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artificial beach, but we design them into the water. clean those look at the health as they are. great. so it's an everyday thing. it's intensive. it's been 6 years since people here started restoring life in this waters. they said, and now seeing more fish and businesses doing better. so got my home. i saw higher men. sometimes i catch for octopuses. it takes me a while, because i have to rush to beat the high tide. on average, i make about $10.00 a day. my, the menu, those who hand the garden are for month fishermen. they say what they're doing is working towards numbers are rising. the community is thriving. katherine saw all the 0 kili fi county. ah. hello, what you know does the are these are the headlines to south tina have won the world cup more than 50 years after their last victory. they beat fronts on penalties as
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the game ended thrill after extra time. imagine pain and celebrations went on light into the night fence had been waiting for this moment since 1986 when the national team last one football, the biggest prize to cry now and keep military administration says and shot down several russian drawings on monday morning ukraine is trying to restore power to much of the country and the grip of winter, russia has been targeting ukrainian energy facilities for weeks. shall stratford has moved from teens. is just the latest barrage of attacks this i'm using. what is been announced by the ukranian military as iranian shaheed, drones, the military saying that approximately 35 drones targeted various targets across the country at least 20 of those drones targeting of places of
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critical infrastructure across the capital city. the military saying that 30 of those drones were, was shot down. sorry, 20 of those jones was shot down in this latest barrows, thousands of farm as protesting in new delhi india. they say the government has not fulfilled its promises. they are demanding more subsidies support from the government and better prices to the project. malaysia's parliament who's holding it 1st session since the appointment of a new prime minister. and why abraham was asked by malaysia king to form a government after november's contested general election, the parliament is expected to hold a vote of confidence on the new government. those are the headlines. i'm emily angland. the news continues here on al jazeera after generation change. in the meantime, you can head to our website, which is era dot com talk to al jazeera. we also do believe that women of
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afghanistan was somehow abandoned by the international community. we listen, we have a huge price for the war against terrorism. what's going on, and so money we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera, east africa, largest economy, kenya is an african powerhouse. and home to a $1000000000.00 taxi. it was 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high youth employment, storing living costs, and a widening gap between rich and poor. i'm m m rodney and it comes to kenya to me, to activate from the countries capital nairobi. i think the social justice to come by think police violence. they both want to empower their communities and make them safer. welcome to generation change
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a global theories attempt to understand i'm challenge the idea that mobilized around the world. ah, though it's sunday i'm going to hear the kids are in times over, which is like from rise. and this is an informal settlement, but it will say the country's largest dental site. what was it like for you growing up there? so one of the challenges the getting and that would put it on initially my mother didn't know where you can find out that smart enough was a rent and food into vacation. that's way too much of a sick of because she was engaged in drug abuse of and on that many. chevy angered up by him and that left us the linguist,
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alaska. that isn't going so how old are you and your mother passed away? i was 16 and what happened then? i ended up, we'll have that done. say to a, make it simple immunity. it's a place where when it comes, anybody doesn't have a place to go or scrubbing gene or collecting trash so that they can, i can get something to eat. now you're a wrapper and that's your note with what was the transition like from being on the dumb fire waking dead to being an artist and doing what you do now. so when i was of the dumps, it was a stretch wrap up. even people are calling me that those glucose is that up for as though they give me, sir. i didn't april 4th. so i know i did. did you learned that name? he was very hoping that was going around. i don't, i'd be seeking the places and people tell them we need to find the south all these
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it out, but the need to find that you need to find a die. ok. they came down before me under the transition, was dutch i to nanny, came up about a project for the underwriter, on the does, to read the transition. so maybe the dumps they started getting up was to know how much ah, how did working on it on site, but it's as icy. whenever they don't say you feel like you are vocal as you are in a dark place where people don't appreciate you. you don't have a voice, nobody cares about who you are. so initially, for me was laker, i mean a while to where i'm fixing a lot of social advices whenever i'm sick, nobody cares. if i, if i have a good fall, nobody cares this, nobody to share what were to have those performing to their by very early in the morning. if you find them, i just, there are so i was seeing them as the,
