ah, we know what's happening in our region, we know have them get completed that others and not if there's a thing going on we've, if you tell the story, isn't what can make a difference, lou? hello, there understands it. a and her with the headlines for you here on out as era. the army general who lead a military take over and sued on last month says he will not be part of the future government. after the transitional period, speaking exclusively to al jazeera other phys alba hand says he is committed to a smooth democratic transition. once elections are held in 2023. last month the military took power, dissolved the civilian arm of the government and declared a state of emergency nor allowed them. it is our pledge a pledge we made to ourselves, the sudanese people and the international community that we are committed to

completing the democratic transition, holding elections on time, and committed to not stopping any political activity as long as it is peaceful and within the bounds of the constitutional declaration and the past that have not been suspended. we also ask the international community to look at the issue critically and through the reality and wait to see what we do. we are committed to handing over power to civilian government, a government of national competency, and we pledged to preserve the transition from any interference that can hinder it . although counting as underway in nicaragua, where president daniel ortega is expected to win a 4th consecutive term, the u. s. has denounced the pole as a pantomime or take a jailed 7 challenges and 40 opposition figures ahead of this vote. and the government of neighboring costa rica says it won't recognize the poll. hundreds of thousands of people rallied across ethiopia and supportive government forces. battling a rebel advance to ryan rebels,

have captured strategic towns along the highway to the capital, and threatened to move on, addis ababa. china's routing communist policy is holding a key leadership meeting and beijing present. she's in being is expected to further cement is authority. the meeting will also lay the groundwork for the 2022 congress where she will seek a thud term, hundreds of top party officials, including state leaders, ministers, and military chiefs. all attending registration will open for candidates in libby as presidential and parliamentary elections and the coming hours. december's vote would be the 1st time libyans had directly elected a president since the overthrow of mamma gadhafi. these polls are part of a un backed clan, which is trying to unite the rival east and west administrations. well, those are the headlines. they'll be more news here with rob on al jazeera after the big picture to stay with us who

i think i hit the sitting point when we had the 1st deaf current of ours in this country or and then from that it went to their 10 dusty 100 deaths, 500 and it just kept going. as a doctor on the front line, i'm telling you, we do not have enough p p. we will be using mosques. ethnic minority groups were disproportionately affected. why? and pregnant doctors and health care workers, why when they've been protected, we'd need to make sure that people know what's really happening. we need to ask the why. mm.

ah, we have a new name. corona vonner as to well, i'll focus on innovation is officially call it covey, like g o, in the spring of 2020 health workers in britain were dying from a fall spreading new virus reports of widespread p. p shortages storing fears 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 and i trust off victims of the punk i make was a pregnant nurse booking. i believe. dunstable university hospital, mary edge, a pole, 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 the death of a black health 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 from area? japan was a symptom of, of diploma lakes and it compelled one doctor to stand out for health was on the frontline 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 often as mary had passed away, i was 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 a n e every day, and that was a difference. do 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 who 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 just leave a 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 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 nath thing at luton university and she became a notice at the hospital the at the hospital where she died. oh wow. her dad died of coven, just 10 days before her. and she died in the hospital where she worked. yeah. she was. cause 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 all from closing exam, it was the health work as the doctors and nurses in the 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. well 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, in particular in britain, you know, there is no modern britain with immigration, without 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. right. and or 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 over 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? this is the delivery driver here. back came in studies and he was teaching. and then the war kicked off. and the heavier you similar to to mary's dad story, mary's dad 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 you. 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 i 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 in 1952 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 involve people from the british commonwealth to immigrate to

the u. k. to fill in labor shortages in factories in transport. slower, those direct advertising happening in the caribbean on 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 and it is literally is the most colonial is it usually we have a gig literally would be impossible and to staffed it with out of nurses and doctors from overseas that there's over it 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 ins hierarchy. when's the way the white firms works is why

the talk is black at the bottom in this iraq, in 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 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 attack somewhere 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 19th sixty's 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 britain's booming postwar economy. that soil rising wages as well as increased provision and 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. 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 1970. 8. 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 parties of britain terms 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 looked to claim the advantage by claiming the ground occupied by the fall. right. people are really rather afraid that this country might be wrong as of swamped by people with a different culture. and you know, this has any fear as it might be spawn, people going to react to go all the hostile to those coming. in fact, just 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, there's lots of economic growth. she says, you know about why you feel horrible. maybe it's because of the swamping of us

without quite explicitly saying it. she makes the whole sense of economic crisis seeing what come racial crisis. the majesty 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 satellite project near liberals that were in a very 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 sy, 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 of that is absolutely discredit taking the idea of the welfare state that she was willing to go whole hog and tear up the postwar 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 and bricks did claim. they are singled out by police on the streets subjected to body searches and often accused of having stolen anything valuable in their possession lamp is embracing any one they dislike to swap the area with the lease. they stopped and search hundreds of people over to him. it is redeem everybody's gazed up. there's some really rotten police done for him. the guy just, i just saw you up and bring you down to station and bow you up for laughing. and comedians had enough. i just said, no, we're not, we're not gonna 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 spoke of

3 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? this is the full social meetings piece such as watching the mainstream. that isn't telling them the community point of view. but i understand something historic has happened through 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 of lots of tension that building up. ah,

that's a scary moment for the british racial consciousness. and sadly gets used to feed into fish. racism sank by luck. who told you it was people accountable? i had not open 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 old of homes of you can just be open erases. where it becomes a met, culture becomes about family and this is the new right and it is proofing. thanks there. is it on the right one? press basically push the ideology of keeper in way of making sound host racial sound like it's not about race. it's just about family values, it's just about good economic sense. but really, it is that politics of racial resentment, just given by a piano that is all

architecture. how you get to know liberalism, which really is based on this fear of the, on the glass, which is the deeply 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, caulsey 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 various sectors which were then privatized,

which is to reduce or remove democratic control and oversight. 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, the mind 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 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 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 trouble 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 anti racism was at once by the problem and a solution. this is the key thing to say, lou, anti racing was the problem that, that was keeping back for white people. not because of that is economic policies and because of austerity and neo liberalism noise, because one there too many immigrants into we've given them too much stuff we've

given them took too much of a head start. and so now your, your falling guide if you think about what it does, you know, embracing britishness, wrapping herself in the flag. this is the early expression of the culture was 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 jo 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, we're able to live the near liberal jury. you always get when isn't loses in any system like this. there were, you know, south asian communities and people who make money very many ways, the exceptions to the rule. there are exceptions to the audiology, the but there was a fragment singled communities as well, right as his, like it breaks everybody up. i 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 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, hindu, you've got the african caribbean community, no different african communities and carrying commuters, 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 for everyone who was not why fall under this. so yeah. but that then gets broken open. 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, then the slogan was, things can only get better. i guess the question is which kind of route he took and what the things really did get better for people in this country. the karone of 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,

a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors. pop 2 on al jazeera. ah . alger 0. great. when ever you? oh frank assessments. what's the point of the un if multilateralism isn't part of its dna, we need somewhere we're sovereign states can exchange views informed opinions in focus likely to change biking behavior. it's not gonna change their behavior. they're going to continue to do what they do when it's going to be more in trade and less in terms of trying to match every this more games mentality. in depth

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