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is there anybody was going to be held accountable because some of the largest cases that were currently pending, and now they've, they vanished subsidies on fuel and some staple food have ended since router took office. that was a condition for borrowing more money from the west. joseph windy, another motorbike taxi driver, says he voted for router, but nothing has improved. this government is the law. it's out of them like you live up 3 lives. is this the deal for no difference because of all they were there people that we are dealing with is the same thing. some economists say things will get even worse before they can get better canyons of waiting to see malcolm web out . his era, nairobi ah, time for a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera,
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ukraine's president has addressed the u. s. congress saying his country will never surrender to russia long as the landscape in washington and his 1st war time overseas trip. he said ukraine remains resilience, but will need more help. i would like to thank you. thank you very much. thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with. and there was, you may be willing to decide on your money is not cheery team is an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. well, earlier the u. s. president announced a new $1800000000.00 package for ukraine, which includes patriot missiles. joe biden said the u. s. would stand with ukraine for as long as it takes. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin as approved a 30 percent increase military personnel. the kremlin says piece talks with ukraine
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are not possible, while western countries supplied with weapons the founder be collapsed crypto currency exchange f t x is in f. b. i custody and has arrived in the u. s. sam, bank men freed, was flown out of the bahamas overnight after agreeing to be extradited. he's facing several charges relating to one of the biggest financial frauds in u. s. history. harry was president deena bolo, artie has carried out a major cabinet reshuffle appointing a new prime minister and finance chief. it came hours after she won the approval of congress to bring forward elections. protest as have been demanding only poles falling the impeachment, and imprisonment of the former president federal castillo. israel's longest serving prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has secured a last minute deal to form a new government. netanyahu was facing on midnight deadline to arrange a coalition. it follows weeks of tough negotiations with religious and far right coalition with partners. but you and security council has adopted its 1st
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resolution on me and mar, in 74 years, is demanding an end to violence on just the military juncture. to release all political prisoners, including alfred leda, unsung sushi and thousands of ambulance workers in the u. k. have gone on strike the demand, better pay to put the national health service on the further strain the day after industrial action by nurses. those were the headlines. the news continues your knowledge, a 0 after generation change statement, thanks to watching black enough. tens of thousands of children were born in to all lived under the i still regime in iraq and syria. now many are encamped either all funds or with their widowed mothers, rejected by their own communities chicken. did you think that people are going to welcome them after that? of course not an emmy award winning documentary. here's that chilling and traumatic story from the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera
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east africa, largest economy, kenya is an african powerhouse. and home to a $1000000000.00 tech fee that was 75 percent of the population under $35.00. it's also facing high youth on employment, storing living costs and a widening gap between rich and poor. i'm m. m righty and it comes to kenya to meet to activate from the countries capital nairobi. been fighting for social justice to combating police violence. they both want empowered their communities and make them faith that welcome to generation change a global theories, attempts to understand i'm challenge the idea. it may bleed around the wells.
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ah though it sunday i'm going to hear the chairs are in times over, which is like go from right that and this is an informal settlement, but it will say the country's largest idaho site. what was it like for you growing up? and so one of the challenges they're getting and that would put it on initially man, my buddies, and know where you can find out that smart enough for us to pay rent and food into vacation. that's way too much of a sick of because she was engaged in drug abuse of stress and on that. so initially anger that dying and that left her for when i was let go. because in doing so, how old are you and your mother passed away. i was 15 and what happened then? i ended up will have that done. say to make it simple immunity. it's a place where when it comes, anyone who doesn't have a place to who was covering gene or collecting trash so that they can,
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i can get something to eat. now you're a wrapper and that's what you're known. a. what was the transition like from being on the dumps? i am working that to being an artist and doing what you do now. so when i was of the dumps, it tells us treat shop. even people are calling me that that's going to come pick it up for us. do they give me some type of food? so i know, and i think the julianne at that time he was sort of very popular was going around dorothy seeking the places and people tell them need to find the stop it out, but the need to find that you need to find a di. okay. claudine came down before me on the transition, was dutch i to nanny, came up about a project for them that i focused on does to read the transition. so maybe that i'm started getting help was to know how much yes.
