less implicit in syria then it is in afghanistan and iraq before the pandemic if you're a british citizen and want and you who wants to fly to afghanistan you are warned against all types of travel to afghanistan however it's deemed safe enough to deport afghans back to afghanistan so. to speak of these iraqis you know because i do not want to be treated better than someone else just because i don't know i i am a bit familiar than he is on this thing you're absolutely right this little. britain doesn't have the best you know history of leaving any place without sowing the seeds of death but you're it's interesting what you're saying about the you know the hierarchy but it is saw sad because you know i felt different you know and i don't fall into any of these categories and this is why i haven't all my current kitchen these are the men who started life as nannies but i am very proud i haven't

been of a kitchen or female kitchen at the average age of the minutes cook them cooking in my kitchen is 50 and they're all migrants because b. we claim back this up you don't ask me but i have the right to be here i have the right to be here and i will feed you the best really covers that i'd ever. assuming you and i have gained attention because we were both in a documentary people know about us from social media and stuff but i'm always aware that this reinforces the rhetoric the good immigrant rhetoric the problem with the good immigrant rhetoric. is that we focus on individual cases but we forget the bigger costs the bigger picture so if i clean a hospice or that i get attention if a migrant in france climbs on a building and rescues a kid from the balcony he gets attention so it almost makes us feel like we will only accept you if you go above and beyond to help while in my opinion to come here

navigating b.-o. crissy racism language barriers to booze and statements and then rebuild your lives from scratch is by itself a success so we shouldn't be judging who is good and who is bad only because they got some attention but i think that this is is a huge problem because i think we are all paying the price for a very very divisive extremely xenophobic and racist bragg's it campaign and that literally release the genie from the bottle of racism and the fact that you know you hear stories in a very close to where i lived where people had put graffiti on the polish center it really nasty graffiti against the pools who flew over the r.a.f. in the 2nd world war you know people's memories are incredibly short incredibly short people from you know south asia fought in the 1st world war and the 2nd world

war you know you still have gone curse you know from the above who are part of the british army yet this whole thing of you know. everybody was put you know in the same bracket and the hatred and islamophobia that was really deeply troubling we were actually giving out food during the breaks the debate after the break that we had supper club you know series of supper clubs where you know we had our you know cuisine polish cuisine even had you know irish british cuisine because we're all together there we celebrated the fact that especially in london this is a city of migrants the when you look around here in these beautiful buildings these are modern but the base of these burnings is the blood of by people the wealth of this country was built on colonialism on exploitation on slavery this is something

that is not taught in schools and i no one understands when they look at me this see a brown accented you know muslim asked me why i'm here i will ask you what you were doing for 200 years in my country you know you know yeah you know what i do when i feel homesick when i miss syria i go to the british museum. because there's this entire section full of syrian artifacts her other thing is that you know 3 it's not as if you know for me it is about the fact that in schools there is absolutely no you know you're not taught any colonialist tree you're not taught about the empire and. so we are you know in this situation anyway let's get some questions from our audience i say my question was to ask how did you mean you've. been keeping you from 18 rushton and beginning to new since your message on the message that you have now i'm very lucky i think that you know i feel very blessed

i know that this is not something that can happen to everybody it was never planned i didn't want to open a restaurant i didn't have the money to open a restaurant and also you know i never saw anybody who looked like me who sounded like me in food media in the press anywhere so you know i never even thought it was possible that i could have become a restaurant or but you know i was lucky i got breaks you know from people a lot of people helped me but the biggest thing that i stand on the shoulders of my team the women who were there nannies who came in and worked with me in my kitchen in my home and help serve people in my own house today are still in my restaurant they had their chefs coat their been there with me throughout yes i am the face that people see of dodging express what i am standing on the shoulder of giants my team and this is so important collaborate you know bird networks and you know yes my network is all female but birds that books even with men it's like minded people

are power comes as a collective we will never succeed if you're alone and this is why story you know i've reached out and i embrace other people and that's how i got where i have a soul let's let's hear the 2nd question as i knew eligible for about how this just misconstrued. or are refugees and migrants want to come to america to u.k. and i just wanted to ask you where using this misconception comes from. this prejudice doesn't come from nowhere obviously the media plays a massive role in this. tabloids who are always running articles about my breasts and refugees and often highlights like i mean exaggerating the issue so i'll give you an example less than one percent of the refugees around the world are in britain still a cover page after cover page after cover page talking about refugees and

