russia runs sham referendum in areas control by russia's military and it's proxies cursing people to vote at gunpoint. it then uses these referenda to try to lend a semblance of legitimacy to its attempted annexations of another sovereign states territory. the rush for russia to institute and complete these attempted annexations destroy even the facade of legitimacy as ukraine. sir, just listening to you as ambassador this united nations responding to the comments that we had from president rosamille zalinski. he was addressing the council very passionately earlier calling for a greater isolation of russia, saying that these threats to use nuclear weapons or a form of blackmail is saying that there must be more pressure on russia equal for a new round of sanctions as well. are diplomatic added to james bay's, is it un and,

and joined us now. and james at we hear from zalinski pops up with each sort of tries to, i suppose, corn into question, the credibility of global institutions. like the un, my russia obviously plays a, a critical role. what, what is, what is he trying to achieve when he addresses the council like this? well, i think he's trying to get support, not just from the security council, but from the wider membership of the united nations. he saying that russia should now be excluded from all international organizations. and if that can't be arranged under the current rules than they should be suspended, he talks about these referenda sham referenda. he said people are forced to fill out papers while they're threatened by sub machine guns. you hit hearing similar language coming from the u. s. ambassador, and actually you heard similar language coming from the political chief of the un rosemary, to carlo. she said at the beginning of this meeting, she and she referred to the referenda. she described them to the as these exercises

. and she said they cannot be called a genuine expression of popular will. what happens next? well, the woman you can see right now, the u. s. ambassador linda thomas greenfield, were told, has prepared and will so soon circulate to the other members of the security council. a resolution condemning these referenda saying that they are illegitimate . they are sham referenda. in the view of the us, they're hoping to get the support, the majority of the security council. but we know that russia is a permanent member of the security council. it has a veto. so if this is put to the vote, this resolution as we expect, and i'm being told it could be put to the vote before the end of the week. then we'll see, i think again, russia using it's vito to block that. but i am told by western countries that won't be the end of it. they then plan to take things to all the member states of the united nations, the 193 members of the united nations in the un general assembly, a vote as early as next week. i think once there's

a veto in the security council is likely or stay across development there. thank you very much. our deputy editor james bays tanks about that 10 wall ting that is taking place about votes as out rush repassed, chill, annex, more attaching in ukraine. more on that later is strewn as the pope and come out next ah with i'm sorry. ok. today on the stream, i'm going to take you into the world of the art hat, the movie, the south african phil. what is the story of a family getting ready for the muslim festival of ede?

it revolves around mama. we don't. i show who is about to introduce a new love interest to her sons. said in the kate flats, spoken in a cape town dialect. and that is what makes the film so special. have a look a a leave me to be grateful. is really important. families are fathers and mothers, or sisters and brothers. those are all given even even knows what i was. so if a lot of countries in italy, i mean, i mean we forget what we have been given is really

a boon. the belief that you and i have to buy for me. how many of you have tasted that? ah, what is your name? ah ah ah, hello amy ha from hello vanessa. nice to see you. i read all of these amazing people to introduce myself to you in the context of the film who they are, what they do. i mean, you start the, i'm image after and i only the core i to with prime and the direct but i yeah, that's my role on the so i had i am if i'm gordon and i'm the go

to go to with amy and produce overhaul. oh, south africans are going to be yelling at the screen any moment now i live in it. introduce yourself. i'm renee bray here and i paid the mother role of i am in the movie butter cut and i'm also mother to everybody understands cuz i happen every 3 of you, our coffee teams. if you're wondering balcony, it's a blessing to bless 3 times over. if you would like to speak to any of i guess today, youtube is open, the comment section is right here. comments, questions about backup? the maybe you're very welcome. be part of today's discussion. there's a sense of the film just starts guess and it doesn't give you explanations. it's a family drama. and just going to come along for the plot. there are a couple of things that i want to just make very clear for our international audience. when we talk about colored people i from,

