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am the blocker in doha, with the top stories allow to 0 from says on his highest state of alert for extreme temperatures in more than a dozen locations as a heat wave envelops lodge pass of southwest europe, firefight is trying to contain to lodge wildfire near the city of bordeaux. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate oconee to wilson's hut the she was still using a strategy of preventative evacuations. so far we've had no loss of life. they were facing a difficult day because of the temperature, but also the changes and wind direction. the more than 35 betting across spain, thousands of people have been forced to flee the homes, especially in the south. the country has been experiencing a week long heat wave with highs of nearly 46 degrees. the heat is also being blamed for hundreds of deaths. authorities in the u. k. a warning temperatures and parts of england could break records in the coming hours. people are being to take precautions. the mercury rise is beyond $38.00 degrees celsius. the match office
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says choose a could be even hot, potentially heating the 40 degrees celsius mark for the 1st time where we challenge says more from london while the expensive bays that you can see behind me is the normally nicely green hyde park. there's even a couple of somebody this out here. we're ignoring the health warnings like me to stay in the shade and, and keep cool, prettiest people love to talk about the, about the weather and there, there's been so much of that over recent days in the price because these islands are usually pretty chilly and damp so this kind of thing is very, very unusual. the u. k. government is put in place an unprecedented read extreme health warning if the temperatures get over $38.00 degrees that will break records . these islands not use to temperatures into the high thirties and above, so there are measures being taken, being put in place. they are expecting lots of ambulance cool out today. some
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schools closing early or even not opening a toll. the transport system, much of the rail network is going to be having go slow speed limits on it. there is one big part of one of the main lines from london to the northern cities of lease and york, which is not gonna be running a whole tomorrow. so basically this country is kind of buckling down and, and making sure that it can get through this period of hot weather unscathed because of course these sorts of temperature in a, in a warming world is going to get more and more common protest as a gathering on the streets, centrelink as capital them after the interim president imposed a nationwide state of emergency. but it will become a thing. it says it's needed to hold public order ahead of parliament election of a new leader. your grain president vladimir zalinski has suspended his prosecutor general and the states intelligence chief, the president says, 60 officials from the agencies are working against ukraine in russian occupied
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areas. alam fisher has more from keith. while the president is president's office is doing a bit of a clean up in the last hour or so, because on his national address on sunday night, he said that both of these officials had been dismissed. now, coming from the president's office in the last hour is a statement to say that both of these officials have been suspended. that is an investigation under way. and if there are concrete allegations against both of them, and then the president will recommend to parliament that they are dismissed. it's unusual for vladimir zalinski to make changes like this, even though before the war, his cabinet was like a revolving door since the war. he's kept really the same group around him. the party of pakistan's, former prime minister, emron. com is dominating regional by elections in the region with the biggest population that the results showed. cons p t i party has won most of the 20 seats up for grabs and punjab. the results could have national implications. by minister
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chabarise sheriff's muslim league holds a narrow majority in the provincial assembly, an investigation into the response to the school shooting an avowed, a texas says police made poor decisions in the 400 officers were at the scene of the attack in may, but they didn't do anything for more than an hour to come and killed 19 children and to cheat teachers before he was shot dead. those are the headlines. the news continues here, announces era, after witness make sure you stay with us for that. ah ah ah
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ah. and my job is to go around the world and investigate different housing issues and to the see how are people faring with respect to the right to housing. but maybe you could tell me a bit about how you came to meeting to have a ran strike. for me personally, i have a most problem. i have the top roach problem. i've got things that need to be repaired in the building. they with all services, they run you around in circles, they frustrate you, you get that up. you just want to leave. but we're, we can go, but friends, situation all over toronto's, the same way. there is, it is addiction by another name. yeah. and have you had any response from that cap yet? i guess it's rather harassing bill birkhead. aside on her, she had
