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several officers have been injured off to ronnie's against new cobit 19 measures. 10 fallen in london. they include recording covert passes for large venues, making mosques, compulsory and some indoor settings. and in germany, several people have been arrested during ronnie's against restrictions. the government approved of vaccine mandate for health workers early this month. it's considering expanding this to the general population. hong kong chief executive kerry lamb is urging people to vote in the 1st legislative elections since beijing impose sweeping security laws, candidates have been vetted to ensure only those loyal to china can run. at least 10 people have been arrested. calling for a boycott. i do have sarah key a targets for this general election of a legislative council. one is to ensure patriots administering hong kong. and i

think that objective has been met through the design of the candidate eligibility review committee. so all the 153 candidates could meet this requirement and you can see that they actually come from a very diverse background. were very different opinions on the range of issues. thousands of people are in desperate need of food and water off the typhoon. ry hit, the philippines. at least 75 have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced rescue teams and now trying to reach remote areas. more rain threatens to hamper rescue efforts in northern iraq after flash floods killed 12 people. one was struck by lightning, others drowned in their homes and a man's wind beaten to death in the northern indian city of am. ritzer, a man jumped to fence and entered a sacred area of the golden temple and grabbed the ceremonial sword during a religious service. so those were the headlines and he continues here on

al jazeera, after people empower statement, dental watching bye for now. if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america. what's working and what's not. lot of people were only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. if america can handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera, the in may 2021. the german government acknowledged responsibility for colonial era genocide against the may be as herero and them of peoples over 100 years ago. but activists have long campaigns, reparations say the compensation of doesn't truly reflect the appalling suffering of the thousands who died. we've been to find out why i

ah, you see on the bed run over here thus did nami desert, the sand will come and bury everything. but for some reason, the sand, the dunes refused to bury these people because the spirit a strong and they won this story to baton. when this woke up, one cemetery in my background is the people who died in the concentration camp in the desert and across namibia between 19 of 4 and 19

o. 8 german colonial forces displaced and killed up to 80 percent of the around tribe, some $80000.00 people, other ethnic groups like the nama and the san also suffered grievously at the hands of the colonists. 10000 nama died half the population as well as an unknown number of sam. ready this was the 1st genocide of the 20th century, but by no means the last. in many ways, imperial, germany's treatment of the indigenous people of namibia foreshadowed the barbarity of the nazi holocaust against the jews and other groups during world war 2 the cause of duration. caswell, really that's why almost them lot of people perish from malnutrition. and a lot of them were forced to work on the railway, and they basically worked them to death, rarer activists, jeff to karima,

to spend most of his adult life fighting for international acknowledgement of the genocide and restitution for the descendants of the victims adjourned. destructo based on the stories that i recall, my grandmother told me, and then when i started as an adult, i started learning more and learning ball and ever since i've never breasted finally this, you, the activism of people like shifter appears to have paid off in may the german foreign minister hika mark made a ground breaking announcement, isn't it? it besides the hoisted desire? mister yet of it, sir. at st. us let's to give isn't, and folk, ahmad, if it can on stomach, off so, and so by his dollars and for and for them. and him listed is a historical event of morales and for and thought of deutsche lance weird in vienna . me bow and did not come. the oprah winfrey gable bitten a few months later,

namibian germany announced a draft agreement which say both sides will bring closure to this dark chapter of history. if it goes ahead, germany will formally apologize to namibia and pay 1100000000 euros in compensation spread over 30 years. but for shifter and many other hero agreement is deeply problematic. in september, when the bill was presented to the namibian parliament, protest has travelled from near and far to oppose it. wow, it's a policeman march, but quite a very important march because it is raising a number of issues. rejecting the 1100000000. 1 term that the germans was to pay us the very same amount of money that the germans have already given to nom events for the last 31 years is the same on the under pay us shift as travel from the united states where he now lives to campaign against the agreement,

