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if those around them keep suffering in silence malcolm web al jazeera, it's in kenya. washington's nfl team has just announced its new name. we are there from now on no, be known as the washington command is following a lengthy review on how to replace and original name that was widely seen as a racial slur against native americans. ah, hello. are you watching on to 0? these are the top stories this our reports are coming in, president joe biden has approved the deployment of additional us troops to europe, mid rising tensions between russia and ukraine. truth, 1000 truthful reportedly be sent from the us to poland and germany in the coming days. and about 1000 are expected to be re position from germany to remain. am
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earlier russia's president accused the west of trying to lose him in the war with you? crime, let me put in says he wants to resolve the crisis. francis foreign minister meanwhile, says there's no indication russia is ready to take any action. in other world, news gunman in democratic republic of congo have killed at least 72 people in the eastern province of touring. fight is from the cooperative for the development of the congo, also known as conical or suspected of carrying out the attack group is killed hundreds of people in the region since 201740002 play their homes. elaine, why connie has more from neighboring compiler, what we know is just the number of the deaf, which is really quizzing according to people around the and so those in touch of the management of the comp carnita. this is one of the capital organization,
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one of the quick cut legal going addition to area de co form critical munitions to just come in during the night time and start killing population start killing the displace menu from him twice because we have to understand the have many victims of these co decal groups. some african universities have reopened for the 1st time since the taliban takeover in august. last year. female students were allowed back onto the campuses. the taliban led to government segregated classrooms. western nations have been urging the group to respect women's rights and turkey is accusing greg border guides of allowing 12 migrants to freeze to death by stripping them of their clothes and shoes. grace hasn't responded to the allegations and the nationalities of the dead isn't known. the border between grace and check, he is one of the main routes into the european union from migrants and refugees.
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those the headlines? i'm emily angland staging now for the stream. the latest news leaving it's really hard. on for 10 years. they was a victim of not just got to chatting with detail coverage warning that omega fractions were still in power. large part of precisely applaud on jeff years from around the world on house people, years of living on the street actually celebrate the aging process. ah hi anthony. okay. you're watching the stream. it has been over 7 years since a conflict broke out between huffy fighters and president hardy, supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia, united nations, for many years of describe the situation,
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the impact and civilians as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. and this january is shaping up to be the deadliest for civilians. earlier we spoke to jacob burns for medicine on frontier for his take on what is happening right now. we are dealing with the long term crises that 7 years of war produces covered as an excellent example of this with the health care system. basically co ops in the country. more than 2 years after the virus became reality. we still lack most of the things that we even need to prevent or to treat colbert needs. and basically no testing in the country. vaccines are eva unavailable, or not very widely used. and when people are very sick and need a good level of intensive care, it's, it's often simply not available. on today's episode of the stream,
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we are going to be looking at at the intensifying war in yemen, particularly its impact on civilians and also geo politics. as well, of course i can't do that without i to guess hello, sharina. hello. had you nice to have you sharing, please introduce yourself to our global audience and tell them your connection to what is going on in yemen right now. thank me. my name is dr. showing our the me and i was born in yemen of there for some time, you know, as a child, i'm in the professor in michigan state currently in the us and since 2015 i've been playing an active role in trying to get my own government here in the united states to and their support or the situation in the warranty. thank you for being part of our discussion today. had to welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to us . tell them who you are, what you do and your connection to the conflict in yemen. yeah, thank you for me. so, i'm a research fellow with the policy center i showing then the past year. and for,
