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this is it every news line from borough and turning point british lawmakers gear up for a series of crucial votes to determine the fate of bricks that m.p.'s are ports or vote on a number of new options for leaving the e.u. well a consensus emerging should and will prime minister to resign meet people or job when the dust settles also coming up the difficult conversations of british author notes a rise in discrimination in briggs' that era britain and explains why she's done talking to white people about race plus paving the way for an end to the two decade
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long rule of algeria's president the head of the army and a key government coalition allies are pushing for a disease with a big fuss out start both want the ailing leader declared unfit to rule after weeks of street protests will this bring an end to the country's political crisis. to hock thank you so much for your company everyone well we begin this broadcast once again in the u.k. where british lawmakers are preparing to vote on a series of options that could steer the country's would draw process from the european union or the voting comes two days after lawmakers took control of the parliamentary agenda away from the government all parliaments is now as we speak debating the proposals they include leaving the e.u. without a deal. remaining in the blocks
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a single markets and customs union and holding a new referendum on the plan is for the most a popular ideas to move to a second vote on monday in hopes of finding one option that can command a majority while lawmakers have already rejected the year brigs a deal negotiated with the e.u. by british prime minister theresa may twice on the spot that may has again called on lawmakers to support it we have a deal which councils are your membership fee we just don't see you making all the rules which gives us our own immigration policy and the common agricultural policy for good and succumb fisheries policy for good other options don't do that other options would lead to delay to uncertainty and research and that are delivering threats. speaking a short while ago all up next so in a short momentarily will be talking to rennie eddie lodges she is a british blogger and journalist who says she no longer wants to talk to white
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britons about race all she says brags it has emboldened resists in her home country and also given cover to those who refuse to acknowledge systemic racism in british society while she's now transformed her blog on racism into an award winning book. london bath place and home to rennie and. she's a twenty nine year old journalist and feminist and one hundred percent british. she's living in a country where some consider white to be the norm but since the bricks at referendum ready and others like her are being increasingly heckled on the street and told to go back where they came from. it's easy to spot racism when it's coming from a crowd of hooligans but it's harder to pick out when it's anchored deep in the middle of society. that's why i ran
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a eto large wrote her book why i'm no longer talking to white people about race now being published in german. i don't want to fall into some silly trap and say oh everything got bad and some back off the brakes and before then it was all i ok. instead says at zero large systematic racism has been long entrenched in british society. and what she finds most infuriating is that even the most anti racist left leaning liberals are unaware of their own white privilege essentially the advantages of being white. i'm talking about the consequences of racial prejudice because it is it does have a political purpose it's not just spontaneous the consequences are to afford unfair advantages so why are people that's literally the point so for example black
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children in the u.k. are three times more likely to be thrown out of school than their white counterparts applicants with african or asian sounding names get fewer job offers than white rivals with the same qualifications. slightly grex it may have reopened the debate on what it means to be british but according to ed a large racism is a problem that's been bubbling under the surface for a very long time. and joining me here in the studio now is either a lie. roger we're so thrilled to have are here with us and thank you so much for taking out the time to speak to us and congratulations on your german language propagation of your very successful are hurting. what really and we highlight that highlighted that as well in the report it really struck a chord with me is your observation shared by many people of color that even the most well intentioned anti-racist progressive people are unaware or blind to the
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entitlement that comes with being white can you expand on that a little bit what you meant by that well what i meant by that is. it's easy to point at the far right which i think when we see recent electoral gains when we see recent foreign political activity we can convince ourselves it's somewhat new when actually it's always attempting to push into the margins so it's easy to point the finger at that but less easy to actually take a step back and look at some of the biggest data that shows us just how systemic like way szell disadvantage is in our society and why try to do with the book is really illustrate how that takes hold in institutions that we. should expect to treat australian institutions that we have no option but to interact with so employment education housing health care we all need a job we all need to get an education we all need to be housed in the book there's
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quite a lot of little original reporting in particular as well as. day to from government you know i sent essentially like the government data shows that in those institutions that we expect to see especially there is a huge structural bias against people of color more broadly but black people in general and so i think if we are not attempting to shine address those then. it's it's not good enough just to point to the far right you know pretty fit so intrinsic as you just outlined and as you found in your research for this book i mean how can it be overcome it's almost insurmountable i think the first thing is to acknowledge they even exists you know but one thing that has become quite clear to me during many years of being a writer and being interested in anti-racism is that i think it can make society comfortable to feel like we're opposed to
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a show like that is these are problems from the past but i actually think that that leads to a sense of complacency i think we always have to be vigilant about how that bias can set into those institutions that we expect to take us to treat us fairly and largely like structures organizations they're made up of people it's not a coincidence if you walk into the offices of someone incredibly powerful and every single person who is senior is white that's not a coincidence and you know in britain where i have been tempted to try and be a freelance journalist for the best part of a decade it's astounding that a journalism industry that is concentrated in the south east of england one of the most diverse areas in the country is about ninety percent white you know you can leave you can leave the busy diverse multicultural street enter a news room and be blinded you know by by how white it is and what i'm saying is
