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tv   Markus Lanz  Deutsche Welle  January 26, 2021 1:00pm-2:00pm CET

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there's a student we newsline from berlin indian farmers take their grievances to the heart of the capital delhi. repeal to law to people to have a broad group when you've got experience and practice. forced to the point you probably already deployed to ask the president are there. they're protesting the government's agricultural reforms that they say will benefit big business and ruin there's also coming up. the e.u. calls for stricter controls on all vaccines before they're shipped abroad and the
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growing frustration over astra zeneca delivery delay warning. and house democrats in the us deliver a single article of impeachment to the senate launching trial proceedings against donald trump for inciting an insurrection at the capitol. and a foolish to have you with us tens of thousands of indian farmers have driven convoys into the center of the capital delhi in protest against agricultural reforms that they say helped big business at the expense of food producers the protests began weeks ago but today is a major national holiday in india republic day and the rallies have been one of the most public signs of discontent with narendra modi's government yet. they've been protesting since september calling on the government to repeal what
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they call look black floors i but as the nation marked republic day india's farmers lost patience. i wanted to look at the new look at this all of us here there are farmers laborers were all together the government can easily revoke these laws but they just want to benefit the corporates global economic would be nice. things got violent fast. they broke through police barricades. and they defied tear gas. heat up the used as well witness the events as they unfolded very valuable now let's. move i'm going to court who flew. in but. the foreigners who a flock to the capital from all corners of india say the new agricultural laws will
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devastate their income while benefiting big corporations the government says the reforms won't hurt farmers and refuses to repeal them. farmers are india's most influential voting bloc and the growing rebellion enjoys huge support from all parts of indian society. there are. the protestors were just 3 kilometers from prime minister narendra modi and india's political elite celebrating republic day with ornately dressed cavalry's and a giant parade. but the government's offer to put the laws on hold for 18 months hasn't gone down well with the farmers and nor has today's tough police response you know they threw. tear gas on us how long of the fan the supposed to keep tolerating this we've made polite requests to them we told them we have no intent
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to fight we are peaceful many of my words are here as tensions rise in delhi the farmers insist they will settle for nothing less than a complete repeal. more on this let's bring in our correspondent michelle giles was in delhi when we step breach barricades clashes with police you're at one of the protests this morning what can you tell us about the situation right now but the situation continues to be tense in the farmers manage to reach the iconic red ford in the center of the spot off to schools that will be decided between the day and the farmers that he was not surprised this was something that was decided on by the pre-decided rules look that it will do with the city however that how these farmers have been forced out of the record as well there are concerns because of casualties being deported from amongst the farmers the police schemes that this
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was the cause of an accident but of course tensions are running high another thing that is significant here is that even the other clashes beat out even as police deploys force and bombers just want to die and some family does have come out to see that this breach this charging percentage and it was not the plan they did not support the violence to be actually some of the 1st significant cracks from between the ranks of the farmers very complicated situation there let's circle back for a moment why have these laws made indian farmers so furious. well it's important to understand a thing that's important to understand about these laws nicole is how the government beneath them and how the farmers the governments and the bee are actually opening up the opportunity for almost to sell their told you was outside the government as it needed markets to private buyers to cooperate the government says this will allow farmers to access competitive prices the farmers however do
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not buy it as they were not consulted before these laws were passed and that has caused a deficit of trust the farmer that he didn't try to buy as a lot of the relief from the short prices of government markets by offering high prices meaning but eventually depressed places leaving farmers in the lurch they also thing the government pulled back on its promise of the short phrases and this one seems farming and bomb lands for the farmers so the government says that they're acting in the farmer especially interested but the farmers actually want to see a complete repeal of these laws why is the government so intent on having these reforms that. well it will dampen 11 john's negotiations and basically been the seems to already are. the government tries to save the farmers have been misled by the opposition by anti social elements and that they do not understand that these laws actually going to benefit them and this is the point the government
