a sin and hold weiss's millions of people, not just the re morocco, but the cross of africa and the other world are hoping the atlas lions can. let's see what was considered almost impossible a few weeks ago looking a place in the world. got final posture, multiple al jazeera rabbit. ah the top stories around to 0, iran has executed a 2nd prisoner linked to anti government protest during gulf the country from monks, and to address our run of arg was publicly hanged on monday. and iranian court convicted him of fatally stabbing to security force members during protest. last month. i mean widespread demonstrations across iran since 22 year old woman massa mini died in police custody in september. georgia. jabari has more from terran as he was at tried and to her convicted,

and then his sentence upheld in the country supreme court all within the span of 23 days. he was executed early morning on monday in a public execution, which is quite rare in her on. it's only the 2nd time this year that we have heard of a public execution taking place. but executions are not that are rare in her on it . this is at the $500.00 and 5th execution to take place this year alone. and of course, iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world, only 2nd to china. these 3 armed men have been killed out. they stormed a hotel in afghanistan's capital, kabul. a series of explosions and gunshots were heard near the building, and a fire broke out. a taliban spokesman says to foreigners were injured while trying to escape. i jumping from the hotel balcony ortiz have a situation, is now under control. it's not yet known who's behind the attack? just as a blocked an airport and

a major highway in the southwest and peru. at least 2 people were injured in confrontations with security forces in the area keeper region. if we don't go in demonstrations since the former president pedro castillo was impeached and detained last week, a new president dina blew out. it has said she will ask congress to call early elections to come on rest. libyan man accused of making the bomb that brought down pan am flight one or 3 in lockerbie scotland. 34 years ago is facing court in the united states. i work in mohammed masoud. her dreamy was taken into custody on sunday 2 years after the us justice department. and i was charged against him as we shall 1st tuesday with us. the stream is coming up next. i'll be back with some more news off about the place watching had 5. mm

hm. i think i am so i me okay to down the street, one of my favorite episodes from an entire year. and that is how has faith helped you to navigate 2022. you can tell us, you can put your examples on youtube. it can be part of today's show, as we bring together of kind of interfaith lead us from indo. isn't from christianity, from judaism, whatever your faith tradition is, don't be shy. you can join this conversation as well as we delving to how faith strengthens us and helps us get through the year. hello to cynita. this is the rosemary and rabbi mart. great to have you all here. so nice, please say hello. greet as you as from around the world. now must be shalom salon.

hello. very wonderful to be with all of you today. good to have me says the rise ray. hello, welcome back. nice to see a fire. my dick. i've y m a doug. thank you so much for receiving media and also have between deducted my phillip analysts. thank you. cicero foyle, remind our audience. what you do in uganda. go ahead. i want in mother new glenda and i've been devil more than 20 years working with the children and women as the most vulnerable and my work started becoming more intense. during the time of the notice of this army where little women were directed taken took up duty, and on return they didn't know what to do. i took this up as a challenge, 1st of all of my side to give life, to give hope to this woman by working with them, giving them some skills, training,

but above all, by being more of a mother to them are i and i lot to have a nice to have the back on the street, lot of audience he you on what you do. thank you very much for me. my name is rob. i mark asher goodman. i'm in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, in erie, pennsylvania, and i serve 2 congregations, a large one and a small one. it's an incredible honor to be on the stream with nita and sister rosemary to human rights champion who i admire the work that they do so much. i'm just thinking about where we are in terms of our global pandemic. and it took us a little while to work out. how do we worship? how do we get together when we can't physically get together? but now that we work that out and people coming back together again, how do you get people to come back to the synagogue? boy, that is a great question. and if you solve it, you could be on our board or not be very was not. so i recommend snacks.

a, we call it kiddish. it's the, it's the snack that comes at the end of services. a good kid. it will always turn people out. and one of the challenges during the pandemic was that most north american synagogues, churches, a lot of different religious faith organizations, went to zoom, or skype, or youtube or facebook services. and so everything was done digitally and on video . and then as we came back in person, particularly those communities that could technologically and financially afford it, went to a hybrid model, which meant and i do this every morning and every evening when i'm leading services here in pittsburgh, i have 8610 people online and another 1020 people in the room and on, on saturday, those numbers are, you know, quintuple, 10 to tenfold and so on. and trying to bridge those 2 groups is very difficult and

