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and i think that the european broadcasting union really needs to do more to show betty it is working to advance those values in. the now most importantly the show must go on and then that lens is facing a major challenge in holding the contest in the safest way possible during a global pandemic step fastens al jazeera in rotterdam. africa check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the 1st palestinian general strike in decades has been held in occupied territory and israel but it ended with further violence and bloodshed israeli security forces fired live ammunition during protests in the occupied west bank 4 people were killed and more than a 160 injured israel's continued its bombardment of gaza at least 220 palestinians have been killed since the military offensive against hamas and other
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palestinian groups began a week ago the palestinian death toll includes 63 children. the u.n. is calling for border crossings to be reopened to provide badly needed humanitarian aid to gaza a convoy of international aid trucks started rolling in at one point but israel suddenly closed the crossing again citing security issues. israel's air defense system known as i am dome has intercepted more rocket fire from gaza at least 12 people have been killed in israel since the start of the conflict including 2 children and u.s. president joe biden met with been met with anger in one of the battleground states that handed him last november's election hundreds of pro palestinian protesters marched outside a ford plant in michigan as biden visited to talk about electric vehicle initiatives during his speech he directly address palestinian american congresswoman rashid it's like. i want to say to you that i admire your
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intellect admire your passion and i admire you can you show me your. hands my from my heart i'm free your grandma family will i promise remember you see you're in the west bank your fighter god thank you. france has proposed a cease fire resolution with the u.n. security council in coordination with egypt and jordan president mark wrong has been hosting a summit of african nations spent several days calling for a rapid truce he had talks with egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi in paris jordan's king abdullah joined by video link in other news the us congress has passed a bill that aims to prevent violence against asian americans there's been an alarming rise in hate filled attacks and murders during the coronavirus pandemic. so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statement that's a watch. how concerned should we be about rising food prices or is
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this entirely down to the pandemic we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in a prime minister designate an adult. the task of fixing a war torn economy counting the cost on al-jazeera. who here is my favorite of all the whole they're all be warned canobie he's not afraid he's just so slanted testy with. me on right there he is. live a bit of look at my older you know. where they're from boy ringback.
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you know where he if you take him out of the bar here run around all over the floor and talk and you can ask him saying things in here and you i got to listen. to you. he gets killed. don't tell you the reason i like it because i'm never here towards when i was growing up. the little boy in me just nerved a movie and they cared to death over the past you know. i'm going to give them to my kids when i'm gone for.
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art. a story. i don't know no other way to say it will earliest so that it tells the story. i'm telling a story about my life is going to take give it to the dude i got 8. done . it's gonna take 50. and put in these bitches here in the middle feel like live a. journey then i had to tell them i'm not but my wife get killed me oh you can do it you got to tell whoever you can do this
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you did was you know wise concern and kind of thing you know well is it true. love and has a true account of how we live how we survive in the south. when a patient walks into my. expect to have a seat at the meeting top of the day history about their journey i take that information and i use it to help them heal. i need to look at history. and sometimes patients come in take a hostile bracket discarded because i needed all the help the patient live. i'm a physician but i'm also an artist i see myself
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a little bit of both. one for it is our oddest who both from the south and i had opportunity to go to one his art shows and there he was he's had a lot of health problems hypertension diabetes a long war 40 years of stress and i think that's stress in a fear that your ability to sleep so how many hours of sleep you get a night 34 real force hours. and that's with the medicine without the medicine what you get that from as i get nothing. and that's been going on for how long you have food with whenever you do all those pitches he gets it you have to go to the doctor and she has to tell him he has a double up on a medicine you know to get some rest for years post-traumatic stress disorder so it traumatized you again and make you really but you have gone through exactly
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and the thing is that some time acknowledging the history does and some people to heal may help other people and not mean oh no i don't think it is a different can are that feeling is mark is not healing. mistreats . you. love put hope in my heart no not much says it with thing is done from the pains is not much hope. i can sit very still and be good and my man will go back when i was 56 years old i can remember guy gave me a good memory. we lived on the plantation and that was the early
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sixties. it don't take long for users to realize that sun's wrong with picking cotton they are really on they. start out on the road e.c.v. and you spend all day here never get to the end the are all. going to turn out of school teen i ran away from not home. but i ran away from the country. doing everything i possibly could to live a different type of life. vessel sick. work she. go to the night 3 of 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning and when she don't hear she or she's down the scale like. the trauma that is seen in the trouble we have it to go to sleep in the risks of seeing net increase as you get all the
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dramatic stuff as well have a problem. but those that it was really need to get done. sometime he wakes up completely calling whoever it is this run to me call him by name say and stop. the old take my medicine and i can't sleep with passion. of the on going through if i'm jamie. i'm a punch pet. let me go back to the scar that i carry by john a civil rights movement and 40 years on when you are part of the movement you make a name for yourself in all of why people know you and they are waiting to get their hands on you
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i stayed in jail over a year with no charges nothing so i took a roll toilet paper stuck it in and john flooded the jail and when the share came back he came back and he was gone through to him with the cheek me to abridge on and about the 3rd time he kicked me out of the side i would let him kick me and will grab his legs and i threw him to the ground and he went for his gun i took away from them and he's begging me not to shoot him so as a will i'm not going to shoot you but i'm a lock you up so i locked him in asean and i live with that is how of civil rights workers are the womanliness of the do i told her what will happen she with the next
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room and call the police the next day ya know era white men think of the joy just then and not then and they are related in the trunk of a car about a 30 minute rat and really open up a truck a saudi rope hanging from a tree loses a place designed and look like to hang people really put a rope around a beat will happen to treat it on the deputy sheriff that i lucked into syria and he's got a knife and he come up and he grabbed my private paws and he took his laughter he stuck me they was going to castrate me and then hang me and burned me. i was 90 years ago and there i am bleeding lack a pig singing up in a tree ridded be slaughtered like a hole and then another white man grabbed his mom and
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told him don't do that we had better things we can do with this. i took my shirt rolled it up put to him and they're like dead. well now the job. is we need to give us a massive. my mother's tell me she said you cannot internalize the pain if you internalize their pain it just chips away at you. in this country no one really generate talk about the people who were lynched. sometimes they were meant to people they put them in the water but wait sort of family never see them again. some kind of a take
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a bite is a cut above a sale to pieces some kind of a take divide at the lunch in bring it up sort of families will not have any. those are ones that were recorded but what about the ones that were dot record. those close 232-4000 people who were next and a lot of these people and never got a few and. it was often too dangerous for the families to retrieve those bodies and sometimes there was no bodies to retrieve. it's not just black history this is american history. don't survive a move to use the units you did i just happened to be one that was say.