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as the real audience, my ceo for a still a young god job 0. he supposedly were country cars. so broke. i wanted to talk to you. i a larry, you've done quite a few songs about extra judicial killings and the police, no killing people. he live here. i lost 3 friends. i, when i was on the dumb side because of extrajudicial killing, they were beaten up and the mr. la fontose, i was still mind they was, i was ugly. so that's where a big a started becoming more. we need to go into social issues, talk a you way. and there's also an organization called and left to kenya, which you work in. and you do these projects with young people. can you tell me
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about what you do with them? ok soon. of course it does. it is a community based organization that works with kids from the age of 5 to 17 or 20. so that did their saved busy, so that the don't end up sunday society special advice just keeps coming today. i went to music last days, drama class this. oh boy, she played games with the kids together. we have managed, identified o'clock, 100 plus new times. of course, seen so many artists, it has been more often than even in yet that to be a neutral now that still got it. so in theory, you crew founded the missouri social justice center, which aims at tackling a form for structural violence. can you explain a bit about what made you want to start and organization our vaughn in my diary and
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i grew up in my parish. i the 2nd biggest law mean k. now i love my that you know, i was a happy child. and when i became an adult is when i could see now the violence that people in my community while going through the cova, etc. the police brutality, if police came in, the lack of clean water. so growing up in missouri is a lot of like growing up in a village where everybody knows everybody. so when something happens to one of us really feel it. so, but killings in particular though too much, it was just too much. so to challenge that, we formed mother added social justice center. and were there any personal experiences that you lived in missouri that made you want to start the organization? yes. um. my own brother was killed by police in to
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a 72. 08. was the election violence in kana, and that with a lot of other young people that i have grown up, we've been killed. and this is not just my story i. this is the story of many young people in my day. you either have a friend, a cousin, a brother, a neighbor that was killed by police, so injure a wind. now i was fired them at, sorry, social justice been for agony. told me a bit about the work for you today today and introduce the kids since from the community on different areas that feel like human to bring justice to the community to members. mostly, if it gets as of police brutality of people who have been arrested with not enough reason, cases of didn't up his violin, but we have a community engagement,
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like watching films planting trees, community clenotts, community illustrations. and every time we meet at the center, we have to sing, oh, live an interview that comes when things get into just i just on to continue watching this spot of sticking justice and dignity for our people. with. i wanted to ask you about the time in 2020, when you were a protest against police brutality and you resisted arrest from 3 armed police officers. and there was a huge reaction because the video of this happening went by will. and lots of people saw it, a modem of who, how was that experience to you? and were you surprised by the reaction that it got? yes, i was surprised that even went viral. i didn't know it was going to be that impossible
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. i spoke with that. i am a woman that was able to stand up for myself, made the young man in my community more emboldened to stand up for themselves. it men feel more powerful. i also have to say that at that very moment, it is the pain of every mother. i have walked with in thinking just as for the sun, every case i have documented every single possible i have seen lose their lives in my community again as friend to say that this was enough and is killing how hodge you're still in so when dera dice thank you so much for being here today. when we think about the
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issues that are facing young people, it's interesting that 75 percent of the people in kenya are under the age of $35.00, but only 40 percent of youth is registered to vote in the recent elections. why do you think it is that so few people registered to vote here in kenya under the age of 35. i think it was um, one form of resistance from the people from the 8000000 candles who did not come to ward. i think they was saying that they do not want to be a part of their they wanted a system that works for them. and on the other hand, i think one thing is important because it's the only way we are going to was someone who could walk for us. but i think it was very loud that they would tired of this system of oppression. and what do you think us, how did you feel about the election and how did young people that, you know, speak about the election?