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ah, how did working on it on site but its is isaac whenever they don't say you feel like you are vocal as you are in a dark place where people don't appreciate you don't have a voice. nobody cares the most 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 today by very early in the morning if you find them i just there. so i was seeing them as the, as the real audience my ceo for a still a young god job theater. he supposedly were country cars. so broke,
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i wanted to talk to you. i a larry echo, you've done quite a few songs about extra judicial killings and the police. no killing people. he lives. i lost 3 friends. i, when i was on the dumb side because of its sugar diesel killing. they were beaten up at the mister la fontose. i was so mind there was that i was ugly. so that's where a big a started becoming moving into 2 social issues on the not anything that will be a one to one. do another one, not dying dirty bumping. you well. and there's also an organization called elected kenya, which you work in and you deal with these projects with young people. can you tell me 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 52 to 17 or 20 . so that did their thing busy. so that don't end up sunday society, social vice, this keeps coming today. ah, we do music glass days, drama. las vegas. oh boy,
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she, we played games with kids together. we have managed, redefined o'clock, 100 plus new times. of course seen so many artists. it hasn't been more often than even in yeah. about to be a little now they do go and hear you. crew found did the missouri social justice and co which aims that tackling forms of structural violence. can you explain a bit about what made you want to start the organization? albany, mother, and i grew up in my badge and 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
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violence that people in my community while going through the cova, etc. if police brutality, if police came in the law co clean water, so growing up in mother, it 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 the killings in particular though too much, it was just too much. so to challenge that, we formed maddie social justice center. and were there any personal experiences that you lived in the sorry, that made you want to stop the organization? yes. um, my own brother was killed by police in to a 7208 was election violence in cana. 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. this is a story of many young people in my day do a to have a friend, a cousin, a brother,
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a neighbor that was killed by police the when you're a, when now i was fired them at, sorry, social justice been for agony. told me a bit about the wire for you today today here. every day we see this is from the community on different areas that we're watching one to bring justice to the community to members. most news, if guess is a police mortality of people who have been arrested with not enough reason. kisses of didn't a bit violin, but we have a community engagement, like watching films, planting, trees, community clean knobs community demonstrations. and every time we meet at the center, we have to sing. oh, because live an interview that comes when things get into just i just on to
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continue watching this spot. ok, thinking 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 viral and lots of people saw rick with how was that experienced to you? and were you surprised by the reaction that it got? yes, i was surprised that even when lateral i didn't know it was going to be that impactful . i. with that i am a woman that was able to stand up for my thought made the young man in my community more emboldened to stand up for themselves. it made them feel more powerful.
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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 the lose their lives in my community. give me a friend to say that this was enough and is killing how hodge you stop in so when dera dice, thank you so much for being here today. when we think about the 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 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
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. i think it was um, one form of resistance from the people from the 8000000 tenants who did not come out to vote. 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 with someone who could walk for us. but i think it was very loud that they use that tired of this system of oppression. and what do you think the us, how did you feel about the election and how did young people that, you know, speak about the election? remember, before election knew, i mean, we were in a crisis of course the 19. and of course, even the government who previously there was not even doing a lot of people. they were just making the peoplesoft a lot because there was a lot of confuse people, people are not going to job. so now when it comes to people now being told to vote,
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they were like no, the same government didn't care about. that's why they getting know, they don't respect our voices. they don't want to say, but they want us to do one d, c. and that's, that's how we feel, laker, if our board is not powerful, it doesn't change anything. do you also feel that sense of accuracy towards the system? i know because women moiety says 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 it, why do i even go towards it doesn't change my life in any way. how do you bring about change if you withdrew from the system as it exists now? how can you amplify issues the masses? he 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,
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organize ourselves as the youth and advocate with one voice as one girl among the issues that might 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, it's, 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 death at the hands of the police. could you explain to me what it is like in kenya in regards to the extra judicial killings the we are miracle stuff in the hashtag. blacklist, marta ah. i think it martin most encounter because her personally of last 20 plus or friends. most of them was killed by police and her mom justice. and initially this is just specific, only done dora. so if you imagine how many happens each and every day in my diet,
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in cuba, i 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? you know, as a british colony when we got independence, the police so is that we're serving the colonial government. did no change, i wouldn't do much as i became president of can or 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, they would cost up on the people to present the finance living in informal settlements. ah, when judge les north kills 13, 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, dish or killings in the country. usually we will hold our demos in
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a informal settlements. but when judge slater tales can connect, said at their struggle in the u. s and i struggled out he and came out in the lodge numbers to say we demand on into extra additional killings. so police officers have justified 72 percent of the kennings that have happened 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 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
