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towards the middle of the century, and that's simply because the know which in continental self is mature and we are probably, well above the peak. now the noise, past and present, comes together in how fast fishing and rained heard and continues a few miles from acros liquid nitrogen gas plant. but it's the future that's in focus in this camp where indigenous activist last beard is one of 6 environmentalists who have taken norway to the european court of human rights over its drilling in the arctic. hopefully, if serious consequence of the region i'd say will have hopefully have a government that takes into account. that's the reason for the are causing climate change. what are we if we lose our area? our nature where speculation in the burns may be welcomes, wind, increasing number of voters, but existing norwegian failed still pump out 4000000 barrels of oil a day with noise economy under generous benefits. reliance on that production change to green energy will only come about slowly. poll reese al jazeera. how fast?
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ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, several soldiers in guinea, had declared on state television that they detained president of a condo and dissolve the constitution. they asked the country to rally behind them . images, president, africa and they appeared on social media. it's unclear whether he's still in control of the country given the cool attempt. earlier have gone far, was heard near the presidential palace or west africa correspondent nicholas hack has more from neighboring cynical this really started last year and the election in which the president of con, they had tweet the constitution, allowing him to run for a 3rd mandate despite widespread protest across the nation, and we saw security forces, then use heavy handedness, fight shooting, live rounds towards protesters. and these are protests, there's members of civil society, the opposite and just regular get in. and so these, these are the scenes of,
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of the security forces shooting on protest tours just for meant and even more discontent among people, the leader of the national resistance front. and i'm going to stand says he's willing to stop fighting the taliban if it withdraws its fighters and append your valley. heavy fighting has continued in the mountainous region. the former south african president, jacob's duma has been placed on medical parole because if ill health, summa is serving a 15 month sentence for contempt of court, after defying a constitutional court orders to give evidence at a corruption inquiry, you're up to date with all the latest headlines on al jazeera 11 east is coming up next. thanks for watching. ah, ah,
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with aboriginal people, a disproportionately arrested and locked up in australia. somers young is 10 years old, paying as order from the court else. when it's just the middle around you, you just feel like your caged animal does things like that. no child should ever looking up 10 year olds, 12 year olds. there's not the answer. we've got to do things better in a special to pot investigation. why no one asked me to form a inmates and those on the front line of the criminal justice system in western australia the state, but the countries highest right? of aboriginal incarceration me
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in the town of freemen, a 19 year old makes his final journey to the local amatory. he's one of 4 indigenous prisoners to die inside of western this trail in jail. in 2020 stanley suspected suicide is a death in custody. a term used to describe any fatality involving the authorities . the system fire. the system failed him. he was still a young, young boy should not have been in that prison. he should have been the idea where the family could loved him and this couldn't happen. wouldn't have happened, prisoners on de release have come to pay their last respects. this outpouring of
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sorrow is all too common than many indigenous families in the era of mass incarceration. since the early ninety's, they had been more than 470 indigenous deaths and the majority in western australia was going to stop the last march some last year when they don't stop killing kidding. we want them to go home. me stanley was serving a 2 year sentence at a medium security jail for a string of burglary related offences with parole. the young in night could have been released in 6 months. he also spent time in youth detention re learned to paint a pastime that helped him deal with anxiety and depression. stanley sisters, tiana and jacinto. remember him as a shy but loving member of the family. a fella
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extending this unreal. it was one who shall i don't wanted him to very old with me, but will be for every own up. he was so loving to my kids luck. he said, my birthday constantly. 13th birthday, though and april did a painting of his hand to my daughter, sent it to her for her birthday. my brother wasn't no big bad prisoner. and i wasn't a bad person. later in the land between neglected
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it in the liver to just into says she mourn prison office and that her brother was struggling in child, but request to move him to another section where he had older family members were refused. instead, stanley was temporarily placed in a crisis canyon at risk in my brother chard, physical warning fun. he had caught on his arm, he had cut from his chest. he wasn't hoping he wasn't mentally hoping him being in a state where he wasn't harping and he wasn't feeling loved just to constantly play in my mind just constantly my brothers mental states within 72 hours of returning to the general jail population. stanley was found unconscious in a story that were notified that he was suicidal. but he wasn't accounted for 4
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hours, so it must, you know, and even then it wasn't even screws that found him. it was his fellow in might. it was his friends, it was his brothers. they neglected him. that had a duty of care. he died 2 days later in hospital. now we have to suffer. his family is suffering. let her get sorry, angry. really, really angry because he felt saw lying in noise in those moments and we always and always said to him, but when you caught, when you feeling stressed and when you feeling like you can't keep going. pint. so when i, when i, when we had to holding pan in the hospital, he had paying 100 miles. so he tried to cope, but he was not supported in the environment that he was in the legend neglect
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torment his mother connie. he was in a unit for prisoners who were 18 years old, up to 25 years old. endow this cameras, security all around. how was he my my baby found in a story. and let's worry, it happened. how did he get access to a story? him half. can anyone get access a prisma endow, get access to a store room. the state corner will investigate stanley's death. what answers are you guys searching? so it's a choice. we want the choice. any one that's lofton last love, one in a, in any prison system has a lot of questions and they want to understand how that system works. and i think
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asking those questions of legitimate tony hassle managed witness failure. 17 prisons and a youth detention center into october 2020 every day in prison is you know, a failure in a sense because we have to look after people and we make the system as safe as we possibly can. but sometimes, you know, if some of these are very, very determined, they will actually take their own life. and that's incredibly sad, you know, and everybody wants to understand why that happens. in response to the deaths, he led a task force, the aims to prevent suicide in jails. i want the task force to make our system a safe and humane as possible. and to look at those things that we can do to ensure that we have the rules and procedures to just one compartment taken away and points where people my hung themselves. isn't of a thing that will absolutely look. are we looking at people who actually need better social support not being blocked away long periods of time wasn't?
