actually know who to report to evolve more parts of the department of defense. ah, so it's more of a formalizing of the process. they're going to have a budget. they're going to involve the intelligence community as are now just, they're going to be the airborne object identification and management synchronization group. ah, i for a quick check of the top stories here on al jazeera, at least 31 refugees and migrants trying to reach britain up drowned in the english channel near cali off to their boat sank. is the worst disaster on the crossing since una officials started keeping record 70 years ago. this disaster underscores how dangerous it is to cross the channel in this way. and it also shows how vital it is that we now step up our efforts to break the business model of the gangsters who are sending people to see or in this way i say to our partners or

across the channel. now is the time for us all that to step up to work together to do everything a we can to break these gangs who are literally getting away with 3 white men in the u. s. have been found guilty of murdering a 25 year old black man that was out jogging. ahmad albury was chased down and shot dead in a george a neighbourhood. last year. all 3 men claimed at that in self defense they all faced life in prison. several buildings on fire in the capital of the solomon islands after a 2nd day of rioting. that's despite the government imposing a lockdown. demonstrate as our demand in the resignation of the prime minister. let us say said of ari, there's been a large explosion in the somali capital, the blast reportedly targeted a convoy of the african union mission in somalia. a school opposite the scene of the explosion has been damaged as no word yet on any casualties. an overnight cup, years holding on the french caribbean island of guadalupe off the days of violent protest against pope 19 restrictions extern,

longstanding grievances and poverty and inequality. the protests of also spread to the neighbouring island of martinique and health officials in the us are concerned about another potential surgeon cobra. $900.00 cases that says millions of americans travel for the thanksgiving holiday. this week at travel is expected to be near pre panoramic levels. some of libya, former leader ma gadhafi hasn't bod, from running in next month, presidential election. libya electoral commission says safe valley. slum gadhafi is ineligible because he's been convicted of a crime. well, those were the headlines. the news continues here in algebra 0 after studio b. unscripted state you, thanks so much and bye for now. serious darkest days was one man leading the country through pleasant us out as lawful legitimacy. he needs to step down. how has he retained control through over a decade, the wall. we examine the global power against our president bush auto stock. we

believe aside the simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night? any reason that could effect any human side master of chaos on al jazeera blue, i grew up in a shop and the threats of the national front was ever present. you never knew who was going to come through the door and sort of knife your parents or whatever. in those early days it was a real battle to do something other than what i was supposed to do. because i was a fan of the face that what music should have. there's always this push isn't there between what is mainstream and what is marginal. sadly, you know, the margin stuff is often the most exciting. ah, the why don't mat tremor is lovely with the clouds under in the cheddar. i'm a writer, director, producer gods f f a

my name is skin and i'm the leasing. and so i saw a multi 1000000 federal christy shock brand gun. can i see that i'm also a deja good in both skid alliance, 2nd generation immigrants who had to do with our fair share a racism and sexism growing up. you're getting an age and you're sitting here watching the boy grew in this films are huge. books of his hits, but she has never compromised on her message empowering women, challenging racism and giving a voice to people of color. i still remember skins arrival on the rock scene, food one, the 1st black women of front iraq bad. she was audacious. she was fearless. she was

just incredible. as women, we both forge new palms in the walls of cinema. i music calling for quality, varsity, and inclusion. we share so many influences and experiences really looking forward to talking to her. oh, thing. skin would absolutely love to meet you fellow lavender like me if you have a way to cover for me part of our vaccines across a lot. oh, well, i'm thrilled that you've published your memoir. yeah, it takes blood and goes wine. now, in the ninety's, you know,

