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southern cross to combat illegal and regulated fishing in the southern atlantic argentina's coast guard say their main task is to control their movements so they do not cross into arjan time territory from this growing margin tide of forty's can money for what's happening in its economic exclusive zones but what authorities here are saying is that what's important is to regulate what's happening in international waters. or the war in the world. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden says the american withdrawal from afghanistan will be complete ahead of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks and a speech at the white house he announced that all $3500.00 u.s. soldiers in the country will begin to leave next the months the conflict has cost
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the lives of $2400.00 u.s. service members and they also cost an estimated $2.00 trillion dollars i'm now the 4th united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan to republicans to democrats i will not pass this responsibility on to a fist we want to have to stand because of the horrific attack that happened 20 years ago that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021 patrick o'brian is at the pentagon and says the defense department has concerns. it's been long believed that u.s. military leadership urging president joe biden to keep at least a small contingent of troops in afghanistan specifically to be able to have counterterrorism operations there's a big concern in this building about just how well and how long afghan forces will
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be able to continue their current level of readiness but yet the commander in chief has given the or given them the order they have to be out of afghanistan by september 1st that's just under 5 months from now there are only $3500.00 u.s. troops there so far they're not giving very many if any details here in this building about just what that drawdown will look like but we do expect we'll get more details in the weeks and months ahead a former u.s. police officer has been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the death of an unarmed black man don't have rights was facing the shot during a routine traffic stop on sunday the 20 year old steps reignited protests in minneapolis happening in the same city as george floyd's death and the on going trial kimberly potter were resigned after 26 years on the force faces up to 10 years in prison she had her 10 c. is in minneapolis. well. under the minnesota the relevant
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minnesota statute is when someone creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another the maximum sentence is not more than 10 years or 5 not more than $20000.00 it's unclear whether this will be the only drug leveled against clearly the investigations of the stage but it is the 1st charge it has been leveled against ben crump who is representing the family of dante wright released this statement while we appreciate that the district attorney is pursuing justice with no conviction can give the right family their loved one back this was no accident this was an intentional deliberate and unlawful use of force ben crump there referring to the opinion of his former boss the chief of police of brooklyn center who has now resigned who said as far as he was concerned the video proved that this was a mistake that meant to use had taser but instead reach for. a right
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dead that has been treated with a great deal of incredulity by the family of dante right. meanwhile of the trial of a george floyd's that retired forensic pathologist said he died as a result of preexisting heart disease the fence witness dr david fowler says he believes that fluids condition was made worse as the inhaled fumes from a police car his findings contradict prosecution witnesses they say he was starved of oxygen by having former police officer derek show me pressed on his neck for over 9 minutes and the indian government is refusing to call off a religious festival linked to more than a 1000 coronavirus cases it comes as the country's new infections hit another record with more than 184000 in 24 hours many people have criticized for. i'm minister narendra modi for allowing the hindu comella festival to continue those of
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i come from a trapeze family and the last time i performed with bianca and my sisters and my mom it was actually one of the saddest days of my life i remember like it was yesterday to the last show and i was actually. bottling up there smiling to the audience with tears and my sisters were crying because that was the last time i was going to form with them. but i can't leave show business it's in my blood. when we read that it was it i'm standing there with randy and i listen to what the
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people say and you know i can tell if they are thinking old leader maybe it's time for you to hang it up and i don't get that i get a lot of them letting me know that i'm inspiring. so i know maybe they should have a circus for artists over 50 what do you think. i. the reason we have so many retired show people here is because this is
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where john ringling bros i'm. at one time it was great to have elephants in sarasota county. i mean i was there in the fifty's when we got television and circus was going to die forever and now this is how many years later to start my dad. and they're funny i'm cutting myself. just. so it's on my watchlist. you're bidding on to a circus collector's plates kancheli no. wonder if it has the certificate. of authenticity.
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ladies and gentlemen boys and. i must ask you for the silence as miss j. script is to before the full summer school to a single road fully releasing the robot. dog she did a full flow is somersault with she's here today did those stories oh you know but there were many times where hands were slipping from the heat to spirit the group was in there and you got to talk to you so you got to talk yourself because people bought a ticket they're going to see showed you're going to feel like going you know now. you're going to do it and you talk yourself into than you do it and you're just going to do it. in monaco no they have 40 acts from around the world so it's like the oscars of the circus and it's not
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categorize like animal to acrobatic or it's all 40 action around the world competing so the best actor wins the gold clown 1st place and 2nd place is the silver cloud so i was. lucky enough to win the silver clown in 88 presented to me by prince albert. my uncle told me a trick that as far as i know there's only been 2 people in the world that have done it and it's a double somersault there's a triple twist so it's 5 different things and one feet and i did that in
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1999. it's weird though as you get older the time seems to go by quicker. you know i have i have before we have a family friend that when i turned 21 he said enjoy it because from now on the time the years will go by quickly and he was right i mean here i am 52 and it just seems like yesterday i turned 21. life largo's let's ask let's go and. i can't wait to have dinner with my. interest is. just feels like. like being home so you can feel good in these teams to feel like you can do good in the next day and the day before . this hard to explain the feeling.