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for the last year, i have been focusing on my research has been focusing on engaging in civil society with the peace process as well as, you know, as a focus on the the wider crisis. so yeah. all right, thank you for that. joining us life and yes, we have a summer, there is a delay before you will hear a summer and he's on the phone because of the connection. i'm sure you will appreciate it is difficult to connect with yemen right now, but a summer, welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself to our audience. tell them who you are and what you do. go ahead. yes, i am looking to start off of medication. that's on supplementing violation so much. thank you all as you guess for being part of our program on youtube. if you've got
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questions, concerns about what is happening in yemen right now. use a comment section, put your questions or comments in there. i'll do my best include them in today's show. i'm actually going to move away from youtube and actually start on twitter as we would prowling this show, have a look here on my laptop. the said she asked this very simple question, simple and yet complicated. why, the senseless killing to rain? what would you say back to fetch he it is a complicated question, but it is the sent. the killing has absolutely been senseless over the last several years. i think if we want to talk about the origins of the war, we can trace it back to him and he's desire for a democratic society back in 2011 with the arab spring em and had its own arab spring in january of 2011. which altered and turned into an armed struggle between various groups. but there were a couple of years of hopeful transition when the long time dictator had step down
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and has insurance president time. he was elected in a one man, an election essentially. but he was given this post a temporary post to try to bring parties of the country together and some kind of unity government at the end of 2014 the these took over. this is a group that had long standing battles with the former government. and they took over essentially the capitals and it led to civil upheaval and in many parts of yemen. and is essentially in march of 2015 and escalated into an all right, international conflict which we see playing out today when side area formed a coalition of several countries including the u. e. and with full backing and support from the united states and the united kingdom to launch this offensive in yemen. and that led to where we are right now with the who these forming and shakia lines initially with saw that to push back against this coalition. and now they are
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essentially only other the only group left to form some kind of arms struggle against the coalition. and the coalition continuing to mostly use air raids to and the blockade to try to assert the high, the, the former president, heidi or the internalizing happy back to power. so we'll get a very compact explanation of how we got to this place. i deal with saying, hey, on the string today that we are seeing this intensifying will happen in yemen. are you seeing that to what are the sites? yeah, so, so just to answer the question about the why the, the simplest killing. and i think the main reason for that one is the lack of in the accountability mechanism to, to hold all those axes accountable for their violations of human rights and further work crimes. and that's why we conflict park. he feels that they are at liberty
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to, to pursue their own interest regardless of the, the suffering that they are in place of on the population. and regarding your 2nd question. unfortunately, the conflict is escalating, especially party this year when, when the note pack is moving the complex way be any way by firing this all if i know the air for to be for example, on other areas. and in retaliation, we're seeing heavy air strike campaigns by default. the way you look coalition, on not only the faruqis and actually, but also on the territory under the control of both the of which have, you know, which have, you know, the volumes and civilian targets indiscriminately. and so, and all of the developments and the scene are in personally, you know,
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they are further derailing and are the skills piece processors. so civilians are being impacted and i'd heard and killed from the who the fight is. and also from the saudi led coalition. i need to make that very, very clear. what i'm about to show you though, is a survivor from an attack on a santa detention center. and a, this man is called mohammed and he's got horrible wounds. i just want you to be ready for this. and he can explain what happened to him. the satellite coalition have not said that they are responsible, they said they would investigate the attack. his mom, it fertile on one of the, with the missile, hit ward number 3, and i was in ward number to my mates. and i was sitting and chatting about our release from prison and how our cases will stand with the judge and what would happen after we are released. then the plain struck at around 130 or 2 o'clock.
