similar impurity al jazeera. the tesla found an ill on mosque is facing a backlash in china. complaints a satellite set to close encounters with a space station earlier this year. the claims haven't been verified, but china has complained to the u. n. space agency uses of the we bu, messaging platform have labeled the mosque satellites, a space junk with nearly $30000.00 objects, believe to be orbiting the planet. scientists urge governance to share data to reduce the risk of collisions. ah, exactly how fast the you're watching al jazeera, these are your top stories, us us health officials. i've shortened isolations of people who have cobit 19, but showed no symptoms from 10 to 5 days. cdc also is recommending no quarantine period after exposure for those who have received their booster shots. you read little trailer has reported more than 10000 cubic 19 cases as of monday,

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you are. you have to be able to relate to the human condition there with no co 3 is a life and it's my job to shed light on how and why i tie us. i me okay. and your in the stream it is the one show on this network that is pledge to bring you the same number of female guests as mel guess. over the course of a year. our aim is 5050 gender parity. so how we doing here is where we started in 2016. the 1st couple of years were a little bit rough. i must've met 20182019 regarding to astride 20. 19. not doing too badly at all for the 4th year in a row, we are proud to announce that we delivered on our promise. we have had more than 500 guests in the stream in 202155 points ago. i'm not

a statistician. here's the streams executive producer very well laid. i am delighted that for the 4th year when the stream has achieved its gender balance go . it's important that we did this on any year, but as you were about to find out how to show it was perhaps particularly important this year a year in which almost every major story that we covered disproportionately impacted women. the crown of ours pandemic climate change, the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan. so i'm really pleased to renew our pledge to achieve gender balance again next year. i want to do something a little bit different. this year. the stream would love to help other me, organizations, other news shows other journalists to also achieve gender balance if we can do it. so can you. so you'd like to reach out to find out or techniques our tips,

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a small business owner during the pandemic, especially when with bosses small children, it's been incredibly challenging to figure out how to support and cater to a community that was really stripped of all of its services and all of the infrastructure that had had to support it. including school and child care and figuring out how to navigate that on behalf of a community and serve it while pivoting and trying to keep our business alive and being asked to take on the ideas of health and safety for them. we are joined by martha ross, she's a senior fellow at brookings, metro in washington, dc. martha, good to have you. this trend of women coming out of the world place in the united states. when did you start seeing it? well, it was a parent from the very beginning, i mean, looking back to march 2020 when we started to lose 20000000 jobs ahead spinning number a lot of those jobs are helped by women a disproportionately. and it has to do with the nature of the recession. we were in

the nature of the jobs that women have because of social distance thing. suddenly going to the store, traveling, staying in hotels, all that were shut down. and those are jobs that disproportionately employ women, so they were hurt pretty hard. and thankfully, we have been gaining jobs back. but we are still 4000000 jobs short of where we were in february 2020. and women are still hit pretty hard. there's 2300000 fewer women in the us working now. then in february 2020, before the pandemic. and the, the number for men is 1600000. right. so it's obviously huge for everyone, but it's hitting women harder if we can watch how and pinpoint why that is not why

it's probably the solution for fixing it and getting women back to work. why? oh my goodness. well, it partly has to do with the nature of the job and social distance thing. it also has to do with child care and family responsibilities. and with daycare, it's shut down and schools shut down or in remote learning. it was either impossible to supervise and keep your kids safe at home with the job or really difficult to do that. if you were teleworking. i mean, if you had a job where you had to work in person, you simply could not be at home with your kid while they were at home. so you had a really tough, tough situation. so i'm, what are you seeing where you're seeing employers organizations saying ok, how do we fix this? is there any fixing going on?

