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the big picture is coming up next season by ah, i think i had the sitting point when we had the 1st deaf current of ours in this country. and then from that it went to attend today. $1500.00 and it just kept going. as a doctor on the front line, i'm telling you we didn't have enough p p. we would be using mosques. mm. ethnic minority groups were 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. mm. we need to ask why.

mm. mm mm ah, we have a new name. corona vonner. well, phone conversation is officially quoted how big like jean, in the spring of 2020 health workers in britain were dying from a fall spreading new virus. reports of widespread p. p shortage is a stirring 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 on any interestof victims of the comp time it was a probably don't us booking. i believe i'm comfortable university hospital. mary

azure paul, a 28 year old nurse expecting her 2nd child was one of those health workers who lost her life to cove. it 19 mary edge of home died and hospital just moments after giving birth to a baby daughter. but this death of a black health wilka 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 2 defining forces, racism and their liberalism. what happens, marianne to problem was a symptom of, of diploma late and compelled one doctor to stand up for health was 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 the nurse, mary had passed away. i was out alone. 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 walking down the same roads every day. i was walking into amy every day and that was a difference. you 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 body bags. 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 as champion by our leaders. so why are we just going to sit in silence and watch this innocent nurse pass away and defeat the family behind? okay so it says here, but 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 that she 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

cobra just 10 days before her and she died in the hospital where she worked. yeah. she lives. it seems like a lot of the people who died very early stages at the pandemic were from ethnic minority. yeah. yeah. you, whenever you turn the tv on the machine reports of the test or from co exact, it was the health work as the doctors and nurses in a 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 jo, 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 are coming from, from the developing world to the way. yeah. 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, and particularly in britain, you know, there is no modern britain with 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 as 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 in the early sixties and again worked in factories and foundries and it own here i am from that the story brittany story, immigration, i need to support. 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 the delivery driver here, back came in studies and he was teaching. and then the war kicked off and wrote heavier stuff, 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 various 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 get. 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 cal 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 commonwealth come to britain, the 950 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. so are those 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 and the health service the energy literally is the most colonial instituted we have a gig literally would be impossible to staff did without and 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 racial superiority is hierarchy. when's the way the wise firms works is why the talk is black at the bottom in this hierarchy in between. and that's kind of how capitalism works. it says, your job is to be a cleaner. your job is to be a driver. your job is to be a bunker and it's color coded racial prejudice and racial hostility, but commonplace been non white immigrants in britain from governor the work they did to a tax on where they lived. black and brown communities did, however, fight back standing up against violence on the streets as well as put 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 britain. his door was to people from no white nations of the former empire, but people from new zealand, australia, and canada, countries with majority, white population, was still allowed in. britain's immigration policy was itself coded by color. immigrant labor serviced britons booming postwar economy that saw 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. how a cuts and refuse left and collected on the streets, old to symbolic of a nation in decay. fall right groups like the national front blamed immigrants, old and new for the countries plight. and pushed for wholesale repatriation of all non white people including all those born in the u. k . ah. in 1978. a year before a general election britain was a fractured and fractious place. uncertain and up for grabs. ah, the official residential, the prime minister of great, but number 10, downing street,

the glittering prize for the leaders of the countries political pop is of britain terms to the hosting the workers are warned against the conservative takeover. led by the 1st woman tore lida 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 of this country might be wrong swamped by people with a different culture. and you know, this has any fear as it might be spawn, people are going to react to give all the hostile to those coming. in fact, speaks to that sense of being under attack and 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 an interest rates o'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 because of that. the swamping of us without quite explicitly saying it. she makes the whole sense of economic crisis seeing what can racial crisis. the majesty the queen has asked me to form a new administration and i have accepted margaret nachos 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 saturate project near liberals were in,

if i small minority 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, a sort of sitting around and they provide policy templates that she then implements a tie, much of opportunity and enterprise, less tax, less regulation, more flexibility, more freedom. those will be our guidelines. she thank you, have to dial down political institutions. you have to roll back democratic accountability, you have to open the market to the least idea of market forces, which means that you, cattail social forces and

