this is more or less what a single person throws out a week and sylvian by children were to put it in these bottles of precedent, and we pick it up at their schools. and we transform it into this, which recall ecoboost gabriella. collection centers are being set up everywhere, but critics say this type of circular economy as a fundamental flaw, noble and dea come on. it doesn't promote a fundamental change in our consumption habits if we continue generating the same amount of waste without changing the productive model that generates it. we're just kicking the ball forward perhaps. but there's one important advantage to distill fledgling industry made from waste. it should help reduce the need to cut down more trees. yet another environmental casualty of our times to see a newman al jazeera santiago ah,

logan, i'm fully rateable. with the headlines on al jazeera as 2021 comes to close, current of iris cases are on the rise again, driven by the omicron variant. the u. k is holding off on any restrictions and the u. s. is reducing quarantine time for people without symptoms. france, meanwhile, has further tightened covered 19 measures after reporting more than 800000 cases. the government has asked people to work from home at least 3 days a week, but they'll be no curfew for new year's eve and vaccinated. residents will be restricted from public places. from mid january indonesian officials say they will not offer refuge to a group of ra, hang us stranded on a boat and said they'll help repair the vessel and provide food for the refugees and send them back to sea. around a $120.00 people, including children on board, bring a muslims from jamar half a year, sale to countries like militia, thailand and indonesia to seek refuge from persecution for dog maple grove,

young rep, unload at the movies. job is to secure the countries border. bureau hunger are not indonesian citizens. we can't just bring them at land even as refugees. this is in line with government policy law. syrian st media is reporting israeli forces have carried out an air strike on a major port in the city of la takia. missiles have reportedly damaged containers at the port and several residential buildings. shops and hospital is not clear if anyone has been injured. the reports haven't been independently confirmed. russia supreme court has ruled very prominent human rights. organizations should be closed down. prosecutors are accusing memorial international of distorting history, or the group says the allegations are politically motivated and eat on mosque is facing backlash in china after beijing said his son lives had to close encounters with is space station earlier this year. the games have not been back verified by china has complained to the u. n. space agency. those are the headlines on al

jazeera coming up next. here is this stream. january, and i just, you know, 20 years ago the euro was brought into circulation. we investigate how the euro's and benefited from having an official currency be part of the st. enjoy most social media community. se early owns recovery from civil war continues. we moved to decades since the end of one of africa's most brutal complex, the bottom line, steve clemons dives headlong into the u. s. issues that shape the rest of the world . as we enter the 3rd year of coven 19, we go back to hand, where it all began, and investigate how far we come. since the pandemic january on a just 0. ah . hi, as 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 guests. 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 2018. 2019. we got into astride 2019. 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 2021. 55.17 percent were women and 44.8 percent women. i do not know how you get percentages of men or women, but there you go. i'm not a statistician. here's the streams executive producer barium allayed. i am delighted that for the 4th year when the stream has achieved age, gender balance goal is important that we did this on any year. but as you're about

to find out on the show, it was perhaps particularly horned this year a year in which almost every major story that we covered disproportionately impacted women, the crown of our hispanic climate change, the us 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 if you'd like to reach out to find out or techniques our tips, our strategies, our methodology, please find us on twitter or email us at stream al jazeera dot net. thank you. of our we are at city a serious consider the stream as your open source, his head to find us again. i. d, m. 's are open on twitter. the stream by re malone's, the aims are open,

malone barry, and might the ems always open to you at family? ok, you want to find out how to make your media platform gender balanced. we're here for you. in another year of bad news, the perseverance of women across the world has stood out. earlier this year, the you inspected general antonia good terrorist said covert 19 is a crisis with a woman's face. the fact is, there are few stories that we cover on the stream that don't disproportionately empower women. we start with one of them the pandemic. it has taken a massive toll and the female wealth force in the united states. as a small business owner during the pandemic, especially when with boston, 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 mazda. good to have you this trend of women coming out of the workplace in the united states. when did you start seeing it? well, it was a paris 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 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 are 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. ok, 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 maybe not going back to school because of a new variant. and this still an economic issue with not everybody getting their

