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and an invitation to the global african family to come to ghana made up the africa met one young american who came home. 26 years i've recorded his colleagues i getting ready for the day for the next 2 months the student is volunteering i just school to help children with autism he said motivation is to understand what these kids have to go through and also to give back to can use a site called money it's among almost 2000 africans in the diaspora who have visited ghana this year and are spats of the year of return program to mark 400 years since africa this way taking our cross the atlantic slaves i did decide as a volunteer because i felt as though this would be the best way to integrate myself with the culture as well as a community in ghana and working with students here and serving it was it was
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a good way for me to basically express love in the form of service expressed love in the form of giving back but also learning about the african culture and how to remove myself in that african culture the question for us in the genes for to prison in a crime where sleeps with kids being shipped across the atlantic save as memorials to the burial ground of one increment african icon is also a key site for other african americans who are inspired by increment and his struggle to end colonialism in ghana i am. really really really grateful and happy to be here to experience the the year for terror activities and be able to reconnect with my ancestors who have gone on before me and i choose to call them now they are enslaved forefathers they were taken without their consent but we are
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the children have returned and we see where our forefathers came from and i'm so contented unrelated to be here. it's been celebrated as the. series of programs across the country just like the plague the african. about african culture. out of the. africa. this was the nerve center treat the process of championing this call for people to come. and celebrate the story of resilience like many other african americans. has struck a connection with the country and its people hopefully they will return to the u.s.
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with good memories. from the good memories to the bad memories randy is a country still deeply scarred by the genocide 25 years ago nearly all the killers in the 1994 men many have served time in prison but now want to heal themselves and their communities our correspondent. has been to the city of sandy and west of wanda there she met some of those struggling to come to terms with the past. today these men sit side by side in community based social to share their experiences during. the 1994 genocide 25 years ago when up to a 1000000 tutsis a moderate hutus were wiped out in just 100 days he would divide it among those who carried out the killings and those who survived it. memories of being on the run
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and how his pregnant wife had to give birth and hiding it. we couldn't find a way that the baby would survive being with us but i still had friends who i was doing business with they helped me and they took my newborn at nights to a woman who run an orphanage at. the baby stage but a few days later at the perpetrators went to look for him they took my baby and killed him. up don now lives a peaceful life with his wife. but he struggles with the guilt of not being able to protect the 12 members of his family who were killed during the genocide similarly former release perpetrators like every step have served their sentence are still haunted by what they call the shame of their past he says he's guilty of killing 4 people including to members of his own family. i came to realize that i
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can't escape my judgment i accepted it and went to ask my father in law for forgiveness it was too much to handle the fact that i had killed my mother in law i was in so much pain. many of the men returning from prison have struggled they found their families estranged their role as the head of the household challenged in the image of their very own masculinity destroyed. they say these feelings however cannot be talked about in public. and always has to be strong a man has to suffocate his pride and behave like a man. the way i see it a man should also show his emotions in rwanda in culture i can accept it in public . a man needs to overcome his pain. then swallowed it tears that's a local problem here in rwanda which reflects a dangerous society all men are expected to deal with their pain and grief alone in silence and internally although the country is hailed as
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a role model in reconciling with its violent past toxic image and lets continue to persist and continues to have the healing process of its me a population. away from social pressures and i'm glad they have found a safe space to reconcile and work on the psychological. therapy helped. because we used to fear each other. whenever i saw a person i had wronged. i could feel my heart racing. we have no problems with the perpetrators anymore because they are part of the families of social therapy and. when we meet now we are the same we have the same heart if you know. about it. but.