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that's a really good question. this probably about 800 prisoners in the states system at the moment that dog has mental health problems. some of our prisoners should be in a and as a mental health facility soon. sure. why? but we haven't got that option. oh, what policy change? it won't bring stanley back. he's not the ones bene, medical treatment and mental health support in jails. bob, just worry about those young boys. you know, i really worry for their mental state. oh, i mean what, what was i thinking? what the future be like in the in a final message to the prison. both those at the funeral and those watching by video
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link from inside jail. the pastor echoes connie's fears. i wanted to tell you one thing. your last value of your lives is that the most important your lives mean more than your reputation is that your life is very, very, very, very valuable. had the best, like you that your brother and don't quite get one go. ah, it was a preventable death. we wouldn't put on the source to bury children, but we too often do. gerry, georgia, it's been a friend of the family since stanley with a child. he and megan crack or provide support to western australia affected by
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deaths in custody. this is be coming to my last for our community, a death in cause it should never be normal last. the ripple effect is one of hitch when a pain, one of suffering, and particularly when there has been a death and there's no way, no answers as to what happened. a lot of on address to them are now community it's something they see every day and they work with the national suicide prevention and trauma recovery project. they said that he had suicide black hung himself and i didn't believe that because he was getting out into it. i use a young man and it was only break the restraining order. megan says corranio investigations into a debt in custody can be a long arduous journey offering. lisa resolution guy
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know, prison. god or police officer has ever been convicted over an indigenous death in the, in a strategy. right . that is not the thing that is not justice. you need to know what's going on with your loved one. what worries love life like? what worries love my next, like where there's some other right of another. that course with dave of their loved ones whose every week megan and jerry give psycho social support to families caught up in the states criminal justice system. they say it's a form of assistance missing in western australia. giles, we need to do
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it has some kids with they have that a 3 or 4 people living below the poverty line. since the 1st people's have been to jail, have been to jail and likely to go again. unless we actually support them in the ways that we have to, the reality is that their issues are so deep. their issues are so damaging, so hurtful so toxic. so alone that they need support, they need to be validated. and unless we go to them and this we work with them, they've got next a little hope across town, montana. kelly a grandmother who has struggled with homelessness for years, just once a shoulder to cry on her son,
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charlie committed suicide. and the other 2 sons have done students in jail yesterday to my nephew, prison therapy for our and i was delayed my way all the time we had my son is they said my food, they said he gave them a gated child who held them in. he's turned 1818 and i did in july, and charlie was living on the streets and took his
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own life. after his lawyer told him, he was likely to go to jail for 4 years for committing an assault with the tennis till 15 minutes, then it, it came into the case. leave him, i love you. i didn't think nothing. to the heart of my famous son nick, i'll just grievance please. i can you tell me if i her i think it helped me with her. i'm. it's right. and they couldn't get not the month month. oh
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really. mm well it is incredibly difficult. i mean, it's very emotional, but one thing is that you need to have a heart, you need to have compassion, you need to show empathy. you need to turn up, you need to be there for the families. if you don't truly understand, appreciate expect the struggles of our paper, all the plots of l vishal nation. how can you put implies workable strategies courses and of course are for this restorations, because we have says cola zation a lot going to 2022 i we still being left behind me. aboriginal criminal justice research. hannah mclean says the pathway from poverty to prison that confronts indigenous australians dates back
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to the hot during the aboriginal paypal were from the point of contact with the colonists was subjected to very crow incarceration. men from all around the state were round about whenever they resisted site laws around servitude or slavery of me today. indigenous incarceration rights continue to increase between 242014. the number of aboriginal prisoners nationally rose by 8 percent. i accept that there are too many operational people in prison. i think we have to are not britain incredibly complex problem to resolve is the system prices? i don't think. so. what we're dealing with is, as i said,
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a group of people emerging from colonization. and we have to be honest about and accept aboriginal people make up just 4 percent of western australia population with a count the 39 percent of adult prison experts, blaine, the states mandatory sentencing laws which impose minimum prison terms and don't allow judges discretion to look at a standard circumstances with an astray is a mother of all, giles say people going into prisons. people coming up the same people going in, out in out when the thought was felt for decades. indigenous israeli in to take him to the streets, protesting discrimination in the criminal justice system with little success law. but in 2020, when police brutality and black live matter rallies are wrapped it in the us also re ignited protests across the trailer. people are really very angry