because, well, almost 2 years into pandemic right now? what's been fixed? not enough right now. yeah. we, we had a massive public education campaign about the lack of paid leave in this country. how many people do not have paid leave. and so when they were faced with the choice of watching their kid or going to work or facing risk factors when they went to work that they didn't want to come bring home with them. if they didn't have paid leave and they stayed home, they were out of a job. so this is a huge policy issue, and president biden did address it in his build back better agenda. but as of now paid leave has been stripped out of the build back. better legislation. we're not where we need to be. so i am thinking how to those jobs

come back for women who want to be in the workforce for 2022. and at the moment we're saying some schools is getting into the school holidays anyway, but schools may be not going back to school because of a new variant. and this still at an economic issue with not everybody getting that jobs back. what do you predict for 2022? it is it it, it is hard to predict. ah, we, you know, there were 2 points where i think we felt a sense of impending normalcy and each time a variant has come along and derailed that. lance ring after vaccinations, there was more talk about going to work in person. i'm doing more thing resuming life normally than delta came. i, i you trying to say, i don't know in

a very elegant i let me help you out here who, who knows, but thank you so much for bringing the stat. and the challenge to us is, as we look at gender gaps in some of the most important areas of our lives around the world right now. mother, thank you so much. take care. i so another major story of 2021 in which women were front and center afghanistan. the taliban has been under pressure to uphold women's rights since they took power in august. in the title, i'm just going to some b employment of policy. that woman cannot go to outside without my hand. cars in the oh, warmond in afghanistan, all inclusive and mostly do now is called an inverse city doors, of course is do then especially girls cannot go pool is gone. the

woman employ orphan hall because they lost their jobs. i you are good on countries, especially united states and canada. help please help do warm and in afghanistan. pakistan i to renee is director of learn afghanistan. get to have you back here on the stream. i love the way that you approach women's rights in afghanistan, particularly when and cios in the international community talk about women's rights in afghanistan. this is so important. of course, it is important, but you just look at it in a very different way. show that perspective, cuz i think it's an important one for our audience to here. first of all, thank you for having me. the 2nd thing is that when international community hippocratic f y, i sure state again could justify a war bombing houses going people 20 years ago. by saying that we are hoping the on

women and children in conflict. how come 20 years later that has changed to the we have the same conflict. people are more tiring, their mothers were having that's why they'd be, be having their mothers who can be there. women who can't access hospitals right now. there's those who cannot access schools right now. so i think right now it's more complex than it was in 2001 because in 2001 they came in and read it on the famine. the conflict started right, because they now nobody has read anything, just the, the gene, cheese and right now people are going back. but women at the forefront. we have to understand that international communities, special international organizations and people who went there to make their cut years used women, i will always use feminism and women just to make sure that be get frenzied and everything that they do, the more they get more funding and use of women, our pictures, our readings are having children for their own purposes. all right,

so as somebody who stayed in afghanistan beyond august where many people were leaving, what is the situation right now in afghanistan? what do women need and want for the 2 months that i have stayed enough on us on the one thing i have learned is the fact back. economic collapse is hurting up on the sun. now more than anything, but at the same time, one thing we have to look at is the fact that women writes been used to actually target the country out. there are many solutions in place that could have been used by the international community. actually tab with the humidity and eat for actually health coverage. kids and starving mother to actually address the digital literacy issues. right now they have given all their power to the polar bonds. we could have gone in with the internet. we could have gone in with them.

can you hear me? yeah, we're have please continue. yeah, we can run and we can could have gone in your internet and p d. the issues for the digital literacy programs. we have given this power to the taliban right now, that ok, if you don't let it go, go to school, they won't get an education. well then find solutions and there are solutions. i'm presenting them from the past the month and nobody's even listening. the thing good for the economy. collab guy. ok. the taliban are the ones who are not included and they are. and what have i, the last government also had war like and it doesn't justify the fact that the should be the leaders. they shouldn't be the leaders, that's the 1st thing they shouldn't have been in this place, but then they have been legitimized for the international coming. they be to be back least that's the 2nd thing, right. and the broad bit by the international community in it. so make a political process, make it inclusive, all minorities, including the women, the 50 percent of the country should be there on a level. because let me ask you something because of course you're stating

