then life has been even harder for lower income communities with global economic trends going in the same direction. economists concern thailand will be badly hit thailand is a country that has wide in equality and well cow. an inflation would hit the most vulnerable high debt by the side of a busy expressway. some of the most vulnerable struggling to survive. this is a community for the deaf and hard of hearing, often cast out by their families. formed takes us under the bridge where she, her husband and several other families have made homes from refuse and scrap. she explains that disability allowance of $20.00 a month barely lasts a few days. the strain is enormous. they trying to salvage what they can from the waist. others turn away with the raw of the traffic overhead. life goes on while

their complaints go unanswered. tony chang al jazeera, thankfully ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. the 1st hours of a fragile ceasefire and garza appear to be holding rockets were still being launched in the minutes before the truce began. it was reached between israel and the armed groups known as palestinian islamic jihad, or p i, j, and mediated by egypt, u. s. president joe biden has welcomed the sci fi and says he supports an investigation into civilian casualties. since israel began its attack on friday, 44 people in garza had been killed. palestinian officials say at least a 3rd of those who died with civilians. the israeli government said it's been targeting members of the p i. j to senior leaders of the armed group have been killed, suffered, alkalis has more. from garza, this is by are,

is still holding. now that even local governmental offices are public offices also announced that they will re open their doors for public universities also announced that they will open a re open their doors that they close ariel because because of the escalation for force, they will open their lords for students, also, the municipality of garza and other municipalities are also the announced that they will deploy on send their equipment to remove the rabble on try to reduce the initial assessment for the destruction. the us senate has passed. president, jo biden's, $430000000000.00 package covering climate tax and health care. democrats say it's a major victory for the president. $370000000000.00 will go towards climate projects, making it the largest investment in the sector in us history,

columbia. his 1st left us president has been sworn in to office in front of thousands of supporters in boca to sub pitcher a promise to reshape the deeply polarized country with a long list of social and economic reforms. a large fire is gradually being brought under control that a cuban oil. dip on the blaze at a storage facility in the city of ma tans. this was sparked by a lightning strike. at least one person has died. well, those are the headlines. the news continues here. on al jazeera after democracy may be on the call, the whitening mortgage boy called in china could from the fact that grumble as columbia and venezuela grief and men ties businesses. i play revival plus russia wants to pull out of the international space station once next. in all the county because on al jazeera ah.

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the i o i you guys are moving your yes you do lose. well, you know, and then you get to the, the ah, ah, ah, frightening, saw that in the european country in the 21st century, you have one man in power for more than 2 decades. and that's exactly what happened in russia. ah okay, shanker had

a 6 year head start on total, he came to power and $94.00, put in at the end of $99.00. but he was in your pain language in, but he did. yup. that he has made me get over there. blessed when you get a day or took some humor gretsch's skin. by the time the booting came to power, look a shanker had already essentially established for full fledged authoritarian system invalid and began doing many of the same things with liquor. shank over there already done, you know, prisoner phone and shutting down independent media outlets. rigging elections, motoring, political opponents of time. boris themself. call this the lucas, shy zation of russian, who just listening in words, some annoyed yamil. ruskin belated him. excuse me but he said, yelled aunt, but knew where that assumed galleon all day old that the poor brothers improve his

comp on eurey new mead. nika, you whom? 11 the human n, as in, was by yet. i still not even look leisure of it. by at the moon. we will put your room numberless new mutual. yost, i used so grown me cookie woke, but gives repeated mistake. you couldn't cook now. who did so millennia and look a minimum she students to present of. oh my so dish nika yet the suitors will talk to woodson, squishy li grew up close, thought you was 30, can you get up? she worth of it. but i'm still and you, since the year jay, yesterday you saying you put him bookstore? i think the way he came to power in a way he established his role. he's also a textbook example of how to transform a democracy to a perfect and solid authoritarian system. didn't happen with a could a tar didn't happen with a in a military vanden have mold tanks on the streets. it happened gradually. it happened over time. it happened incrementally as muscle leaning while said,