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is trying to drive home the farmers hold up or see the buy and attitude condescending but the of course no one does better but i would like them and the biggest concession the government has tried to make so far is too often the suspension of these last 48 months but as i mentioned there is a significant drop deficit these farmers believe that this government is goltz with the corporates and will need actions that actually benefit private bios and dumont the wellbeing of the farmers into consideration and this is my understanding strawman demanded of you not at all the bidens me so i mean you don't need to take me will be detrimental to. english as well and delhi as always good speaking to you let's now take a look at some other headlines from around the world iran has asked indonesia to provide details about the seizure of an iranian flag tanker on sunday jakarta said its coast guard had seized the empty horse as well as
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a panamanian vessel over suspected illegal all transport and its waters and indonesian coast guard spokesman said 61 crew members on board the tankers were detained. vietnam's ruling communist party has opened a 9 day congress in the capital one noise to set the country's path for the next 5 years more than 1500 delegates are poised to select the country's future leaders communist party general secretary nguyen truong is expected to be chosen for a 3rd term and the country's top job. the e.u. commission is calling for stricter controls on exports of covert $1000.00 facts scenes produced inside the block the e.u. is worried about a shortfall of fact scenes after manufacture astra zeneca an ounce it would delay deliveries to e.u. members the company is blaming supply chain problems that brussels has accused said of failing to keep contractual promises also many 70 you countries are struggling with slovaks and will face. this may sting
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a little but it's over in the blink of an eye getting vaccinated maybe a speedy affair with a vaccine rollouts across the you have proved painstakingly slow the blocks executive is pointing the finger at the pharmaceutical industry the european union wants the order and prefer time and doses to be delivered as soon as possible and we want our contract to be fully fulfilled that's the message for a vaccine developer astra zeneca the u.k. based firm recently announced it would be able to fulfill its you orders in the agreed time frame astra zeneca says that's down to supply problems in the u. possibly here at the belgium headquarter of nervous up a company that works with astra zeneca to deliver key vaccine components the astra zeneca job is to to get the green light from e.u. regulators in the coming days so last minute news of
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a 60 percent cut in deliveries came as a nasty shock to lawmakers here in brussels who governments have been rolling out the red carpet for the pharmaceutical company we do not have the vaccine thanks to them but thanks to copulate funding the public paid for the production capacity on the deal to secure supplies of the astra zeneca vaccine was an e.u. 1st that brought a big smile to the health commissioner's face back in august 2020 the bloc purchased 300000000 doses with the option to hit 100000000 more in other words the . european union is astra zeneca biggest client is paid hundreds of millions of euros upfront in order to ensure smooth production and supply but with promises unfulfilled the block is not a happy customer the big question is now where have all those 3 produced vaccine doses gone they may have been sold to the highest bidder elsewhere that's why physician and politician peter elisa welcomes news that producers may soon be
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obliged to notify you before they export any covert 1000 vaccines outside the block . we want to cooperate but if. you don't play fair the european commission has to show their weapons and the 1st step is to register the 2nd step is an export ben farmer giant pfizer has also been in the firing line recently it too announced delays earlier this month citing production issues that its main site here in belgium produces say they're moving as fast as they can but in the race between vaccine and virus every delay could cost lives. now this vaccine dispute might also have implications for the u.k. where the astra zeneca jabs already in use after receiving emergency approval are correspondent back at mass joins us from london good to see you how is the u.k. reacted to the calls for export restrictions on the vaccine.
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nicole the u.k. vaccines minister has said that he is confident that the u.k. government is confident that they have enough supply to reach its targets to have all the vulnerable adults in the u.k. vaccinated by mid to have also said that there is a need to cooperate so in a way he's playing down a spat between a possible spat between the u.k. and the u. he said countries need to work together but of course if the e.u. really does go ahead with export restrictions then the u.k. could be hit because of course some of the production capacity for the vaccine in the u.k. is. in the in the medium or long term the u.k. could be hit the u.k. has been widely applauded for their relatively swift vaccine rollout why isn't the u.k. as affected by manufacturing delays as the e.u.
