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on the entire country and i think it's, it's essential that that trauma be transformed into something meaningful. something positive in an emergency parliamentary session. prime minister robert baylor, who took office last year, has apologized for what he called the serious shortcomings of the state. but while daphne kajuana galaxy as family accept the apology, they say that campaigning won't stop unless a non partisan panel is set up to implement reforms recommended by the inquiry. they don't trust this country's political system. andrew simmons, which is 0 the this is al jazeera, these are the top stories. the 1st group of afghans who helped american forces has arrived in the united states. president joe biden called it unimportant milestone around $20000.00 more awaiting to be resettled. we were fighting for the country
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a drop in infection rate deaths. in recent weeks, a strict lockdown was imposed in may after a surge fueled by the delta barry, and it included a band on travel and the closure of most businesses neighboring kenya's extending restrictions. there are nighttime curfew will continue and public gatherings will be limited to the health minister is wanting. hospitals are overwhelmed with these documents that emerge. repeating president trump pressed his justice department to declare the 2020 election corrupt in a bid. to overturn the result, the handwritten notes by the acting deputy attorney general show he told tough officials to back his unproven fraud. claims and quotes leave the rest to me. the department rebuffed his efforts, saying they have no power to challenge the result. an independent inquiry into the matter of a maltese journalist has been released. it says the government must take responsibility for creating a culture of impunity. daphne alexia was killed by a car bomb in 2017, a work exposed corruption among walters elite. those are your headlines up next
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generation change? i'll have more news in a little under 30 minutes. see that the farmer finding harmony in pursuing his passions. my passions finding young and keeping cultural tradition and nurturing the musical islands as his community had been playing to dream music from money, money to outside world tenzing, his families land, the most poignant thing that club brought to my mind. i'd surely catch him doing that, hector mcgovern, the music man, my son. but we are now just the euro friends in the country with a long history of activate them for women's rights organizations. thought the suffragette, back leaf and people have successfully pull the new white and against injustice
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across the age of the struggle. social justice is fossa neva, in the 6 biggest economy in the world. the gap between rich and poor is start and increasing. welcome to generation change a global series, the attempts to understand and challenge the idea that mobilized use around the world. my name is, am i am ronnie, and i'm a journalist base here in london. this episode we need to young accident who was happening. the record is a violent from unjust legal and education system to poverty, policing and racial inequality. in 2010, a conservative lead government came into power and implemented a policy austerity over the next decade. billions of pounds of cuts in public
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spending in london use violence and knife. crime has increased at sienna catch blames austerity in right now we're in canada and you basically grew up around here. right? yeah, a lot of people know the ferry of being a tourist destination for the market, but this is a place where you've kind of decided that you want to get involved in them. i'm left in the community. why is that? i think it's, if you look at the dement, well the power is big company, but we don't equally share the fruits of what's happening. and i think particularly as a young person, you see all the issues around you bought it and you decide. if it's not mean is going to be involved,
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then you will be so when you were 15 years old, he decided to join the new parliament of great britain. and you gave a reading passion, speech about the fight and some of the winston tried to lead forward conservatively against that because i haven't seen policies as my crime teams more lives within our country. never has so much been lost by so many because of the indecision of so few are what we think when you decided to do that, it's about the idea that you can use he was against the conservative party, have the set of ideals about the way the ones that one birth in, but they don't follow through with this particular kind of rhetoric about leveling up the country is not,
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not stopped by any kind of real investment. it's all taping over the course of a decade stereotype which the entire community is under the bought what does a fair and more. busy a whole more just country look like i think is about funding 20 investing in community. right now we have a system in which community is essential, left brain problems that they face are low. but we have to think about building the society in which everyone can have a fast thought in life, which were all given that and you could change it if there were some people that said ok, that's ideally your young either understand the way the world. what would you say people say that we just need to reframe our kind of narrative around history. the current perspective that we study, se farming is kind of through the lens and the power going. we actually look at that the moment where regular people have banded together and can achieve a lot. the
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governing cuts have stopped many council estate funding since 2010 up to 1000 youth centers have been shut down. for many young people, life is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous. tammy morley helped those who had been impacted by violence. this is the grand fate needs girl here, right? this is why could you just tell me what was going on? that 1st made you want to work in your community. paul, it is the issues that we experience from such a young age, living in poverty, injustice, experiencing injustice. i'm being exposed to such extreme violence when
