sharing people's most intimate moments when you investigate software is by coming the damage on al jazeera. ah hello, there, i'm this darcy attainder. how at the top stories here on out as era ethiopians prime minister abbey off med has now been sworn in for a 2nd term. he's facing some of the biggest challenges of his political career, including the conflict and t gray and the recent kidnapping of nearly a 150 people in the west. katherine soy is in nairobi and neighboring kenya with more. this is what many is philippines are talking about. they say the priority of the prime minister a should be to deal with the security situation in the country. we're not just talking about those incidence that incidents our inventory go go moves,

we're seeing an ethnic conflict in different other parts of the country. are we talking about a t cry where there's an ongoing conflict that people are saying is getting out of hand and is spreading beyond the borders of the gray into our neighboring regions of afar? and i'm hora. we've seen a, if you is complaining of a government blockade, denying millions of people into gray who are in farming our humanitarian assistance . now the government says that it has allowed human is our human italian 8 and hindered humanitarian access a to t gray. but we have hard also from our agencies saying that and this process is taking too long, our there is a lot of red tape in the government needs to do better. so a lot of ethiopian really says that the prime minister are be ahmed, needs to 1st still with the security situation. the ethnic divisions that we're seeing on the economy in ethiopia is struggling. if european has had

a very strong economy, we are seeing a lot of diplomatic tensions between a few candidates key our lives like the us. so people saying that the prime minister, who 1st came to power in a very favorable position, needs to do better to regain the confidence of the people of the future. now sudanese government has warned that the country is about to run out of medicine, fuel and wheat because of the closure of its main port. protesters have blocked roads around port sued on against what they say is a lack of political power and poor economic conditions. in the region law saturday, you recall they shut down a pipeline that carries oil to the capital cartoon. nominator is on the ground for us in the eastern city of ports. you don, very little activity going on our old sit on the beach. a tribesman will pro, testing will the coal marginalisation by the government, the but it created the gates to the whole with huge rocks and also have lined the

gates to the polt a with protest, this wall holding homes through sure that nothing exists or nothing. and post the port, there was a little additional from the government led by competent ministers. and the only thing of the base of negotiations that they were able to go back with was yes to the export tusham of salts, sudanese oil from these pool. now are you an investigation? says all sides and libya's conflict have committed violations that may amount to war crimes. it details, accounts of murder, torture enslavement and rape. libby has been mod by conflict since the death of its former rude m lama gadhafi back in 2011. with rival administrations fighting for power british prime minister bars, johnson says the recent fuel shortages and rising costs are an adjustment period for the u. k. military personnel have started delivering supplies to petrol

stations across britain. a leak of financial documents has exposed what said to be the secret assets and dealings of some of the wilds richest people. they include jordan's king, the presidents of russia, as a by john, as well as a former british prime minister. jordan's royal palace has denied that any improper pouch says were made saying that the king had personally purchased the property is and no funds from the state budget nor treasury had been used. the pallor says these properties are not publicized out of security and privacy concerns. and not out of secrecy or an attempt to hide them. now south korea says it's restored communications channel with north korea young, cut the hotline in august and protest against military drills that sol conducted with the us. well, those the headlines next. it's witness. ah,

[000:00:00;00] check . and my job is to go around the world, investigate different housing issues and to the see how are people ferrying with respect to the right to housing. but maybe you could tell me a bit about how you came to meeting to have around strike for me personally,

i have a most problem. i have a top roach problem. i've got things that need to be repaired in the building. they withhold services. they run you around in circles, they frustrate you, you get that up. you just want to leave. but where we can ago but ran situation all over toronto's the same way. there is an addiction by another name. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather harassing the bill. birkhead aside on her, she had a side on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened to victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tendency. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you has committed an illegal act as a series critic, ality. yeah. on my record legal action, guns and drugs is oh my god, a shame after her with arden arden category there. yeah. so this was based on the

banner. yeah. you know, we're not bad mouthing room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. yeah. they own 19 buildings in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings is to give people like us. so neighborhoods getting gentrified up, you know, familiar with liberty village. it's moving. it's come right up to king and duffer and, and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor, and we're in the way. ah ah

ah, no, i own. i only go here so one night said or go 11. so that churn did you go directly to the chart in the greater toronto area, for example, in the last 30 years, housing prices have increased by 425 percent. whereas in a similar 30 year period, average family income has only grown by a 133 percent. so something else is in play and clearly it's not the economic fundamentals, as you can see from the above graph. so are you going to send the soil or 9 am? i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty grim.