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that aboriginal people are still dying in custody. and that racism and writers follow to still a big issue here that people are losing their laws. i think black lives matter has been a white call to the western or white institutions to cy. we're taking this very seriously and you need to, to raising the age of criminal responsibility has also emerged as one of the lightening rod issues of his riley as protest, movement. ambition, children as young as 10 years old can be detained. this is one of the last ages of criminal responsibility in the world. and a number of you in bodies have come down very hard on a stria and told them that 14 is the minimum age of criminal responsibility. they seem plain not listening. this 13 year old boy who will pull adam, has already been to western australia is only youth prison bank c a hill detention
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center. when i 1st went to try to act off cause are for lack goes back rule jolla. problem man's jo. he was 1st incarceration in 2019 and it's 12 short sentences, the petty offences we had keys or tom where he goes, i knew those shot. so he can like basically here and day keys keys and keys to shake. and they say, you said some of the kids were like 10 and 11 and you were 12 moral the kid traded fairly. and then you know, what things did you say that you think a kid shouldn't be subjected to 10 year olds? them back from 16 year olds. i saw when you saw
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that happen, 3 o'clock. your child out bottling rock person. anything you can stand over one, you're going to get bashed on or in the, by your class, just a quiet person. you know, don't often did you get picked on us and us leave you alone. now adam grew up in a country town in the care of his grandmother. his parents were heavy drug users who both killed themselves by the time he was 10. soon after adam began smoking marijuana and sniffing petro, why is the type drugs from young age or nurse because i am on the same among dad, died taking drugs. so i was for what i got from taking drugs. and i'm never going to see him again. so i know i just like, you know, take drugs safe or dive this pain led him to spiral out of control down
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a path of homelessness and petty it was, one night's dismayed nothing. just in that i was hungry. tier one and she didn't laugh at me back to ask me his guy say, i just do it monday to don't get 8 years. doris dear. and she's being released from youth detention. adam has returned to school and orthor. he's placed him in the custody of his 18 year old brother, who will call michael a strange for much of their childhood. both boys have spent most of their lives in bank c, a hill, or on the streets at nasa. and down to that point where the lack still of homeless person, myself, i was homeless still enough, other people just fall or whatever was in the bag. i will myself locked up. i just
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went in last semester window and sat might've replaced, account, got locked up. so i get a bed and fade because it's pretty cold out in the city. so in, in a weird way, banks here was a place in some ways of safety because you had times. yeah, sometimes we knew as nothing and you got nothing. there was a good for faith, deliberately get muscle, for instance, a sock and go on 8 and have a shower kit. proper socks come off, ate with her, and in the science look for while prison michael was 14. when he 1st entered banks, he hill detention center doesn't teach any one. a lesson doesn't really help. it just puts you, hon. and a nice expect you to sit there to the times up and then you come out and you're supposed to be a better person. let us know last year says bad. they've got a lot of people coming from what i don't at for,
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but i don't do that. they just say that you've done wrong. let's talk human bang. sure. you messed up. you go beyond bars. if you have harry, we got whole boxes of jerry and megan trying to help the boys find their face, providing them with food and housing. they say their story shows how the system is piling, young indigenous inmates what have been the crimes homelessness. they've lost their parents, they are orphans. so now with jailing children who orphans who are homeless and who are stealing to survive, know where to go? where is child protection for them? where is the system there for them? where is the government say for them? what court could thinking it's right mind that it should be jailing 12 and 13, and 14 year olds. what were the crimes? for now? the hope is that the boys getting their lives back on track. michael dreams of one day becoming a mechanic. but right now he's hands a fool just looking off to adam. i was to figure out myself probably,
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and luck on mental health. and i've got to try to do that when my little brother as well. and as far as i get myself in the stuff and do stuff good with myself, i will do it with him. what do you think of this? this life? i hired a single back just there and age, a asylum to start again for but this law. so good luck to live. the next week we gain rare access to the youth detention center when adam and michael ended up and we traveled the remote kimberly to meet those on the front line of western
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alterations by the part 2 of a special investigation. one, when a visit western destroys only youth detention center and travels to the remote out town, where many of the indigenous inmates come from one to 0. ah, ah, ah, and it shows the world and changed the us forever. but after a vengeful war and africanist on how much has changed and at what cost?
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