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i was 15. my next door neighbor, my childhood friend more than he was on killed a month before his 18th birthday. i'm so yeah, that was definitely a catalyst for me to want to one on the found how things are that can even happen. and also 5 people to work with in my community to support people who are experiencing the things that people should actually experience. especially children and their friends does. could you just explain a little bit about the services that you provide? young people for fun is on a mission, so empower young people in communities to fight for justice and freedom. and we support young people who have experience violence to create change in our own lives, in our community and in society. and so it's about community empowerment. it's about lifting young people to be able to fries and not just provide
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you've got a background in law, you complete a law degree. how much do you feel that that impacted your work in the community and awareness of the situations that people come up again? when i went to university and i was study in no, that when i 1st realized how detached the legal system or the study of the legal system is from the reality. oh, i had an experience where in one lecture, when we were learning about families about fighting for justice, for their loved ones, are being incarcerate for things that they haven't done. well, we're talking about a direct effect in my community and the future lawyers passing around. really couldn't care about me. i realized i wasn't nothing to do to our system from the inside. don't get me wrong. i respect people that do that. we have some amazing noise that we work with and i think we do need those people. i just didn't want to be one of them for i could do more from the outside,
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the work you do. it's very kind of emotional it personal. what kind of told had it taken on you being engaged in that day to day? this work can bring and joy, i'm fulfillment. but i can't take away from the fact that it's really hard to bear witness to people's pain. and watching young people process days, experiences, i feel proud that they don't have to be alone by way, experiencing those things as a community. collectively, we experience in camp ups and in that sense, as long as that injustice and all of this pain and trauma happening, there's no way to not be impacted. so the toll would take from me as the told i take from everybody the in 2012 as part of an effort to reduce crime the government commission to study that looked into the background of prison. it found that 63 percent of the
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inmate surveyed had been eva temporarily, or permanently excluded from school. the link between a bad education and future incarceration is so distinct that it is known as the school to prison pipeline. kimmy the project b, work on the forefront project. work specifically with young people that have been excluded. how important you think is to engage with young people who are being excluded from schools. when you marginalize on people from education as past time, they will experience exclusion from society. and i think that has a knock on effect and how they perceive themselves and how they perceive the world and how they'll move for it. well falling on from that, many schools are very disciplinarian and punitive and fame young people up for imprisonment, certain young people because outside of just school exclusions,
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which catalog in attention. i think there's a whole spectrum that even happening in the schools before people were excluded, permanent me under the new legislation that they are trying to introduce the police cause crime sentencing bill. they are ramping up secure schools that are supposedly schools with security rather than presents with education. that is not even a school for the pipeline anymore. we skipped the pipeline that went straight to the prism. and it's not just about staying in school is also about what you learn and what's in the curriculum. and i think even really focal on this, you know, specifically talk about white washing of the curriculum. how do you think that links to the progress the young people can make? i think like a fundamental part of education is you study any topic from a certain perspective. and i think currently we have a very your century perspective with clues beef, pivotal and fundamental road this country, paid in things like empire colonialism,
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slavery. and if we kind of look at our narrative around the past, this is idea that essentially these things were ended by a kind of moral revelation of mo, development in the u. k. and across europe and across the western world. but when we look at the the haitian revolution, as an example of it, of a historical event, which is the only of a successful revolution in which a wallet was profitable. coney and haiti eventually overthrew ended slavery. that paid a pivotal role in shifting the tide towards abolition. but if you look at the way they are currently presenting in the curriculum, it's essentially around this idea of moral development in the u. k. and who has an impact on the way that we perceive social change today. because the kind of lens that we study the past in school undermines the importance in terms of the long term historical narrative that movement paid. and that means that we under emphasize the role that we can play as
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a movement today and tell me you're coming at this a few years further down the line is obviously graduated and been through the education system looking back. was there anything that you think was missing in the education system? i think for me, history was the subjects i was very passionate about. i really enjoyed the civil rights movement in the miracles. one of my favorite subjects at the time leaving school i. so i knew nothing about the movement in this country. i'm learning everything that's happening in america. i had no idea about all of the black liberation organizing that was happening in this country way before i was born. i'm continue to happen way, australia died. i so why wasn't, i've been for about my own history in this country, something that i can connect with and relate to and not going to build my understanding of the world. i'm living mean of the society i'm living in. that's something that i really would have value and they get me wrong. i think