can you explain that to our international audience? well, colored people are, in my opinion, a bunch of fortunate or unfortunate people who couldn't fit into any of the racial care. so we can make people, r o d n a that ins wide and deep across as continents. and, you know, know, to cal, it, people have the same genetic makeup as so well, maybe if you have a twin or brother. but yeah, we are mix of people, but we are forged the community over the years and over the decades to the point that we can see ourselves as a people. but our, our gene pool is wide and a category to set up just jenny, up and i say era aly, i may go ahead, but i didn't actually create a new ownership of it right now. right. i just wanna add that it is a racial category that was created during

a party by an a puppet government. and so it was a race of racial classification at the time of the population registration act where people were divided into groups. a white black indian hallad, so as much as we identify ourselves politically as black south africans valid, was an imposed racial category. and that was for bureaucracy and also for the part of government. and i think now is this a facial wave of, of young filmmakers and young activists were claiming back that word. and we're kind of taking away that has a lot of loaded political meaning from the past and turning it into something that we can celebrate and be proud of and create a heritage around. even if that heritage isn't a hedge, a monic, that's not one idea, is no singular colored identity. but out of this way of creating and celebrating ourselves for the 1st time, i think i just add to that, sorry,

if i may am sorry, sweet. died i, i just went to add to that also that am, you know, as amy says we are not in homogenous group. we're made up of all people. busy and of brown skin and you know, and some people find it offensive to be pulled colored because of the label which was given to us by the nationalist government. and, but you know, just just this weekend or 2 weekends ago. i listen to wonderful speech by doctor and boost tech, who again, just affirmed for us that we have to kind of let go of the shackles and, and it's, it doesn't matter. you know who you are, whether you turn yourself colored or people, or the come miss sar, or whether you and you know, whatever you call yourself. it's a, it's a question of a mind shift. you know, so and yeah, i think that people of color in this country are really it's, it's

a celebration of, of who you are and that is where we are. i think at the moment it's melting pot. let me just bring in here and how stanford she's an actor singer and right efram. how many fissions, how and i won't you efram to respond to her coin. here it is. one of my favorite parts of the movie was obviously seen the culture in history represented and sort of positive light, but also a carry like with her mom, relatively small cameo by somebody in the same in this you know very well. but the character selling his faces and his ways in our cups, but also using those idioms. then when came town? no so well it's so when to see a class that is so difficult to describe what it means to see there, i'm screen was beautiful. well, if you, if you look specific, get a,

getting the, like with them on like chandel just said, now v as an actor is completely truthful to the point that if he doesn't want to speak to the word, he doesn't stick to the words. and i think that's why the sound goes, you say is what comes in him in the moment? if it throws me, oh, hasn't that going across him? that's fine because it keeps you on your toe as well on your toes. yeah. so i think that's what makes that character so spatial and so free and so relatable because it really was a real he wasn't acting, i mean, he's name in the real life. everyone calls him the man, you know, and it's a thing was actors in cape town, generally at such it we, we are such a performers, people or performing people that things feel natural because people just are they don't try to. and i think part of this phone with that sense of

reality because of that, let me just following something else is that shantelle picked up after cops, yet a dialect, and i want a whole some. i know i added the very beginning. this is a very special film because the film is in africa. i mean, you start and thing that you pick up. yeah, i mean i think of it. what's so great about the scary. so like with my mind, he's a, he's an older man, and he speaks a very beautiful poetic kind of africans. i think what was very important fires to with this foam, was to legitimize that language, whether you want to call it a language or a dialect. that or shoot of africans that, that realised version of the language that was 1st spoken by slaves who were brought to the cape. a way of speaking a language that the slave monsters could not understand. and so to create that, this fusion of languages, that is a mix between dash and english and arabic,

woods and malay woods. and so we have this like that, this lexicon, that is brimming with metaphor and poetry and image and borrowed words from many continents. and so when you speak that your mouth is like a spice spice mix. yeah. and own some, some computer full lines that i don't know it can. you remember some of the lighting 9 told me with how beautiful it sounds without giving us of africa. got as it so when i was on your spectrum now. yeah. was hoping that gave you that a smart so it could and it might the job, but it would have heat. i also need a body shop in jr, and we're in a condo for non of excel. no, i'm more than meta lady, i am not here a what are you saying to us?