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and here hurt me. had kept me from being maybe when i couldn't be yes hannity of the that because drew and no one wants to talk about 1st time i saw you i was trying to medically speaking i was trying to figure out why does he have these oh he's here now over chang marks one more than the other why this award and this was. my conscience oh how i didn't know in advance i learned. working on the highways and byways and when you hear them all and. you hear somebody. don't you know that's just
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the men were. here. he. and i could talk. as you. made me cry out when you. have. a beautiful morning you get a long just ok good. when i walk into georgia but you think. you can lean against me on fire and leave you know i got it. i just sat and watched i'm a strong georgia river that right. i'm going to become given oh. well. to prevent and to do that. you pick crime before you know it. we used to hold water and then with great vigor hit the oh really on the prairie way more put
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a brick in you do you. reckon it got in over the end everybody. knew. a. thing before. it had a foot to mar the 29th try to pull it all together hey nate then you. you know that painting idea with the with the k.k.k. . could you bring it to me in springfield. amat decided to have a few who for the over 4000 african-americans good men just in the united states to close that chapter and move for. america has to do the same thing to help heal this country. guess who push back people why you want to start out.
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evening to you. i'm dr shirley jackson would occur and the question we asked the night is why do we need to be here we need to be here because our country needs to heal and some bad things happen in this country where americans talk shit other americans due to the color of their skin that went on so long in america what are you going to do about it because i remember as a little girl when we went to
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a funeral and in law that casket in the ground the minister was say ashes to ashes . a lot of people never got their. so we're looking back in history so this patient can live but looking back in history so this patient can thrive looking back in history so this patient can become very strong. but this patient can only live and get stronger if build willing to look back. so tonight we stop. there's an african proverb this see is you speak my name and i will live forever. so tonight we will speak some things. my name is here. my name is mary turner i was the 19 year old pregnant wife
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of the wonderful hayes turner. and he was gone to thomas and i'm representing a memory. but when i confronted his murderous they lynched me and burned my body. i mean just coming in and out reverend you represent the. bear rips my unborn baby out of my belly and sharing his death along with my i am james how and they told me i had a choice either i could die with my son or i could watch him die live to tell the story i don't know. i watched another children to look at to live for now as my son cried and
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begged and pleaded for his life they bound his hands and feet and forced him into the river and as i stood trembling with tears running down my face once and my son sent to the bottom of the river. now to rise again. you know how to rouse again. so in unison where you're representing speak that name. on.
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back in draggin me down even today that been 4 of them years ago even today now it's dragging me down. yes. james riske and they in my bed and i gave a rest. running for my live in that. a mud exam. and i don't know what to do. a man about what happened. and then soon regular low budget data say this is wrong don't think it hurt me to see him in that kind of pain.
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the pain. is the need to be erased. we commit to the ground these bodies and these souls and let us forever remember and reflect upon the lives. that have been nameless and unknown for many. ashes to ashes dust to dust. has a fuel is a healing for those that a lot give respect to those that have the body. i think they want it to be remembered. and to have their right of passage the right. to move a. body. i
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in hebron boys breed pigeons but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched by israeli forces. and often. told tales over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is restricted to the skies above hebron a witness documentary. award winning program from international filmmakers. an effect of the fact that global ex-pats in discussion guarantees everybody the right to take the fight giving voice to the voice that's here in california and almost everybody in the paycheck away from being on house
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always how it is hard to up as your barber and acid rain fast fashion should be actually regulated just like they are at studio b. unscripted on. a day of rage across the occupied west bank and israel turns violent with 4 killed in protests. the strike was called in support of people under an israeli bombardment in gaza. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up protests that impassioned plea from the palestinian.
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