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a side on her balcony about the red stripe and they threatened her victor. i'm giving you this notice because i want to end your tendency. i want you to move out of your rental unit by such and such date reason. i believe that you or someone living with you has committed any legal act and 6, a series critic, ality. yeah. on my record legal action, guns and drugs. oh, my god, a she massacre with arden arms category there. yeah. so this was based on the banner. yeah. you know, we're not back melting room or anything just as may 1st rent strike. yeah. they on 19 bill is in the area and that's their plan for all the buildings is to give people like us. so the neighborhoods getting gentrified up, you know, familiar with liberty village. it's moving, it's come right up to king and duffer, and this is, it's only one direction into our neighbor, and we're in the way. ah
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average family income has only grown by a 133 percent. so something else is in play and clearly it's not the economic fundamentals as you can see from the above graph. so are you going to send this or out, or what i mean? i would need to check the numbers 1st, but it's pretty. i mean that it's pretty grim. ah, i think we are at an incredibly urgent moment. the extent to which we are see urban ization, collide with stagnant wages and a lack of affordability is unprecedented. so you have like poor people really struggling now like like never before. but then you also have the
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middle class unable to afford to live in cities and provide the services that are necessary for city. i don't wanna over use the word crisis, but it suggests a crisis. so then we start asking, wait a 2nd, who's going to live in cities? who are cities for, ah, ah, it's not tom rocket science enough. what do we think people need to have a dignified life? and it's clear that decent housing affordable housing has one of those things and it's supported by international law. kennedy heights family is just an hours away from learning whether or not they can stay in their home or be forced
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out on the strings. problem housing is gobbling up more and shrinking paychecks. people and 59 out of 102 countries worldwide would need to see their yearly income for at least 10 years in order to buy a house in their country. there are 2 histories we might say that intersect to day in that space that we call the city and one of them is familiar aisha, which is so what we have for which we have used the term gentrification. when i hear people today saying it's gentrification, one reaction and ironic reaction is if only it's much deeper, it's impact, it's much more foundational. cool. a fill in even though so then either
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way i see of actual i then you the now until i were in the home of an older woman breaker or is being pressured to abandon her home. because in the midst of the big new development here, there was a hospital, it's been demolished, and it was demolished to make way for condominiums, luxury condominiums, and they don't even own this land. i've heard that there are many units standing vacant already, luxury condos, and last because no one in both parties so can afford to buy and purchase any of these units. so these developments are clearly not for the people about a them. mm hm. oh yeah. he did it in the for me, so it was you don't know if you're right on a saturday, you know,
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having been only will the amended feed window on the bus and i know that you would have a photo hardwood or not. i can, i don't know, but it well, this is what i'm seeing happening around the world by and help of land, the displacement of the poorest people. and the putting up of luxury a unit that are not actually for the people who live in the community. i own a person on the contact will not be in a contract. if i you had us on the 10th or the demo. you know, get a silly motion
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to my nightmare. we've had no heat all through april, no hot water through april. there's water leaking underneath the new owners and taken over. we haven't met some, we haven't seen them. we don't know anything. it can be frosty the snowman. for all i know they're trying everything do with a home that you what i'm what you want it. and i'm going to be actually been down. this is where i grew up and i know i'll be hell bent and balance. i'm going to be study here. we go. all right. bye. have a good . thank you very much. yeah. i was very proud to live in notting hill
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and he goes on where i want you to call notting hill cuz i've heard about the feel more whatever. ah, king, i like about this area is the community. your frames are all face or colors. is one with the family because even if he doesn't know each other, we know of a by faith. i was born just 5 minutes from here and in the seventy's and eighty's in scene. oh, area change. now some pop stars and people moving into the area because they light, the vibe to live is really cool. the people seen the will will film. they come out from all around the world,
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they want to see where the blue doorways. they want to see this did the bookshop. it became very, very trendy places to live. and then the new school ledger center that's going to attract the wealthy people to come down to the area. and then they stop by and not properties that need to live there. but you know, because they saw fantastic investment for them better and put in the bank to offer stop on the highlight tour of london plutocracy properties. these 2 properties are worth perhaps 20000000 pounds each. i believe mister paid something in the region of 40 or 50000000 pounds worth. if you could get a whole one of these, it would be 30 or 40000000 pounds and nobody lives here and nothing is happening to this thing. so it's become a dead spot in london. there was, ah news agents,
