providing family ways waiting game. that's my precious game in the game. my them bob way on al jazeera. ah hello. lauren taylor on the top stories. dozens of people have been killed or injured in an explosion as a busy rocky market on the eve of an important religious holiday. bomb went off in the crowded area of the city. a suburb of the capital baghdad, iraq media is reporting more than 30 people, died tuesday is the 1st official day of eden iraq. and many people out shopping for the national holiday, w y head is that the scene where we're now in a little halo market. this is, were the explosion happened,

the attack that killed and injured dozens of innocent civilians including women and children, re behind me not far from where we're standing now. the explosion happened hours ago and no security forces say that it is an explosive device. investigations are still under way and the government of prime minister must have all kinds of he has arrest. again is the command of the police commander who is leading the security on it. patrolling the area construction on a controversial mega dam has hit another milestone, sending concerns along the river nile. the 2nd phase of filling the reservoir behind the ground. ethiopian renee sauce time has been completed. is a huge source of worry for neighboring egypt, and she done which both fear that if you will use it to control the waters, talks between the 3 nations haven't seen a breakthrough. catherine, sorry,

isn't us, have a the minister for irrigation has been commuting about the completion of the feeling of the dom. and he said that it has stored enough water now to run to the top and to generate electricity in the coming months. it has raised a regional tensions with both egypt and to down worried about how this could impact their own water flows. we have had from the prime minister before saying that in the future does not intend to harm or those downstream countries. but it's going to do whatever i can to protect that dumb and the processes going forward. we have been speaking to your peers here we are very passionate about this dumb. it is a matter of it is a project of national, national pride. millions obviously opens up to 65 percent of up to 65000000 of them. that's half the population and not connected to the greed. they have been

contributing money raising cents to woods buying government bonds toward the construction of the dumping menu. of those who are speaking to in industries that have been affected by frequent power costs. in villages where people have never seen electricity saying that they eagerly waiting for the benefits of this dumb and they are eagerly waiting to see what's going to come out of it. saying that they are hoping that it's going to get them out of poverty. in fact, one man told us that to him it's a matter of life and death. they know about the tensions between the countries, but they are saying that this really is going to propel the country forwards. us president biden's government has reached its 1st guantanamo bay detainee, as it aims to close the prison. abdullatif. nothing has been held there been any 20 years, but has never been charged. $39.00 prisoners is still at the facility and of them only 11 have been charged. our goal is to close one town of

a this individual who we now it's a transfer of the department of defense finance. the transfer of had been, had started moving through the process during the obama biden administration and was on pause for some period of time over the last 4 years. i don't have a timeline for you, as you know, there's a process. there are different layers of the process, but that remains our goal and we are considering all available avenues to responsibly transfer detainees. and of course, close guantanamo. and haiti is into, in prime minister, has agreed to step down to end the leadership battle. falling the president's assassination closures f, as he's met with i had only been appointed by rovan envoys just days before his death was only his receive backing from the international community, but had not been sworn in those. the top stories that do stay with us on our 0, our program next is once upon a time in punch bow. one years after that. ah,

i came to us from live on to get away from the war that was happening at the time. and they came to restart a life as a migraine, when i was trying to i, i struggled. it was very difficult. i wanted to give us every data that was at the beginning. i'm like, my parents sick for the last 2 decades. lebanese families come to australia to build a better life and escape the destruction of war. but many a demonized in the new land. only get rid of this multi

culturalism because that is dividing a nation then up to 15 years of immigration from lebanon, anglo, and arab australia is divided by the 1st gulf there being confronted with a choice between being either arab or restraint. it's up to now the multicultural story is your 1st australian. i already answered this question. i'm in australian citizen. all these doors, stella and i shouldn't have to join my odyssey ship. it is about the about this in as well. in the 1990, a tiny criminal minority become drug dealing gang to define the law. these games will be wiped in 2001 kara rhythm rated fears that arab australians are an enemy within

35 years later. and he, our pension explodes into one of the most intimate, right. try it in a training and just to be a little late in the week and a 1000. we have been in the fisher effect for 30 years, the paper converged on chronology. what happened on that sunday in chronology? is it black? all 3 countries? i i am i live in a garage? what am i am a stallion? i am living. i am muslin. mother, i'm a daughter. i'm a child. i'm old one. this is a story of what it's like to be living and call a trailer at home. we are a strategy and, and this is our highlander is where we belong and this is what we have.