addressing it as if this is massive issue it's politicians and media who are exaggerating the issue and that's why people have this misconception well if you ask me if our countries were not so troubled why wars and famines and crises i would have loved to stay in syria and i miss my food too. i also think that there's these other people who don't have votes they're the people who cannot actually hit back in some ways they cannot dispute facts you put this label migrants and refugees they're a very disparate group and they're not they don't even speak the same like which so the problem is that you know they cannot unify and then they cannot actually fight back and so it's that easy target you hit the weakest because they cannot come back with a story with their with their side of the story we never hear that 2 people hustle have got in world history is always written by the victor. and this is again

a deflection off that that what is happening at this conversation is the powerful are telling you the story and those who do not have power right now cannot actually tell their story and this is so important that big give the space for them to tell their story let's take another question must hear from the bar at a lot of stories about police people migrating to europe and the us from a similar manner are treated by and also by other people in his documentary but the movie is generally based on economic instabilities rather than political instability but looking at the news and looking at the general media we can see their political migrants and political refugees are often seen in a long positive light then the economic migrants so what's your opinion on this dichotomy yes i do agree with you that economic migrants are often demonized in the media and the focus is always on the political refugees.

i think it's unfair and i think it shouldn't be that way i think anyone who is. trying to live a better life somewhere else should not be demonized for it. and who decides whether you should be accepted in you society or not or whether you should be given another chance or not and so it's very easy for for sometimes for people in the west to say well why you've come here while not understanding the conditions in the migrants home country how long does it take you to queue outside a bakery to get bread or how long does it take to walk and get fresh water and not understanding how hard it is to get a job it is frustrating that sometimes people are detrimental of economic migrants but it can be combated by speaking out about it speaking out against it addressing

the issue. well thank you very much for that and let's move on to the next question please i was really interested in without saying about the tendency of u.k. society well the west i suppose to separate food from the stories of the culture in many ways actually the same as what hassan was saying about the british museum you know we take the artifacts and we put them into boxes and we look at them we think how lovely but they've got nothing to do with the people from whose culture they come and i'm just wondering if you could talk a little more answer about the ways in which your truth activism i said serves to make those links stronger again and visible thank you very much of this is what i want to dedicate the rest of my life to i want people to understand that you know . there are stories with every dish the stories of every human being and you know i

i began by entire food business if you can call it a business i call it a social enterprise from my home around my dining table i serve people personally i clean their tables and i. presented each dish and i talked about the symbolism of each dish why it was so important for me what was so significant about the ingredients the names but i also wanted to acknowledge which is now very you know it has led to a lot of division in india the fact that indian food was actually you know amalgamation of loads of people you know the portuguese got potatoes the british got cauliflower and you know a lot of the things that we take for granted is indian even some also is not indian you know it was got in by you know people who came to court in delhi you know they arrived and presented them as the most us so this lack of knowledge meant of the contributions of others i also described this because

a lot of indians themselves don't understand that you know this is not this 2 month xenophobia when it comes to food people are building walls around food i present you food as a present a meandering river you know it will get there it flows it has shades it has light and dark it has both and you know conversations about food will allow you to have conversations about more difficult things and this is what i try to do let me use food as a conversation but it is really about activism because i this is not where i want to make my money and this is not where i want to impress you i don't want to have his glory i want you to understand me better that's my main aim. thank you everybody for asking all these questions all very very interesting but. a lot of white feminists don't get me i can be deeply rooted in all the positive

things about that culture i can still raise my voice against bigotry as a refugee i was always at the receiving end of humanitarian work or advocacy we should be doing the work you know i don't want someone to advocate on my behalf i want to advocate for myself offer me the tools give me the training and i can do it if a man a chef had touched a female outside the kitchen he would be in jail somehow inhospitality protected men who are violent and bully. looking to reassure people in indonesia the government lifestream president getting the country's 1st chinese 1000 vaccine the 1st nation outside of china to grant emergency use thailand malaysia singapore and the philippines have placed orders

despite a wide range of data on its efficacy from the early trials of the vaccine some southeast asian countries have not yet approved the jab this has led to some questions about the vaccine stemming from the lack of transparency and data trying to. control. their. control thailand is looking to start vaccinating high priority people. some here feel as though the lack of transparency around the vaccine is not limited to trial data you have a major type of. group. in a company that produces. like some of its neighbors thailand is ordering vaccines from other companies as well. when the called 900 it iran. a filmmaker to drift from his crew. documenting life from. international sanctions. an intimate portrayal

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