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and that's important, you know, we need to, we can be living in grief all the time. and on the following day, the children were laid to rest in the local cemetery home at last, in the land where they belong. robert olds, al jazeera mission, south dakota, we have more on that story and everything else that we have been covering on our website, al jazeera, dot com aah . and reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, at least a 183 people are now confirmed to have died in floods, in parts of europe, with that number expected to rise. as the water receives driven chancellor, angular merkle says that she's been shocked by the devastation left by flooding in parts of western germany, calling to destruction. surreal and terrifying and the crisis in europe is only
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getting worse, more heavy rain as had parts of eastern germany, austria, and the czech republic. a scrape. it's terrifying, i would say there is no word in the german language to describe this devastation. but what i witness is incredibly comforting. it's how people are sticking together, how they helping each other, the solar that the among people and the african government and taliban have issued a joint statement following another round of talks in the catholic capital. they've agreed to speed up discussions aimed at finding common ground earlier. the taliban express disagreement with proposals on a political roadmap and constitution for a gallon on it's demanding the release of $70000.00 prisoners. but the afghan delegation says a ceasefire is the top priority. this says the taliban makes major territorial gains on the ground in afghanistan and concerns grow over a civil war. abrupt thing. once the withdrawal of us troops is complete. hundreds of protesters in the iraqi capital, baghdad,
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or demanding justice for those killed during anti government. protests, 2 years ago, activists estimate that about 600 people died in the 2019 demonstrations in central and southern iraq. for testers are also demanding action and corruption unemployment and the provision of basic services. the government in vietnam has ordered people in the capital hanoi to stay home from monday as the number of corona virus infections rise. the types of restrictions mean all knowledge central services have been stopped, including public transport, the provinces in the south, where 3 quarters of recent cases have been detected. the health minister says thousands of the countries, most qualified health workers have been sent there. those are the top stories that stay with us generation change. it takes us to bay route next and my colleagues in though we'll have more news for you in half an hour. thanks for watching. i'll see you in a couple of days after
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a one year delay the tokyo and then picks up the final despite growing opposition, by running costs in japan, thousands of athletes will compete in empty stadium amid the corona virus. audi 0 will be inside the and then be able to bring the lakers games like no other. ah, welcome to generation change a global series that attempts to understand and challenge the idea that are mobilizing you around the world. i'm not on an independent genet based on where jen z. campaigners are fighting for radical change. the challenges they face couldn't be more dancing, economic collapse, political social unrest, and the devastation caused by august 2020, to close in here and data ah,
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in the episodes we need to young people using their skills to combat decades of corrupt him and victory. and they use the total read. that is the only way for me oh, can you, can you send me innocent bits about your childhood and they were there any specific moments or events page to your political activism? the early part of my childhood was not really influenced by politics, but as i grow older gradually, and my number however, also was
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a lot of the ideas and concepts that were created by the ruling class in terms of the tech theory and innovations and the crisis so at the end of the day, rose partly brought up the society and the dinner jesus and soon by the regime. but then i got exposed to various other ideas, movement groups that try to deliver an alternative vision for what the country may be, as opposed to what i learned to be as a child. why do you think that the club is important? and when it's have some kind of effect outside the scope of the news in a very, to the thank you, there's love besides of the of the socio functions of face for students to know more about politics than the various development company. it's look up to the social and the school had to have economic interests which had to be protected, whether it's leaning on addition administration to protect student freedom or
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needing long tuition strike, which protects the students right. whether on august, the 19 was basically the student component of the mcdonald's in update them, but also transformed into a force which is able to impose a certain this force under lebanese landscape. are you optimistic that the mother network will emerge as it relates to movement and lebanon's? no. the way i see is another that's already able to move and then that's when it has an expensive social and then has thinking progress, route of attraction. because thinking the idea that it should be creating a culture such a morning challenge, most like they're in parties initially based on the various other forces which are offered. and that's a risk forward. and i think that's all. thank you
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for the generation that was born in peacetime, but in 2006. this change for you? yeah. can you tell me a little bit about dodge was in lebanon during the course during the summer. i was impacted for the key, but also i took it in and i understood even when i was 12, that's now it says impact public opinion. but it was really during the 2014, when i was entering a major new organization. okay. understood the weight and the importance of accountability journalism and independence on amazon. so that's what the role that i took in my career 07 on witness is