me i the i when i was little kid, i remember like my needs that were shaking up and down just because like, you know, i don't know when i'm going to die and the last, not only my brother, i lost my friend. i lost my neighbor too many people. i know too many people. i love me naughty italy and her husband call makes doing the live in a civil war. between 975990 an estimated 150000

people killed in the fighting involving muslim and christian militias, backed by complex political align the 1000000 people are forced to flee. they're one ah, the history of christian lebanese has powerful connections in politics, industry, and the law that they are still a tiny minority. and the war is a distant problem. for me most destroyed and live so that's the point wally live in a start saying to the strain and government, you have to rescue these people and they kind of be annihilated. me in the mid seventies. the phrase, government changes immigration conditions to cope with an international refugee

crisis. and a 15 year begins are around $30000.00 lebanese people federal industry. some poorly educated from remote villages, me as members of an educated middle class, the decision to come to australia is not easy. decision is a hard decision. and simple reason because i love living on i love the country where i born journalist call sally, integrate to his trailer after 10 years of war. and like many of his generation, the pain he experiences leading his shattered homeland is by the promise of a better life. i wasn't playing i

looked from above to this beautiful sea between the dining hall but an opera house . and since i've seen this picture, say this is my country, this is the country way. i want to spend my rest of life. for years later, he returned to lebanon to visit his family and made his future wife. naughty. we got engaged. and then he came back to a stranger and i meant to come back to us riley about a port was shut down and i tried to travel on the boat from by route to cypress. i remember we had about 200 travelers and all the sudden both started every way the unfortunately one on here. it's

a boat we were on. so we had on brooks or flying in a way like, you know, everyone was screaming and yelling. you couldn't see anything, it was pitch dark and nearly lost my life for this year. after 2 days hiding in a bomb shelter. naughty of finally makes it back to her village and her family. i wife from the taxi saying hello to them. luck. now i'm lucky me, yes, i should be signing, like thank god,

almost for the life. ah, the, my parents were originally from aaa and the world is i knew it was pulling apart around them. not only was a life in potential danger, but who knows what the future would hold. the punch bowl boys. hi, principal to had did it kill a baby when his parents joined the mass migration that will radically change their lives. where i'm really proud of them is they left everything for the sake of myself to start a new life and understanding that they really were going into the unknown the job if you are arriving in australia from living on and the most popular song on the radio is tit,

murray, any song jump in my car? it's going to be a fairly bizarre society that you're entering and try to make sense. so for many muslims arriving the notion of public drunkenness was something that was not part of the culture. it's hidden, mystic culture of self enjoyment and celebration of pleasure. so the whole social world that they are entering is very different to what they had to experience more so in fact, than any other ethnic community that arrived during the previous 25 years or so. and this is where many lebanese families will call home the white working class and immigrant suburbs of south west sidney canterbury became the banks town river wood and punch bowl. nobody seems able to say how many 11 days of

arrived in the last 12 month, but it's talk to me between it's a story of struggle, repeated in family after family outside is fighting to survive. fathers battling to feed their family. there were no job, and they were turned away from 100 houses before getting this one by saying that they had only 2 children. but now, $200.00 in rent. the family have been served with an eviction notice. me. in the mid 19 seventy's, 99 is a strenuous model of immigrant settlement is a bit chunky. what you've got is a national ideology of multiculturalism. you don't have a well developed network of things like market resource centers and all sorts of things that become very much part of the story later on in the history of settlement. me or the yeah,

the measures saw the middle of a shadow. guess i'll imagery a new which is not the contaminant nor you and evident level. shut out that even how you actually moved melody. welcome and land in me the okay family immigrant to arrive before the start of the civil war. imagine was hold on yet another 100, another language and now when you on there and just starting up in your life, new family kids turbine but like many immigrants in the 19 seventy's, their plan is to own enough to build a new life. and then return home to the country of their birth. we stayed here until was it not in 79,

so my dad thought he'd saved up enough money. missed the family back home, so i sold the house, sold everything, packed this all up and took us over to live on the country is being torn apart by the vicious civil war. it would be normal and then all the sudden fighting would break out. and that was a very surreal experience. having lived the only part of my life and that when you say the tanks and the me and the shooting and it was right around the house. the mileage of how you lived in what is the one down in the place where we live? actually got a bedroom. we used to to share my brothers that had a nice big grenade hall that went through it. not long after we left me back in

a trillion deal can settle in punch. we grew up in one house, a 3 bedroom house and go straight and punch bowl. and that's when my aunt and uncles all the time. i've and i used to divide the rooms by putting ropes up in the room and some blankets over the robes, just to give a run the little bit of privacy. so there's about 10 kids running around the place and get from different families living under the same or the housing department of us at flat in kentucky road area. thought we end in the street not much better than street in route during the war. when the solid family move in the local community suffered from the effects of drug addiction and petty crime. it was

very unsafe to raise a family. it was difficult for us with limited english backs and it was extremely difficult to allow your children to go downstairs and play in the box if you're not supervising them. and at times like, you know, you would be walking around and looking at needles in the early eighty's, australia falls into deep recession. unemployment hits 10 percent. the new arrivals suffer the highest rate of unemployment of any ethnic group. one 3rd, don't find jobs. and those who do rely on menial labor, corporate, cicero, it is in the mother of other with an occasional. and they never used to see that. like, you know, this is done in the morning before in the morning. and both come home from the sun