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international solidarity is really important. so i am glad that i got that understanding of what was happening abroad, but it shouldn't have come at the expense of learning anything about what was happening in this country. in the ending march 2020, there were around 46000 recorded offences involving a knife and in london, the metropolitan police has warned that 2021 is on track to be in the last year of teenage killings in more than a decade. as a response, the ruling conservative party has called the police to be given great to power. while many journalists in the british media is a gang label without factoring in the all the reasons that lead to define it. to me, you've spoken about the importance of the distinction between the gang coach. i need violence. why do you think it's so important that that distinction is understood,
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developing an understanding of how particular labels are used to fathom marginalized, and ostracized particular groups? the word gang in this country has become synonymous with black youth. why one would off that as a question why? what really is a guy? i mean, when you look at the legal definition, hooligan, they could be a gotten by the legal definition of various groups of people that could fit the definition of a gun. but the word gang is never used to enable them. and there's various research and studies freeform one by hard bessie that showed that a cross section of the media. but they studied 62 percent of the time. and when a label was being used to describe black youth, black men and black boys in particular, it was the gang label. and i think it's really a store in the root causes of the issues of violence uniting and on. do you agree you have to think about the fundamental drivers and of so we should be like social economic inequality and how that is the root cause of violence. young black men
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a particular presented is being like immoral. and i think that connects to the stereotype in which is need to attend. she read those who are in power of the responsibility. do they have been creating the social conditions for this? why is it because it's not like, like the economic inequality that exists in our communities. the closer view of the d funding of education, the lack of inclusive curriculum. these are all decisions being made by people in power. and so the user stereotypes and those perceptions as a way of attention distancing themselves from how their policies have caused these social conditions and drive this violence. the gang label to me, that is an example of how certain labels, certain approaches are established to deny people. dad bruce to access the resources and support that they require to heal. so many young people die themselves. have, you know, perpetrated violence again or the young people themselves have also been victims,
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multiple times, repeat victimization, and said, is this, i call victimization, not healing, victimization, healing got to be fair. if there's no that can protect you, if there's no one that can prevent that harmless thought that home or support you all you've experienced palm. why wouldn't young people take matters in their hands? and that's something that doesn't get enough attention to something that i've heard a lot was reporting on the fine is that a lot of young men feel unsafe and they don't feel like there is anybody that's going to come and help them. they don't feel like they trust the police right. i can think of something that would make young men feel more safe in the u. k. i think we have to challenge like what is the notion of safety and why she is safety? because the way the law politicians talk about is like next slide, the streets with as many police officers. and that's like safety for who. because actually, if we look at those in our community who risk of having
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a not violence committed against the police, are not necessarily looking at them as people who could potentially be victims of vice. then looking at them in a very, that kind of lens of suspicion of all you about to commit the crime, shows that the way that the police are interacting with people is not from a position of necessarily trying to look out for them. is often from a prospective kind of suspicious and i think blinked by something that's really important to say is talking about we want to move away from a punitive system doesn't mean we want to move away from accountability responsibility. and i just want to make that clear, cuz it's really important to actually know that the system we have, there's no incentive for accountability. we have an adversarial court system where, because of what stake i, there's no incentive for me to say i did this. i hom, this person, and i want to make amends. i want to repair that home. why would anybody and i'm just talking about extreme cases where people are being killed. i'm talking about
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right the way down to more trivial matters. but i dealt with 3 the course, there is no incentive, so actually the society that we have from a moral point of view is really not interested in true accountability responsibility. one of the things i think is important. so what is the contentious debate around at drew music and you know, there's an argument that glam largest violence and that it perpetuate violence. and, but i want to hear what you guys think about through music specifically. this is an age old debate in relation to trying to regulate suppressed sense of black, awful, black music. what you have to understand is that for maybe the 1st time in communities that have been economically completely marginalized, abandoned here now comes over a pathway for some means of material success. for young people that have been excluded from other forms of income generation. so people's material needs are not being met. i'm here comes a way that people can, can do that and achieve i think,
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what do you think about this kind of job music to part the right wing in our society? because he went to him by issues of violence and other, one of those handy destructions by which they can kind of distance themselves from then direct role in creating the conditions which via happens because where have you ever seen the argument that any other form, john, we're that has been living if i punk or what drives people to violent. like if there was a look at all kind of map out what the thing was driving by society. and there's associate inequality is a school fusion is all these are the issues. but how is it near it in a song, the supposedly going to be driving the device? it just doesn't make sense. do you know they know that there is an argument made that you're talking about punk, or if you're talking about these on the forms of a barley music, right. the difference is that with some dro, visa has been specific references to real life cases of mud as happened. people are,
