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the military official. and there are more than $100.00 people who are in charge of mr. berry across the country. they have area have been stretched with hospitals for everything that they need to be able to respond. most of those 100 percent. so currently i think that i said, but because it's not, i'm not going to be critically injured. the un security council has called for an end to the fighting any p o p. but a meeting to discuss the crisis has been postponed. 9 opposition groups in washington have formed an alliance against prime minister abbey, hungary as prime minister victor or ben is on a one day visit to bosnia herzegovina for a meeting with leader miller. i dick there is growing international concern after though they cannot plans to establish a separate army within the country in violation of a peace deal. at least 8 people have been killed during a stampede. emusic festival in the u. s. state of texas. dozens were trampled when

thousands of fans started moving towards the front of the stage and panic set in around $50000.00 revelers were attending the outer world music festival in houston, pro democracy activists and to don are stepping up pressure on the military to restore a civilian lead government further protest are being plans and hard to me. and the sudanese professional association has called for a general strike on sunday and monday life protests taken place right now. more than $200.00 around the world. people demanding governments to do more to tackle climate change. activists are braving heavy rain on the streets of glasgow for the cop 26 climate summit is being held and take a look at from london. excusing. large crowds are out on the streets of london for the global day of action rally. it's back to the bottom line. next. bye bye. ah,

i think i had the tipping point when we had the 1st deaf current of ours in this country or mm. and then from that it went to $1500.00 and it just kept going. as a doctor on the front line, i'm telling you we do not have enough fee. we will be using mosques, ethnic minority groups, but disproportionately affected why. and pregnant doctors and health co workers, why when they've been protected, we need to make sure that people know what's really happening. we need to ask the why. mm mm.

ah, we have a new name. the corona virus to will vocalization is officially quoted coded like gene. in the spring of 2020 health workers in britain were dying from a fall spreading your virus. reports of widespread pp shortage is a staring fit with growing numbers of doctors, nurses infected and even dying doctors and nurses were working in hospitals without enough of the protective equipment. they needed to do that job safely. one of the latest adjust off victims of the punk i make was a probably don't us booking, i believe. dunstable university hospital, mary alger, paul, a 28 year old nurse expecting her 2nd child was one of those house workers who lost her life to cove. at 19, ah, mary, i,

japan died and hospital just moments after giving birth to a baby daughter. but the death of a black health walker went beyond the tragedy of a family or a community. it exposed something crucial to understanding today's brit how it's shaped and governed by to defining forces, racism and their liberalism. what happened to marriage at home was a symptom of a diploma lakes. and it compelled, one doctor to stand up for health workers on the front line of an unprecedented public health emergency bringing mary's death to the doorstep of the british prime minister. mm hm. where is everyone i

am i was outside number 10 in april. it was exactly one week off nurse mary had passed away. i was ella, it was a one woman protest. and it was strange because i was stood outside a beautiful building outside parliament and westminster. you would have never thought that we were in a pandemic. and our leaders go walking down the same roads every day. i was walking into amy every day and that was a difference. she think that's why there was such a disconnect between what you were experience on the front line and the policies that were being made. absolutely. our ministers had no idea what was happening on the shop floor. but i could see the bodybags. what was it about the death of nurse mary that resonated with you so clearly, i think when i heard the story, the 1st thing that went through my mind was that what if this was my mother? what if this was my father? we took by quality all the time is championed by a politicians champion by our leaders. so why are we just going to sit in silence

and watch this innocent nurse pass away and to see the family behind? okay so it says here that mary edge upon grew up in garner with her mom and she came to live with her dad here in luton when she was a teenager. my dad was actually born in newton. it's one of those places that was really transformed by the immigration story in the u. k. she then studied nothing at luton university and she became a nurse at the hospital the at the hospital where she died. oh wow. her dad died of covert just 10 days before her and she died in the hospital where she worked. yeah . she lives cause it seems like a lot of the people who died very early stages of the pandemic were from ethnic