everything was so fast and there was so much going on. and if you were a kid growing up, now when you were reflecting on the ninety's, you would think it was just so white male dominated air full of like boy bands and boy rock bands. and there was nothing else going on. but actually my impression of the ninety's and what was happening that time was like, you know, german base was huge. yeah. r and b was huge, is so heavy metal my head. i think that in some ways those things will cut more representative. i'm more important to have be more influential, more inspiring. yeah. membrate pop in my opinion. i would say you can draw a line from goldie to storm. see. yeah, i know the way you get to dub step to step below these musical style. yeah. that and i think that sound is much more influential to what's going out now. so if you think about racism biggest weapon they have is making us invisible or making what we've done. invisible. yeah. i thought, well, if i don't write it,

i don't jump on it, then nobody's going to and it's like we didn't exist. absolutely. i think we would, would you remember that? but when you say britpop, because everyone thinks of blur and always, and possibly spice girls here. but you're right. what was really going on as you say, we go the, the beginnings of all the kind of what was the underground music scene of written tick, london. yeah. you know, it has stayed the course either and it was a dizzy who represented us at the ethics. right. exactly. yeah. moment for all of us. yeah. yeah. so yeah, there's always, this push isn't there between what is mainstream and what is marginal. yeah, and sadly, you know, the margin stuff is often the most exciting and innovative, you know, and gets lost because it's so easy to use. labels you think is because, you know, i was the one that we had for b, u fighters and battle. try to get in there, you know, for me,

in those early days it was a real battle to do something other than what i was supposed to do. because of, i would have seen as a face like what music should have. absolutely. yeah. well i, i made 3 films in the ninety's. yeah. my 1st a bunch of the beach. yeah. 93 and you're absolutely right. i mean it, that's not all domain. i wasn't supposed to be a filmmaker. i had a chris teacher at school. yeah. who, when i said i want to go to university, i said it will really fit. you should try secretary college. what is it we crave? teaches an i, i mean i went through teacher and it was a 1st person i blurted out my wildest sheep. i want to be a photojournalist, i was being a jump to jumping up by helicopter, where the be camera thing, where's the action? and i told her all these james and then she, we slowly push this form in front of you think about the 1st and i looked down and it was her an application form for worse. oh no. well, i'm already working with

a fab a job. yeah. you know, well, i think the, the, the biggest surprise, even after 30 years of filmmaking is people's expectations of what you can actually do yet, what they think you can do. and yes, that curious teacher was wrong because sit, but i thank her because soon she said, you need to be a secretary that spurred me on say, well, i'll show you. and i finally had this. i will also you who's your next step. after that, i went to university before that though, what it started happening with me of late seventy's. you know, i was around during the troubles if you like. the riots are in london and manchester burning. i mean everywhere. and i had a kind of a political whitening. basically i grew up in a shop and the threat of the national front was ever present. you never knew who is

going to come through the door and sort of knife your parents or whatever. but it was always their attention. yeah. they had been an nf march in lewisham and people we knew shopkeepers who'd been be to the up and all that door smashed. and so when rocky it's racism started for me. it was like, oh this is. this is the 1st kind of public youthful a response to the national front, a sort of collective thing. and that was on the hiding point and that, that was, well, you know, you can enjoy it. and i remember with a new cross fire happened, which was a terrible event where he's about teenagers or having a party. and somebody fire bombed at the house and it goes, it went up in flames. and i went on the march and it was the 1st march i went and was a new crossfire march. and i remember going, you know, with all these people who angry and they were young people, british born people of black, asian, wherever. and that gave me

a real sense of strength at she being on that march against racism. i felt a lot more empowered. i'm from brexton foe. the bricks and riots is the thing that really kind of made me political. that's what i call my 1st sense of identity from . if i remember being very small and not feeling english at all, and is because a fighter i was living in and everything i saw in a news and whatever, you know, you know, english or english or black. so you're not from here. you're from where your parents are from. i'm i remember feeling very you may, can, i was have a little patois. bam. you know, i mean, and yes, mom and i went to jamaica, i'm, i was such a fish out of water. i remember going to the market in mandy for which is the middle of, of jamaica. i didn't understand anything. anybody said to me. i don't be coming back to england. i mean, i loved being there. i mean, i felt roots, i felt everything, and music was amazing. i came back to england and realized that i'm something different. i didn't feel jamaican anymore. yeah. we were 1st generation of blood