jobs back. what do you predict for 2022? it is it i 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. den delta came my are you trying to say, i don't know in a very elegant i let me out. you're out here who, who knows? but thank you so much for bringing this 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. moffatt thank you so much. take half 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. and i'm going to come to afghanistan. b employment, the policy that woman cannot group outside of my home. it causes that woman in afghanistan, all inclusive, unwisely. no, it's called an inverse city dose of kudos. students, especially girls come not going to school, the woman and i often, oh because they lost their jobs. i had a good on countries, especially in canada. please help to well enough pressure. donna dirani 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 joe's in the international community. talk about women's rights. and i've got, i said this is so important. of course it is important, but you just look at it in a very different way. so that perspective, cuz i think it's an employee one for audience to hear that 1st 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 helping 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 bad. why these babies are having their mothers who conceded babies and women who can't access hospitals right now there's those. we 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 upon this. i'm in the conflict started, right? because they've now, nobody has read anything, just the, the gene cheese and there is now people are going back. but women at the forefront . we have to understand that international community, special international organizations and people who went there to meet their years used women. i will always use feminism and women that just to make sure that be get a front seat 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 some day she stayed in afghanistan beyond august where many people were leaving. what is the situation right now in afghanistan? what do women need and wants?

so the 2 minutes that i have good enough on a sound, the one thing i have learned is the fact that 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 rights are been used to actually tired of 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 close to the house. this coming kids and starving mothers 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 in what we can could have gone in is paint and p d the issues for the digital literacy programs. we have given this power to the taliban, right. now that okay, 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 inclusive 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 to 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 includes that 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. these are meetings meetings to tell about and met. all right, different countries and have a break to me cause the more now is another meeting with man. it's another meeting with when they're not bringing, we mean 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. the men who are coming from that occasion for the meeting. the fallible didn't have any education on up on that. if they did 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 telling me a single economic model that they have presented in the past 20 years. apart from opium, that has worked upon this time or the economy. so it's just as you keep the men both face, one can pull one mental but no solutions. 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. most of the 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 what actual answers 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 not seen 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 timing 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 it's 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 sign is the chair of the un secretary general's youth advisory group on climate change and chair of the sudan

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? you can point to incite yes. say that we're all women there. we would have had a different outcome. yeah, unfortunately, everywhere i was just listening to the previous speaker from afghanistan and i saw the thread, they bought a put in twitter, and fortunately the same situation everywhere. unfortunately, i'm so sad am i that we are in the almost 2022 and we are still talking about how important it is to include young women or even women in the indifferent

processes. or even in the political level is who they're not on the climate change . we have a very much similar situation. although women are the ones who'll day the streets normally. and marsh again is the previous regime again is the dictator himself begins the coo and the military government. we find. 8 women are almost neglected everywhere. and recently on the 19th or her of the of december, we had a big demonstration to the presidential rebels. unfortunately, now, armed forces are back to you as rape as a weapon. we confirmed to severe a rape cases after the did the demonstration finished and a lot of reports are talking about $13.00 to $15.00 cases actually on hundreds of harassment, of course. and this is something very bad because i see that we are actually going backward 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. and i also share oh with the previous speaker that unfortunately normally men who speaks to men doesn't have some solutions for the problems that we are have. otherwise our countries would not be suffering from every every sector of climate change, energy, education, health, everything, everywhere. we are suffering, and the simple answer is there is a huge important compose until the community wishes the females to women, the mothers to the daughters, the wives of the partners are not even there anywhere. and where did anything happen when a christ heat, we get it back to the most. then all of the burdens of the household of the family, all the kids are everything falls in our shoulder is in. we notice 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 money, men and women coming to our table coming to 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 went 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. okay. 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 x. 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 delegations are not a not break brought by you see the geishas i abroad by the government of this computer. so 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, chris has criticized hundreds time was that the normal male good for the size and history. mean they're not doing. the one is asking them misery. and i'm just wondering if there's, if you're coming out campaign space for running for office, for hire office, be our prime minister is expected to resign and we don't have a government right now 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 fire for misery. 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 the answer and thanks for watching. awe . from the house is near london broadcast and tack 2 people in thoughtful conversation with no haste and no limitations. this dick, it is a most consequential decade in the msc doff for too many companies that are doing bad things in the front. in part 2 of human rights activists kill me 19 and

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