a big part that 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. with blacks in brexton 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 weapons. in britain, in a one they decide to swamp the area with the lease. they stopped and search hundreds of people over to him in israel. dick everybody's gazed up. there's some really rotten police done for x. the guy just, i just saw. yup. and bring it on to station and back you up for laughing and comedians had enough. i just said no, 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 them recently as part of free days over billions, where 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 live and this is the full social media piece, such as watching the mainstream. that is not telling them the community point of view. but i understand something historic has happened. another city birth. this was bristol. and again the trouble started in a poor urban quarter with a large number of black residues caught his eye glass if you like,

because it was a, it was an explosion. lots of tension them building up. that's a scary moment for the bush racial consciousness. and sadly, it gets used to feed into fish, racism sank below or tortured with people accountable. i had not. oh, come to being civilized. they will never be british. because look, i bring this violence with them and 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 erases. it becomes a mat culture becomes about family and this is the new right and it is proofing. thanks there is, you know, at the right place basically pushed the ideology of hebrew way to make you sound host racial sound like it's not a bad race. it's just about family guy, he's just

a bad good economic sense. really. it is that politics of racial resentment, just given b, p r that is all, all he thinks of how you get to know liberalism, which really is based on his fear of the underclass, which is this deeply erases idea about cultural racism, of, of poor black community. 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 participated. 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 is shifted. and the post war era, the commander control state,

those outright nationalization the fairies sectors which were then privatized, which is to reduce or remove democratic control and 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 be safe for britain's most bitter industrial dispute. so we can talk about the, the mines strike and the defeat of various trade unions. there's also the regulation, which means the removal of barriers to business doing what it wants. so you've 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 burgeoning new middle class to 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 was 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 it was a deliberate decision made to basically throw these people to the wolves,

a tax on public service as an 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 race as them by supporting their constituents with whatever funds they had available for margaret thatcher in the new right. local government support for anti racism was at once by the problem and a solution. this is the key thing to say look, and he writes in with the problem that that was keeping back for white people. not

because of that, his economic policies and because of austerity in the liberalism now is because wanted too many immigrants into we've given them too much stuff we've given them took too much of a heads up. and so now your, your falling behind if you think about what she does, you know, embracing britishness, wrapping herself in the flag. this is the early expression of the cultural so what happens and what happened with touch again? 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 your major comes in as her successor, but he doesn't break from what's happening. 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, right? as 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 an to racism or whatnot which the new right to fighting. but then when you've got fragments in gov, south asian communities in to, you know,

face groups of seek muslim, do you've got the african caribbean community? no different african communities and caribbean 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 fall under this umbrella, but that then gets broken up and some people say it's a good thing because there's no one racism or a 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. the slogan was, things can only get better. i guess the question is which kind of route he took and where the things really dig better for people in this country

the on both coasts, the u. s. with his active at the moment and maybe the most active is this. he is massive clad. that's an area of low pressures been giving heavy rain to florida, south carolina, particularly in charleston. very high tides because you got the wind added to it. that's just going up through north carolina, then probably go off shore and take the weather with it, leaving behind still chill the client, whether on the pacific coast it's rain or snow depending on whether you in the cascades or whether you're on the coast, which is not unusual, that'll spread some rain further south into a california in the middle. it's just cold, not specially so if anything happens to rise, a toronto is warming up a little and he's dry, texas and quite warm. in houston 25. there's a lot of persistent shad sandstorms, they've been around for a while. they're still there in the bahamas, going down towards the texan keiko's through eastern south cuba, jamaica i'm particular honduras and nicaragua that seasonally known. but again,

it's stuck. it's given the potential for flooding moves down towards costa rica. there's recently be flooding in the seats, no rains for the south, but in columbia, almost over the border in ecuador, washing away a couple of hires. isn't this what it just the underground walls? there's more rain to come in the same area. the threat continues. ah, ah, god, rocks prime minister survives an assassination attempt after an armed drawn targets his house in bagdad. but he's on hold. for the other, i'm kimbell. this is al jazeera log from doha also coming up.