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there were pubs, there were a couple of restaurants. but the community itself has evaporated. to leave the press off like 94. if i so my fly, i could not leave in kids and shall say, i'll be forced out the area and i'll have to actually 40 move out of london. i can stand in the middle of the street with m to car parking spaces all around me . and no traffic coming, the space is now a bit of a dead. so we very little indication of who the owners are. and a lot of them are completely empty. so you, you can't go classroom where they are, they're actually just empty all the time. ah one way of putting it is,
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this is not at all housing ah, the buildings they function as, as you want those houses to be empty and unused because you can play with them. i mean these dark empty buildings and they are making money. so when people think of poor investor, something went wrong. hell know, oh, my 1st reaction to learning about this phenomenon, a vacant dwellings, i was pretty outreach. i remain outraged in human rights framework. and through the un system, it's very clear who was accountable states state are responsible, they have international human rights obligations. they sign treaties. and they make
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commitments to the international community that they will uphold international human rights, which include the right adequate housing. you know, that's a real block off a bus to leave and call to my door. and then i open the front door as a blanket. oh, black smoke, disclosable. very common thinkin. oh is a fire? ah, i'm with you. right
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now is the beginning of the 5 weeks. do we need for 2 and a half hours? that's the beginning best. ah. when i heard about it, i was in canada and watching it unfold through twitter and then i started getting these details. social housing estate, marginalized community community, sat in a very rich, affluent burrow allegations of poor housing conditions from before the fire. ah, can i see an arm or here come through this month and kind of grant my wife and then another on the i was my come to to kind of grab myself. said, how about my dog,
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my dog? the officer said no, i'm sorry. we're gonna have to go. so just look to my dog. and i miss and i made those my lot, my child is a to you o. b, who could lewis hamilton the 2nd, but he chose his own name, given the options need, like louis oak saw his and they were you off into the darkness. and then on going down and then on treading on things fig. oh, there must have the water pipes already in the stairwell, but then the realization know i figured people off on treading on, on a boat is on treading on something. something this is that is in my way, i was actually quite happy when they put,
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clad in to make it pretty make it look nicest for the surrounding area. and somebody knew that that the, on the cheek, there were these elements that seem to be a bit of a global phenomenon where you have a kind of vulnerable community, most of the people in rental working. but they're working poor, literally living side by side with incredibly wealthy people. and i credible amount of wealth, the tension between the 2. and then watching this fire, it was like a physical representation of the displacement of a community. for me, that's the narrative of the world right now. one of the i heard one
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of the counselors while the counselor said, if you can't live in knowing he'll day, should newton be milledgeville, was all about. to say several other. did you get we'll go from. so he thought he would leave the old a lives. i just didn't want to you like that me. and this will limit make me sick. you're going to why brief is mark, don't just disregard. i'm not there. rubbish. like they have that file. it has but as long as i was right, you know, this is the richest on in the bottom. how can i help him? oh, you have human rights obligations. he and you can't let these investors and the financial system run amok on its own. i see why human rights, every single person has a bunch of rights. and then i have a question for you. and that is a, you are legal scholar on human rights. you just, okay, yes. her, you have the instrumentality. that is the law. exactly. because what i see is those
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with power board, can they deploy the law in ways that work for their stuff is happening. you know, ah, prices go up in a neighborhood that is fixed. that's when the everybody understands that part. and then they should understand that at that point, another actor might come into the picture, a monster that nobody can see that nobody really understands whose language is incomprehensible. who is this? what is happening here? ah, i don't believe that capitalism itself is hugely problematic. is unbridled capitalism in an area that is a human right?
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problematic. yes. and i think that's what differentiates housing as a commodity from gold as the commodity gold is not a human right. housing is ah, so compliments the minute. wow. yes, 17. wow. the previous landlord, i think we'll see a c d i think they did put information up. let that let us know that the build the conflict is going to be sold. but this is before phil. phil. phil came it, you know, who is fairfield? i don't know. who they are from what i'm told to pay a bill is a subsidiary of mom is a black stone. right? private equity firm. yes, exactly. they want to raise each each palm and he went up to like $900.00 each. that is by $900.00 by manage a dollar. and are you going to be able to pay that?