pressure people. yeah. i'm, we had to really find our way. absolutely will. same thing happened where i grew up, which was south all it, well, the big asian, 20, the south. all of course, had his own, you know, issues with the national from that. but the community stood up, you know, and there is what people turn the self will rise, but i call it the self up ising where people said no way, fascist, i'm not going to march our streets. and in a big of sites ensued and, and the, the young asians bent down the nf pub, the have to have it. so that gave the community a big sense of identity, i think, and confidence. but it was also the beginning of the breaking between the parents generation. you were the ones who come to england who wanted to keep quiet and just work hard, you know, and provide their kids between young people who will say, well, hold on. i mean, it went on it's at the same sh fiesta apparently didn't take it. yeah. you know,

we're going to fight back. so i was kind of a young then to be part of that. but, but i stand on their shoulders. yeah, actually, i mean, i think that when my parents came out every day was surviving and you know, they came up with qualifications, they could do all the different jobs. they came to england like, oh no, you have to re qualify. yeah, and i think of just about putting food on the table and just getting through the day. absolutely. we come along and we're part of it with a really sensibility of like well, why should we be quiet? why should we just stand by? yeah, i kind of grab, grab hold of the fact that i was this new thing which was black, british. yeah. and as a whole new identity, the music of the time lovers, rock hill that was very british to make it was our own found. yeah. you know, it was our own version of reggae music can be music. i mean, for me, the beginning of my music history was the connection. i got because my, my grand dad had a nightclub. oh, i'm

a lot cooler. she bean is colby f residential club. but it was, and i remember growing, growing up with the scarf feed and then that comes along bad nerves since the specials. and that's why i got the connection because it was like my grandmother's music and my parents music. but then this british music, amazing. and that's how i kind of segue into british society and music. same with me. i mean, it was my band, this is, it was the last time i saw a band that i related to that had black and white. yet he put it together. that was the thing for me in an appreciative way, not in appropriating. like colette, he, there were like a community group and a culture together. and then for me, jumping forward, a little bit from that was the british bunker scene are so really bunger scene happens. that was it for me, inflation, there was this fantastic fusion of bunger music, reggae rock,

a house in jazz. everything all came over and i remember thinking, wow, this is amazing because this has been created by us for us, but for everyone to enjoy. and so i made my 1st film, i'm british, but because it was the 1st consolidation for me of war, a british indian identity was and that easy then went on to change the landscape of music in indian films here. you know, i had a massive impact but, but for me i'm ever grateful to it because it, it gave me a sense of what being british and indian men. yeah. because you were, you were born in i robi, of what i saw her point upside. you've also got her richie from her african. absolutely. so my mom and dad were born in kenny as well. my a great uncle was asked by the british to leave a punjab where he was a decorative police officer and come to kenya to help quell the locals after

the scramble for africa basically. yeah. and he advised a way of helping locals by planting new crops. so they had the new boundaries because although boundaries have been carved out, and then my grandad then went over to be with him. but my dad actually pined for kenya and he would speak in swahili to us. so i think the thing about growing up with parents were from kenya, gave me a very different experience to indians growing up from yeah. okay. i mean you've got to kind of connect to culture, but very strong individual coaches in themselves. absolutely. and you take that you come to england. yeah, i mean the identity crisis with him. i mean, i says, but he was, i was a crisis and their mind was always, they don't, they teach is it was a to us. or they don't know if they're english or indian, they don't know what to speak. they should all be speaking english or her having an