so what i'm saying is that i am going to make curry and rice and i, i've got all the mixture that i need, the mother john, that i've got all the mixture. but i don't have fennel and tillman, so i'm going to the shops to morrow to get some. are you going to go along with me? all right there on you tube right now we have michelle miller from cape town, south africa, michigan says it's so great to see a small community on the world stage. that is why i think barack it has taken off because people are seeing communities, a language that they haven't seen on film either very often or ever at all or in a stereotype. let some i want to show a click. this is a, one of everyone's favorite clip and i, i love this, which was the family that were following i, she is family. you see the family growing up and gathering around this very easy,

special table in after cups. what's the name for eat for that. now by them exactly on the tip of my tongue and you see the family going from when they were young to when they were older. and you see the story unfolding of front of your very eyes. have a look a with lisa a with

okay, he's cutting on in the room with crying is really emotional. right? finance cutting on is amy this is special because you're breaking boundaries

and you'll smashing stereotype. can you tie international? yes, in what way you're doing that? i think it's in such a small way, not in the usual way that i think a, you know, activism is seen to be a lot more sort of performative a lot more expressive this film. i think our aim was always to do it in a very delicate way, and that is just by for grounding the humanity of a people, a culture, a community. we might not have seen that humanity foreground of before. it's about telling a story that can just be simple, that's just about family relationships and it's about nothing more than that. it's not about am the part why the politics of the country. it's not about wearing those politics on your sleeve. we're telling the story of a family hoping with grief after the loss of a father, a feeling that is really universal. and i think for grounding that humanity was always the key for us. can i add for that before you jump in?

this is justin. he's watching us right now. thanks. justin is from los angeles. i think what so powerful about barrack hacked justice says, is even for those who don't know the culture, the themes of family and moving on are universal both specific, but still white banning winette pick up, chris precisely. this is exactly what i was gonna say. even though we might think that it a small movie that is to slice of life. and here it is. but it s a slice of everybody's life. it, you know, it, it, it to be it. what everybody can relate to it, whether you were slim, christian, mexican, english, you name, it doesn't matter. it, it, you know, it's, it's everybody's life. and this, this movie just is such a depiction of that. i'm going to bring in one other voice here from and you can respond to adam. he's from the center for film and media study. it is

a direct and professor at the university of cape town home. this is what he had to say about barack for this particular genre. i think that the soul is most interesting to me as a scholar in she is of cops. of each black children by history may be too far validating martin will expression. and why this scheme day does image use of cops, events happens from from care. i'm from the care flats as a nuanced characters, not cardboard carts and cops. it has been used beautifully. i think a catcher must be emer. ready inactive intimacy and anger conflicts, either subtleties like that. i think in canada, so we can flats as much as cardboard cutouts cox. ready is just the language of conflict, the mileage negation was ology. i think this fall or say effective in

existing interest tops of our communities. i think what's interesting away, what he says is it takes us back to what amy's comment was. just the comment simply about humanity for too long cubs was associated with the and the classes. it was a comment somehow, on our legends am bed made as 2 dimensional, even one dimensional get it does. and i think what caps now has done and what this form and funds before this have done, is do legitimize. i'm legitimize us as a people who feel who i intelligent and do you know who will operate in the world at large and not just in a certain corner of the world. so i think crap's has been legitimized in this film and by forms before this and the more we say it,

the more we give dignity to the people who say oh, i'm resolutely, i really gotta said that because christ channels what to law says after caps is in a language, if the lack of language filled by different languages for the actual culture. i mean you want to pick up on that. i introduced as a diet. yeah, it can direct guy. i think at this point it's disingenuous to say that it is a lack of language that it's full, like when they get the space. i think there's a reclamation that has been done and that rick information is up to know the people who speak it to, to take ownership off. it's not anymore about validating whether it's a language or not, or a cultural di. they will not from the outside where i don't think looking for that stamp of approval from anyone else anymore. so i think the initiative that's been