minority. yeah. yeah. you, whenever you to, in the phoebe on the machine reports of the test, often co exact. it was the health work as the doctors, nurses in rural black and brown, the rule from minority communities and but not just health workers. right? so many key workers like public transport workers, people who works in shops, delivery drivers. it's like this, this disproportionate reliance on certain groups to do certain. like like mary's dad because it says here that he had been a teacher in ghana, but then he took a manual work when he came when he came to europe. and i guess that's true for so many people who were coming from from the developing world to the wow. yeah it's, it's the story of how the west was made. if you don't have the, you know, the world that we have now without immigration, in particular in britain, you know, there is no modern britain without immigration, with those people came from the commonwealth from south asia, from the carrier who did all the work to help rebuild britain, you know it's,

it's the story. my family. my grandfather came here from india in the 1950s to work in the factories and foundries to rebuild britain, a 2nd reward. and what he learned to say in english, when he came here was any job, any shift. and off the back of that, my parents came here in the early sixties and again worked in factories and foundries and it. and here i am from that the story brittany story, immigration, i need to come home. and even when my parents, they came in the ninety's, they were refugees from somalia. so it was a bit different. no economic migrant. they burst i did back home. but when they came in, i was same kind of jobs that were forwarded to them. so your dad came here and what did he do here? it says and delivery driver here, back. i'm in studies and he was teaching. and then the war kicked off. and the heavier aspect, similar to, to mary's dad story. mary's dad's story similar to you know, what mary grew up with. it's why me now there's found herself protesting, right. and it's like the government policies in this country are set up or

not set out to help minority group it. when you look at some of the policies, particularly since the advent neoliberalism. you know, from the late seventy's through the eighty's, you can see the kind of political and economic shifts that have led to the kind of state that we're in. no, b, you can't get away from, from the re story of the immigration story, particularly. yeah. tyson, that back to empire, that moment is club at that moment when you go from empire to post imperial states . and it's like, the inequality is embedded at that very moment when people from the come of come to britain, the 1950s by the early to mid 19 fifties because of the demands on the economy from recovering after the war. there were emerging labor shortages. and so the government starts to invite people from the british commonwealth to immigrate to

the u. k. to fill in labor shortages in factories in transport, sower, less direct advertising happening in the caribbean and some parts of asia to say, well, we need people to come and drive the buses to drive the trains on to work in the underground to work in the health service, oh clean. it literally is the most colonial institute we have. i can literally would be impossible to staffed it without have nurses and doctors from overseas that there's overt and hit him discrimination in the labor market, which means some kind of work. some people can do, and some people come out. the only way that that can be done is to have this belief in, in racial superiority ins hierarchy. when's the way the western works is why the talk

is black at the bottom in his hierarchy between and that's kind of how capitalism works. it says, your job is to be a cleaner, your job has to be a driver. your job is to be a banker and it's color coded racial prejudice and racial hostility, but commonplace, but non white immigrants in britain from governor the work they did to attack somewhere they lived black and brown communities did, however, fight back standing up against violence on the streets as well as for better protections, more rights and greater equality would in the 1960s force, new government legislation, banning overt discrimination. the 1st race relations act was brought into law in 1965,

making it illegal to discriminate against anyone based on their race or color. 3 years later, however, the u. k. parliament passed the commonwealth immigrants act, shutting britons, doors to people from no white nations of the former empire. but people from new zealand, australia, and canada, countries with majority white population. this was del, allowed in britain's immigration policy, was itself coded by color. immigrant labor serviced britons booming postwar economy. that soil rising wages as well as increased provision in welfare, housing and education. but the boom wasn't to last by the late 19 seventy's. the global economy was in crisis in britain, state mismanagement and crippling trade. disputes brought production and growth to a halt. power cuts and refuse left and collected on the streets,

old to symbolic of a nation in decay. ah, fall right groups like the national front blamed immigrants, old and new for the countries, polite i and pushed for wholesale repatriation of all non white people including all those born in the u. k. ah. in 1970. 8. a year before a general election, britain was a fractured and fractious place, uncertain and up for grabs. ah, the official residential of my mother's to upgrade, but number 10, downing street, the glittering prize for the leaders of the countries political pop is that britain term to the hosting the workers are warned against the conservative takeover. led by the 1st woman, tory leader, margaret thatcher,