identity crisis. and oh, well, actually identify yeah, yeah. and then, well, i'm obviously not going to speak in punjabi with you as school because you get it. i'm going to speak it at home. but also interesting my best friends at school will i from trinidad, from grenada. and i learned about this whole big island, small island, because lake seen it. that it just kind of residue of colonialism. yeah. i mean when for us it was cuz my dad was very pale and my mom was a bit darker. ah. so we always had that thing of like, you know, i was, i was kind of pale than other members of my family, but i was dock and other members of my family was weird dichotomy of kind of like, well, you're better because your lighter and your last because your darker, right, i know of in jamaica and going to may pain when my dad was from and they were just so pale and they just refused to talk to me. yeah. you know, and that was my 1st again, more identity issues because i was like, oh, so i'm in. this is part of jamaica that's reject to me when it's in my, myself,

i was, i was, i was you may confer in through and so we want to get back to, to being jamaican again, you know, i completely identify with that because when i went to india 1st went to india when i was by 8 years old with and i absolutely refused to eat the food to do anything. and my poor grandma had to many chips every day. i was ridiculous, but i it's only when we go to these countries, when i go to india, i realize her english, i am. yeah, exactly. and i've made lots of movies in india, you know, and i love it from what it represents and stands for, you know, in the world, into the spirituality and culture. it mean it's an amazing country, but is it my country? yeah. you're right. you know, if you want to move yes or do yeah, but i'm, i'm like, you, i love to, i remember my great grandma lived on the top of really tall hill, sugar up and down the hill like has nothing to she was like 86 or something my

granddaughter had this oh cheap, but when you drive you had this big crack down knew about what kind of opening close as you were driving. i love being scared and kind of like excited about the same time. yeah. well now as i get older, i don't have so much conflict about am i this am i that? oh the ever yes, i just go with the flow now. yeah. in there is a part of me. i made a film on the partition of india is micra is the land of my grandparents, kenya, east africa is a lot of my parents in england, the lads of my kids who are actually part japanese american indian, god knows. so i think that the, the world is a much smaller place and we do better to get away with these regional boundaries. yeah. which isn't be much more global exact. we've kind of taken our place. so if we didn't wait for it to be given to us, and that's what we've built and yeah, i think we're going to go somewhere because i think i'm really interested. they

will, these people are from watching as because they're not clear. i'm all over the world . hello, what's your name? what's your question? hi, my name is be mystery and i'm from by india. so my question is that why do you think is music or music and hybridity so important for dies for an artist or people in terms of giving them? there was an identity where music for me is emotion. it effortlessly is hybrid, a confluence of so many influences. so it totally speaks our language if you are part of a desperate. so for me, the idea of being able to look into different expressions of people's culture and blend, the represents who i am. for me, i find that because music has so much emotion to it is a great connector, is the one thing that everybody on the planet can connect to and feel from their

heart. just is one thing that comes out of us that we can translate these feelings to everybody as a film. what's great when i use music in film is it allows me to layer up. so by using a fused sound of music, then you add pictures and film sound to it and you get, you get something very exciting. hi, my name is bruce and i'm from south london in brexton. my, my mother, my question is the skin being both black and a woman which one of these identities did you find more of a hindrance, navigating a white male dominated industry such as music? an interesting question, i mean is impossible for me to separate those things. um they are all together all at the same time. so especially on dealing with other people who are not supportive towards me. and in those days i'm,

i don't know which one it was. it was kind of black or was it because i was gay or was it because female, i think is just the whole thing. people had some issues with not necessarily one thing or more than the other. hi, i'm alegria. i mean lucy, bye. you too. as to women, especially children who are white, have you ever felt that internally is with in the asian community or within the black me see the work by the expectations of how you should pay. oh some. yeah. a lot backing was about. yeah. in a, there is this expectation for all parents that their children should be colored like them either, and it doesn't matter who you are, which background, which race, which class, whatever, all parents kind of feel safe, that their kids are kind of replicas of them. obviously with us, when our parents immigrants sort of come in from somewhere else, we carry the guilt of trying to make their life feel worthwhile and their struggles