trying to be respectful of people who are online, who may have illnesses or physical and abilities that they can't come in in person to our congregation. while recognizing the people in the room and being appreciative of them driving in walking in showing up in person, it's always a real challenge and trying to honor both those groups is, is a big part of the work we're doing and, and it's important to create spiritual space for both of them. do you think you might have lost part of the community that was coming to synagogue regularly? do you think it has, you've lost them and they will come back ever. you know, we, in my, i represent an advocacy organization rather than a congregation. attendance for human rights were 3 years old. so, and over the course of the pandemic, we were doing a lot of our work online on zoom and other platforms. and just lately, in the last 6 months or so,

we've been doing these hybrid beds and it actually is it's, it's been wonderful to connect with people all across the world, including frontline, active is that india who are sometimes in sensitive and where it's dangerous for them to participate, but they can join by soon. and now many more people are coming together in person. and so the hybrid is really working for us. and in terms of hindu temples, i've been to temple a number of times in this 2022. and it, they are packed and people are, the hindu community is, is out to worship. and that is really wonderful to see after a couple of years where we couldn't do that. right. so so was me, i am just thinking about how your year was and for uganda it's been an incredibly challenging year that we speak stories that we have to navigate with our faith and what, how, how we go to manage it. and so you can that we had kind of it followed by a bola,

i just going to remind our audience what that situation look like for you can to let's take a look. ok. okay. good. yeah, right. right. first, people thought it was a joke, but after hearing of the deaths, enough to see in bodies, they were very wary. and i have started protecting themselves. we don't have as many nice lawyers as we used to have because people have very scope risa. we know it's like one point a food lake. i'm actually going today. but being made by going to be good. i'm good, you know, 2nd jones with i'm going to move in. i'm going home just to throw me what i have a is a fear and faith in the same place. how do you, how do you do that? how do you help people where they're terrified the year 20 to 2020 doing as being the most challenging here in that a lot of people developed fear uncertainty and that desire to come together. but

with coffee, everybody has to be somewhere does by themselves. when they hear bud, my panel is discussing about high breed and how important is it is done the same with us. we do not have to, i breed for all of them. we have to pay for internet and all people are struggling with the country. we pay for internet, so what we're struggling is extreme of a desert thing. 2022 brought everybody on their knees. and for us it has been the one that has been set in front of it and now moving to a boiler. you can see we love being together, we loved she had in our faith, but because of all the calamities which up and we had to be apart. so that has been the most difficult thing for you then until to not of today. and lot of people struggling with the poverty extreme of attention and as the thing. how do you? yeah, yes. and is your 1st week of august. i'm remember,

i'm remembering how in the early days of code that we saw the head of the world health organization, just weeping on t. v. about how nations are not coming together to work together towards back week vaccine equity and my own home country india. during the, the, the 2nd wave of colds it, i mean we will never forget those images of how a lockdown was announced with just a few hours. and, and it would be a, it would be enforced by the law and the poorest people in india where the migrant workers and they had to, i mean, you've probably all seen the images of thousands upon thousands of migrant workers walking on highways walking from village to village to town to get home because when the locked down happened and the richer people in india were asked to bang utensils on their balconies, the vast majority of the people in india don't have

a balcony. and so that, that idea of vaccine equity and who was most impacted by the brunt of this vaccine. i hope i pray that we have learned that lesson for the next time such a calamity falls us. so i'm really curious about cuz we are 2 years into our pandemic, at least i'm really curious about how as a faith leader, you support your community when they are truly suffering sister, rosemary, you start supporting the come into when they're truly suffering is by being with them sharing everything, forwarding our shoes, putting the same shoes they're putting on, filling the water, the villa. and that means being together and walking together and encouraging them . because we know it is all about faith that leaves us wonder that even the most

difficult situation can be overcome one day or another. and that is a good faith against the in poor people in suffering people that they need to come together and they all share the fate that the most difficult situation can still be overcome. but you know, sisters me, it's not just about faith, it's practical. it's doing stuff, right, rabbi and sister rose mason always in the community helping. why? my mom, you've been doing the same because this where we all, we've covered right now. the economic crisis as well. so lots of people who need need help, need donations, etc. go ahead. sure. during the pandemic, one of the things that i did because it was hard to do was try and find ways of just communicating with folks who were sick. so we had at one point at the beginning of the pandemic, we had 3 staff members and 3 congregants in the hospital with cove it all the same time. and 2 of them were on a ventilator at the same time. and everyone survived,

which was something of a miracle, but just being able to go around to members of the community, dropping off a card, getting everyone to sign it, and then bringing it to the hospital, knowing that we couldn't get into their room. but we could express them that we loved them, that we were thinking about them, letting them know that we'd added their name to our prayer for healing that we say every single day and on the sabbath was the big thing that we did when we got out of the pandemic. one of the things that started to evolve was this understanding that in america we have this very robust, great health care system that almost everybody has access to. but there are huge gaps in the system. and it means that some people can't get all of the things that they need from the medical system. so maybe you're able to get a walker, but you're not also able in the same calendar year or 2 year period because of the

