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at the seeds on social media, he and colleagues singing sir nationalist folk songs in their sorry, over headquarters. it was a reminder that the u. s. sponsored peace in bosnia did not bring ethnic harmony, nor did it come with any long term guarantee. jonah, how al jazeera, ah hello, are you watching al jazeera and these are the top stories this alum, uganda president is called a meeting of the east african block on november 16th to discuss the conflict in ethiopia, the year long conflict between the central government, nov. integrate rebels has escalated sharply from the government to declare a state of emergency. the u. s. embassy in ethiopia is allowing non emergency staff members to leave the country. wanting ethic violence could happen without warning. when it comes to ethiopia, let me make the point that we are gravely concerned by the escalating violence,
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by the expansion of the fighting that we've seen in northern ethiopia and in regions throughout the country. we are concerned with a growing risk to the unity and the integrity of the therapy and state talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal are scheduled to resume at the end of this month . indirect negotiations between all signatories in vienna stoled last june. after abraham racy won the iranian presidential election. meanwhile, iran is mocking the 42nd anniversary of the u. s embassy takeover in tehran. these live pitches iranian students, stone, the u. s embassy in 1979, spiking a hostage crisis that lasted more than a year. at least one person has died in iraq after a massive outbreak of food poisoning, more than 500 people became sick. and my son, providence, it's not yet clear what caused the outbreak and investigation has rolled out, tap water, sanitation problems, a fast food restaurant has been closed as a precaution and samples are being analyzed. the u. k. government says dozens of
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with the option of extending it for another 15 days without congress's approval, with detailed coverage for his rights groups in southeast asia, say they confirmed about the rise in reported cases of poll working conditions from around the world government, unsecured agencies up describe the recent incident as planned with the aim of this story below the country. ah, hi, anthony ok to dale the stream we check in on afghans. he said afghanistan back in august. when western forces left and the taliban took over, how are they doing? this is now he'd some midi ball ram. she gave testimony to congress just last month . it was an emotional experience. have a look, have a listen. knowing people do not have
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a simple put to heat up being a simple then at on my dining table has been very difficult. sorry. going people do not have access to their bank account. and i being able to get my paycheck has been ready to pick up so i think it's it's a time for us to understand the importance of humanitarian. it's part of honest on and knowing that we should not let the people suffer any more. joining us today, we have a rash hum into a new lab. they're going to explain why they are so relevant to today's conversation. a rash, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to audi it's hi everyone, my name is alex. as other i may african american community organizer based in los
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angeles, california. and i would say i'm a product of this placement. my parents were evacuated much like the other guests were except they were evacuated and became rapid. refuse the 1980s. think how to handle hummel's tele, international audience, who you are? what you do have what you're bringing to the show today. thank you for me for having me in the show. my name is how many amadi i'm a blogger and freelance journalist. i got evacuated on august 23rd, and i arrived in us on august 27th. as part of the american air lift mission. and so i wasn't the camp or for $45.00 days and i've worked less and it's been 20 days that i am out. it out of the cam, and i'm currently based on a silver spring maryland. oh,
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thank you. welcome to the stream. we're going to pay more about your experiences over the last couple of weeks. very soon, the lab, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to our audience. thank you so much for having me on the shore. my name is neela silva and i was evacuated in august. our i arrived here in the united states on the 27th of august and i am based in fairfax virginia right now. thank you. me love. all right, so if you're watching right now and you're on youtube, what would you like to either ask or share with the afghans who are on ash oh, today they have re settled in the us. what would you like to ask them? the comment section is here, i will do my best of what your comments in today's show. i'm it. if you were going to be truly, truly honest, very candid. how is resettlement going, the you well, i mean,
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i mean it's definitely better after a very long time of this thing. and the cams around $45.00 days. i mean, finally i sold, i started to feel relieved. a little bit knowing that i'm, i'm, i'm getting resell and one of the american cities, so that, that it was a big relief actually. but the thing is, the resettlement has its own challenges. it's not easy. we need to go through a very long and sometimes slow going process of resettlement. there are some problems because i think it's the nature of any kind of resettlement, any, any part of the world because it's not easy to to feel like home where you go to a foreign country to get settled. i think a part of the problem is natural. we need to go through the experience but also i