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a protest from the past 2 years from 2011, 2015. and then the big 2019. what was the role of the need? yes, 11 on the me to our own bipartisan group. and political parties which are the political class of people and the protest movement. trolls up again at the hearts of corruption or enablers, which are the main thing. media information is the illustration of corruption in nearest have an idea. so it's really important for me to focus on the media narrative and also counter through investigative work with the independent organization i worked for i took on the daily news reporting and covering the violations. i can for testers, the photos that were happening all over the country. there were media black out, so we were the ones who had life on what was going on. and the way the most to me that means to me to do them
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well, how been any clean attacks on journalists and i'll need y'all. worker is freedom of speech and danger, and lebanon in your opinion. i think freedom of speech right now is going through a specific kind of challenge because of social media and the government's use of social media to intimidate people into self censorship. ah, we need to speak against that. whether or not the intimidation is there. and i think a lot of independents me the workers understand the threat and they understand that now is the time to continue with the accountability. journalism continues with open source investigation in order to uncover the start of school and to dismantle it completely came as the thank you so much for being with us here today. your generation did not
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really witness the civil war in lebanon. however, everyone has been cards and the country may be through our parents or through stories that were here. now i want to start with katie and how did this shape your political activism in the country? no, although with an experience that some of the war we were taught or inherent to the narrative about their implementation, even informs them here with them. you know, people that we were supposed to think of very highly at the end of the day, we also formulated a counter narrative. the idea that you are transcending more and transcending the sector innovations which exist alongside of it. and this is something we're currently working on. what about 2 hours? so i also have kind of unique a bringing as my parents are both from secular backgrounds. so i had this angle that i got from my parents. why understanding the trauma that they live through during this is more since it's an inherited intergenerational trauma. and one thing
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never to have this happen again. so this was basically my viewpoints going into politics going into activism and going into journalism as well. so is your generation more radical, came more uncompromising in a way we were thought for a long way to live in on that this is the country. these are the relationships that exist between the ruling class and the people between the people themselves, between the various political factions which exist in the country. and we're suggesting that there's nothing static about them. and there's always in the dynamics transformation. and we're here experiencing another dynamic transformation which go about after october 17th, which about after august for explosion, we do think that we have the agency to create the vibe and alternate as a what are the ways in which you can implement such change in your opinion, i think the printer and the law from what's happening around us since they are so called spring and what people are age as when we're able to achieve not only in
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2011, but also 2019 with us across iraq, a geo to don. and where and we learn from each other about tactics and futures and histories that we want to work together towards getting your, the chair of the political working group of the met the network which connect secondary clubs across universities. 11 on canada, transformed the student activism into any c, y political movements. in your opinion, when i think this is already already the case, in the sense that that's where it is established in more than 12 to 13 universities . this suggests that there is potential for genuine competition between secondary progressive components in many society against more sectarian reactionary components which have existed historically. the secondary clubs are in the mentor
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network and not only calling perspective. they're also calling for allied their progressive package. that also deals with social justice, more democratic inclusion, ideas pertaining to being liberated from men norm is which of this destroy their society. and so we're not and distant ideological group, we are part of the society or speaking to them when they're basically, how can you actually convince people who might be even older than the generation to vote outside the home of their sex when you have 18 sex and lebanon, when you have political parties that are based on their sex, and that are not based on merit or even deep politics. the problem with startling, such a question is that you need to talk through it with your client and is from someone votes for political fact. they're also voting for the ability to get the job to be able to get gifts in a school to be able to get social welfare and all of these things that are tied to sectarian political parties. so really thinking about getting people to
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vote outside of their enjoy. we need to also be cognizant that we are telling them to make themselves wrong or both to a reality without the social protection. and the print is going to protections and mainstream peninsula can part with them. so this opposition movement should have certain i'll turn it to and realistic solutions to the secretary and claims that has been ingrained in every institution in every part and parcel of our life. so what you're saying basically, is that non sectarian opposition group needs to compete with these long last same political parties by proving that this is not the way. so actually, i mean, this is a very interesting phenomenon that's happened after august for the last people came together from a from 7 on and forms networks of solidarity and financial and collaborative