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a chance i would like to make dad in 20 again of good talk michael sheen i don't blame all of that my big 12 individually you missed when i come to the last tweak it wasn't in i keep dropping into that one need all the normal and i know we've got . it tells me it's all of us but. anyhow. that's business show patience the show must go on. here very minute of it was beautiful. i have kids that. want this and so i hide it because i don't want it to disappear. and cowher learned that made this.
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but they don't make them like this no more this is why it's an empty. i've been asked to put it in the museum down there but i don't want to. be selfish . this is probably in 52 this is either 62 or 63 on the way and this is what broke out there and then i come flying mail i ended up with a sprained ankle lots of little tiny pieces of block charcoal in my back though because we were on a cinder lot. yeah. how long did it take you to get back up oh i
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was up the next day. i mean really when you get off on the circuit you have to keep going. keep going and she got a broken down. on her 360. be doing good. and i know. that. this is like an inventory basically you would have in a grocery store so here are all the jugglers i have percent and they are all the clowns and then we have the animal it's just becoming a short department because i don't know where to put them and some of the produce i don't want to deal with these people these fanatic people so they don't even hire any anymore and then we have to aerial act and that's a very very big wide range. for people don't understand because anything
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aerial would be high. flying top piece single top piece girl that's a big department all the way to here. this thing started in 6 in london 91 and the next one was born in 730 and he was a banker and now comes the 1st farm and he was born in 1760 and that's why it all started the other brotherhood out yes my grandfather yes all the gurlitz and the boys my mother. has myself he has counted in his stomach and. my family are animal people and they are the most situation is becoming so difficult what would be a good performing for dominic what at the alamo should that be i call body sure
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the be dead of all. the top this will circus is in jeopardy here so what do you want for your grandson i really don't know i can't answer this exactly. did you write the elephants to. remember no. more and. that's great news uber. is very dramatic. and this is some problem for all the british this is my. older girls this is our teacher. i think that's been part of their new to me you know.
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i'm good for you. yeah trade here yeah. yeah you're. right. there was and i'm home now i'm not performing is because my father has parkinson's and he's very ill and i'm helping my mom take care of him. he was like me he's like me he was the catcher you know he was the strongest one of the true and to see him in the world here and now parkinson's is taken its toll pretty to. this is what i usually do at night after dinner we're not friends go to bed i'm not much of a t.v. watcher there are a few shows that i like to watch on t.v. but i i sit down and i put on my music and you know i'm costumes or ideas
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that i have. but it's tough sometimes you know when i'm not performing i dreamed about it i'm glad i was a circus performer and even though it doesn't make you rich or enormously famous or at least i'm content and i'm happy about that. that the places i've traveled the people i've met. you know where i've performed and it's it's been an amazing life. and i think that every night i can die happy and peaceful that i did what i enjoyed. it's great it's a great feeling. well
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welcome to you all * i'm so glad you came i was really excited about it really wonderful come right in come right and enter my little studio my little my little wisdom area here come right ahead this is truly you know apartment and actually very obvious with a good affordable one came in but i love it dearly because it's just like i want it . you'll notice what i do with the make up i start here. and let's see. and i follow my laugh line watch the last line. you notice what i'm doing is more to life and you know it's fun doing this younger look at night. and.
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we let's say we have somebody that's do it aerial work normally by the time they're 40 they're done do an aerial work. when a performer gets to the point where they're having trouble booking or their health won't let them work they have a major transition to make the transition is from what they've done to something new and different but they don't yet want to give up maybe tomorrow they'll get their booking or maybe tomorrow they'll be able to work again. if everybody was honest enough and knows when to quit that would be a good thing then i would have less.
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people say she worked 18 horses and one morning before she came to america she had 24 starlets you know it wasn't done again great but if i would have dragged on and tried to go back and do so with one horse maybe a high school horse that would say she used to do. and. it hurt cried a lot right for a year. i was most of my i'll die an open you know but i died.