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remember, before election knew, i mean a, we were in a crisis of course, 19. and of course, even the government who previously there was not even being allowed to the people. they were just making the people's soft lot because there was a lot of confuse people, people are not going to job. so when it comes to people now being told to vote and the lake norman, the same government didn't care about us. why are they getting? no, they don't respect our voices. they don't hear what you say, but they want us to do one d. c. and that's, that's how we feel like if our vote is not powerful, it doesn't change anything. you also feel that sense of accuracy towards the system . i know because women moiety fin the country, god independence with little change. look at the community where i come from. it's still the same poverty from before, so people are beginning to like, when i mean, why do i even go toward it doesn't change my life in any way. how do you bring
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about change if you withdrawal from the system as exists? now, how can you amplify issues that massive mice? i think we need an alternative system that says piece hall at the very core of the issues we are trying to address. ah, how we need to bring about changes, organize ourselves as the youth. and advocate with one voice as one girl among the issues that much actual as i philip we shouldn't take a backseat and watch and complain and say this is them. doesn't work for us. these people are corrupt is and we actively organize against theft is them together? i know that you both care a lot about extra judicial shillings in kenya around the world. there are conversations around police brutality and deaths at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extra judicial killings that we are miracle stuff in the hashtag blacklist, marta ah. i think it martin most encounter because her
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personally of last 20 plus or friends. most of them was killed by police and her mom justice. and initially this is just specific on the done, dora. so if you imagine how many happens each and every day in my diet, in canberra, in, in either streets. so it's quite a very, very big issue that hasn't been happening and we haven't been getting a solution. and wonder how would you explain it? 10 hours of british colony when we got independence. the police service that was serving the colonial government did not change. i wouldn't do much as i became president of can he continued with the same police force that the colonial government was using. and therefore, i thing on that they have practices in a trauma that would cause up on the people to present the finance living in informal settlements. ah, when judge les north kills 13,
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earliest miles killed in our community. and when we planned the protest, joseph, last aim, i saw kenneth's soul invested in tattling, matters of excite disha killings in the country. usually we will hold our demos in a informal settlement. i've been judge slate tales can connect, said at their struggle in the u. s. in us from without he and came out in the lodge numbers to see we demand on into extra additional killings. so police officers of justified 72 percent of the kennings of happen alleging, but they were result of anti crime operations. and i wanted to ask within the communities, is there a slight tension there to some people maybe not have sympathy when somebody who was committing a crime dies at the hands of the police and how do you respond to that? if that happens, but i think it's so we live in a country that prides itself in upholding visual overall. why do we have all this
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said is, if someone has been found doing something wrong, can we have a law before not can we have them arrested and taken to court and prosecuted instead of the police deciding to be the judge and the jury and executioner. because this is what happens most of the time. and this is a crime not just in can now, but everywhere else i do not think police have a right to take away anybody's life when days a law that can be followed. for me, the biggest issue has been the quality. they are not treating people who sim like we have been having news like a sudden pass on was gotta, ah, took mindful day for the government to the se in des, governance on news, but then not been killed. why is it that in where we leave and, and order that someone are just all a form, was my dad, a criminal is criminal according to the, the law. so the, we need to,
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we need to put it clear that it needs to be an, an equal thing. do we feel like it's not if it's not true and equally on to a new dash that was the case of coven billionaire? like some people in government had stolen be liam's men, to me, to get the federal court maintain in their country. during this period, there was also a lot of poverty in their communities. and actually police did not as with their coven 1000000000. and despite having been a protest, is the people protesting against the scott billionaires that were actually arrested for what dash is saying is there is a distinction between people who are failing to survive. and people who are stealing from the people. because their government told from the poor in that particular infant, which led them to the grid. when you say that you're fighting for justice, what does justice look like? fear?