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sunny their networks and don't mimic the same authoritarian clients and mystic structure that we're so used to carry the government would say that they are attempting to tackle corruption 11 on with establishing an anti corruption committee and new law, tackling corruption and the country. what's your opinion on 11, on particular the, the term corruption is basically and potentially, i mean, particularly when it's anti corruption because the usually limit on was not just corruption in the sense that, you know, we have some interest being distributed within state sectors. it's a very structure and it's a stomach issue we have and it's been amplified since the ninety's. we have a run based economy that's completely based on monopolies making sector plus the real estate sector. we have a security system which compete to distribute all ministries, all that have come across to the war. we have enlarged that we have
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a lot of social and economic inequality. no productive factors which produce anything and were simply living the remnants of an extremely new and unfair economy . so people are saying we want to fix corruption, but don't even want to fight back at the interest of the other darky and the banks . then we can't really trust whether they're actually, if i think russian. so as long as this is, i think there's no such thing as anti corruption. i've got on august 4th, 2020 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded and beta causing damage to the whole city. can you tell me what happened on that day? so i was in the office, i had to work called in the middle of it, and then 6 for a happened and then i felt a tremor that took me back and forth. and i hadn't realized what had happened, but i heard the noise of a huge explosion. and i saw that everything was destroyed around us. our colleagues were really close to the windows and we were trying to figure out if anyone was
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injured. and because my apartments in my office were right, we'll talk to each other, and i could see complete destruction of my apartments. because this was an office for an independent organization. some of our geographies took their gear and they went down from the current engine. it was a complete massacre. it was something that i think no one wants to live through again or ever. what about 2 came ones i heard the explosion and i felt that everything was shaking. the 1st thought came to mind that i also was qualified to the position i was in because i felt maybe the building could collapse at any moment. so it was an extreme uncertainty about the next 30 minutes after i was out and took my car. i noticed that people are injured
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everywhere, so it was a huge catastrophic moment in which everything's normal and our lives was host. has that you mentioned that you were in an office working with an independent media organization. did you manage after that to resume your work direct piece? i think what few of us to continue to actually double down on our reporting and on our coverage was our anger towards whatever happened and whoever were responsible. so this could be seen with our investigations, with our daily news coverage and trying to piece together what's happened. why was there a fire? what blew up before the ammonium nitrate? where was it exactly and which warehouse was able to look at? ok, let's do a 2nd on the roof of this building. and this time, this enabled me to actually piece together something so that i can know what's
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happened because the anxiety of not knowing was worse than the exam. what's happened? 15000000000 dollars in the number estimated when we talk about the damages, that's what caused by this explosion. there are so many alleged accusations that corruption reached aids where the corruption and cream the 8 is definitely not the answer to corruption. because feeding this regime with more funds by taking you by the international community will only need to it's reproduction. and in safeguarding its own basis. the solution isn't us is in the hundreds of thousands of people from various social groups and man relevant sex. well, believe they mobilize and create different systems or so the narrative, this could potentially create an advocate resistance in the region,
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but there is no certainty insights. but there is always hope. can you, can i just jump in here when i look at are i understand production, it doesn't just like an institutional government's perspective. but if there is corruption, one place it's probably tied to corruption elsewhere. when a megaphone use an investigation about the origins of the ship that brought them on united states to the beta with poor. there were tied to syrian russian firms with addresses in london. so corruption is globin. and i think when we want to understand and to 5 could option, we need to think about it as a system of solidarity. that is, boards are in this at the same time and collaborate with independent media organizations, just like the panama papers have done to uncover money laundering scandals across the world. i think there's something really important when she said,
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but there's also some things to emphasize on based on this that emma needs regime is tied to international and noble interests which sustain it. now that is something to critique, but it's also something to look at and slightly so be inspired from that. if we do break these links or if we do create alternative links across borders that could multiply the strength of our movement. and potentially, we could benefit from an alternative, international network of people who think this way. and that's how we can create alternative power and the country and ultimately replace the current regime in site . i mean, cream, just looking at the protest starting tactics from the 20 october 2019 protest movements we learned from hong kong. we learned from turkey, will learn from sudan. and then again in may 2021 to george soy protest. i said
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lebanese activists help or create a guide for black lives matter activists in minnesota in order to help them in terms of he helped with tear gas. so this sunny day doesn't just transcend our fight against corruption, but also our fight against authoritarian regime and oppressors. one of the so many challenges that the country is facing is immigration or brain drain. many of the young generation are leaving for good. i didn't, you mentioned that you are part of the mother network, which is connecting different secular clubs. but the protests are kind of on hold right now. how do you want to be people? how do revive these events and districts? not many people have the luxury to go out. a lot of people are stuck here in the sense and they have no choice but to fight back for these after the august 4 explosion. when the people basically occupied much use where they were saying,