to give us. 5 a great education, you know, but my parents, when they realized i wasn't going to be a doctor, you know, or lawyer. and i wasn't going to get married in a 23 or something. i think they took that in their stride, actually alley and i was able to take them with me on my journey. so, you know, i think we're going to always keep pushing boundaries for, for what you believe in and what is all sent it to you. and then one for question, the scale. now, how do you go on there less black female stars who are allowed to, i guess, be a bit outlandish. all be rock stars. will you ever frustrated yourself and probably need to go to america, or you can kind of in its own research it way. so like a safe space the times. i think that the impression of what black women are supposed to do in this country in england, a very small, it's either your highly sexualized or you're highly aggressive. and i think this is

very small sphere that society puts on us. and i decided i am very illustrate off to try to fit in and trying to be either of those things. i try to be aggressive actually i was just singing rock songs a big rough. if i'm, i discovered though i am no, i'm not the go next door. so stop trying to be like, you know, a white boy walker. and once i kind of let go of that, then that's really when everything fell into place, the, the, the racism of the sexes miss still so strong that it is more difficult. i think because this impression, which is wrong, that black people fronting rock fans is not kind of fell or still going to be popular. you know, i was hardly on any covers of magazines because they thought i was still going to. so i mean what, what was just to try and prove them like go into such a, just do what you're doing and we prove them wrong. thank you. a great question. really awesome discussion so far. for green, i want to talk about your segment in the film that is your 10. 0 really?

yeah. really spoke to me not only as a muslim women, both are sort of mixed heritage and the authors such interesting insight into the issues of identity, what you've both spoken about today. unfortunately, today's prompts is somewhat different and the main character and probably just them soccer. today she might have to remove her head job. so i wanted to ask you, how do you feel about how the country has changed since you made page of them? and what are your thoughts on the right, the extreme right in the world today and as off has been created, do we have a lot of responsibility towards combating hurtful and defective narrative as so perish term is a film where about 18 different directors all get to make a short 10 minutes short and we can make it on anything we want. and so they asked me and i immediately thought, well, is going to be something to do with the job because that was the big thing at the time being debated. and i did was, this was a love story between a girl who's got

a job on and a french boy francois. and what happens is a with another boy who cool it, it gives her a sla, basically says for france, for the french. and he says, why have you got some when you're covering all your beautiful hair, you know? and she responds and saying, it's my choice. you know, i keep my have for myself for when i want to use it for other people to see happy for this is me and it's my identity and i end up having a conversation. so it's again, it comes down to fear really fear of the unknown. and i think that it's important as much as we can certainly is to always bring everything down to the common denominator as humans. and in that film, that's what i was trying to do is just bring them back down to the fact that led by french and in terms of the rise of the right, i think, yes, there is a rise of the right. but there's also rise of the left, you know, and that will always be the case and we must take solace in that in a,

in the fact that people will always be there to fight fascists. i mean, i, i, what i feel about it is the right oh, very organized base. kind of like the shoes. big force is army putting feelers out all over the well starting little group thought over the work i'm trying to directly influence people empower where we've left when people sometimes i feel like we get caught. so co op in our cells and find ourselves where these guys here are just like marching forward really, you know, strong like there, the tortoise and where the rabbit going around in circles. and so i would like to see a lot more. i'm strength in numbers because if we don't, then we'll have it be in a situation where some maybe, you know, conscious like dominoes and all have fresh is some right wing or why supremacy governments in about 5 years time down for christian themes

in the whole reason i came into making films was because i wanted to challenge the fact that we were absent from the screen and therefore, absent from history for me, writing about politics or writing about political things really was just writing about my past experience. we are the recorders of all voices as people that the ask for, and because that there they can't be taken away ah, from the al jazeera london broadcast and task to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation, it leads as a person of color it's always a struggle here. it would be much easier for me might felt that white people yeah. heart to go into cheddar and thing. a songwriter, skin cell carry other people way out is that in a minute you get way down. you stop what you're doing and maybe one studio

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