in an election that would decide the fate of britain, margaret thatcher, leader of the opposition. conservative party looks to claim the advantage by claiming the ground occupied by the fall, right? people are really rather afraid this country might be rosa swamped by people with a different culture. and you know, this has any fear as it might be formed. people are going to react to give all the hostile to those coming. in fact, she speaks to that sense of being under attack on very cleverly. she says, all of these feelings of insecurity and experiences of dispossession because britain in the seventy's is not a lovely place to live unemployed, to starting to rise of industries. the clock thing 1st off a strikes that's raging inflation, less loss of economic growth. she says, you know about why you feel horrible. maybe it's the cause of these swamping others

without quite explicitly saying it. she makes the whole sense of economic crisis seeing what conversational crisis the majesty queen has asked me to form a new administration. and i have accepted margaret snatches election victory in 1979, prove the value. thank politics with right now, supported by a band of ideologues called the new right. he would lay out a radical new vision for britain based on a revived ideology called neo liberalism. that was the heart of the sup to write it near liberals were in. if i small minority and they started to for most a national level, think tanks like in the u. k. the center for policy studies, the adam smith institute. but they were regarded as totally fringe and they were

not re listened to a toll until you get a political entrepreneur like margaret thatcher, who is interested in decisively resolving the crisis of the seventy's. and these ideas are sort of sitting around and they provide policy templates that she then implements sy, much of opportunity and enterprise, less tax, less regulation, more flexibility, more freedom. those will be all our guidelines. she says you have to dial down political institutions. you have to roll back democratic accountability, you have to open the market to they at least idea of market forces which means that you, cattail social forces. and a big part thought is absolutely discredit taking the idea of the welfare state that she was willing to go whole hog and tear up the post war consensus. basically

been defeating the trade unions, which she regarded as the enemy with it. and then restoring the conditions for businesses to make profit. so it is left to the market to decide which areas will flourish and prosper, which people are going to get richer, and which ones poorer britons in the cities had long been poor and home to the majority of black and brown communities. brick stone was a predominantly black caribbean area of south london, lighted by joblessness and chronic under investment. in 1981 crime was rising, young black men targets the police harassment suspected of criminal activity regardless of proof.

blacks and bricks did claim they are singled out by police on the streets subjected to body surges and often accused of having stolen anything valuable in their possession. mm weapons. embracing any one they dislike to swamped the area with the lease. they stopped and search hundreds of people over it is, were dick everybody's gazed up. there's some really rotten police done for the guy just i just saw you up and bring it on to station and bow you up for laughing. and comedians had enough. i just said, no, we're not, we're not going to take this anymore. mm hm. the local people say it was the inevitable explosion of speed by a community which feels the police have been picking on the recently this block of

3 days over billions, with people just wanted to take back the streets, could keep the police ah, and it spread across the whole country this was the liverpool suburb of talks, does things start happening elsewhere happening? birmingham happening and this is the full social media. p for just watching the mainstream. that isn't telling them the community point of view. but they understand something historic is happening. another city birth, this was bristol, and again the trouble started in a poor urban quarter with a large number of black resident. caught his eye glass if you like, cuz it was a, it was an explosion. lots of tension them building of. ah,

that's a scary moment for the bush racial consciousness. and sadly, it gets used to feed into the shred this on the st. a look were tortured with people accountable. i had not open to being civilized. they will never be british. because look, i bring this violence, but them, that's how it gets narrated. you have what we call new racism, where there is a very interesting shift from kind of the older forms of you can just be open to racist to where it becomes of that culture becomes about family. and this is the new right and it is proofing. thanks there is, you know, the writing press basically pushed the ideology of keeper in white, but make you sound host racial sound like it's not about race. it's just about family guy and he's just a bad good economic sense. but really it is that politics of racial resentment, just given by appeal