something that's very obvious, but it seems quite difficult to do. has a bar is human rights watch? she put together on twitter, just a thread, a thread of all the meetings that have been done from outside organization is human rights organizations of n, g o z. these are meetings meetings to tell about and met. all right, different countries and have a break to me, cause them all out. is another meeting with man. it's another meeting with when they are not bringing women to the table. how do you do that? see, that's the whole point. it's men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solutions. let me put it clear for you that men who are coming from into that occasion for the meeting. the fallible didn't have any education on up on that. if be that up on us, i won't be in this crisis right now that it is. and the power button tell me, and the graduates that we have into, from the past 20 years, telling me a single school batch of goods graduate from their school. tell me

a single economic model that they have presented in the past 20 years, apart from opium, that has worked upon us on all the economy. so it's just as you keep the men both face, one can pull one that was made of no solution. so you should these men with no solutions be bringing women with them. how. what do they need to do? because so far, not women at the table can i be honest. yeah. so most of these people are not looking for solutions. if you're looking for solutions, people who people like f would be doing the talking or digital solutions. people would actually answer to the problem prior to the financial collapse and everything right now they are just making it very political and very figuring. all right, let's see, some of them are watching the stream or some of their colleagues are watching the stream. and you said you have ideas, share one of them, that's very powerful, that you feel could make a difference today. first of all, 1st and foremost,

the most simply, when the political chaos can go on it, it need resettlement, and i'm not an expert on it, but a yes when it comes to humanity and eat a we can work it out. make a 3040 women group a task force that brings in women from all parts of the society beach. but i've learned women. what educated, who do i understand how the it works that you inter didn't be taking part of my eat . it should be going directly to the people on this, but we should be given the protection by the international community to live enough on the sun. and we could be working on every once level and district level on education. humanity didn't 8 and at the same time on health care, the 3 things that important and needed right now, but women do need protection to go back and says in that capacity, the money should be accessible by a private bank and should be accessible to the people they should be audited, they should be proper properly audited and should be seen by the international community how it's used. that's how you find solution. that's how you then

a country, not just by going there and taking pictures with my peggy know astonish. thank you so much for bringing your perspective to the stream. hopefully some of the decision makers, i listening to you and taking your advice. i appreciate you on the screen. take care. thank you. and now to perhaps one of the biggest stories of our time, in fact, it is the biggest story about time and that is climate change. another crisis with a women's face. one of our biggest accomplishments, while working at the intersection of climate change and gender impact, ensuring that we listen to the voices of women and girls on the ground, especially because they are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. and this is actually helped us develop more effective strategies for climate preparedness or that mitigation, as well as inability in the community. one of the biggest challenges that we see in climate change and gender impact is the recognition of women and girls as key stakeholders. in clementine, decision making processes often and girls on the front lines,

but they're worth it. they're not included enough and you think that is going to be a critical issue moving forward to ensure that the solutions let me find the climate change are effective and long lasting, especially for those that are most impacted by israel sang. is the chair of the un secretary general's youth advisory group on climate change and chair of the sedan youth organization on climate change, always good to have you on the stream. now we are talking about the gender gap and the gender gap. when we come to climate change climate activism, climate policy, misery, if we look back at this past year, where have we desperately missed women in climate policy and you can point to incite yes say that all women there, we would have had a different outcome. yeah, unfortunately everywhere i was just listening to the previous speaker from them and i saw the red port within them and twitter and unfortunately the same

situation everywhere. unfortunately, i'm so sad that we are in almost 2022 and we are still talking about how important it is to include young women or even women in the, in different processes, even in the political evidence to them wanting climate change. we have a very much similar situation. although women are the ones who day the streets normally and marsh again, the previous regime again is the same back in the cool and the military government . we find women are almost neglected everywhere. and recently, on the 19th of december, we had a big restoration to the presidential balance. unfortunately, now, forces are back to use rates as width, and we confirmed to severe raid cases after the

demonstration finished. and a lot of reports are talking about 13 to 15 cases. actually hundreds of harassment, of course, and this is something very bad because i see that we are actually going backwards in the movement of human rights to dignity of humanity. not as males or females, but as a human being that we deserve to be treated equally. as i also share with the previous speaker that unfortunately normally many weeks demand doesn't have solutions to the problems that we are have. otherwise, our companies would not be suffering from every, every sector, like change energy, cation, health, everything, everywhere we are suffering. and the simple answer is there is a huge, important into the community, which is the females to women, the mothers to the daughters, the wives of the partners are not even there anywhere.