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think due to a large number of in the backseat, it recently and the low number of agency. i kind of you but there are some problems. i think the there are some problems in terms of housing. i can see, i mean i'm in touch with other africans who got out of the camp recently. the also have some issues with the housing and other issues. so i think in my case i still, i still don't have my own apartment yet because you know, you need to face some problems if you don't have credit history with the ran thing and leaving and stuff. so you kind of face this kind of because how thing is the one of the most important one that i would say is the 1st thing that we need to oh yes, in order to get to resettle. so there are some problems in terms of housing,
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and there are some problems in terms of we don't know yet when we're going to get her social security number. we don't know yet when we're going to get our work permit. so these are some issues that i think we all afghans, sure, as, as, as africans who got out of a rush this, these are all every day and train points for life in america. but when you start to break it down, what you can't do, if you don't have information on the document, can you explain that for international audience? well, i think, you know, these are obviously challenges that anybody faces, regardless of whether they're refugees, you're marginalized personally, united states. these are things you deal with. but also if you're somebody who's attempting to find a living wage earner,
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affordable housing somewhere in the united states, it's going to be in it. you know, obviously these african refugees have the obstacles they get in the way of them in regards to having to be displaced. having to find a human big me the and safety and refuge here in the united states. and then they come here where there's just, there was a level of unpreparedness. the evacuation that happened in august was ad hoc. it was not prepared. and that's why the other guys on this show, you know, and other so many other thousands of africans had said that military base and have a very uncomfortable stay where they had to know where to close that they fled with what day they had to not have access, for example, one of the issues that we're dealing with this access to, to when they're clothing. because they are essentially sleeping and ad hoc and tense across military bases in places like wisconsin where we understand it can get
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a very old and new winters. and so these are just obstacles that, that these folks are facing. and that's just the short term view. that's the issues we're dealing with in november and december of 2021. and then some of the issues that we're trying to assist as a community organization, as community members, is getting folks from settled making the mrs. success story in the united states. there are many obstacles. many of them are a governmental because the united states government on a basis, federal and state level has mad enough to accommodate. i am going to show our audience on my laptop, the states receiving afghan refugees. some of the biggest states here in california over 5000 afghans in california right now in texas over 4000 in florida over a 1000 and look at the northern states. it's already getting
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a little chilly around the dc area, which is here, which is red. ne love is, but up in the northern states, if you, if you fled from of garrison in august, can you imagine what, what do you have? what do you have with you if you're up in the northern states here? i would love to new lab, you sent us some pictures of your journey from afghanistan to the united states. i'm going to start with one at the airport. will you talk us through what happened? let's start with that 1st picture. what are we seeing here in the lab? well, it was one of the traumatic experience of my life. when we arrived to this point, and i took this picture of, i was so exhausted and tired. my kids for this is my oldest daughter, santa. and you can tell from her face, out for years and now tired,
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she look because we see some really green condition, a sense we decided to leave off on a while. it was in transit while it was on the way to the airport on board. although, i mean, throughout the evacuation process, it was like really hard. it was extremely hard, but i as one of our friends, it was an ad hoc, the response to the very particular emergency situation. but however, i mean, i was competing. what's happening in this picture here? well, this picture has a good story because that's my son, omar. the other one is malala. yeah. and my oldest one. 0 my told me that look at a mommy you said that the us soldiers are leaving and there will be
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a war in the country. look, there are here all ready and they have all the immune nation and everything. so why they just don't go out of the 4th? oh yeah, it was the for me it was the i didn't know parents would like to. i would like for their children to experience such a thing. but unfortunately, my children went through this experience and hopefully it will have some positive things for them in the coming future. more shots i want to show this is on a military across tell me more about that part of the journey. yes, this was the aircraft that we came by. it was basically packed. it was a cargo airplane. so we were packed just of materials and the good thing was when the, when we just moved into the plane,