way our system work to also get a wheelchair. and so we started collecting walkers and wheelchairs and mobility devices as a congregation and then delivering them to individuals. and it's nothing fancy. it's nothing complicated. it's a closet here and a basement there. and it doesn't devices here. and i just pick up the phone and say, hey, can you do go down the street to mr. so, and so he's in apartment 23 and deliver him. the wheelchair with the green hand rests because that's about the size that he needs. and that's the type that he needs and it would really help him to get to the the market every day. and that is by the way, one last thing, this panel of folks who are inter religious interdenominational faith, folks of all different creeds and backgrounds. we don't care what religion you are when you ask for a wheelchair, we just need to get the wheelchair to you as quick as we can on route to wisconsin . questions like, let me just put the question to because it's not often that we get free or gave

traditions altogether. so i'm going to put the questions to you so that they can have access to your amazing, amazing knowledge. so cousin mill says will faith help the climate? oh, that is such a good question. i'm going to show you some scenes from india from earlier this year. one of the parts of all which was severely hit by the climate crisis and climate change. and then i'm going to bounce off that and taught cynita and then rabbi mike mark, excuse me, about climate change and faith and how do you address it? let's look at india facile working in the city or he can have a dangerous impact on health. but some people have no choice most through a millions of casual workers toiling in the street as sweepers hackers or rick shut drivers like bubbles commer by bloom. i greeted

to daily 20 years ago to earn a living, but he finds the work harder than ever a dealer. due to a searing temperatures, probably forced to take more breaks than usual and that costs money cynita this year. in particular, i think we're being very acutely aware of the climate crisis just because we're seeing how our climate is changing quite dramatically around the world. what is the faith angle so much you know, respective when, when we see, when we see images like this, we are, i mean what, what is immediately apparent is the economic disparity right there. um, somebody like bob lou, but the other, the other part that we should be very aware of is the cast disparity. so it's a double whammy when somebody is of a lower cast or

a minority religion in india as well as poor and industry. human rights work is working diligently on really representing embodying the best most inclusive, most pluralistic, most love centered version of our faith of hinduism. because really what is entrenched, the hindu community is an ideology, political ideology that really is diametrically opposite. internationalism. and when you think of the planet for hindus, every part of the universe, every stream, every river, every mountain, every pebble, is divine god is in you and me no matter who you are. and so protecting the planet and being there for each other. no matter you know who the other person is is a core is quarantined with them. so it should, it should, it should be, you know, the 1st order of practicing are fee to be there for each other and the planet. ah,

but the, the problem, the real problem is that he knew nationalism, which is the ideology that is entrenched in the community. but also that is in power in india is in bed with the poor print, the huge corporations of the world, the 5 largest polluters of the world are in india. 5 of the largest ponies of the world are in india. and those and those 5 corporations are also backers of hindu, of hidden nationalism. let me get it to them. and so, yeah, i, so just, and just to finish it, if we, if we are a to dc roam king cole, we d thrown him go. all right, i got to get a perspective from rabbi mark, i might tell you where you are geographically situated and why talking about the climate crisis is incredibly tricky for you. so soon a to set a great thing talking about the polluters in india and how

religious people, who are hindu, understand that it needs to be done as a community action needs to be done collectively and brought together, i'm in pittsburg and an eerie which are the industrial rust belt of the united states of america and the steel industry was built in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. the monongahela valley is full of steel mills, and coke works and coal producers, and it's the end terminus line of west virginia coal. there's huge pollution problems historically in this area that are still being cleaned up to this day. and that means that politically and based on the economics of the community, a lot of people who grew up here who lived here for generations. they made their money on coal, they made their money on feel. they made their money on heavy industry and convincing those folks know we need to go green. we need to shift is very,

very difficult. but i think we need to set it really, really well. and i want to bring it from my faith tradition. in the psalms, it says, i don't, i r s, below our gods is the world and all that is in it. so for people of faith, we have to remember that the world does not belong to us. the earth does not belong to us. we don't dig cole out of the ground to burn it with no repercussions. we need to remember that all these things belong to god, and the earth belongs to god, and the earth belongs to our fellow community members. and therefore we need to keep it clean. keep it, christine, keep it good for the generations to come to the resume. i have to share with you a headline that we're getting let out at the team. as we were talking about how faith strengthens out for a year. have a look at the gallup poll belief in god, in the united states, to an 81, a sent a new love. that is