you should flock the chicken feather by feather to lessen the squawking. that's exactly how pu, combined about noon. an autocrat is some one who rows by non democratic means. any one who is authoritarian in style of rule. ah, there are many countries in the world now that have been going through this process of gradual descent from democracy to autocracy. m. and then you look at the authoritarian regimes, egypt, saudi arabia, russia, some of the other former soviet states. and of course, china, most of the law and these regimes are even more authoritarian now than they were 5 or 10 years ago. on the 4th day of his non

gracious presence in may of 2000 vladimir putin sent armed operatives from the tax ponies. and the prosecutor general service to raid the officers of russia's largest private independent media hold afternoon. they tried to bring in reinforcements city encampment already surrounding the television tower. 2003. we had a parliamentary election. yeah, some difficult to win an election when your opponents are not on the ballot. but at them when you have the next you know them what william. okay. black when they go back to you. hm. yeah. yeah, the the way to do it must bring it. they've got to get back to the bulletin it by the we always did it at them. i buy you dinner with them. they still go through the charade, trying to sort of technical exercise as to all details. everyone will don't label your suit opinion that that may be allowed to be a smooth label. it got on you may more, vivian will be july. yeah,

let also lose. did i see a video and they had done everything they could try to guard against to be for the security services to make mass arrests, to threaten in many cases to matter. political economy putin is a very insecure political leader. and he clearly fears that if he has a serious opposition, canada who is able to speak and travel around the country and mobilize that things may get out of control in russia, which is the land of monopoly power and monopoly greed, and the state that is capable of being murderous when it needs to be in the night of february 27th, 2015. barson himself almost most prominent opponent vladimir putin. hey, was dumbbell by 5 bullets in the back. literally in the shadow of the cronan in

moscow. the bar since i was on just a close calling his very close friend, he was someone to whom i owe everything i've ever accomplished in my political life . it's says a lot about today's russia that this is the price of freedom that you have to pay the ultimate price. i the i was targeted in 2 occasions both times in moscow both times through sophisticated poisonings. presumably carried out by chemical agency tool used by the security services go back to soviet times. with this method has especially proliferated on

to vladimir putin. both times i was in a coma on artificial life support. and doctors had told my wife that had about a 5 percent chance to live with so many people in my generation, in russia, it was sort of inevitable to become really politicized. this did perhaps smoke at the beginning of the end. the 1st conscious political memory was the democratic revolution in august of 1991 the 3 days that ended the soviet regime. as we woke up that morning in august of 1991, tens of thousands gathered the sent russian citizens musk of ice who refused to accept dakota. when are armed with anything i except their dignity and that determination to defend their freedom. and they went into the streets and literally

stood in front of the tanks. and then the tank stopped the soviet and turned away poise. this was my 1st conscious medical memory. i was chinese, all that time, yesterday, roaring approval for every fresh, you know, the biggest fear of any autocrats is his or her own people. it has been like this throughout history. nothing changes in this regard. it was the limited reflection, you know, for invasion, know, a lot of pressure from our side is as dangerous to them as when they see crowds of people on the street with on vladimir prudence, watch that the many democratic peace revolutions. but none of them so far have been as dangerous, flatter mapleton as the one in ukraine with

russia. lau is a most aggressive and amy of democracy in the world. the strategy of kremlin used to build your russian world and did not on the ball with the money, is not only bought corrupt shop, it's about the culture. they want everyone to fear. mm hm. and wants to control some part of this world for they are for they think like empire and ukraine is already a democracy. biggest russian speaking democracy. unfortunately to them, of course, for me

in with with that it will show the dignity in ukraine was a moment when the ukrainians choose not to ship with a footboard. they can do them from a hopefully learned a new job to look, look with the allies from a close to put a more so couldn't break it all. okay, you got a real quick? no, you won't be the all star. no one is not a news alert. silly you warrior was pretty wired cook or oh no. nasa budget

or when you story will e braid grow? lou was any she but if you skis to think through, it was listed brutal. but he jumped, roll slower. ah ah, why you crane thief. 2 so important for kremlin and it means that it's what important for the world for all these bottles for democracy. geographically ukraine. he's was actually in the middle of this conflict between the worlds between the liberal world liberal democratic and asserted that every year we become strong. but kremlin,