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the officers officers and the people there would say move forward, move forward because your sisters and brothers are waiting outside and we have to evacuate them as well, so that's a sentence would give us more strength and we would just even shrink ourselves and make more places renewed. what's, what's happening outside and we had to deal with it and we had to accommodate. i want to bring in a new voice into our conversation. this is jennifer's voice. jennifer is basically calling out the united states, the not being prepared, not being ready to help the afghans that had to flee the country. this is what she told us earlier. how many i would love you to comment of the back of jennifer's video of the night? it stays has long been preparing to withdraw from afghanistan. united states was
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not prepared at all to deal with a massive influx of afghans that were going to come as part of the resettlement process. it's very difficult for afghan still to apply for asylum. it's very expensive for them to do so they have to go to 3rd country. people are stuck in a bureaucratic mess. it is so hard. and so i mean, they're in line. and you so many of these regulations with the signature, his pen, and he chooses not to do so. and we don't understand why, how many, when you arrive to go, can't they? we're still building it. i think that was, that was really true because of the influx of afghans who got evacuated from afghanistan. i was, i mean, immense. and that's obvious that the american government was not really prepared for such a mound of african refugees pouring into the u. s. and the other,
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you know, processing centers and middle east europe. i think the influx of africa is actually out, i think out pays the, the, the screening process and other other process. and because every africans they need to go through and go through a different layers of screening, my waiting process and medical chair. so do you know the process in terms of logistical problem? i think that was a big challenge for the american government. would you mind with all what i would you might excuse me, would you mind if i bring up one point that you shad online on twitter that was a logistical issue. and, and, and you helped solve a problem for the camp and just coming to my laptop at not complaining, this is how met. but this is what i caught last night for dinner. and the next meal
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is 12 hours later refugee life might be safe, but never easy and favorable for place el paso, texas. and that was your dinner. yeah ma'am. so they need to give a little bit context of these. this mean the exact meal as the from the 1st few days i, i was, i just arrived at the camp and i was one of the 1st, you know, life that i came into the cam. so this situation was not really good and that's not, that's not me. that's not just me saying that that's what i think that's what the camp officials are. would also say that you're not really prepared. i could see as we came at the camp. the tents were being made, the more the facilities are being improved. so all the things that
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we see when like when they came out of the cam, it was a totally different camp. you know, when i, when i compared to when i entered the cam so. so this is a very long process of installing the facilities and all of the mixture, hands on all the discipline order, and everything was a, has a gradual improvement which is good. we actually, the part of our contribution was the fact that a lot of africans included our in our team. we actually formed a group of wine shooters to kind of have a contribution. and so forward to the offshore, to the camp officials because they need, they needed feedback on how to get the, how they can improve the condition in the camp and how they can connect to the
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athens and get those feedback. i think we, we serve as a bridge between the africans and when the camp offshore. and i think this is mean a mean of communication between africans, officials. i think that it helped a lot to bring some improvements and the condition of the cam. i ration going to move on to i'm going to share this video comment was he that comes from she reesa abernathy. she is an immigration attorney and she talks about the challenge of finding let me say status, what is your status and the stress of not knowing what your status is as an afghan refugee in the united states? his yes. unless we have legislation pass that will grant the afghans permanent residency status, the biggest, biggest challenge that the africans associates will be in the coming months in the coming year as they start to leave the u. s. government facilities because they are
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all for all on girls. that as a temporary status, which grant them unauthorized period of stay only 2 years, they will need to seek alternative routes to a green card either through the program, through their family members or in the alternative through a silent youngins will also be subject to the same rules the same laws as everyone else here, either some kind of temporary or permanent residency or just wondering how many afghans are in the united states who slides in the past few months? do we know, do we have an estimate? i think the rough estimate that we've been hearing whether that's, you know, more informal, informal conversations. we're having, we're refugee reset them in organizations department of homeland security. we're looking at roughly a $100000.00 and folks and 3rd, united states and in some capacity. and sharif actually makes it really great point, and this is one of the advocacy points that we're focused on,