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that that's not not normal and it's not an indication of talent particularly it's an indication of bias of bias in that system and what i'm arguing is that we need to at least confronts that the most talented people in our society don't just happen to be white there that there was a quiet pool a quiet biases happening each time. we coincidentally find ourselves of middle aged white men being in charge all the time so what i mean take us back to the process of you know what got you writing this book where you. trying because a lot of people are interpreting the title as being very divisive we're trying to provoke a conversation to weak people up to this notion of this by is that there exists in the u.k. and in other places as well when i first wrote the blog post which is about five years ago now. i was attempting to do was express myself i've been involved in progressive activism for a few years and it was physically painful actually to try and talk to white women
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in particular but white people in general who are interested in you know fairer world a more just world feminist world trying to talk to them about and its form of racism was met with denial and hostility and i tried that for a few years and came to the conclusion that i couldn't do it anymore so i very much meant what i meant why were in that blog post and i very much meant the times of that blog post that became the type of the book i think there's something in society a little bit like when somebody who is not the norm not a usual or thor to voice in my case a young black woman. attempts self-expression there's a there's a suggestion that it must be done must be being done for the majority that i must be doing it for the benefit of white people that my exact entire existence is to provoke and. i'm unsure about that i mean i thought feel it follows the same argument that you know if i decide to leave my house in a short skirt because i feel comfortable in it and it's self-expression that i'm
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doing that for men's enjoyment i think that like as a writer source and foremost i can claim self expression as much as a middle aged white man and it's me attempting to try and express myself through writing like the deepest feelings in my head and and soul and and it was done for myself more so than anybody else well i think in the meantime it's such a timely moment to have this book out there and you're probably helping a lot of people. start a conversation at least that is the aim and i think that one thing that we have to remember with this book it's easy to suspend logic sometimes but the word why which opens the title suggests an explanation so if if you're interested it's always there to pick up and read and if you're not that's ok you don't have to read it or any as there are large why i'm no longer talking to white people about race thank you for spending time with us and we wish you continued success thank you for having me. and we'd like to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories
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making news around the world. health officials in mozambique have confirmed five cases of cholera the first since the world health organization warned of a possible epidemic two weeks after cycle own the day hit the u.n. is appealing for more or for more than two hundred eighty million dollars in aid it says up to three million people in mozambique and neighboring countries have been affected by the disaster. a boeing seven three seven max operated by southwest airlines has made an emergency landing in florida while the crew on the non commercial flight had reported engine problems shortly after takeoff and returned to our land our international airport airlines around the world have grounded their max passenger jet fleets following two recent plane crashes but this plane was
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being returned to storage for the duration of the band. austrian investigators have raided the apartment of a right wing party leader over alleged connections to the chris church attacker in new zealand martin selmer a leader of the far right identity movement of austria has admitted he received a large donation from the attacker who killed fifteen muslims in two mosques earlier this month but seller denies having any direct connection to the matter. to algeria now and the leader of the ruling coalition the r. and d. party has joined calls from the head of the army for the ailing president to be declared unfit to rule president i visit with a flicker has been in power nearly two decades have been protesting for weeks now in an effort to force him to step down. pushing forward seize the momentum and renew the. for political change. students teachers and
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workers again called for an immediate end to the administration that has ruled algeria for twenty years. they were spurred on by a declaration by the country's army chief general. who in front of his troops to clear the ailing president abdelaziz bouteflika too ill to serve. the general wants to trigger an article of the constitution that could bring down the president he said the move would respect the demands of the algerian people and ensure the continuity of the state. if parliament approved the request the senate president would take charge until new elections can be held a presidential vote for april but in february the eighty two year old beautifully announced his intention to run for a fifth term before withdrawing his bid and postponing elections indefinitely
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general announcement came as a welcome news to many. this is a brave decision and it's the first step. all right let's get you more on this with d.w. reporter bashir rune who is also from algeria has reported for there from there for us as well thank you so much for being here bashir what do you think has prompted these two pillars of establishment to join the call for which if i to finally leave step down i think simply trying to leave the sinking ship i would begin with the ruling coalition because they also would be very quick the whole political class of georgia has no power at all and never have power and the members of parliament and also the ministers are only dealing with instructed to do they have big mistrusts and the population and so it's very real of and whether they join the protests don't consoling the army the army has been since the independence of
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a juror from france in one thousand nine hundred sixty two one of the most besides the but if you could police of the regime and to him so chief was. would think i can serve as army chief and his reported to be a very loyal ally of him so he's changing his position not because he was trying to threaten the protesters before three or four weeks and one of the new civil war if they continue though protests and now we see him prizing the protests and the prize and civic engagement and through thing that's why it isn't but i think it's it's quite a bold maneuver because he's trying to to to be with the winners and i want trust him and all of the people off the road he's playing a very interesting change of heart in such a short amount of time what i wonder is can there ever be