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i don't know. i mean, i can definitely say next it is, is nowhere. and we have one to go. i don't have a clue. i don't know. right, and or do you mind me asking, are you employed to say yes. and so what percentage of your income would this be 2590 percent 9190 assay gallery? yes. 9090 percent. do you consider that affordable for you? was not i think human rights law hasn't caught up and it worries me that i haven't quite yet found the language. how do we describe it in a way that will make sense resonate and really get at that issue. i'm still looking . i'm looking for that. i feel a little bit desperate about that. so maybe i need to keep talking to the people in the financial field. the 1st title
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find out. i notice when i came here with laurie label admitted the opening hours. they show with our tenants that they are willing to, to me from under this is 3 hours or week them on tuesdays. so every time an appointment is vacant, they thought they renovation, whereby they can increase the rents. wheeler of free, 50 percent. but these are increased, rents have no connection at all to the actual costs. why this is very, very profitable for them. ah, finance is very tissue from the bank. we only bank that's fine. you know, it sells something. we pay money for. finance is totally different. i always say finance sell something, it does not and that means that finance is basically an extract
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extract finance. it's like mining once it has extracted what it needs, it doesn't care what happens with the rest, hulu, the value of all real estate. that functions as an asset is $217.00 trillion dollars. that's more than global g, d, p. of all the countries in the world of all the economies in the world. ah, they're highly kennel flashed extractions because they come in the shape of extraordinarily complex instruments that nobody who's not in that business can understand it. so complex that we delegate to the experts who are the experts?
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i'm the banker in dough. with the top stories on al jazeera, france is on his high state of alert for extreme temperatures. a more than a dozen locations as a heat wave envelops large parts of southwest europe. fi fi as a tried to contain 2 large wife, eyes near the city of bordeaux. a more than 35 burning across spain. thousands of people have been forced to flee the homes, especially in the south. the country has been experiencing a week long heat wave with highs of nearly 46 degrees. authorities in the u. k. a warning temperatures and pause having been could break records in the coming hours . people abi urged to take the cushions, but offices cheese, they could be even also potentially hitting the 40 degrees celsius mom for the 1st time where we challenge says morph london the, the u. k is bringing in a kind of national emergency really an unprecedented read extreme health warning, which is making sure that people do their best to stay out of the sun. and there are various measures being put in place. some schools are either closing
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early today or not opening its whole. there is a going to be a speed restrictions on transport networks like the, the tray network, one big part of the rail network from london. that's in the northern cities of leads and york not gonna be operating at all to morrow protests as a gathering on the street since for lancoste capital. after the interim president imposed a nationwide state of emergency vinyl vick from a singer says it's needed to uphold public order ahead of parliament selection of a new leader. ukraine president vladimir zalinski has suspended his prosecutor general and the states intelligence chief, the president says, 60 officials from their agencies are working against ukraine in russia. occupied areas the party hawkstern's, former prime in the same round con, is dominating regional my elections in the region with the biggest population. early result showed cons,
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p t i party has won most of the 20 seats up for grabs in punjab. the results could have national implications. an investigation into the response to this school shooting interval de texas says police made poor decisions. $8400.00 officers were at the scene of the attack in may, but did nothing for more than an hour. the government killed 19 children and 2 teachers. okay, those were headline news continues here on out to sarah. that's off to witness. stay with us. she by you i'll see her and i and i play like all come on beam with the largest real estate, private equity firm in the world. we've got investments and people around the globe, but by keeping our business entrepreneurial we can move very,
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very quickly. john gray is the global head of real estate for blackstone group, which is the world's largest private equity manager. so one of the markets you went into was a single family homes. and i know you have a big port covered at 50000 or yes. how do you even find 50 to buy it? you need a global financial crisis for that to occur. shooting around in 2011. you're saying, where is there a large pool of assets that are going to be sold by financial institutions? a big discount to underlying replacement costs and it was pretty obvious who was single family homes would spend 25000 or so fixing them up. busy and let's random out and make income producing assets out of them like an apartment business, but just not in one large complex, but if we do it enough scale, i was just poking around, trying to get my head around some of the stuff around hedge funds and buying app