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a lot effected for now so like i said until mid february they think they are on target the u.k. has has commissioned a large number of what vaccines quite beyond but of course it's also relying for the future. on the production that's being done in the e.u. and for example the fact that the vaccine that there are production problems that that could affect the u.k. as well just altogether the u.k. vaccination program has been quite successful over $4000000.00 people have already been vaccinated in the u.k. and the u.k. hopes that until the end of the summer onto the autumn that the u.k. population will be vaccinated and despite the progress in the united nations the 1st month of 2021 has been a grim one for the u.k. why can't the country get the situation under control but it. yeah it's really
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a question of really 2 tales when it comes to the u.k. on the one hand the vaccination is quite good progress is quite in a good state but on the other hand the actual rate of infection is really going through the roof in the u.k. and we've had just today is another grim milestone of 100000 deaths related to covert says the u.k. is one of the countries that's really affected and the numbers in the hospitals are at record high coated patients and hospitals are directed high the numbers all of new infections all slowly going down bought the u.k. cause this new mutant virus that's not dominant here in this country and that is for a lot of people quite depressing so where i live it's near one of the big teaching hospitals in the country university hospital and i can use sirens really all the time soon so a lot of people in the u.k.
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will not be very upbeat about the situation despite the success of the vaccination program to get much in london thank you very much for this update germany's health ministry and on his back the e.u. calls for more export controls on back scenes made in the bloc he told the w.c. chief political editor mr and a crucial it was about fairness. with me now is germany's health minister here in spawn mr spawn so we'll you know ask the european union to implement a break just read it for the export of vaccine outside the european union fence if and if and when they get it would be a good idea if companies had to obtain a license to export vaccines so that we can monitor which vaccine leaves the european union after having been produced or bottled in europe live licensing does not mean a bushel of exports but they are at least in need to be registered and approved and
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that will happen in many cases that it is approved we do not want to keep everything to ourselves but i want things to be fair so that when there are supply problems the impact is felt by everyone not just by the european union this is an area where we are somewhat uncertain at the moment where the consequences of problems in production evenly distributed and put on. the united states is following and america 1st policy ensuring that it's u.s. citizen that gets vaccinated before those exports take place does it do you know want to follow and you 1st started. knew this is getting a male no i'm talking about a fair share that we have a fair share of the material that we financed in advance after all in almost all contracts that the european union negotiated we invested hundreds of millions of euros in advance so that production capacities could be established so it is not
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a matter of being 1st it is a matter of being fair that is the point here. but of course we as europe as the european union as the german federal government will always stressed that we are also thinking about the supply of vaccines to the rest of the world. in the end we are developing vaccines here in europe in germany for the whole world it is our goal that. to come to soon as possible but one thing remains true calling told german and us citizens that vaccines produced in europe are available all over the world but not in europe. when they were personally new and mr spock thank you very much for the interview german health minister again spawn of course very unhappy with this situation let's break this down with you for you some more with yaacov kick a guard he's a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and the peterson institute for international economics mr kickout welcome i guess what everybody wants to know at
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this point is how could this happen why is the e.u. more affected by distribution issues than countries out of place individual orders . well i think it's one is a matter of scale and i think it's also pretty clear that there appears to have been if you like the wrong emphasis on at least some of the e.u. negotiations namely that obviously at the e.u. level you are a big player so you have economies of scale and you should be able to get a lower price however in the middle of a pandemic price is not an issue the only thing that really matters is speed so i for instance i think it would have been much mata from the e.u. specific tip to accept to pay much more per doses because whatever you paid would have been made up in terms of the money you save by being hopefully able
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to reopen the economy soon so there's been probably a little bit of a wrong emphasis early on and whereas other countries with individual political leaders either in the u.k. or israel that are clearly fighting for their political lives had a sense of urgency and were willing to pay much more and they at least initially are reaping the supply benefits of having done so what can the e.u. now do about as they're threatening to tighten controls over exports will that work . no i don't think that would work i think that would be very very damaging because it ignores the fact that vaccines are subject to complex international supply chain so if you started reducing you know export controls and things like that you are likely to face similar from other countries that just reduces overall you know vaccine production capacity available in the very short term no actually i think