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you know, basically using a song to say, we kill this person, this is how we did it. and that's different to punk music. i think there's definitely coming to be said about that, but there's also, like we just have to look and the fact that these young people with lyrics of a narrative of their lives experience. but we need to ask ourselves, how as a society, are we creating a situation in which these kind of movies are happening? what does it reflect about? and the way that our society is being wise, obviously points out there's a found range of problems that we need to tackle. there is a lot of focus on the violence in the lyrics of the songs. but if you listen to artists like dave all storms and a lot of the mainstream people are speaking, there are a lot learn to talk about the mental health effects that these live experiences had and people. and for some reason those things don't really seem to cut him. i don't think a faith in the narrative enough of one of my favorite songs of dave is actually
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called panic attack. and it's from like his 1st a e p. and i just so moved by it really moved and i think there's a lot of music that is really documenting what young people are experiencing and the kind of life that they have to live, how they have to navigate their own safety, their own pass, and her dad, right, and to dignity on respect and the told about takes mensa me and it just was perfectly encapsulated for me in that song and that there's other songs by example, as well. i think if people are so concerned about drew, they should be horrified about people having those left experience. i've said, why are we not more interested in that me? in 2017. a fire broke out in grenville tower, a residential building that provided social housing in london. 73 people lost their lives later emerged that the fire spread so rapidly because grunfeld exterior
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insulation is cutting with highly flammable. and that when the building was renovated, the year before, to improve its external appearance management at the flexible cutting because it was cheaper. we didn't have this conversation without mentioning glenville, it's become a master symbol of social inequality and injustice in the u. k. what do you feel like it represents your generation? what happened at grand tower? thumbs up, everything this wrong with the way the our society is. if you look at the way that there were systemic racism in terms of who actually died, most of the people were black and brown. if we look at the fact that this would have happened in a richer community. if we look at the fact that people had been repeatedly warned about the danger of this building and the fact that none of the people who are involved in what happening, where photography and it just shows what is so fundamentally wrong with the site.
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the. it was stopping searching young people for non violent drug possession and playing them in prison. but you can get away with 70000 people losing their life and a fire. what does that tell us about the way the our society is one. i for heart broken, like most people about what happened. i gram foul and i think for me it symbolizes the neglect the abandoned men. and that's something that resonates with me a lot because i come from a community. and my estate again neglected abandoned and left to ra under, teary a. and to me grandfather speaks about because is more important for this. i sort of a block to look pretty for, but other wealthy people that live near it, then it is for people to have the right to be safe in their own home. it's really interesting speak briefly at the same time because there are lots of overlaps and you're saying, but tammy, you said to me the other day that no one's coming to save us. we're gonna have to
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do this for ourselves. so your position slightly outside the system and your thinking of possibly pursuing a career in politics, right. and trying to effect change from inside the system. why do you still have, i guess faith in the system. also, all of the things we've spoken about if we look at, along the way, the log issues and politics and talk about now if people who are outside the system, who shape the way that politics interact with society. because they kind of, if we look at like racial justice, the ideas around transformative justice, these ideas that politicians are putting forward these ideas, the community activists and all the people put forward. and if it's not necessary that we can solely need the change. but how can there be nice people who are within the system, her receptive to these different visions of society? and i think what i want to see in politics is a kind of generational shift in which my generation can try redesign. we shape this
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them because just as there were people who made the system this way. so can there be, i think people who can time make it work for the vast majority of people in this country . following on from that point, semi in the back of what you said to me and how do you feel looking at the system more generally. i respect i found decision if he wants to go of in and i filled that we need to toward a political system where we have people that represent tough people of the people of the community from the community for the community. and unfortunately, we looked upon fish and bounds just not the case me. so if we can have young people like i can feed them, but they can transform that system to be where we can actually have that representation. then i think that is a worthwhile ambition to have pass in the i wouldn't want to do that myself. i want to empower people on the ground. and i think that the 2 can work hand in hand boss my focus. when i look back on my life,
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i want to say this is how i invested my energy because we have limited energy. we have limited time, i'm the source. and so that's my decision of how i wanted to use my own time and resources to try and create impacts and create change. well, there's been so much of this conversation which is positive, you know, and at this time that's something i think a lot of people are searching for. thank you so much for coming and speaking to generation changed and i look forward to seeing you in the future news news, news, news news. a year ago, one of the largest nuclear lots and history killed more than 200 people and injured
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