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especially in these weeks and coming next week, we're spending some days virtually on capitol hill, the advocate afghans who have entered a country where you manage their role which is just the way to enter the country to seek asylum. it's not a pathway to legal status. it's not an ability to get a green card. it's not an ability to have a pathway towards eventually citizenship. and you know, you know, jennifer and me the point earlier to divide administration can do a lot. administrative. congress has an obligation, a moral one and a political one as well. to pass legislation. pass benefits for release. enter the country up until 2022. anyway. what they can do is take this even further and create a pathway to legal status, to citizenship, to bring har folder for asking for a country so that they can become part of the america fabric. they are here any way
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you know there, whether they are sitting on military basis or whether they are in virginia and silver spring, maryland, or somewhere here in california somewhere. and sy, over america, well they'll be entering and being and be part of new community. this past weekend i saw a video of 3 young children. all teens are younger who obviously do not really have the ability to speak english, but they were true. the trick or treating are already. and so every part of them there, you know, they are, but they're about to go through what i entered, which is this like complex will identity. and there's, there's that to be navigated as well. but why can the, like the policy makers in congress in the white house make this so much easier by allowing them become part of the american fabric i. rash need 100. we have so many questions for you. this is going to be the speed round instant
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questions, instant says, alright, this one is on twitter in the lab, you take this one very simple on twitter. she's on my laptop here, adapt and integrate. just that phrase, adapt and integrate. can you relate to that or do you want to get some push back? yes, actually, it's to a great word at that and integrate with that, but we are already doing. but i'm so fortunate because i and my family have were able to come to the united states in 2017, and we got our official member and we started in 2017. and that's how we got our green card. so we were coming and going back and forth. so pretty much we adopted many things that we had to do and my children the same way. and my children were very lucky, unfortunate to go to an international cooling cobble where they got to learn the
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language. and now they're adopting pretty well. but i'm still worried for the kids and for the children who came from rural areas of afghan, a son the might to face a lot of challenges and to go to adapt and to integrate in this new culture a new everything is completely new for them. yeah, i think it's very important point to adapt to and integrate, but it's not a single rents. you know, it's a very long process for especially for those. and i know that i don't know the exact statistics, but i would say i would, i would saying that the majority of africans will lead on are now, here are those africans to be 0 english. i mean, this is the, this, this, that the 1st step to, you know,
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sort of adapt and integrated. and they really need to go through a layers of challenges. first. they have language barriers, they, they would face pose for shock and american communities. and i think this a very long term process it's, it's not that it's not that against wooden light to adapt and integrate. but i think we need to be patient, at least for a majority of africans to so sort of they need infrastructure. they need education, they need her trainings, danny, they need to be need to have, you know, other services until they, and what they kind of feel themselves are into them and american communities and start to adopt an interview. so for part of a school already worked with the americans or either american government or
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american age years, it could be much easier to adapt and it's great, but the still is a very long term pass. say i want to show something to you and guests and also audience. there was a pole that was done quite recently about american public opinion. what they felt about afghans who had worked with the u. s. forces who are in the united states and what they felt about afghans who had not worked with the us forces and as a very big difference there in public opinion and where the support lies. i'm sure that you will actually see that in the lab and how made an irrational work and in your, your daily life. i have a look here, my laptop, this is the international rescue committee, and they ask something that you actually ask every time we do a show like this, how can i welcome afghans to my community? you can donate, you can volunteer. you can translate, you can house a refugee family, you can hire a refugee if you're
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a business owner. so many ways to help a rash, ha met, neal app. thank you so much, being part of the string today. appreciate you. thanks for watching. phoenix. ah. kira by a pacific island mason rapidly falling, beg him to rise in e level as president skilfully commanding the stage of climate change. diplomacy, who do we appeal to for our people's rights to survive? and the challenge of climate change that can secure the future. they seem to be dateless people. what he's going to happen to us to be the fate of the will for whitney. for now did you talk to? i'll just 0 we. how would you this like relationship with the us?
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