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what you cover them and should be doing is to ensure that the vaccines that are actually distributed at the moment are also injected into people's arms if you look at the you know if we take what the e.u. commission says that they're distributing to vaccines on a population basis across the e.u. and norway then there is in my opinion no excuse for other e.u. countries not to have actual injection levels roughly similar to what you have in denmark or malta which are so between 3 and a half to 4 and a half percent of the total population in most e.u. countries on average it's less than 2 percent in germany it's a little higher but actually there are some countries that are doing far better and it is not because some countries are injecting more or less of the 2nd shots in fact the country that have injected most people with the 2nd shot is denmark so
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that's not really the issue here the issue here is that there are some countries that have better practices in the actual rollout off the sky aspect scenes so if you wanted to improve able to do to vaccinate tomorrow or next week that's where government should look and of course in those in the longer term there's no doubt that on this additional supplies are coming from pfizer more down astra zeneca etc then europe will face a problem but in the very short term it is as much about rollouts as it is about actual vaccine availability in many members all right so threats are not the right approach according to kick a guy of the german marshall fund thank you very much for your time. pleasure. i want to share with you some breaking news that have just come in italian prime minister conti's resignation has been accepted by president sergio month that it
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this comes after a key coalition ally pulled its support over conti's handling of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this month is now hoping to quickly form a new government with broader parliamentary support besides the pandemic the country is also battling an economic recession. to the netherlands now where there's been a 2nd night of unrest sparked by a nationwide coronavirus curfew rioting and looting hit around 10 cities and police made at least $180.00 arrests authorities say cova deniers and football hooligans are behind the protests which they're struggling to control. on monday riders in rotterdam fought more street battles with police. that were similar in harlem and in other cities too where protesters also vandalized buildings and shops authorities said they were mainly people in their teens. the country's prime
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minister condemned the violence. in the air supply much to begin with rioting is on the acceptable limits and that any normal person could only watch it with their horror votes you really wonder what got into those people that had nothing to do with protesting it's criminal violence and we will be treating it as such. the protests had begun peacefully over the weekend when people demonstrated against the continued lockdown and the country's 1st nightly curfew since world war 2 parliament had narrowly approved a measure because of the more infectious covert variant from england hitting the country. now some more stories making news around the globe at least 5 people have been arrested in sydney and otherwise a largely peaceful australia day protests and holidays celebrates the day a british fleet sailed into sydney harbor and 78 to start a penal colony but thousands rallied across the nation to condemn the mistreatment of indigenous people. moscow and tear on have called for renewed efforts to rescue
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the 2050 nuclear deal between iran and world powers the 2 country's top diplomats met the days after iran urged the biden administration to lift sanctions and reverse what it calls the failed policies of the previous administration. democrats from the u.s. house of representatives have delivered an article of impeachment against donald trump to the senate that triggers a trial for the former president for inciting the january 6 answer action at the capitol it's the 1st time in u.s. history that a president has faced an impeachment trial after leaving office. a solemn procession through the halls of the u.s. capitol with donald trump's future in their hands democrats from the house of representatives set in motion a 2nd impeachment trial for the former president by delivering the single article of impeachment to the senate. article one incitement of insurrection
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damo by john trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the government of the united states the democrats say donald trump's baseless claims as election fraud were an incitement to violence culminating in a speech he gave before congress was set to confirm the election results states of america we will never give up we will never concede it doesn't happen you don't see that. shortly after these remarks of violent mob reached the u.s. capitol building. right here riders took over the building for hours and forced lawmakers into hiding 5 people died during the assault. while several republicans had criticized trump after the riot on january 6th members of the g.o.p. are now softening their stance and are increasingly criticizing the impeachment
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proceedings we're talking about for i think the trial is stupid oh i think it's counterproductive democrats say it's important to hold donald trump accountable and look everyone wants to put this awful chapter in american history behind us but sweeping it under the rug will not bring healing the only way to bring healing is to actually have real accountability which this trial for. the trial begins in 2 weeks' time a test for both parties and a decisive moment for donald trump's legacy. and much of the world cultural venues . and shut down during the coronavirus endemic at the show goes on at least for the alternative rock band the flaming lips the group are formed in oklahoma city with the help of space bubbles for band members and fans the audience can socially distance and roughly 100 transparent false each equipped with a high frequency speaker water bottle
