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tv   United Nations 21st Century  LINKTV  September 22, 2017 12:30am-1:01am PDT

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announuncer: coming g up on "21t century," surviving terrorism in norway and in northeast nigeria, extremism and the struggle to rebuild. woman:n: the true story y is, it chose e how i want to die.e. doi want to drown? do i want to get shot? [gunfnfire] man: stood up, got shot again. the last shot was the one in the head.
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woman: i am a politician in oslo. how could i make sure that this never happens again? [snare drum playing cadence] after the 22nd of july, i just felt the need to do more. everything about my values before 22nd of july just became stronger. man: i think about it probably, indirect or directly, once every hour i in some way because it'sa part of me.
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gunaratnam: when i heard the shooting, i was on the middle of the island, and then we heard something that sounded like fireworks, and we were walking towards the main harbor when i saw some of our boys just pointing, like, "just run. just run. just run." hanssen: i hear the man saying to another friend of mine, "that was luck." [gunfire] boom, boomom, you know, and thtn the followowing seconds are the
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longest seconds of my life, i think, bebecause i'm looking ded in the eye with one of f my frienends and some people with blood in their face was r runnig across the campus, said, "he is shootining us," and then, of course, all hell breaks loose. i'm just c concerneabout my brother, off course, you knonow, trying to make him feel safe. [g[gunfire] gunaratnam: this little boy in ourr delegation was only 15. he started to swim and was like, "we have to swim," and i felt that, "i can't let you swim alonone." the true s story is, i just chose how i wantnt to die.o i want to drown? do i want to get shot? just felt like less painful to drown. that's the truth. i never thought, "i will make it all the way," but i swam 400 meters that day. i did.
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he could swim backwards, too, so he could see breivik. i couldn't see breivik. i could just hear him, and he said, "if i get shot, you have to just continue swimming," and i was like, "why are you saying that?" when i was 10 meters in the water, breivik was right behind me, and the reason why i survived is because he was standing there and shooting the kids on the rocks, so we had time to escape because he was killing someone else. hanssen: so we're running and get to this cliff area, and me and my brother is the first one to arrive there, and we hear the shots coming closer and closer
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and closer. it was a cliff like this, butut me and my brother ws there, and it was a overhang, but then again, you could stand there and just shoot down in the cliff, and he did. [gunfire] i don't remember where i was hit the first t te or the s second time, but i rememember being g t and falling down to the water, you know. i was, like, lying in the water, and i saw mymy brothr just one meter away, and he was, like, trying to get me to-- you know, he wanted me to come, and i stood up and kicked him down in the water. i wanted him to go around the bay. i stood up, got shot again. the last shot was the one in the head. i got hit 5 times in total. gunanaratnam: breieivik felt tht the multicultural s society destroyed nonorway and the
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norwegian culture, b but culture is always changing, and d the labour party and labour youth always believe in that, you know, culture is something people create together. hanssen: i understood that i was very badly injured, and i understood that if i just rest now, i will die, so i just lie there and talked and talking to the people, and, "yeah. this is gonna be all right." i don't remember if it made any sensese, what i said, and then it slowly just mororphed into, like, old pirate songs, you know, just like being a drunknken sailor dn there just singing and trying to, you knonow--trying to notote away, you u know, the willingnes to live was just so super
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strong. i felt that i can see out my eye, and then i just kind of went up, and then i-- i realized that i was actually touching my brain, and then i remember thinking, "ok. . i shod not touch my brain no more." the e minutes went. the hours went, two hours in. at one point, the terrorist was coming around again, and then someone in the cliffs said, "shut up, viljar." gunaratnam: norway has a great health system, so everything about the health was, you know, well taken care of. they were there, and they followed you up, and it is in these kind of situations that you realize how good thehe welfare systetem in norway is. it's great. ha! thank goodness. for me, i came pretty fast back to my daily life,, but, you kno, sometimes i need to, you k know, take a walk, or some thinings
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might be heavy, and i always had bosses and frieiends around me that just, you know, gave meme e space. hanssen: they had to put me in a coma because i needed to be in medical coma, of course, and the next 6 days, they did over 20 surgeries on n me. they rebuilt half my face from here to herer. it's not--it's-- it's like this plate there and, like, just screws and stuff. [gunaratnam speaking norwegian] i'mm the deputy mayor of oslslo. i r really, really believe