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suddenly piles of debris were on top of her mongolia. mother called the howl over the little wood. i was trying to free my leg from under the pillar and the war plain continued to bombard us. i tried, i tried and i removed the debris from under my leg and i got out. i could not help my friends because my leg was broken. i was crying to people for help as the war playing continued to strike and hit the rest of the wards completely. were gonna be going over on the water bottle. some are you are speaking to us from santa. if we ask you about why the conflict is escalating from your situation in santa, what would you tell us, how would you explain it to us? well, the, be a big harmon, different parts of the country and it's clear and it's an indicator for that
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behavior. the wine marquee for their actions, called back, because they are impunity on their national community to ensure accountability for the violation i'm firms, i'm going to be different from the recent military commission on the, in generally my feeling of more, my 100 civilian and more than $200.00 fathers, including women, children, we documented 90 strikes like coronation and that tax id. this is activity for when there's no account committee. the boarding for to started and unity you so much for sharing that with us. a summer i want to bring him to spokes people,
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one from the who's the fighters, one from the saudi led coalition. it's ironic that they're both saying the same things and they're both saying is civilians be where have a look, have a listen for in the heart or just did natalie lab, we renew our warning to citizens residence and companies to stay away from vital headquarters and facilities as they are vulnerable to targeting in the coming period, hey, law for thought the, to move it up with, you know, the most of them will animate any who these have to reconsider when using civilian locations. because under international humanitarian law, they forfeits immunity for any person or organization that misuses the legal immunity. under the international humanitarian law, the site will not be considered the civilian site, and thus it will be a legitimate military target to assist them. at house, on our warnings that from both sides of this conflict,
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but how much care is being taken to look after civilians? i'm showing you start i mean it's preposterous to think that the saudis have had any regard for civilian casualties in yemen over the last several years. there, there was a u. n report several years ago leaked you and report that describe their targeting civilians as indiscriminate and intentional. and so the idea that we are that they have any regard for civilians is mind boggling. and you know, it's just been a threat for the who used to not use civilian places is essentially to say that all civilian places in yemen are going to be targets just as we've seen. we've seen them target prisons in the most common in the most recent air strikes as well as telecommunication centers. there have been targets on schools. there have been targets on mosques and people in their homes, people in moving vehicles. i mean, a coalition that targets and moving school bus full of children knowing that they were, it was a school bus full of children,
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really has no red lines when it comes to civilian casualties or protecting civilian casualties in any way early on in the war. and they declared the entire governor of side that which quarterside arabia a military target, the entire government with any, with everybody inside this government has been targeted as a military fighter, essentially. and you know, whether it's the hokies or the saudis, the civilians are caught in between. and i think the spokesman, who you mentioned, the clip that you showed was perhaps talking about in minority and savvy civilians . but when we look in the toll of civilian cache, so as far as to say from a pick up, go ahead. yeah, i agree with what you said about the you know, targeting civilians and civilian targets in an indiscriminate way. or, you know, the targets are disproportionate to the, to the impacts and civilians. i absolutely agree with that,
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but i also would like to point out that, you know, these are also known for using, you know, need civilian buildings or like you, i, this is sort that were sent or you know, they use school. they, you is use all of these facilities to further with, or for the military activities, which, you know, and personally, not only, you know, bazillion target danger, but also, you know, the, the surrounding neighborhood, the people who live around those facilities. and we know that these, they are big on using the images or the you know, the images that come after the aftermath of the people dying or they're using batch for their own advantage to kind of show people when you look,
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this is what the coalition is doing this is how they're doing yemen is cold bloodedly. and what they're doing with that is that they're, you know, they're using that to recruit more people, you know, more shows the battlefield and that, that has brought to that has got to be effective. let me just show you a headline that is, is, is very disturbing here. this is from al serra dot com, to 1000 children, recruited by humans who faced died fighting that is from the you and, and the number of deaths in yemen from civilians. a most of them are kate's, most of the mature drink a summer. you in yemen right now, i want to bring you into this conversation. we have a number of questions on youtube asking about what is happening yemen. i'm going to ask you very briefly to, to these, if you can, andrew wants to know, why would a prison in santa be targeted i,
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this is wrong because the address to be, to the the warring parties, to decide that is going to be a attack. they explain why they targeted this, or that's the case. i think that's a very good point. i have one more question for you before i and that we have a said i have one more question for you. and again, this is from youtube homes wants to know how much support to the who tease enjoy among ordinary yemenis. i feel very people in the street, they are very restricted after the 7 years are compensated when they are doing for their daily needs. the situation has to