ah, i think we are at a incredibly urgent moment. d extent to which where c urban ization collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. but then you also have the middle class. i'm able to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for city in i don't wanna over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities? who are cities for? ah,

it's not rocket science enough. what do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing has one of those things. and it's supported by international long. mm hm. kennedy heights. family is just hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced out on the strings. problem. housing is gobbling up more shrinking paychecks. people and 59 out of 102 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy a house in their country. there are 2 histories we might say that intersect to day in that space that we call to city

and one of them is familiar aisha, which is so what we have for which we have use a term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's much more foundational. a fill in even though. so then either way i see that in the now i don't i, we're in the home of an older woman breaker or is being pressured to abandon her home because it's in the midst of the big new development here. there was a hospital, it's been demolished and it was demolished to make way for condominiums, luxury condominiums,

and they don't even own this land. i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos, and last because no one in both parties so can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so these developments are clearly not for the people about 8th them. mm hm. oh, you know what you did in the for me so it was you don't, nobody can wait on a saturday. you don't have anybody that only with me, but i know you're not a photo husband. i don't know about it. well this is what i'm seeing happening around the world by and up of land, the displacement of the poorest people and the putting up of luxury in

it or not actually for the people who live in the community. i own a person on the. 2 contact for not being to conduct their stuff. i you hayden, a 10th of a demo, a motion to my nightmare. we've had no heat all through april, no hot water through april. there's water leaking underneath the new owners and taken over. we haven't met some, we haven't seen them. we don't know anything. it could be frosty. the snowman, for all i know. are trying everything to be sent off. i mean that you what i'm what you want it. as i mean, i've been ganging this is where i grew up now and

i, you know, i'll be hell bent and balance. i'm going to be study here. we go . all right. i have with you. thank you very much. yeah. i was way out and maybe not, you know, when you go somewhere originally, notting hill, cuz i've heard about the field with like about this areas is the community, you know, you'll frame solve them all face all colors. i mean,

there's one with the family, the cases even if he doesn't know each other, we know to her by faith. i was born just 5 minutes from here at in the seventy's and eighty's and seen oh, area change of some pop stars and people moving into the area because they, they light. the vibe to live is really cool. the people seen the will. the film that come out from all around the world, they want to see where the blue doors they want to see this. that the bookshop, it became very, very trendy places to live. and then the new school ledger center that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area. and then they stop by and up properties that the to live there. but you know,

because they saw fantastic investment for them. ben and put in the bank who are forced to stop on the highlight tour of london to talk to see properties. these 2 properties are worth perhaps 20000000 pounds each. i believe mister paid something in the region of 40 or 50000000 pounds for it. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot in london. there was, ah news agents, there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants, but the community itself has evaporated to leave the press of i 94. if i so my so i could not live in kids and shall say, i'll be forced out the area. and i'll have to actually 40 move out of london. i can stand in the middle of the street with aunt car parking spaces all around me

and no traffic coming. the space is now a bit of a dead. so we have very little indication of who the owners are, and a lot of them are completely empty. so you can't go up and ask them who they are. they're actually just empty all the time. ah one way of putting it is, this is not at all about housing. ah, that building they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused because you can play with them. i mean these dark empty buildings and they are

making money. so when people think of poor investor, something went wrong. hell, know who? my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon of vacant dwellings. i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged in the human rights framework and through the u. n. system, it's very clear who was accountable states state are responsible, they have international human rights obligations, they sign treaties and they make commitments to the international community that they will uphold international human rights, which include the adequate housing. ah, no, that's a real block. i was to leave banked hall to my