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distressed mortgages and all of that. and i went onto the blackstone website. i worked with bruce for more than 20 years. he's an advocate and i think so differently than anyone i know. so basically buy up the whole neighborhood. gentrify the whole thing, double or triple the value of the real estate, just because you've gentrified the neighborhood enforced everybody else. and makes no mention of people really at least that by minute. 16 and a half. he hasn't mentioned like the people that would be living in those places. we own properties around the globe. we buy these investments on behalf of companies like wax own, or any the big financial enterprises were the big winners in the crisis. ah, they would wreak winters in the housing market. there wasn't big winners in the
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equity markets. it was as if the u. s. government, rather than helping the homeowners who were losing their homes, actually sided with the banks, encouraged foreclosures to clean up, the books, gave them money to hedge funds and, and private equity firms who then bought the, the distressed assets to make money. so it is the way that the 2000 a crisis has played an important role, increasing wealth inequality in united states and, and other countries that have been afflicted by the crisis. it doesn't totally work as the statement yet. let me give you a snapshot of the new world of housing. and while i do so, i urge you to reflect on the images behind me. just like that. like i can remember how we did it with the homelessness report. but i remember when i was re reading my
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statement, i did have that if a pin dropped, we would have heard it in the room. and that's what i need because they know half the time they're on their blackberries and not paying attention. when they're, i phones i suppose now, you know, i mean homelessness is a bit different to, you know, we're seeing images of people. and part of the problem is that when you're describing the stuff is supposed to be shocking, it's all cranes and buildings of glass and stuff. and so you're not moved to the same one. distinguished delegates. we are living in a new world, a world in which the housing sector has been transformed by global corporate financial actors and massive amounts of excess global capital. global residential real estate is now valued at $163.00 trillion dollars. more than twice the world, total g, d, p. housing has been financial ised valued as
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a commodity rather than a human dwelling. what i am suggesting is a significant change away from the commodification of housing in order to retrieve what housing means in terms of human dignity and security as a lived experience, as a human right. thank you and and ah, were walking through the near buildings the new estate which is now called elephant park, which replaces the hagar state where i used to live with so many, all of them. yeah. when you flat, it is part of the development sold in hong kong and singapore, when that's owned overseas and not necessarily so for people to live in this old as
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investments. wouldn't like to sort of romanticize what it was like before. right. but it was an ordinary counselor, despite all to ordinary families in those, at this time a day, most of them being off to work and off to school, read to college and so on. we're dealing with a very, it's a very particular period. the elites feel free to violate basic laws and ah, and then they're surprised that there is bitterness among their, the working classes that have lost an incredible gra, i mean, a lot of ground in our society. so it's a tough moment. and that following the money brings up a lot of various extent of reasons as to why people ass angry. they don't know exactly. they don't have the knowledge,
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but they know that something is not right. my own work was concern about asymmetries of information. the fact that some people know things that other people don't. and that gives some people the ability to take advantage of others. and you can make more money, not by making a better product and lowering cost to production, which is the standard economic analysis. but by fishing for fools looking for people you can take advantage of it or not creating wealth. they're actually just taking wealth for somebody like they had a blackstone. i've heard of dog about the big advantages of no regulation of deregulation. worse, she wants to be able to exploit the people who are living and has properties
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ah a left hand corner, yet my flag was then i say bought my flag. i own that flag paid my mortgage. the problem is the price is round here. and oh, for in our ground floor, any, any flat round here is extortionate. yeah. and they wanted to give us like a little bit of money. i say of you go. but then i left the move of london. so i decided to stay with friends. most of the people that lived in that town block a still not been homes 9 months later, 9 months later i'm now in a hostile it the place that they could offer me could be anywhere in the country.