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be the economy. i didn't know much about the warranties. i'm on the didn't get my knees. i'm the one. he's documented many incidents where we have committed to how the boy parties are vision. okay, i thank you. some of which takes me on to how people are struggling, how ordinary civilians are struggling. maybe they may not even be getting direct. yes. had but food and access the food is very difficult because because they are being displaced. here is one family story who's been displaced and what food, what food aid is getting to them? have a listen. have a look. loudon at any cannon, la, dr. before we left our city food was affordable. we used to have meet fish chicken
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malo here and everything. there was everything. but now circumstances have imposed the sonata a little ticklish. i have a, a dylan and so every 2 months they give us a sack and a half of the wheat 2 cans of cooking oil, a bag of salt, a bag of sugar and a bag of lentils. that's it. at my adela bus service led a family that is getting some think some earlier we spoke to elliott, she is for the regional communications office of the world food program. and she was just very frank about the situation that they are in have listen, have a look if he is waiting for it to prevent the food security situation from printed interrogation. that's our biggest challenge now is funding the current funding crunch means we're taking food from the hungry to feed the starving. and since the beginning of a year, out of the 13000000 people were assisting,
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we had to renew the food, rashana progressions of 8000000 over them. he's caught us come at the worst possible time for the many people who are dealing with the consequences of escalation. fighting, wi fi urgently means $800000000.00 for the next 6 months to maintain the current level of assistance. cheryl, it's good to have you back with us it back. connected with us on youtube. a very interesting question. why is no saudi or m a rattie protesting against this destructive pointless war? i mean, i think the question, the question, the answer is obvious to people who live in a democratic society. these are autocratic society, where descent is punished quite heavily. we've all heard about the rich story of the us based journalist, your mouth hush of g. a few years ago,
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who wasn't by the way, anti monarchy or anti study monarchy, he happen to have different views from the current crown prince. mm hm. it's been sent in mind and we know what happened very well. so the idea that descent is even possible public the centers even possible with the rest that we've seen in the u. e and my and the and insider eva is you know, it's not possible for people to dissent in those societies. i want to bring them, but i'm going to just preface it a little bit with i'm going to go to you via out to do a correspondent james base. he spoke recently to the you, a ambassador to the united nations, just after a couple of things had happened. so one was the who t fight is had attack of a daddy. 3 people died shortly after that there was an attack on a detention center in sata and over 90 people were killed, mostly civilians. and then james bayes had this moment at the united nations. and
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i'm really interested in how you unpack, what is happening here. geopolitically. take a look. your defense on the law has to be proportionate. does it not? and the president of the council, norway, speaking in a national cock capacity, said the attack that took place and saddam was on except to what you have heard to day. and you will know, following the work of the council, that this is rare. what you have heard today is the unanimous condemnation by the security council against the terrorist attack against the united arab emirates on monday, the 17th of january. i'm not asking you about that. i'm asking about your response and whether it was proportionate given that at least 60 people have died, maybe as many as i'd like to refer you to the coalition statement on that matter. but i also like to affirm here that the coalition undertakes to abide by international law and proportionate response in all its military operations. so i think that her response talking about the united support of the international
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community through the u. e. and there combination of the cookies on the way as opposed to how they react to. not only, you know, the coalition that fax and the present and thought of it also, all of the attacks that are happening and then either by the coalition or by the food piece is it's, it's a sign of how the international community is treat him and he's not an in person conflict, not in a parking country. price over the it's being treated as you know, in the back yards of the go see, particularly the ravia. and the problem is that there are in many people advocating for an international arena, not even the government, the international recognize government of yemen is advocating for, you know, for the rights of the money. because it's so basically just fighting with the
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saudis, with the coalition against interest of their own citizens, you know, in the country. so it's, it is, it's frustrating to see the international community react this way. but i, and i think that, you know, part of why yemen is not getting enough attention of the international arena, because the media doesn't cover much of the conflict in yemen. and also because i feel that you know, the impacts of the war and you haven't, hadn't really reach the, you know, european countries like us say, you don't see, for example, refugees knocking on the people in those countries. and so not enough attention being given to the conflict and hence why it's called the forgotten war. to me is that an end in sight for the i'm going to say for the civilians like for protecting the civilians in yemen? is that possible?
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i think the only possibility for a peaceful young and our civilians can live a normal life in yemen as for international parties to exit this war i have led through to civil war is in yemen. osama is living through a war right now. maybe he has to, in yemen. and prior to this war, we have not seen yemen, turn into the world's worst humanitarian crisis. people when they're fighting one another. they don't blockade themselves and prevent food and medicine from and entering or fuel from entering the country. they don't target their heritage side or their you know, food storage site. so i think the hope that we have is for international coalitions to exit this war. so that yemen, you can come together and form some kind of coalition. and i mentoring. i'm kind of coalition government that will work for them. all right, thinking my input and had dale and osama really appreciate it and for the questions that you also need chief, thank you for participating in today. shout. i'll see you next time. take everybody . ah,
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