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a serious change in government in the infrastructure. infrastructure in algeria with you know out army so. because you know this is the army basically pushing this latest effort in theory it is possible and i think practically to also because to flee custom and. twenty eighth according to the constitution that after that you will enjoy him and he's on to the hold political class who is with him no immunity and that point he could be charged of illegal assumption of authority by by judges by lawyers by by the courts and we saw that many lawyers and judges protesting with the people i think the quiet willingness to do so and to get rid of him and his entourage by the means but it still begs the question does this now mean that the army is really on the side of
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the people. i think there is a. true idea. of the army is not united it's not really all going to. be chief for example who is struggling with all the generals and last summer we see resold that he. jailed many . someones. perhaps fifty or seventy generals because they're against him and he himself he's over eighty years he should have been not in and in power this long time. do you have used the arabic department as always thank you thank you. and we turn our attention now back to the e.u. which is set to scale down its anti migrant trafficking operation in the
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mediterranean sea rescue missions from operation sofia will be suspended through air surveillance. though rather air surveillance will continue of a decision is aimed at resolving disputes with it a leave which threatened to halt the entire mission less rescued migrants are taken to other countries that's of course have been an ongoing issue for countries on the front line of that crisis well for more i'm now joined from our brussels studio by rebecca ritter's a good to see you rebecca the mission isn't over but they'll no longer be whiskey doing migrants at sea how is that going to work. that's right leyla the e.u. has announced that it will be scaling back that maritime portion of the mission but it has extended the saffir mission for another six months to give members states time to organize a coordinated approach to migration they haven't had much luck with that so far of
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course no ships means obviously no rescues at sea. under the mission the mission was and is not set up to be there to rescue migrants it is not part of its remit instead it is there to combat people smugglers and weapons trade with illegally trading but obviously under international law that say rescuing people at sea has become a de facto obligation of the mission and as you know of the as i just said no ships at sea will mean no more risk use but if the italian coast guard who looks after the operation has been been funneling the ships that are there out to areas where there are no. excuse me people smuggling going on in any way effectively making them useless and in germany germany in january in fact already pulled out its ships so this is just a further step to that aren't circa thirty seconds left there's still the air
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surveillance but what can that achieve without the naval side of the operation. well they haven't give much govern given much information as to how that will operate but one can only assume that will be close to shore and then they will be getting in contact with the libyan coast guard which they're also training as part of the mission who will then go out and be able to pick up those ships and bring them back to the libyan coast record ritter's are reporting from brussels thank you . next turkey is gearing up for local elections on sunday fifty seven million voters across the country will pick mayors councillors and local chiefs known as more tars with the turkish economy in trouble present. a party faces a stiff challenge and sunday's vote is seen as a referendum on his role on the w. turkey correspondent you johann has been to meet with local weather a local politician with
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a very familiar name. this tea house in the town of good you can establish more crowded than usual. because today. is making a companion visit so long that it or not this regift one is twenty years old and the political newcomer in turkey has local elections he wants to become a mukta and neighborhood chief he's not related to the turkish president but the name he says has helped him with his career choices somewhat in the mood of the audience people often don't believe me that for a second book and ask if i'm joking on the net i get it you know then i show them my id card it's an honor for me to have the same name as our president and it's very much he's the respected and beloved leader of our country. people say they will vote for me. both because of my personality and my name that is i believe this name will help me succeed out more donovan in
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a new to. add to his namesake the president is also complaining hard. he's making several speeches a day at. even though he's not up for election. and one is hoping his own personal popularity will help make the difference because after a decade and a half in power his ruling party is facing losses. tough but. that's mainly because of the. worsening economic situation last year's currency crisis sent annual inflation soaring to about twenty percent and sept grows unemployment is on the rise. not just here in istanbul people are now queuing for subsidized vegetables in state run markets solid growth and rising living standards have driven the president the electoral success in the past sixteen years but now turkey is in the midst of
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a recession and many voters say they're frustrated about the economy poll suggests this could erode support for adams ruling a thai party especially in the largest cities in the capital ankara and here in istanbul. losing them would be a symbolic blows says journalist is most simas both cities have been under a.k.p. control throughout and once time in power water for its own good of a stumble if that opposition wins istanbul ankara we may begin to discuss the possibility of snap elections here in turkey. istanbul is strongly associated with . the first he was elected as municipal mayor here then he became mayor of istanbul . after that prime minister and then president on. the move if is a k.p.s. defeated in istanbul it would be a political earthquake for everyone it's a long time when i get. back to the teahouse and go where the young one is
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trying to win some boats he also he has many complains about the economy but it's just the younger people don't have jobs it's become very hard pursue our borders nothing is good here anymore nothing you can give the young at all and says he wants to tackle these problems at least in his neighborhood but he can't be sure of victory as he's facing two challenges much is at stake in the local elections both magic type of once. you harm reporting there from turkey one accept the u.s. space agency nasa is facing criticism for canceling what would have been the first all female space walk because get this they don't have enough space suits in the right size yeah you got that right astronaut christina cox see here on the left was to be joined by her colleague and mclean but this only one medium sized suit was ready and available a male astronaut will now join called on the walk on friday according to nasa it was only during her first spacewalk last week that mclain realized that
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