door and then i open the front door as as a blanket oh, black smoke. i'll just close the door. very calmly thinking of a fire. ah, with right now it was the beginning of the file. we're still, we need for 2 and a half hours. that's the beginning. that's when i heard about it. i was in canada and watching it unfold, 3, twitter and then i started getting these details. social housing

estate, marginalized community community, sat in a very rich, affluent burrow allegations of poor housing conditions from before the fire. ah, can i see an arm here come through this month? i can grab my wife and then another on the i was like come to grab myself. said, how about my dog, my dog, the officer said no, i'm sorry. we're gonna have to go. so just look to my dog. and i this is an amazing dogs, mild lot. my child is a to you o. b, who could lewis hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name, given the options need, like louis oak saw his and

then we will off into the darkness. and then on going down and then on treading on things free. oh, they must have the water pipes already in the stairwell. but then the realization know i figured people off on treading on own i'm bodies on treading on something. something this is that is in my way, i was actually quite happy when they put clad in to make it pretty make it look nicest for the surrounding area. and somebody knew that that dirt on the cheek. there were these elements that seemed to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community,

most of the people in the rental working, but they're working poor literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people and my credible amount of wealth the tension between the 2 and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the i had one of the counselors, while the counselor said, if you can't live in no inhaled asia neutral, being milledgeville was all about to say several other did you get, we'll go from. so he's not, he would, i live, they all their lives. i just mean like tree like that me and this will limit make me sick. you want to why priest estimate well just disregard them like their rubbish, like they've that file it has, but there's like this. i was like,

you know, this is the richest town in the maryland. how can i help him? oh, you have human rights obligations. he and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights, every single person has a bunch of rights. and then i have a question for you. and that is a, you are legal scholar on human rights. you just okay, yes, right? you have the instrumentality that is the law. exactly. because when i see is those with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening? lou prices go up in a neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands that part. and then they should understand that at that point, another actor might come into the picture,

a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is incomprehensible. who is this to what is happening here? ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is hugely problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right? problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as the commodity gold is not a human right. housing is ah, we'll talk with somebody huh. wow. use them to you. well, the previous landlords,

i think was c a c d. i think they did put information up. let a, let us know that the bill did, the conflict is going to be sold. but this is before phil, phil office, who came it? do you know who is fairfield? i don't know who they are from what i'm told to pay a bill is a subsidiary of um, is it blackstone? right. private equity firm? yes, exactly. they want to raise each. each carmine the rent up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by margin. and are you going to be able to pay that? i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say niche. it is, there is no way a we have one ago. i don't have a clue. i don't know. right. and are you mind me asking, are you employed design? yeah. and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent 9190? actually go right. yes. 9090 percent. and do you consider that affordable for you?

no. was not it. i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense resonate and really get at that issue? i'm still looking. i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. oh, so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field. the 1st title, find out. i noticed when i came here was lisa or a little admitted the opening hours. they filled out and, and thought they are willing to, to me from and this is 3 hours or week am on tuesday. so every time an appointment is vacant, they thought they renovation, whereby they can increase the rents. wheeler of flea, 50 percent. but these are increased,

rents have no connection at all to the actual costs. why this is very, very profitable for them. new finance is very dish from the bank. we only banks, that's fine. so you know it's sell something. we pay money for the finance is totally different. i always say finance. so something it does not and that means at finance is basically an extract finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs, it doesn't care what happens with the rest the value of all real estate, that functions as an asset is $217.00 trillion

dollars. that's more than global g, d, p of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world. ah, they're highly kennel flashed extractions because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments that nobody who's not in that business can understand it. so complex that we delegate to the experts who are the experts, is the financial sector itself. mm. talk to al jazeera, we ask what gives you hope that it is going to be peace because the situation on the ground seems to be pointing otherwise we listen. we were never on the. 3 whatever road to off migration we meet with global news makers and talk about the

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