he visits namibian parliament, the site of the protest. it was built using forced labor of captured herrera with norma genocide survivors. this is a very painful moment for me. ah, standing on this ground as simply because this area there used to be a concentration camps where and sisters were kept and were forced to work a slave labor. my grandmother used to tell me, told me about the generals. hey. it began in launching a full up to the rear over nama rebelled against german. colonists were aggressively seizing the land. in response, the head of the military administration. what was thin, german, south, west africa? general lots of on trotter should an order to his troops, to exterminate all herrera men, women, and children after defeating the herrera. militarily,

the germans heard the survivors eastwood into the indisputable ma hecky deserts intent to kill them through hunger and thirst. the flight to the east in how are people perish in the disposition of their land? a disposition of their cattle and all those in the experience in the concentration camps. my grandmother's mother were captured by the germans and said to luther, it's a chug island in consideration combed. and from there they work. a slave re, but some of them died and the fuse it was survived. ah, basically that's where i am here today. but his grandfather's mother wasn't so lucky, my great grandmother was too old and tired to walk and she was left behind. they left her under 3 to die. and that's actually the story that really spoke. my interest is like how she died. a death without dignity

knowledgeable that it almost every rare a person has a story like this to tell you that. that's why jeff does documenting a rarer opposition to the agreement. oh, he travels from the capital ventura to oak hunter to meet the acting chief of the rarer the heroes were sent to this remote areas to serve as a us of labor poor for the. busy white community so wide, industrial industrial as the present in the past. it's hard to distinguish business in particularly in these areas. oh, jeff, to meet fi. queer, a cool. currently the acting chief of the over herero traditional authority, which represents most to rarer in namibia. well, the chief war is official, uniform in honor of the moments that are you i'm good i he

a good on his 80. noah was you busy which are agreement. i don't want to go up globe that embody with ya. there are some new bloodsaw when you do a year. yeah. for the little ha, wrong human that normally wouldn't a he wanted to go home and that embody it. dude, i do agree of what i'm doing. you know, we have a clue, but a blog lehman done. yolanda will the young put us to repress collins, germany's chief negotiator. he says that under international law such negotiations can only take place between states. i not individual groups or there are many groups. so say unfortunately were been not part of the negotiations. and if i would start to count these groups, i come easily about 101520 groups who are complaining not to have been included. but argues kapoor after the holocaust. germany didn't une negotiate with

the state of israel. it also negotiated directly with many jewish groups on and others yelp, but i o w, i wouldn't, i wouldn't know media web lighter. and i went idea that it won't matter which one mother the outcome says kapoor is that the namibian of government has failed to secure direct compensation for the rarer. instead, the $1100000000.00 euros which germany plans to pay will be administered by the namibian government and their own e money gumble g yang drive your he'd only, she could buy a new $1.00 on india. you were and a, maybe a year. what did you wound rogers you to the with the america a drug? i've been in it and you know, move on it. not always all the month long now, but they don't ye illuminated building learn. i really none bills. you and i made it in the name of to come when did you get a little?

the woman rouse, fidela, she'd almost all another to let it a man woman for your won't go ganga. the once prosper sererow, having lost the land and a much prized cattle after the genocide, now lived for the most part in abject poverty. shift visits vin vanny curry was one of many, a rarer, struggling to survive a making, ready cleaned it than the rang and aim when it was fully cooling. it is equal, collect wooten, w o. without even man, i got the sooner. colder to love, you good. another to do full always. yes, yes, it's under now and when glad will i let you know my flannel yellow colony that faded away the window. oh there we know you would only see me if will own will be full. i know you may. she may have been, as you know, it, india burnett dinner when i have again douglas gullible, myself, julia scully,