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the men have the same use social therapy group hope to contribute to the healing of their country so that future generations won't repeat their mistakes by facing their demons together they set an example so that rundown men learn how to show their emotions and their society learns to accept that. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page it's been great having you know until next time i back. and during the conflict so flies in populous the flow of life again venezuela hong
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the world is getting worse and. more catastrophe i'm not crossing. the global 3000 talk to a team of british researchers who take a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good place but it's much much better than it was how. is the world really getting better. a global $3000.00 special report. starts august 19th sunday took a. look that. we're trying to frighten you know it's a fact what do you expect that it dented theory means white dots in fact that's what does it mean extreme right off the list not. the 1st quake they expected would
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you mind letting me finish my sentences please goes. it's no secret that if you're a populist a nationalist parties gearing up to try and make a splash at the coming european elections but who's helping them we are nationalists we are suckers so we believe all our members we're all one with their own. vision and principle in respect of all what this except the us you know use comfortable phrases like it's a club meant for the exchange of ideas from nationalist populist movements of course you're talking strategy yeah that's a bang and it's far more combative and that it was a. he called it gumming up the e.u. parliament in other words blocking your purpose is essentially destructive no it's
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to review not building you know you're breaking down we are reinforcing and rebuilding the preeminence of national what is he say he said the beating heart of the globalist project is in brussels if i drive the stake through the valley the whole thing will start to dissipate well pretty self-important play. if we we analyze the situation in the sense that the e.u. system like the us ultimately ends up as imperialism a kind of imperialism i have confidence that the forces of democracy of real democrats in europe will be stronger. and i hope they will because indeed there is a rise of populism in europe doesn't look like it doesn't well wait for the results of the 21000 elections and then we'll talk i know you did better in bavaria and you've done a little better in your seat but but they're very strong and they're very powerful and we will see whether they keep getting strengths and i doubt it well it's the
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back seat particularly noticeable i know you said it in showing 2013 if you're black go back and i want to stony and to be a white country these were your words in turkey 13 television talk show here. but i we were roundly condemned by other politicians including the human rights group here in parliament 80 percent of stern and we had a there was apologists own 80 percent of stern and agreed with that statement so take it as it is conveyed to present me with a statement you would have been you would have won the elections you know win the elections you. did very well but i want to us about the states and this. is what. he says. we will get to the racism issue what do you want the with all this crackdown on migrants you want to. your identity and son we want to preserve the italian and european identity we want to why it's all nationalist parties across
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europe do you want to see more white nationalist buddies are pushing that idea the dented area it's not a matter of white nationalist parties believe he's not a white nationalist party lorenzo's from tell ourselves he saw an identity conception of teletext awaking all across europe. means white dots and that that's why i said we are meeting what is it was to protect the european identity the european christina roots for example the european culture detail and culture but it is you that is giving to this identity tyrion project the iraqis. arrested the blow up and that's not the demeaning in any way that the league and our representatives are doing so we want to protect the cultural roots the christian roots of europe is not hard to work with you go around saying muslims
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equal threat was an equal threat over and over and that not only analog some people are going to react badly and some people are going to turn violent we want to keep the german germination they don't even the european union but we're talking about germany here we don't want to have that a muslim country we accept muslims there are lots of muslims who are well integrated into our society who take there is no problem everything's fine but what we do not want to accept is that islam is starting to have an impact on our social life and our public life on our you know. addressing the point i wanted to make about about this idea that muslims are a threat to germany. muslims are spread to juice this is for example something what we're we're getting from the jewish community the jewish community isn't working in the new world let's face it the scituate. in venezuela could hardly be more complex the united states along with some 2 dozen countries is backing the new interim
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leader one way though russia and china support kumble nicolas maduro now we have france spain germany and britain who have recognized the new interim leader as president how long can you go on with this people are defecting from the administration one of your colleagues venezuela . rock defected accusing matter of violating the constitution an air force general near force. military attack show in washington no military attaché washington is gone how long can he hold the view doesn't depend on that i mean a president doesn't hold or doesn't hold on because of foreign countries ask them or like them or not he's impoverished the country and he's subject to the massive repression well i think the aim here is to have the transition that is taking
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place continue to take place peacefully we met with the. we met with. one guy goes representative the new ambassador to the united states and one white go is the president of venezuela at the present time we believe strongly that the morning to you we believe strongly that the. that the venezuelan people should be commended for the way that they've handled this they used the rule of law to rep to remove. mr meridor is still there he's still venice and that could you would you mind letting me finish my sentence as plain as the international community is going to want why don't recognition he said i mean i got it from inside the country that you know he absolutely does have it from inside the country said people on the streets us that the same thing isn't what it what do you expect that people on the streets as power people on the streets it's love. people on the streets is support people on the streets as an expression i mean because you come
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and go and over and throw ice our future and it can come and go well the people that are supporting. the girl are the rubes gallery in the world including in the iranians. the the russians the north koreans pull frosting on a key you know is it was is a sense that you don't think this is a stalemated situation so it's not now all the countries that are liberal democracies that have rule of law recognize our constitution and they recognize the legitimacy of one way the all that we are in a situation where a drug cartel has taken all the levers of power by the way doesn't mean you're going to succeed is there does doesn't mean you're going to seize or die trying we have no option but to fight for our people i will fight for my people until i draw my last breath oh no no.
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