a big day. you can see. you can see here from the 1914th to where we are here in the early 20 twenty's that few people now believe in god. when you see that, what does that mean to you? from uganda. it's just another thing i can compare with what is going on in the as a whole. and not only going to in the most difficult times, people in africa come closer to god because we had that faith was friends in one another. and we know that we cannot overcome on covering in fame. we did god in our lives. and unfortunately, the people who go out of phase, normally the society and we are not in the society. and it doesn't mean that we are going to god, because we are, we are going to god, because we trust him. we know that he is above, as we know,

that he's that will create. and i think that is what everybody need to come to wait . even why is faith going down? we need to know when it will find the root cause of the problem, even america, or we're in the world. if faith is going down, there must be. if we were not believing in god, there must be a reason less dig did the root. and rabbi while i go ahead, rabbi then nita, it's really it's really hard to figure out why americans are becoming less faithful . i think sister rosemary has a lot to to say that that i agree with it is easier to believe in god when you need god than when you are athlete. when you are wealthy, when you have a nice car at a nice house and everything is going really easy, you don't need to cry out so much to god. that being said, everybody,

even the affluent, even the wealthy, even the comfortable suffer and have difficulties in their lives. and one of the reasons that i think americans are getting away from god is, is that they are disillusioned with the institutions that have been promoting god for a very long time. the big churches, the big synagogues, the big orders, the big organizations, have really been off putting for a variety of scandals and difficulties for hoarding wells as opposed to sharing it with communities. and the last thing i'll say is this illogically, they've been off putting sometimes 2 by promoting a version of god that was not speaking to the people. and one thing that i say to folks, i set it to a woman last night at synagogue, who are on saturday synagogue, who said that she was an atheist. she didn't believe in god, but she was there for a bar mas for anyways, was i told her, you know, the god that you don't believe. and i probably don't believe in that god either.

right? it's when you have an overly simplistic, you know, old man and a chair sending down lightning bolts, vision of god. a lot of people find that off putting, but i don't really think that that's actually what we are talking about. a c logins as religious people, as faith leaders when we're talking about god. all right, so the rabbi is sometimes 9. if the soccer soccer rabbi should go into football. rabbi really, really know what he's talking about. have a look here on my laptop. and so i'm just going to look at w quickly because it impacts a lot of different faiths, right now, division. so jewish twitter is in full on panic mode because a famous ass hat is feeling hate on the daily. okay, jesus conservatives condemn trump. the meeting anti semite nic fuentes. so that is anti semitism in the us, raising its ugly head even more than it has done in the past. and then we go across to the hindu tradition. religious polarization in india seeping into the us

diaspora. but i want to share some more positive pictures and images. muslims dilates for black lives. there is a way we found the way to come together and the day of atonement. i have to show you this beautiful picture of here with mark and part of his synagogue here or celebrating. i want to end on a, on a positive note, with your press, your hopes for 2020. the read says the rosary, this is going to be a one line prayer with her one. is it my whole been doing it? printed 3 is that you money deal will raise god and see his image it everyone. because if you begin to say, i don't love god, it's leg. you are see, i don't like you, my neighbor. i don't love my live. oh god, as grid it ever would. it is image. all right, wonderful. ah,

it's anita your one line. pray is what the best way to resist extremism of all stripes is to cling together and refuse to be divided from each other. and so i went to my prayers that we cling together and used to be divided. rabbi, what is your prayer for 2023. it's beautiful. i would say a little bit of me and a little bit of my grandmother. my grandmother would say a happy and healthy new year to you all. and i would say a happy and healthy new year of justice of freedom of mercy and of love awe at rabbi you inspired our closing pictures, which is people really embracing public prayer because we have our own camp going on right now. let show those pictures where people are very unabashedly saying, please, please can my thing. when my prayer was a heart said, england is out, but i love to fight them. we are celebrating our prayer and our faith out in the

open even if it's soccer or football that's helping us do that. and she a very wonderful 2022. ah ah.

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a critical look at the global news media spread on al jazeera government, shutoff access to social needy. ah, i am charlie andrew in london. the top stories on al jazeera, iran has executed a 2nd prisoner linked to anti government protest that have engulfed the country for months. is the 2nd such execution in less than a week. magid reza run, nevada was publicly hanged on monday. and iranian court convicted him of fatally stabbing 2 security force members during protest. last month there been widespread demonstrations across iran since 22 year old women ma, her a mini die.