i'd be deemed any i've been i seen that yet. i got a bna bay, maddie to their dinner garden, as you know. see now when you're to one and or did of amendable maddie rumble, did the moment been work? what a guy lumber given that randall that he would that do not understand that you put that on? as you do is you don't have you go moral with nicki, then global vision video, he's and it's not only been a vain his generation, her suffering barring some kind of intervention. her children are unlikely to escape the cycle of poverty and making life even harder. the government has recently decreed davis moved to an even more remote location. landed i to i got iowa, moscow liquidity, mature mother by them. that's what been durable that vehicle that up on that to i've been drop on dental lead in the mac, angelito better. my god, i was calling me and by your school, your heat estimate is too emotional for me and

what's going to happen them taking child sled far away and the kids and that means the kids have to work another 2 hours to school and the kids have nothing to eat, the government has abandoned them and it's not just in the villages the poverty amongst herrera was rife. it's the same and urban areas. jeff travels to swap government, a picturesque coastal town, popular with german tourists. but on the outskirts of the town where people live in bleak, informal settlements, jeff, to mince lawrence and dury, move from the country side to the city. well, you know, search of a better life. he has been here for 9 years now at this place. and this is a way his lives. no electricity, no running water or the kettle died of drought. and so there is no work. so the best they can come is come here. tried to force some food from when the city,

torrance, and fights shifter into shack. can you are. you still is a hand with effect getting to the settlement. the say janet, when you're rich can i say, why is that a genocide woman lawrence tells us to make ends meet here? nice girlfriend must sell these genocide dolls, eating to german tourists before they can give us more. for in the question 3, she wanted to look at us. concentration come loose concentration. we had 2 teenagers, you know, 49 or 8. so what do you think about the germans today? cylinder t food they have to pay for the tra,

grandma grandparent was that one is the one that take long in our life tell moneys is the only thing that can make changes. we can buy our linbeck again, our bow anyways. then we settled their families, brought us. yeah, we live in a solution can, was new life any he is not as good as these young people over here. you see running industries over here. they will have nothing to lose but to demand their land back. and that's exactly what's going to happen. this situation is unacceptable, and it's acceptable. the sense of economic and political, marginalization among the rarer, has heightened the mistrust of swapper the ruling party in the mobiles since 1990. it's amplified the feeling that the government must handled the genocide negotiations with germany. we tried to put us to the namibian government,

but despite numerous requests, no government official granted us an interview. we did, however, manage to speak to professor faneuil ca, palmer, one of number, be his chief negotiators. he himself is a rarer my great grand mother, was a brother of samuel, why the rule let do i do people during the war of colonial resistance? the agreement ca, palmer told us was the best the namibian government could achieve. given germany's tough negotiating tactics. they have always shaped away from even mentioning the word genocide. but i did the bigger challenge, who was her own, the quantum, which has to be meant very key issue to the point that he took, almost deranged. then there is no difference to the word

reparation wise germany thought, allergic to the term reparations negotiations in our view have been for political and moral reasons. they are, this was not a legal question. we avoided illegal speech to avoid this kind of misunderstanding. and reparation is illegal term and therefore we spoke about healing the wounds, which means in a sense, probably the same but not in a legal term. but cisco palmer, the negotiations were less about healing wounds than they were about avoiding legal liability. what was a very heavy debate later on, they came around and said to that, okay, if we agree to pay the partition, then we will do, are we with development it? and we said no, those are 2 different things for their victim. community is good reason why germany

is keen to avoid any payments being labeled as reparations says, heading melba and m a. be an academic, an activist. there were war crimes during world war 2 committed in italy, increase in poland. and in other eastern european societies, we are local courts there, ruled that the german government should pay reparations to the descendants. germany's refused to accept liability for such claims. but says melba, if reparations were paid to namibia, that might sit a legal precedent, then these rulings would be seen in another light. and then it would become a really expensive for germany. so with direct reparation seeming me off the table. what about the rear? a demand that they should get the land, or at least some of it returned to them. but any discussion about the return of