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and if i don't accept it, i become intentionally homeless anywhere in the country. well, yeah, i mean, it could be birmingham, it could be manchester anywhere. if you can treat people after a tragedy like that, the way they're treating them now. while health does anyone have lou? i always picture myself like i'm 5 foot to i'm from this like nowhere place. and i'm trying to make a huge difference globally. i'm trying to change an entire conversation that's embedded in the way people live all around the world. and then i look back at that girl from ottawa, i'm sitting in her basement office and it's like,
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what am i thinking? i am, i guess it is this ridiculous? i am i being ridiculous to a, it is a totally dysfunctional system in the late 19 seventy's and 19 eighties. they're developed and i've called an ideology or religion that marching solve all problems will still be big winners will be big loose in the name of the common should the winnings be redistributed to the losers to the end? if everybody ends up where he started, i would take on the lot out of the game. the high priest was built friedman. the big experiment was truly underpin o'shea. it took their dictator to really
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implement these ideas. they thought that if we privatized to way regulations, lower taxes, growth would go up, everybody would get more. some people will get a lot more at the top. but putting aside envy, everybody would get a bigger piece of a pie. ah, it ignored the many instances where markets do not work well. it was so little freeman gave them economic argument for why they should be unconcerned about morality. after a 3rd of a century of this experiment, we know that it's wrong that you can make money by destroying the world. and there's something wrong with that. ah,
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ah, if we're going to defend the cities as we know them, i can't do it alone. i decided to create a new movement called the shift so that we can come up with ideas of how to protect our cities. so it's not an engine movement. it's not a movement of just cities. it's a movement hopefully of all stakeholders that you know, although i don't getting to be launching the ship here in barcelona, where the effects of financial i station have taken hold. and where there is a mayor like attica laugh, i hired a young woman, julie who had a background in international human rights law, cotton things,
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things move them up. one 3rd of deaths worldwide are linked to poverty and inadequate housing. a world wide movement to reclaim and realize the fundamental right to housing and bring people for thought of exports here. that if he knows that if you know them or felina, if i speak with you, i'm gonna be in the lock. and if you feel, you know, been i see and there was grand, this copy dollars get come up with this and this in back on in most a few that. but as i got maxine was when, if you see us, i pushed the sprinkler columbia and the premium with like i'm, i've been looking at them blackstone, the largest private equity firm. they have more power than the state. you know, how are you? yeah, you know exactly. you're crying when we have some of these pounds trying to speculate on the say they want to buy it a building. you buy it for you,
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but we do it because we have money and it's a expensive. i'm interested to know how the investor is balter funds, the hedge funds, air b and b are reacting to what you're doing in b is where the men or x you. normally we ludo moments. we had a civil forget not support a some, some groups acting like authentic map. yes. right now with that you don't get that women children and to have that moment to where you can talk about your kids and talk about
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changing the world from one breath to another. not so time before we got here. and now if i like the mayor, right? so the question is a big question. are you out for it now? okay. ah. 2 the big private equity it has taken me some time to ask the question, where are they getting their money from? ah, pension funds have
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a huge amount of money and they need to grow in order to make sure that the people who pay in to the pension fund has something to live on their working lives. i mission to so korea was grand. well, before i had this one piece of information, but some of the largest pension funds are right here at the national pension service, is the 3rd largest pension fund in the world. it was one of the poorest countries. and now in the 11th largest economy in the world, in 50 years, that's pretty impressive. but of course, to make that happen in a 50 year period required a kind of brutal ism of massive development. you just wonder how to go with a lot of people don't know how to go get on to you to pick you thought you compare
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with people will do is a will please it is i will on new york. what hold do you do packaging on time? oh for to go. mm hm. good move on. could you wonder how much of a little we owe you will lose mobile device or to read it, which is i got from your with all the little to pay to talk will go in repetitive. oh no one seems to know that that's where their pension money is going. no one seems to really care. i did speak with a couple of representatives from the national pension service and they were pretty
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matter of fact at 1st about you know, what they had, what their job is that i get it. their job is to grow money for pensioners. we give our money to asset managers and they then decide sort of where it gets, invest dead, ended so distancing themselves from it. so in other words, it doesn't really matter where the pension money is going, as long as it's a good return. national and city governments in south korea need to make some major ships before they will be in full compliance with their human rights obligations. you know, human rights law is very specific about those types of projects, forced eviction under international human rights is considered a growth, violation of human rights. people die enforced evictions and people's lives are
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basically ruined. so it's not to be taken lightly. ah, poor issues, climate change housing, they ought to be bedded into the fiduciary frameworks of friendship funds. pension funds are representing people who are going to retire in a you have to ask, how would they feel about this? would they feel comfortable with ody shares and a company that is that immoral? ah, i've lived there 38 years. i've paid my rent for 38 years and they're supposed to
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upkeep the building. they're supposed to do stuff, but the management company, as i readily admitted, there's been nothing done for 40 years. so where is all that money i've already spent? and now the new company wants me to give them more money. it's a familiar story. this. yeah, the same situation is the same situation we were dealing with here. so yeah, the talk of the media. and this is how we won the red strike record here in the 1st month of the ranch strike and we were, we went into a month floor. so it's been a long haul, but it's worth all your time and effort. so i'm sure some research, we've discovered that this property management company has investment companies that have certain shares. and one of them turns out to be a pending i, a government pension fund holder. so imagine you have george here on the pension, and they are taking care of money for pension holders, right?