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a fan and up to 3 lucky guess waving lighters in the air was physically. coming up our documentary series close up takes us to egypt 10 years after the arab spring revolution to find out how female activists their affairs don't forget you can always get the latest on our website that's d.w. dot com and they come from a huge thanks for tuning in. to
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discovered. subscribe to the documentary to. fund. those in the small village where i grew up but i think it goes should stay at home and raise children. but i think that girls have a right to their freedom. i believe that the situation in egypt was wrong and needed to be changed people have suffered a lot of injustice and have seen a lot of corruption. and i knew that
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one day people would take to the streets and i knew i think one of them and it was . when i 1st took to the streets i was shocked but happy. mark at least half of the protesters were women maybe even the movie. came for me it was a transformative experience freedom and social justice there's differentiate between men and women in. the muslim brotherhood a group long banned here which is by far the biggest underground organization in egypt says it joined the protest. the muslim brotherhood was with us but they were planning something else and with a vote of. a bar called the army when all merged vehicles rolled in the road they seemed to take no action against
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the demonstrators. really with this fear chant that the army and the people were united gave hope to a lot of people no thanks how. was your super president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president for egypt and he has decided back down forces will leave the nation. was. in moscow and you know and then hello everyone workers farmers people from all classes and women were part of this. they were welcoming the. and of course in that moment when thinking about what was coming here to really gave i mean.
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even before the revolution my friends and i used to demonstrate at the university there. was. some time students looked at us as if we were crazy they made fun of us and loved. at one point i took a microphone and yelled what are you waiting for stand up for your rights. and then i joined the revolution as an egyptian woman demanding her rights which were previously disregarded.
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as of unfortunately an international women's day when women were so. i'm abridging on take here square the least insulting chant shouted at them was get out of here he definition of the don't kind of loud bob ryan was up. there was a hand inside my blouse these men who wrote the prophet out of the koran other same
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men who sexually harassed us. in. the armed forces celebrated women's day by performing virginity tests on 17 girls some iraqi brigade was one of them. they insulted us and beat out she said then shocked us with electric prods they ordered asked one dress completely and split us in the 2 groups she was forced to lie on a table and undergo a brush in a detached. she told us that the military called her a prostitute and says this has just mentioned humiliate women and scare them away
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from protesting. in egypt general admitted that the tests had taken place one general told them that the tests were carried out to help defend the army against potential climbs of rife. with them about when they arrested a lot of young people before virginity tests on the goals they took with the tents . that's really started reevaluating the situation and he by that they're in there . i said to the kids that's enough i moved to tahrir square here to my house. i told them we could work at my house and whoever wanted to could sleep over had been on some of them started to call me mom. and they listened to what i said we
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didn't know the muslim brotherhood was scheming a behind our back as and when. you meet. happening and. demanding an end to military rule and handover of power to civilian government. any hope egypt's military would hand over power ahead of its own schedule or dash to
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the 2nd day of violence that has left at least 9 dead and hundreds wounded. and if in my entire life i've never seen a crackdown that intense with that many weapons. and sat there staring me to arrive they. have. i. am i can fall in love and they were standing on top of the building throwing everything you can possibly imagine at people and chairs desks they were trying to kill people defile and as you know we were shocked after all who needs to chant the army and the people are one hand. statements are no good now the military council has to go. dr out i i i don't think killing the
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revolutionary you're staying silent it's a crime they have to take to the streets i was trying to. i was in the high level at the end i was bringing the food to them suddenly the police ambushed us they came out like roaches a huge number of them. i was one of the people they took into custody. one of the soldiers beat me and broke my old. one who was cursing at us so i said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm as old as your mother and he goes hysterical and smacked me in the face or even now i have a problem with a nerve in my only. philosophy and i. never had any of what he called for someone to take me to the parliament where they were torturing the nest that. if i was 16.