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a herniated disk so that year was all of a different problem and i. had to have back surgery on that disc. it's a very dangerous act anything you do in the air is dangerous but the rings you know 32 feet high full swing completely letting go you know only hanging on by your fingertips and with my back it was time to. you know. teach the kids now though the rings and. and i enjoy it actually i get up and demonstrate and that whole feeling is back. in a while. to look like you know. if somebody said. i'll give you a job on the road would you go oh yes. in
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a hot date. in a heartbeat. i do wish that. because i enjoyed traveling with the circus. whether we were in mud up to our knees or we were on nice grass. or whether we were in pouring rain. or not. i mean i i still say that people say. sword ask it someday if 8. i wish i just stayed with the circus and not listen to my mother. i mean my mother said children need an education. so as soon as my one child turned 6 that's when i quit the circus.
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oh i've done many jobs who work in after getting off the road i went to work at tropical fish been doing that for so many years now my job just closed. so now i'm looking for another job and i have a pet shops are not interested in somebody my age. i've always had $2.00 and $3.00 jobs at a time. i took care of trailer park took care of sick people. some circus people. but i've worked cheap otherwise i would have had money. i don't have money. i have nothing. when the cold 19 undemocratic iran. a filmmaker cut adrift from his crew
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and the message for travelers is that we are walking tirelessly to implement every measure to safeguard their health thank you. the . hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president joe biden says the american withdrawal from afghanistan will be complete ahead of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks in a speech at the white house see an ounce that all ssri $1500.00 u.s. soldiers in the country will begin to leave next month the conflict has cost the
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lives of $2400.00 u.s. service members and an estimated 2 trillion dollars i'm now the 4th united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan 2 republicans 2 democrats i will not pass this responsibility on to a 5th we went to afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021 a former u.s. police officer has been arrested and charged with manslaughter over the death of an unarmed black man they want to write to us facing the shots during a routine traffic stop on sunday the 20 year old's death reignited protests in minneapolis happening in the same city as george floyd's that and the ongoing trial kimberly potter who resigned after 26 years on the force faces up to 10 years in
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prison she allegedly mistook her gun for a taser when she opened fire. and meanwhile at the trial over george floyd's death a retired forensic pathologist said that he died as a result of preexisting heart disease the fence witness dr david fowler says he believes that floyd's condition was made worse as he inhaled fumes from the police car his findings contradict prosecution witnesses including the medical examiner who performed an autopsy on george floyd they say that he was starved of oxygen by having former police officer derek show pressed on his neck for over 9 minutes and the indian government is refusing to call off a religious festival linked to more than a 1000 coronavirus cases it comes as the country's new infections hit another record with more than 184000 in 24 hours that have more on all those stories on the
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the degree you're looking at me. don't look at me any more. ah thank you we are. going down memory lane. this is in the very beginning. very very beginning of this track fact. we get that. all that hair pager. that is that caught me he made the k. talk i've never seen anybody use a cape the way he did that's what sealed the deal is look at that he could really
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take a look at that beautiful me. this is the softer from sarasota before their heart up as you can see the bridge you know so and that's how dolly and i met kind of when the glue was said i was practicing the sailor circus and dolly was pressing so the circus and so that's me flying from the classroom i go to class ring and use the rope ok so when i catch the rope right in the top and was a red mark my mark was there the string would break and i would fall about 20 feet . 2025 feet and then my bungee would stop me and i would be in the floor in 2 seconds you know but one day i was. booked in new york and unfortunately. i couldn't set the record myself there was a horse at liberty act that were performing so my rope and string and everything
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was said stage left. and so are both mustering up it's a very high swing in the lungs when i jumped. and i grabbed the rope perfect. felt the string break down and the next thing i know i was on my back you know like i was like in shock because this was abnormal i had the rope in my hand i didn't miss the rope my brain was trying to compute what had happened and my ankles that were talking to me and say you're in pain because we're broken but what did happen is they had moved the rope untied the string and i forgot to check the bungee so there was no nothing to stop me and yeah that was the basic. the how do you say they they they killed the flame. they used to be young and beautiful now that is beautiful. can say.
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circus today is changing a lot because my gun chimes people are saying so many things that play a good beach fantasy and it's not real said they expect an awful lot from. circus physically ill people. working in which to day life i know are. and new kind of don't don't get too emplaced with that and you won't because to say too much try not yet see the i knew she did most impossible things i love to watch sexual lay because. every change is. on. its plate and there you have some great performers on there but you don't know who they are.