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wait till they find out that somebody who's on a pension is being extorted and they're, they're pushing them out. i get back tuesday night late. you know, we're doing the shift meeting and then the mayors are going to be there. and now it's pretty cool. i feel so i believe you know, things can go sideways. overwhelmed? no, i don't feel a a very nice to meet with life. doesn't look like a
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me look at the other corner for this. i would. i think it we have come together. we've cds we've partners. we've looked kind of government association to build apartment with fresh initially, but it must funds are going up. i'm sure everybody knows who the window shows a video and witness, but to show choker yogi those who is in with com. josh, i'm booked on curves for me 1st, please. so hopefully the, if you just don't know what you around this table do, can have a huge influence. it can guide other cities to prevent powerful financial actors and they are powerful from dismantling cities as we know them. we thought
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a lot about about whether it was right the right time for new york to sign onto this declaration. and we decided it really is. i mean, these are issues we're all grappling with. we do feel like it's a great opportunity to be learning from each other. so we're very excited to be part of this. thank you. 31, have any pictures of you? no idea. anyway, we do need to do, we should do another piece. now, jane deadman is back from the guardian. i wonder about taking another kick, hands on financial education. i think the one thing the one take away that they should know is that cities around the world are shifting and publicly giving cells and bumper with
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ah ah, discipline records in poland. the accused judges who refused to tow the states line . witness follows to courageous judges spearheading to stand against reforms. critics claim leave the highest guardians of the constitution, vulnerable to politically motivated sanctions, based on their ruling judges, under pressure on that just either ah,
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i talked to al jazeera, we ask you, be more specific, how many folks are you asking for? and what kind of military equipment we listen, ask the people of cuba in the street. if they're is the difference between donald and your wife for them, we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera, the journey has begun. the fee for world cup is on its way to catherine book. your travel package today hello received some very heavy rain pushing out of paraguay recently, just about se and pass brazil this line of cloud and sharp showers, longest spells of brain will just notice way a little further east was south of that. on the call side. $1560.00 se,
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but it is winter, of course, has saved system has dragged the temperature down to around $23.00 degrees in re around 10 degrees lower than we have seen in recent days, although it will warm up as it brightens up at wet weather. sliding out into the south atlantic. much of brazil will be dry. northern northern parts, seeing somebody popcorn showers, just popping off there. we'll see some showers there too because northern parts of south america pushing up towards venezuela over the next couple of days is the western side of the caribbean. seen the heaviest ray at the moment. latest pulse of the easterly ways just driving some heavy down poles towards nicaragua to was honduras in a line of really wet weather, just making its way across panama, east towards the far north of venezuela. as we go on through tuesday, sunshine, a shower was further east, they will return to the east, not as scattering a shower across great rancho this but by laws fine and try, try prosecute parts of central and western areas of the u. s. line a very live he storms making the way across the appalachians. now towards it takes
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out making the way for the east cat official ally of the journey to from the ruins of mosul, music as re emerged. these are some of 40 musicians who make up the weather orchestra in iraq, 2nd largest city, despite being banned. when mosul was occupied by isolate the melodies arrived derfin christian curd arab so needs. and she has these young men and women represent the diversity of iraq to be able to hear music. i'm in the ruins of muscles, all city feel strange, but it brings home. the resilience are presidents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help, they remain committed to bringing the city back to life. ah, this is.
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