land must involve its current owners, mostly what number be and farmers who possess vast tracts of it. gift visits, hood vall, billing a german namibian who speaks fluent to rarer got up with you. he owns a 15000 hectic farm in the war to burg region which used to be inhabited by the rarer until the germans began the campaign of annihilation against them in launching a full miracle. you have got. my great great grandfather came here in 19 o 7, which was just off the german air rule and farming here and living in close relationship with the wire communities bordering to all offends. and it's very much a farming related. but of course it brings together all different cultures as well . but when it comes to addressing the past, vall bling like other white gym, and namibian farmers in the region denied that this land used to belong to the

rarer this land was a 100 years before that it was it is not inhabited by wire is speaking. people to the knowledge i do have well touring the farm just to raises the land issue. i don't think it just buying land and given a given it back will will improve the situation dramatically. i, i doubt that when i think we have to develop the area, we have to develop the people in investing in a better to morrow, like education and interest structure, schools and all specials that people really feel that their life is improving. shift to also wants to know if they can reach a common understanding about the past. do you deny that there was a genocide or you don't deny that? i mean, you, i, i don't question the harm which was done to, oh, i had

a people now. they lost many of their land. they lost almost all the kettle and i lost half. let's say half of the population yet is vol bling. he doesn't believe the mass murder of herrera was sanctioned by the government of the time. if there would have been the initial thought of eradicating a certain tribe, but there was not an intention and the relationship to the holocaust is, is for me it is far fetched. but tift is next visit, illustrates that for many a rarer historical links between the genocide and the holocaust aren't far fetched at all. he travels to shock island, which used to be a notorious concentration camp guerrero. nama who survived death in the desert approach. yeah, and used to slave labor. this said is where our ancestors were kept.

and the germans said up, this goes the duration chem. and they used to call historians, florida. the desk him my great grandmother was at this site, and likely she later when the people that had complaining the she was frustrated to sort of mood. but most ferrero nama were held here, didn't survive. a lot of lot of people. perry's death and starvation was what killed a lot of people over here and when they die, their body were thrown in the sea and those who went worked to death was subjected to the horrors in this is where they did their medical experiment on the now my inherit people medical expense based on my grandmother. they were fascinated with her. some of them of her pupil, we have like a black. the gums are like dahlgren palace. so there was great that is great that until it bleeds to find out what is the cause of that?

i don't know what was the whole point, but the bottom line is, this was their biggest fear was to go to that medical center. they knew that was, you go there, you are not going to be alone. in that medical center, prisoners were subjected to many forms of systematic abuse. but being injected with diseases such a small pox, typhus and tuberculosis, of poisons like arsenic. they were also used as human material for you genic research. in order to conduct the pseudo scientific research, german doctor sent the skulls of the seas, prisoners back to germany. aiming to scientifically prove the racial inferiority of africans, so essence of human remains, scalds skeletons. and so on were transported back to the german empire. those human remains awe in sherman basements of new

sea owns of hospitals, and only in 2011. i think for the 1st time a few of them were returned to namibia, the man overseeing these inhumane practices. but she genesis dr. eugene fisher. he and other colonial officials later became prominent leading figures in the race ideology of nazi germany, businesses our shores. but unlike germany's ash fits this no official recognition of shock islands of the crimes which were perpetrated here, there is no mention about the head arrows at all. it's not a can being said, so we'll show a lot of germans. they come here and camp and the movie as they come in camp as if this is just a normal place to where to now the rarer and the struggles for justice and

reparations. what do you say to german americans? he said there wasn't a genocide here. that's not fair. what do i say to them? nothing. we are going to get our land back and how we're going to take it. i don't know. but we, our i'm said in just a way i was said in that when did gemini, will be willing to apologize. probably just the way our sit in the germany one day will pay reparation. even though they are saying we are going to give you like a, just a or development. and it just, this will happen. who harold, people are resilient. people from what we have gone through, what met, people have gone through from jenna said, disposition concentrated income. and for my father and my great bright grand paris to regain i'm to reconstitute themselves and send me to school and they

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