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and i was arrested on saturday. night as soon as the army caught me they stripped me of my veil and. the 1st thing they do is strip a girl of her veil they dragged me by the hair over to a group of soldiers. more than 20 soldiers hit me on the head with batons i needed more than 20 stitches. that's what they went for most your head. because i was. they continued to beat and broke me. they croaked the private areas of my body 5 of them are blessing here and 20 are pointed.
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out because this didn't just happen to me. the regime was assaulting the women to break them the role of the pick up in the middle 70. 4000 people have been killed hundreds injured over the last 3 days because he thought he was ready to leave why they provoke outrage and to stand for the police brutality what happened since egypt's women in the streets the protests it has been called perhaps the most significant of its calling in this country you know how was the way everyone took to the streets because of what happened during the cabinet clashes i took part in the gym people would tell me make god punish those who humiliated he was he was
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everyone was king deposed his. of a cartoon of an egyptian woman and. and the hand of the military conscript and you could see the uniform and it says a to either choose a cut off your hand. it was so powerful women marching just saying to muslim into times wish the daughter of egypt will never be success was was in the they were people who understood the pain and they knew that those in an army uniform had reached a point to a instead of protecting you they humiliated him beat you that was no longer a rummy and sorry i caught my spat to. get him was
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that on. the back. i don't know why they sent for my parents to come and get me. now i had to deal with my family and the battle at home and. i see my entire family sides with the military and his pro regime regardless of what the regime in. iraq for the past when i regained consciousness i was at home and locked in a room being there for food for them of why didn't they have. chile where my uncle my brother and my grandfather were really angry they said you disgraced us
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you brought us shame the whole family was afraid and of course they were they were threatened they could have lost their jobs that. my brother so long. i think my aunt said i cannot face people in the village. i had no way of communicating with people in mumbai my family took my cell phone cut the internet connection again. and i wanted to speak up and expose the torturers who did this to me but i couldn't other. women and i realized that i was in another prison thing that the prison at home. earth an animal that i decided to escape from the window but my arms were in hard plastic part of it but we also lived on the 3rd floor i plan to walk along the wall to reach the ladder. i just wanted to escape it was a crazy idea i didn't know help but i was determined to do it i had to get out. i
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broke the plaster cast which was almost up to my elbow but my hands were still broken and i couldn't open the window right. but. they kept me locked up in the house for 55 days i counted every minute every 2nd of each day i started to think they would never let me out so on the 25th of january the 1st anniversary of the revolution i decided to start my own revolution at home just like the one on the square but this one would be a revolution in the spirit. if i found some paper and i started writing statements on them. for instance i'm not disgraceful i'm not a scandal. to happen i am one of the revolutionaries.
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under the weight of the revolution will continue in every house in egypt until we were in. my hands once to end the siege and the prison will not make me back down. i don't. if someone spoke to me i wouldn't. i was on strike i pointed to the silence and they read them and said i had lost my mind and i wanted to feel that i was doing something like the people out on the streets i wanted to liberate minds from ignorance from outdated customs and traditions. it is i was summoned by the public prosecutor i was questioned as a suspect i was charged with offenses like assaulting police officers throwing
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bricks of cocktails torching the science research center inciting riots overthrowing the regime damaging public property and possessing weapons despite the fact that we were the victims. when. it was definitely something you're free to have to count that's competing really competing. but it's having to choose between an islamist or one of mubarak's the suspects it's unfair it's unfair for what
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people have been dreaming about and fighting for. i knew that if morsi was to become the president of egypt it would be a huge challenge brotherhood would be using the religious narrative when it comes to minimizing the in child marriage. sexual harassment the plant species of women and politics this is what i fear is the most. mohamed morsi has been sworn in as egypt's 1st democratically elected civilian president. in. any form a concern for the muslim brotherhood backed candidates will take egypt down a range of more strict is a mess and. it's
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unclear how much power the new president will have the military council. self's we . could have the.