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so for me, justice means this, this are consistent lake point. she didn't seem they said this is like following the law. when the boys killed with the police wonder, remember that the french additional killing to you are not given upon me to be the by the police to conduct a fundraising so as to get funds to do that by the way, in which, why you haven't congested because that but almost came, landed wrong too. you're not given a find me to. so of course this, no jesse there for the fight, fight justice, that people should be treated equally. that for justice means to and what about you under what is justice? a lie to you and when you're fighting for that, what is it you're thinking about? my brother was killed by police. justice ideally would look like me getting back, my brother. but that is not possible. so injustice would look like preventing other people from losing their loved ones. still only thing that would make sense for me
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. the only reason we are fighting that is killings needs to stop sol. kenneth, do not have to move through unnecessary pain caused by the bullet. so has ever been a time that you have seen justice in action in kenya with regard to, you know, police killings. if there was like a saw for laying of the office on monday, fission over police station who killed some one in the police station. he drowned them enough drum full of water and the inmates could see that. and when we documented this case together with the international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions. we are in kisha, written justice for my team, call me, and they light mend when he was sentenced to life imprisonment. and that was the 1st time i saw a justice in action in this country. and i want to move the conversation a little bit and says from other areas i know you care about. i want to
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specifically also talk to you dash about music. it feels like it is really a lifeline fear. so for me, music is life. i feel like the way people have a power like the, the police have the gun and the feet ball for the gun. so for me, if you fall from and they have music because it's part of my life. last year we had a case, a very begin in den dora, we are a police was looking for a sudden thief. then this had been thief, wind running, he went to his friends and some of defense for not thief saw the police ended up killing everybody and they did us all. it was all about stop extrajudicial killing . we did coincides to that and our community justice center. my dad is just offenders and all that. and we, we've got justice through, through the power of the ad and we've got new, new police and other, any other names of people or any other example of the culture art or music the, you have to be powerful or inspiring in kenya. i've listened to nasa mine and the
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song mississippi. goddam about police brutality, they forgot that identified. and it became a big issue for the black people over there. they went to a protest singing that saw made them feel so powerful. and nina, herself felt lay her lakeside mall relevance when she would thing to advance the struggle of last people what she was saying about them is so very relevant today in the us and also in our communities in countries back home. and i wanted to ask social media, it's done a lot in terms of sharing messages to do with activities. and how important do you think that has been for you? and can you more generally, in terms of amplifying messages, like the ones you care about? most? mostly i've been using social media last sort of like a proof. and whenever you have social media, it's easier to even tell people like this. these are part of the things that they
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have done as well. and, you know, they, sometimes she had issues with the police when they wanted to late. that is how may force. and we also that because of social media. so this musician when it's a little bit more powerful and so many people are inspired by high just because of the story. and this is because of the social media. it has even happened. both the been in the street someone is being arrested and is using social media to tell people that he has been noticed and, and he hasn't done anything for i've said that social media have played a very, very big role in terms of documenting issues. wonder use youtube to teach are kind of alternative history. and i wondered if you could speak to me a little bit about why you've done that. i love history. i think history is very liberating. when you get to really know and understand. i think present a the ration is quite disconnected with our very glory as history of the past. for
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example, my community, my, my home in my diary has been around for a 100 years. it's been a century of survival and resist. since 1920 larry has been existing, think it's the oldest, get you in can now. so we've had president from 1963 who have done some thing to change their fate of the people of mulberry. but they did not. this is a structural violence comes in that the people of my life continued to be neglected and continue to be exposed to the system, systemic violence of social injustices. so when we understand as young people where we are coming from, it will be very easy to, to create the kind of future we want now for our children's children and simon, any thus, i know you care a lot about your community and i want to hear from you directly, what is it that you're proud of in terms of where you are from,
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and what your identity is? so, of course, i'm proud of myself if from, from where i've come from and where i am. i managed to, to go over 1010000 kids web, identified their new talents among the successful stories that they have. is that over 50 young guys, the end up being an dropping out of school, i'll pregnancies, but we have managed to get them out of such issues. also with of proud of 4 of the defies that have gone through in ensuring that things are right. this phone that they have done and all that as a final note, what is it, despite all of the issues that you have seen that makes you get up every morning? so 5 for a better day. why is it that you continue to do what you're doing? well, i guess my going is knowing that i'm on the right 5 and i'm doing my little thing to odds contributing to the betterment of society. play one guy and i
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said to everybody around what's a little thing towards making the middle place. so that is my little thing and i'm happy doing it. that is, i know this week every morning to ensure that what i'm doing, i'm not even paid or anything just because i need to see a good future. i need to see a bit and or i need to see a better kenyon. i need to put to not leave the live that i have lived so that sailors wake up every morning for me to, to kids with which a family and also for the future of kenya.
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