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you know, let's make some calculations and see if we can afford this. so that when sometimes we assume that if people emigrate, then they don't have a role. but this is a huge fallacy. but lebanese regime benefit from the base for they benefit from the fact that we're going to explore the everyone, and then they'll give us the money so we can sustain ourselves. the opposition has a reality. the reality is that people are outside. how can they benefit us? well, most of our organization and i can, i can, the mechanisms are becoming online as dresses movements. so people can think parts in meetings and sharing ideas and talking to people and getting heaps of people to vote. so that's all about raising alternative networks by using that i asked for that was exported by the regime itself. but i also got him, i think as opposition groups or as students or union organizers. we need to learn today that can i hope for the future, which we saw on the street in the beginning of the 17 october 2019 protest movement
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. people were coming together and dancing cooking together, singing together, reading things with each other. these are the informal system relationships and trades that had never been seen in accused downtown bay route until before the civil war. as we do know how media and one of the allies in lebanon, how it's tied to private businesses, to politicians. how can you change stuff? so 1st, i think we need to recognize that 12 point it to confirm when you own acute half of the mainstream media in lebanon. the other half is either owned by businessman, by individual politically affiliation or by specific political parties. so the control over one, the media, but 2 and most important to the discourse in the sources of information is squarely in the hands of those empowers but independently,
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the organizations have found ways mobilizing the just florida and becoming important sources of information from the ground. since they are the only ones that soon from the ground, from the point of view of the protesters from the point of view of the oppressed. but again, the independence didn't need to work together with grassroots movements with sites or organizations to bring together all these things in order to have a sustainable future. when you talk about all of these hopes and dreams, there's a certain component that we need to talk about, and that is challenging. secular states has been as a dominant political shape, party, and lebanon. now, some argue that they are faith within a safe. how do you been a secular government with the presence of such parson? and i don't think it's even possible to look for genuine, the radical reform in the country. where the state of the state like has about,
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which is not just a part of the distribution. it's an infrastructure of the cells at the base and other context in the region, and it also tokenize is on very causes. now the question remain, how do we resist this? and i knew also have an issue with those who proclaimed to fight against below. and in fact, they only thought go from their own sick there in point of view, it was never a progressive starting point. and that's something that's extremely necessary. they want to go a step forward. but isn't that challenging? because has butler says that they are present to the fact that have been use borders. the only way to tack is such a permeated need to think as, as, to recreate a new narrative. it does not mean we have to concede, has been all. in fact, that's being the stake. many opposition parties are doing. we need to continue
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creating this count, 200 money from a starting point, which is secular. progressive, an insular verity. when all of those oppressed by has and by not has yes. is there a faith for optimism and a country so complex like lebanon? that's the ways for the 2020 to election for some kind of change. there's never pessimism or optimism. there is a complex reality, as you said. and this complex, at the end of itself, gives us hope because what's happening this year may not happen 3 years later. but the 2022 elections cannot be seen as a brakes to can only be seen as of today. however, many other breakthroughs await, because at the end of the day saddle had eat in october 29, 2019 was not thinking i was in an action. it was taken out by the street and the
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streets could reinvent itself as does the new regime. so i agree completely with could him and saying that elections is a, it's not a means an end, i think, organizing through syndicates, through clubs, through students, unions and across identities and success in loyalty is really important. so are you going to be the exaggeration, that's fine. a solution for the ongoing crisis 11 on i don't know. that's a lot of responsibility for a generation because i think our parents thought they would be that generation. i think their parents, but they would be the generation. so maybe listen, i actually think there's no such thing as the, you know, one time change in the country living on 200 years ago was different 11 on today.
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and social movements always existed and pressured in a certain direction. so i think interest innovation made its contribution, and we're here to make our model contribution and to see what comes ahead of us. that's it for this episode of generation change from lebanon. katie mazda, thank you so much for taking part. it's been a very enlightening conversation. thank you. thank this lights may look like a city from the sky, but their fishing vessels just outside are gin, tina's exclusive economic zone. the united states launched operations southern cross to combat, illegal and unregulated fishing in the southern atlantic. argentina's coast guard say the main task is to control the movements, so they do not cross into argentine territory from this room origin time
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