. having the like it down to 40 days a week, i never see that when they deliver. so that was and they came out of the factory for a cigarette or whatever though and very odd. george bashes parents, nadra and body land. and this trailer, just before the 1st wave of refugees, the wages among the $55.00 a week. my ways and but if i work over time, 45 bucks, day work had to make my future. because i know who gets a, did i want a feature for them, but to thousands of the new lebanese, it's daily and there's a barrier to their future in the new world. the assumption that people will learn english really quickly is absolutely false. and it files over and over again, and the critical place files is for women. because most women,

if they're working outside the home, they're not working in environments where people speak anything other than arabic. and they are very poor structures for teaching english to women at home mothers, usually america, also let me lose. it doesn't matter . but one of them and i got a lot of them with the muslim you on the left, a message that i live up and i would let me put my name on government to learn english and do like i would skip the i watch the day tomorrow lloyd, i watch a lot of movie. how many, why i watch?

few movie, and all the time i watch dies tomorrow life, because every night she put its movie in the 40 years, i watch it. i watch them at now. struggling to communicate between many lebanese become target of abuse. when i gotta show me a live beneath, what do you think when somebody goes, you know, what do you do about it? unless you're in the middle of the level dupont who will be let them talk and the abuse continues to this day. somebody came to me and she said to me or i tell allison don't to me was i'm was,

i'm with you before you hold that you. you're 20 years 25 years. i've been here 40 forties, 4344 years. i been a stroller before you before you mom. next, i'm going to make it because i'm ozy the punch ball and the suburbs of southwest sydney, or a safe haven for refugees escaping the horrors of war. but in the 980 many experienced racism, particularly during a time of high unemployment. some are also so traumatized or injured or otherwise desperate that they got involved in heavy alcohol abuse or drugs or whatever. within a generation, a small number of trailyn born lebanese criminal will turn to the drug record and

draw media attention over they use of extreme violence. many come from families traumatized by decades of violence in lebanon. i saw 3 men. they hit machine gun me, but they, me, they all the on the call them and the cars and the legs. and for those same children, and the new generation of its trailing born leather needs a different kind of trauma. no less insidious, continues at school. every day, with a reply and amble, somebody anglo st. john's come in and pay me a me and a friend and take the take over the course. the phone's anymore sandwich got the sandwiches, live in a drug, give them

a hand. it will laugh at me called 1000000 times, beckoned george basha was born in australia. but 2 other pupils. he's nothing more than an arab outcast. ah, i became very angry because i'm thinking up, john. wow. to see to accept it as a strategy. i can't do anything about the black about the skin. so i was born you got a high and you need to go right. but you do our pick a fight with, with any. and i was trying to look, demi, and we're looking at the many me off. i used to be in your rates and, and i recognize at the time i was just growing up as a teenager to had deep experience is the dream race isn't playing rugby lake.

so the fire on the other side and i tackled him and, and his response was to call me and if and walk and if and walk see, and my response, which is device and not a person who does die. so it seems that i don't lose my temper, but it's probably in the walk and it was a greasy beat in it. now one of a sudden he's actually brought the rice, his him element, and that actually hurt it. and actually you just think so you still no matter what? we always say me as an if and will grace you say i just i wouldn't a consent for i couldn't. santos, i saw him. i got off and that same last the game and all the very popular, but i feel a better but i really want a did i are always in because i'd be so much mentally stuffed from, from public school and early use for school that i didn't like and i was because i

just thought they're the enemy. i'm cover so much of these guys and i and i grew i about the board and determine to succeed. it can feel you want to try to keep on training by obstacle. i'll just say we're healthy inspiring story of the group of money women into the future, their dream of playing football for that country. despite its culture and traditions, we are in the somali society and it's difficult for people to accept. the money goes and goes on. when a french soldier was murdered in a so called terrorist attack, his mother retaliated with love, speaking out against intolerance and alienation. she travels the world with the

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and entirely made in the u. k. it looks like face most to be part of many people's lives, at least in the short term, whatever, calling the way they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up. ah, you know, more tailoring under the top stories shown era, dozens of people have been killed or injured in an explosion at a busy rocky market. on the eve of an important religious holiday. bomb went off in the crowded area of iraq, the city, a suburb of the capital, baghdad, rocky mead years reporting more than 30 people, died tuesdays the 1st official, dave eden, iraq, and many people were out shopping for the national holiday. would have had to see where we are now and.