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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. it's sim, like we have been having newsletter as a sudden, fossil us gota ah, took mindful day for the government to the se, empties governance on news, but then not been killed. why is it that in where we leave? and under that someone or just all of foreign was my dad, a criminal is criminal according to the law. so the, we need to, we need to put it clear that it needs to be an, an equal thing that we feel like it's not if it's not true. and equally on to a new dash that was the case of coven billionaires. like some people in government had stolen be liam's men. to me, to get the federal court with one thing in the country. during this period,
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there was also a lot of poverty in their communities, and actually police did not as with their coven billionaire, despite having been a protest, it 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 feeling 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? so for me, justice means this, this consistently people had, she didn't seem they said this is like following the law when the boys killed with the police wonder, remember that it's an additional killing to you are not given a family to be the but the police to conduct
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a fundraising so as to get funds to do the by the way in which, why don't you have been congested because that, but almost came, landed wrong too. you're not given a, find me to. so of course this, no, jesse, their belief i fight. jesse is 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 luck, 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 . the only reason we are fighting that is killings. midst of soul kennel do not have to move through unnecessary pain caused by the bullet. so has ever been a time that you have seen justice and action in kenya with regard to, you know, police killings. if that was the case, so all for laying of the office on monday,
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the fisherman over of 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 in international justice mission, we took it to court and we attended court sessions. we are in kisha, certain justice for my team, call me. and they liked mand 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, who are the areas i know you care about? i want to specifically also talk to you dash about music. it feels like it is really a lifeline. fear for me, music is life. i feel like the way people have a power like do it. the police have the gun and the feel ball for the gun. so for me, i feel awful and i have music because it's part of my life. last year we had
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a case, a very big case in den daughter. we apaloosa was looking for a southern thief. then the southern thief, wind running, he went to his friends and some of the fence or not def. so the police ended up killing everybody and they did us all. it was all about topics i digital killing. we did coincides to that and our community just to 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 examples of cultural art or music you have found to be powerful or inspiring in kenya. i've listened to nasa mine and the song mississippi. good them about police brutality. they forgot that identify. and it became a big issue for the black people over there. they went to a protest singing that song,
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made them feel so powerful. and nina hustles felt like her lakeside mall relevance, where she would thing to advance the struggle of last people what she was saying about then 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 approve. and whenever you have social media, it's easier to even tell people like this. these are part of the things that they have done so and you know that i am, she had issues with the police when they wanted to lay out a hobby force. and we also that because of social media. so this musician when it's a little bit more powerful, and so many people who are inspired by high just because of this story. and this is
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because of the social media, it has even happened. both the been in the street someone is being that if that 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. when jerry 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 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 mallory has been existing, think it's the oldest schedule in ken now. so we've had a president from 963 who have done some thing to change their fate of the people of
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mulberry. but they did not. this is where structural violence comes in, that the people of malaria 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 bash, 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 and what your identity is? so of course, i'm proud of myself as shit from from where i've come from and where i am, i managed to to go over 1010000 kids. well and in defend their new talents among the successful stories that they have. is that over 50 young girls did not end up
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being and 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 summer 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 said to everybody around what's the little thing towards making the middle place? so that is my little thing and i'm happy doing it that is on the list every morning to ensure that what i'm doing or the i'm not even paid or anything.
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young activists and organizers to run them motivated and politically engaged. the challenges they face couldn't be more daunting here. and we were the ones who had lights on what was going on in a way that was means the media didn't. there's nothing static about the lebanon is always in the buy number for us formation. we have the agency to create a viable, open generation changed on al jazeera. the latest news, as it breaks the killing is brought immediate condemnation from the palestinian authority to describe it as cold blooded murder with detailed coverage. health officials say that transmission of this virus among humans is very rare, but they're worried because a summer season is about to begin from around the world. warmer to probably be okay, living in the building like this with blown out windows and the temperature plummets such conditions. really take that whole and
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take risks to share their experiences. why? because they most award winning voices telling groundbreaking stories. witness on how to do this wave of sentiment around the world. people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voice is not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover the big stories and report on the big events that are going on, but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice. and then whenever chance, my dad never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question. and i think that's what actually really does. we asked the question to people who should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. ah hello.
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