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mohamed morsi issued a presidential pardon to all those charged during the revolution. his public prosecutor considered the case of the cabinet clashes to be an anti revolutionary case and against the military said was excluded from the part in the creek. my family told me they did not want me to live with them at home anymore. they tried to force me to marry someone i didn't know so i went to cairo. but i was learning. that i had only myself to depend on i mean all and that. was the
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hour. i found an apartment. that only my family sent messages to my phone me threatening to kill me. they said they would find out where i lived kidnap me and marry me off against my will. so it's. safe. to do the stuff i started working at a law center where we try to help all different kinds of people no matter what their political views are kind to me all that matters is that they are an egyptian citizen who has been assaulted. what we do is provide them with moral public own legal support.
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if it was. but the guy was one of the there are $269.00 defendants in the cabinet clashes case they were individual charges and they're all group charges. everyone's moved on and we're left to take the blame. and anything else and then monday i went to my court hearing. on the back up you know i mean on my way in a police officer insulted me and i spoke back to him. so he took me into a room and ordered the female prison guard to touch private areas of my body once twice 3 times.
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i was screaming so he would come and get me out of that room mr fundi it was it was. it was don't cry. we said we'd file a report on the incident. and then we have to figure out what to do about the rest of the case. that it had to hit us like i think it was humiliating very very humiliating he was giving her orders to do that to me . it was the onus of trying to stay calm that's how they operate they're trying to make things difficult for you know. they're out to get me i understand let's not give them any more chances. to eat meat and. that made me more determined to fight against the offices have
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tortured me they had to be put on trial. and we decided to establish a nation without torture to put pressure on the government. to coffees one with milk. with. the name of the ideas started with 6 people who are all victims of torture even if we never achieve justice at least we're helping others through the same trauma we experienced. and. i. i
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. thank you for standing up for me don't mention it it's the least we can do. after more 16 took power there was a serious of violations against freedom of expression. there are still people in prison there was to civilians being tried before a military quite. people. what accused of blasphemy and many of them were christians so it was frightening when were sick came to power. and when the muslim brotherhood took power it was the 1st time i felt afraid and they called us heretics and told us what was permitted and what was for a bit more. than was. good to give you my love when i took my headscarf off with the rise of the muslim brotherhood i didn't want to be like them so i took off the rails as it was
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a. that. was i mean those who say it's forbidden for a woman to speak to a man and so on it's not just a matter of principles to them you're a blasphemer and so you must die you cannot in jet. from time to time she longs for talking or square and reminisces about the egyptian revolution. who is only 24 years old dreamt of living in a new era preserve dignity for gyptian women. and i'm a mother after president morsi took over we had hoped that we would get our rights that we would see real change but the situation has only got worse we thought in
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2011 that would be going forward we were going backwards. we've been going backwards. i was. i didn't contest against morsi but i was big gatherings big problem is i. in the midst of all the codes many women felt assaulted. i was punched and groped by many men. sexual harassment and sexual violence has been super evident since the beginning. virginity tests i mean. rape and assault they were taking place all the time but more than anything no one was just us protecting ourselves.
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so we decided as a group of friends to form some sort of an intervention team started up as operation anti-sexual harassment them then later on when we realized that we should not sugarcoat the level of the crime we are the salt. we walk around and whenever we see cases of sexual harassment tries to do something about that. most. people are looking
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for color. there are many answers. there are many reasons. to believe. there are many alternatives. to. make up your own morning to. you.
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this is a day that we can use line from berlin indian farmers take their grievances to the heart of the capital delhi. they didn't really talk to people how we're also going to be a lot of people that i pass believe it was about 430 this morning it's a lot of these employed here are half bands i don't know how many were there protesting the government's agricultural reform.

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