do it's best to, oh, it's resources we to faith because it's impossible to build a russian to. so tiny results with reinforcement, 3 units of ukrainian food ukraine already enrolled in the war. and it's not only a conflict between ukraine and russian. brain at people is not the island and the russian leave it. i believe that it's a war against democracy. it's not a crisis. it's hand. might she to be sure if we lose it? ah, it will be a loss for all the world when

there are a war politically with your values, principles, and institutions, you either have to decide that you're going to defend them and fight back. or um, we are going to be a very, very grave risk soon. as i sit here, russia is massing troops on the ukrainian border. as i sit here, russia is mobilizing new military power in the arctic ocean and so on. china is mobilizing its military in the south china sea and bearing down on taiwan. i don't think we should seek a cold war, but it is a period, a new period of normative battle over democratic values in the world. and

i think democracies of the world have to recognize this and rise to the challenge with figuring out how to deal with the rise of china is the great challenge of the 21st century. dis gotten more authoritarian over the past decade, state champion and alternative to western democratic capitalism. that gives dictatorships like china's an incredible vulnerability should a day come when that regime is no longer able to provide economic growth. it will no longer have any reason to stay in power and the only choice it will have therefore, if it wants to stay in power,

is to use increasing repression and increasing violence against its own citizens. ah ah. so in 2014 i was us to the leader. we had the masses of civil disobedience, women call it the umbrella movement. news, news, news by law people were promised to moccasin autonomy by the chinese government. we didn't believe them after the tenant masika and under the one party did his ship. so we have hundreds of thousands of blocking the major run of hong kong showing

a very strong signal that we are demanding for democracy. and the government should let them draw voice they saw us troublemakers, or even the traders of the country because among other products system in hong kong . so we actually suffered a lot of them at 1st season attacks. i decided to run for election. i managed to win the election at the age of 23 and becoming the youngest elected legislator in hong kong history. it shows how people want to change. yeah. but at the end of the day, the government,

they always can find ways to suppress you. they managed to kick me out of the counsel 9 months after i represented people in it's a month i went to jo, caught the umbrella bisman. i felt definitely bad about it, but my actually had a mental preparation for that. and i feel like he's actually one of the pest up in our system journey. i in the end of the day, the madman, the not so seat. but it was of very memorable page of history because a brief less the very 1st massive disobedience movement of our time.

i decided to flee out of the city in order to preserve a voice. and sure enough, i left the city. i found myself on the want of based off the national security at all. if i were to be back to hong kong, i will immediately be arrested and be submitted to the national security court. the charges they put on me on the metal, the penalty of it is life imprisonment. we are literally facing the most powerful author at heritage in the world. so we are actually facing david versus goliath battle. ah, if everyone wants to change the country, only thought about that personal safety, then nothing in history, whatever sort we know the risks and we accept them because we think our country deserves so much better than you know, being ruled in the 21st century by

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there as she navigate rafter to me is in the model low. you live live do your what's your place in your mind yet? pursuing a yes ma'am. i we sure that ukrainians are ready to die for democracy. you fight. that's it. that's it. if you are not ready to fight, you will lose any weight. because the idea that these guys would younger shaneka, we'll go out themself. not very good

idea. it's a faded ah, the most powerful lesson i learned in my life is that how a strong dictatorship, how is strong and providing forces, however strong and half of the repression. when enough people are willing to stand up for it's right. they succeed. and i think even in the darkest times, in the darkest days when it seems to be most difficult and most appealed to climb, i think it's very important to remember that you know, so he dissidence i had the saying that night is dark as before the dawn and i think that is a very important fastened term. mm. pro democracy, activists risking their lives fighting autocracy was me. i know that i might go to

prison, so i will join the round democracy may be exposed. the struggle of those who believe democracy is worth dying for we never know when an opening is going to come when a fruit vendor is going to emulate themselves and say enough is enough. my life for democracy on al jazeera ah al jazeera. when ever you did the john virtuosos, racing concert halls and domination, international competition one i went 8th made south korea's musical prodigy one out to 0. ah.