it is all architecture how you get to know liberalism, which really is based on this fear of the, on the glass, which is this the be racist idea about cultural racism of public communities. he was clicked in this so called returned to kind of victorian era social values, tradition nationalism flag waving, uneven, imperialistic rhetoric. and then the state itself was reconfigured to make it less democratic and participatory we start to see the creation of independent regulators, quasi autonomous, non governmental organizations, quangos, and various public, private, hybrid bodies to which authority, decision making, regulatory power. it is shifted. and the post war era, the commander control state, those outright nationalization the ferry sectors which were then privatized,

which is to reduce or remove democratic control on either side, because then just becomes about private decision making and private profit. you also try to weaken the role of organized labor day to princess for britain's most bitter industrial dispute. so we can talk about the demise strike and the defeat of various trade unions. ah, there's also the regulation, which means the removal of barriers to business doing what it wants. so you shift manufacturing away from britain where they're relatively high wages and welfare provision to low wage economies. alongside that, you've got the massive deregulation of financial markets domestically and internationally. so obviously big business benefits because they are the ones best

poised to exploit new market opportunities. and then because of the, the growth in the services sector of the economy, you get the emergence civic, a kind of a birching new middle class who make often very large sums of money under the new market conditions. they may be keeping one eye on the latest prices, but the cities dealers don't seem to be holding back on their favorite drink this christmas. and then there were some people who systematically lose out that lose that jobs lose the stability of rising welfare of public housing and so on. and become a kind of permanent underclass. because there was a deliberate decision made to basically throw these people to the wolves. a tax on public services and industry war away at britain struggling communities. jobs were lost, state support cut

a diagnosis of why unemployment has trebled since 1980 is not hard to find idle machines on the shop floor speak for themselves. the government was facing growing anger from a white working class, left exposed to a new harsh, near liberal reality. and at the same time, beleaguered local authorities and multi racial cities were trying to counter the harsh reality of racism by supporting their constituents with whatever funds they had available for margaret thatcher and the new right local government support for. and he racism was at once by the problem and a solution this is the key thing to say, and he writes and with the problems that that was keeping back for why people not because they can only policies, not because it was dirty and the liberalism knows because one too many immigrants and we've given them too much stuff. we've given them too much. and so now your,

your pulling the, the, if you think about what that does, you know, embracing britain is wrapping itself in the flag. this is the early expression of the cultural so what happens and what happened with touch? well, sacha has a long run of it. she has 11 years. and throughout that time she is constantly building on these near liberal ideals. and joe major comes in as her successor, but here's a break from what's happening here. so actually what you get is more privatization, you get more quangos that replace a lot of government agencies. and this continues for his whole 7 years. and as you're having this big near liberal overhaul, what you get is this increasing disparity between rich and poor. lots of people

start to get left behind. but there were some groups that prospered, right? some ethnic minorities way will to live the near liberal jury. you always get winners and losers in any system like this. there were certain south asian communities and people who made money very many ways, the exceptions. to the rule. there are exceptions to the audiology, the but there was a fragment, english communities as well. why is this like, it breaks everybody up? everybody's kind of fighting for the same resources. and at that point, because multiculturalism is an absolute fact of life, the local authorities are dedicated some funds towards multicultural policies towards on to racism or whatnot. which the you wrote to fighting, but then when you've got fragments in good south asian communities in to, you know, face groups of c muslim, do you've got the african caribbean community? no different af contributed susan carrying community. everyone's jostling for the same same family jostling for the same pot of money,

and they're all competing against each other just to try and not even get a hit, just to try and get even there. whereas before it was like the cider of political blackness right there. was this idea of political blackness in the sixties and seventies. everyone who was not, why fell under this umbrella, but that then gets broken open. some people say it's a good thing because there's no one racism. there are different racism against different groups. and at the same moment you have somebody like tony blair coming in and you had this like big election campaign in 1097. and the slogan was, things can only get better. i guess the question is, which kind of routes he took and what the things really did get better for people in this country. the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain,

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