and when anything happened, when a christ heat, we get it back in the most then all of the burdens of the household of the family, all the kids, everything falls in our shoulder is in. we noticed this as a program who cares about equity around the world. we care about giving people a platform to voice if they don't have a platform. and we realized that we were falling behind in terms of elevating the voices of women, making sure that we had as many men and women coming to our table come into our studio. so we just said, this is what we gotta do. this is our construct. and we are going to count and monita and check every single year. it's something that the united nations framework convention also said we want to do. we know that there are not enough women in climate policy. i would go to make an effort. how's that effort going? well, unfortunately you any trouble see,

is the members state oriented and the process of negotiation and every other process is members state driven. and if we can not be represented in our own countries and with our own governments, then they, even after recei cannot force governments to bring females. yes, there is a lot of programs to support young negotiators and young females also to come to the negotiation. there is one with we do. there is one. i think this is, i mean, this picture. oh wow. you know, everywhere when you recognize your own head in a, in a random pigeon is re, you know, there were not enough women in climates. ok. all right, so that, that was a list of, of, of the efforts. um huh. which i've, i've, you know, what i realize is that you just say we're doing it and you do it, you know, next year away trying away, getting a, you just say we're doing it. i am really curious about what the

fix is. because every single case we've had on to day shall knew what the fix would be. so in climates what's the fix? unfortunately, it's not a rated. i cannot say that the fixed in climate is because climate is a system based also problem. if we did not change the whole system, if we did not fix the whole system, then the workers climate change would never be fixed. for example, the different countries delegation you can find barely one or 2 females with 100 male, for example. and this delegation or not not break brought by you see the geishas i abroad by the government of this computer. so it's deeply rooted problem and it leads to the inequality that our community lives in and how that there's been 3 are 2 communities also ruling everything. unfortunately, i can ask you a very, very,

very simple question. no, we have more than $200.00 almost country around the world. how many countries have prime ministers or presidents as females? we can count them in one hand and even to have, whenever count the number of men in different positions. how much problems that actually these men could actually sold and, and how much the problems that the most could. so i'm a huge fan of the finland prime minister of newsletter prime minister of different prime ministers who are actually pushing to have females good image. because unfortunately, we get crated or criticized hundreds time was that the normal male good for the size is really, they're not doing. the one is asking them misery. and i'm just wondering if this is this, you're coming out campaign space for running for office, for hire office for the our prime minister is expected to resign and we don't

have a government right now due to that. so i don't think we get to choose my country in time soon and i will not carry any kind of other nationalities because i think i have a country in this country deserve to 5 for miss rain. it's always good to have he here on the stream you, you're always very direct. thank you very much for speaking to us about the the lack of women in climate policy in the climate crises and climate change who can actually make a difference. thank you so much, miss reed. thank you patch donna. thank you martha as well. and that's our show for today. let me show you something you can get in touch with us if you'd like to try out gender parity at your me to organization the stream. barry malone. sandy, i'll call at vianza open. thanks for watching a frank

assessments this crisis is continued to weaken luca shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning, there have was thankful for informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people. that is one of the most hopeful things to come out of this critical debate. do you think it's a should be facilitated? not ciocca. it's a great, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a top swans that inside story on al jazeera, the listening post cuts through the noise. we were talking about competing artists with the modern day tools being used to perpetuate those competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story. and some element of the truth, but the full story of the names and culture. unpacking the stories you're being told, it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics. the listening post, your guide to the media on

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