taken of the language and the dialect recently by phone makers like us is like, we don't need gazes. we don't need any other gazes on our, on our cells. and i think there's a beauty traffic and the poetry to it. it is our mother town. it's the tunnel that we were born into at that time that our grandmother spoke. the language that we inherited and that's kind of the same as our own as well. and yeah, at some point i feel like we don't need validation from anyway with those fears, be from academics or from outside is or from people who think. but who you, who call themselves pure africans because what it means, i think it's exceptionally important that africa is part of the growth and advancement of africans as a language. i feel like it's one of the only way that africans is language is being to move forward is to be in collaboration with africa. because it's a, it's,

it's something you know, it's a, it's the language that is spoken by a very large majority of african speakers. and it is our time now put that language to be on the world stage. and i think it's proven that, look at the discussion we're having about africa up on al jazeera, on an international network. you did that, the net go ahead. yeah. and, and i also would just like to add that and, you know, it's, it's actually becoming accepted. and even by academics we, we are at this while we speak, there is a dictionary being brought out an end. and, you know, and, and, and it's, it's, it's going to, i think it's gonna be fabulous because people are actually going to be learning to speak afro cups. and, and it's been a, you know, it's there even for academics to learn and people are and you know,

they are accepting of the fact that an average cups has become an accepted well let, i'm still not sure whether a, we call it dilate or language. i think we still, you know, sort of there still a discrepancy about that, but um, yeah, let's, let's claim a demit celebrated. i would like to play one more clip from bar caught the movie cuz he can't see it everywhere. right now he could see on t s t v. so if you only african continent a dennis right? cuz he can see it elsewhere. or when we talked to amy and efram and finance about where you might be out of c it elsewhere and when. but i'm going to take you to master it. this is a beautiful scene. there's grasping of it. j mascot. embark on the movie. take a look. it will to mrs. go sky. there's a broad order lack. i leave, but

a covert on clinton was liza. it is incumbent on us to be conscious of allows of a, hannah, a girl at all times to me. grateful is very important. we should be grateful because all things that we have been granted come from our creature allow. so the $100.00 that will allow me, our families, our fathers and mothers, those of us were still fortunate to have them. our grandparents, our sisters and brothers own children, those of you are married. those are all gifts said we were given. how often do we take things for granted? this is sweetness to the you man. i believe that you and i have. my question is,

how many of you have tasted that she can says i can't wait to see this film kenny's on you cheve dunny fan. i am so pleased or caps to see these stories were given a global platform. what you see in terms the plot and the story is also reflected behind the scenes. it's behind the scenes cru. amy, he caught herself an activist, the film activist. tell me about the activism you did behind the camera with the crate. yeah, for sure, i think and we wanted to make sure that the people who were working on it and contributing and were collaborators, were people who were from this community. so our crew was of packing at some point like from united states for st colored like majority colored. a lot of them were muslims themselves. and we've made a conscious decision not to, of course,

form on friday, which is jim i here in case on as well. and so we were you, we observed that miss nym sabbath day. um, so yeah, i think it was very intentional for us to also make the, the journey of the foam while that was in service to the story. and if i'm had like a big hand in that as the producer, i think it be being, i'm quite intentional with how we chose our crew are from people asking, where can we see this film? where can we see power cat and we have an international audience that people are eager to see it. how are they going to see it? currently, you can, it's an a pay full pay to view platform cold event of you can check it out there. ah, there's 2 different ways to see it for when you on the african continent or outside . so be, be careful which, which link to go into. it's very clearly mod, but also if you're in south africa and on the african continent, you can get it on d. s. d box office. it's been placed back on box office yesterday so it should be

back there. so those other 2 avenues at the month and half and be looking and you can tell f from is that for days that he knows the fact they are at hand from the net. amy, what a pleasure. thank you for sharing baraka with us. we wish you every success with the film and you chivas, appreciate your comments on your questions. i'll see you next time. thanks for watching history. ah ah.

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