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don't have a name. beautiful and entertainment but something. norma has made this. and she's made it from a picture and the picture is of my dad and my mom and willie and edelsten had been made in 1948 or 49 and it was her gift to me for what i've done for her they call me for anything that relates to the non circus world the business side i've been called to go to the funeral home to make final arrangements i've been called about wills and plan giving and trusts and how do i get medicaid and how do i get help for this or how do i get help for that. it started because my
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mother and father were circus people i respect what they did my mother said help these people. i came home from work the day my job clawed roost. and i see this big sign instead of a proper propertius he had it up for sale and now i don't know what's going to happen and my trailer is 79 thing. way too big to move to another trial. and even if it went to another trailer park i cannot afford the rent. hi i haven't seen your of their so. did kathy
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speak to you about me 1st oh yes you have kathy said yeah my has a problem do you care if i have her car you know i really appreciate what she did for me so if there are my has to make a choice of what she's going to do she cannot stay here for ever because the properties for sale and like most of the property up here. the state of florida in transition we're going from a place where people could come live modestly live in trailers live in small quarters to a place where people come and live in big quarters brand new big quarters. we want everybody to be the norm i mean my term i like to use is manicured acres we want every town to be manicured so we're the ones who make the rules it's not the government where the government so we're the ones that force these issues of we want how we want to control our neighbor who are unable to us with their property
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because it might affect our property so we make it difficult for anybody that is a little different a little special be this special negative or special positive show people are special positive but they're special in this transition they don't want to get rid of the trappings of circus so they need a spot where they could go with these trappings and as society gets more and more sophisticated it's harder and harder to find those spots we've started down a we've got a little property up north where we subsidize we subsidize our own at 30 percent. so we've got to ready now wow i mean there's a big property just to have a chance trailers on it it seems like a nice piece of property if they were really nice to have circus people next door tell you i'm going to go test the water go test of water oh that's it yeah just the
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water that's city water. she's tasting the water because she deals with food. so she says what is this water to. one of us from think is a good for my fish. ok babies. and of course i'd have to have paper to wrap them but i'm not going to wrap my own. as well go into a. whole. well. reg scale let's read. didn't even know it why did that. * wore out
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or out. when. ready doing i was going to cover it when you 2 tried to make the march ok maybe on the outside i just didn't know what you are doing. here we're. showing this goodness all right here here. there's a new. my me i see you wore your good the horse training shoes again well it wasn't supposed to be a horse trading i was just looking. yes that's not the right shoes for horse
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training. but i'm not a horse trainer anymore i will it as you are. i on the advice given by myself and i come in any shoes i want to to find. it's a safety factor because my feet are already broken so many times can't be broken anymore. but. sometimes i get up in the morning something else hurts and so what did i do now that i didn't even do anything. but you work through it. when i was given the opportunity to perform with dolly since we're both going away we're very similar you know our lives it was it was an honor i've been wanting to work with her for years.
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dolly jacobson is fabulous. if you've never seen were she is a miracle in motion. because she's so beautiful out there. absolutely gorgeous. it took us a long time to perfect that trick because we couldn't get it in there was the time line where we were too old to do this. like in rehearsals i keep my knee holding her back as well just for safety but in performance i actually take my knee away so it's a complete just to complete one hold and she's laying on my and my arm. even at the show when i have to control my hand i'm selling my tuxedo nobody sees me
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running the control of the 3 person act you know. and that really person is so. so important to the act you know they can make or break you. i'm also a funny person when it comes to learning a trick. when i go to see the ring on show and i see girls that have got a lot john it takes it away from me i just and. i enjoy a anticipation of them doing their job perfectly without a problem. the traveling circus have the facilities for a traveling circus we are. part of sarasota we're part of the community.
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dollar now we bought it can't we bring to the bank borrowed some money for a used tent and put up a tent and you know if you build it they will come of course it's not true because is it a revival is it a car sales is it a service never knew what it was with no money for advertising there was a learning curve for us but as a nonprofit organization idea was to give back to the community you know really to give back to the circus and to raise the perception of the circus as an art form because young america has a preconceived perception that the circus carnival side show or one that is not true ok the circus is separate is an art form dishing people work their butts off hours 1000 hundreds of hours to perfect something or beauty that they can display to the audience.
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a few years rings answer after. this age that she is in great physical shape strength the beauty. so raise the bar she brings the border that's why i tell you got to keep going to physically cannot do with every year all i don't know bill mike no you go and you grab people whose hearts and you spew emotion and only an artist can do that if you true artists. stop criticizing themselves so much that's my job. but honestly. there's there are days where you know you question yourself and then there's days that teaches you know you love it so much and you don't look in the mirror and you just feel like you're ageless.
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that's free it can only grow old gracefully what about now. are you willing to vote jacket tonight or are you gonna wear the black and white chalk and. red jacket you gotta wear the black and white yeah hold the jacket. well how old are you when that was made for you ok let's see how. 46 yeah 46 yes and america. they. are a. little
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