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in the freedom ofof speech, and my job in this city, in oslo city,y, it's to create e society where e people all the time can be, you know, confronted with differences so they are able to, you know, change theirself with information they get, and that's what he wasn't able to do, so i'm not mad at him. i pity him. i really do. [camerara shutters s clicking] yoyou know, w when the trial ben the spring of 2012, i was there a a lot, and people werre like, "why do yoyou waste e your time" like, i'm t there to give him attention.n. i'm thehere becausm a polititician in oslslo. it isy responsibility to learn whatat made him this way. how can i make sure that this never happens again? hanssen: i'm 23 years old, and i
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study law here in tromso, my hometown. i'm honestltly quite excited about being able to study andnd being able to have n exam, so, you know, i'm happy with it, actually. for me, the most important support was from my family and my brother especially because we had shared this thing and, you know, just talking about it every single day, talking, talking, talking. being able to manage post-traumatic stress, you need to own i it and d contl it. you need to be-- it's called control. yoyou realy need to control it, you know. [lush synthesizer music playing] i tried in the first year or so to just do exactly what i did before anand, "this will not change for me. this will not--"
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but, you know, it's really about acceptiting that someme things e changed d except that i willll probobably not get an n "a" gran any eexam in my liife. i will probably not be able to work as long hours as i i once thought i was gonna do. gunaratnam: so a part of this meeting... a week after i i got elected as deputy mayor, i was interviewed by one of the largest newspapers in norway. i told them that i wouldn't put breivik in jail. i said that i would let him work for the immigrants just to show him that multicultural society is not a threat to him or anynye else. hanssen: slowly but steady rebuilding just in society and rebuilding... myself, you know? [brass band playing "eye of the tiger"]
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if it's going toto the theater r if it's being a papart of the national day celebration with all the people at one place, all that kind of stuff thatat seemed like regular stuff then is not that now, but then again, i will shshow up there, anyway, and i will be there, and it will bebe better than last year, , and lat year was better ththan the year before that, you know, and the year befefore thatat was terrib. but then again, i was there. [gulls squawking] [indistinct conversation] i should probably not play football. i have a really bad arm, and, of course, i still have some bullet things in my head. i shouldn't play football--it's the wrong thing to do--but then again, for me, it's a symbol of, you know, "yes. i probably shouldn't, but then again, i will because it's my life." i choose to do it, you know.
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it's a natural part of being from where i am from, i think, to be in touch with nature. i mean, it doesn't seem that way with my ankle socks now, you know, but this is not norwegian cold. it's jjust a bit windy. it's a perfect place for dating, actually. that's my secret dating s spot, so you can't tetl anyone. ha ha! it's actually true, as well. ha ha ha! i really want to set a footpri of myself, to doomomethi tht's gonna stick. my eam m is to able to make my environmt, w whever that i a betterlalace foreople.e. naratnamyou knowit's
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almt 6 yearagago,nd a lotf ople haveve already forgottenen it. for me, , it's about the history and our responsibility on behalf of the history, and i bring people to utoya because i belilieve that this is an important place where something horrible happened, but that horrible story is supposed to make us stronger on behalf of our values.
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woman: nigeria is not a faileled state. it is not a failing state. it is a strong, standing-up state but with a humanitarian crisis.
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man: what does he want to build now? woman: [spspeaks foreign langua]
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woman: nigeria is not a failed state. it is not a failing state. it is a strong, standing-up state but with a humanitarian crisis, a real crisis. whilst largely accessible, there are still pockets of resistance in all of these areas.
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[all speaking foreign language]
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alakija: the next major focus is those returnees coming in from cameroon. oh, my goodness, we're expecting in the next few months probably about 100,000 people.
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alakija: boko haram is an ideology that doesn't care in that part of the country whether you're muslim or christian. the greatest victims--over 80% of the victims have been muslim, so it is not about religion. it is about a crazy ideology that has attached itself to a religion. we've been here since 2009, taking us through to 2014, when the world first began to take real notice of this as the story of the girls that were abducted became huge news, but the hidden story and the lost story there was that there were tens of thousands of girls and
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boys and women and children who were abducted. man: [speaks foreign language] children: [repeat] man: [speaks foreign language] children: [repeat] man: [speaks foreign language] children: [repeat] [wind blowing]
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[music] announcer: dhaka, capital of bangladesh. . there are already 13 million people here. that is set to almost double in the next decade, making this city one of the most densely populated places on earth. all these people are coming to dhaka because their rural homes are being destroyed. atiq: bangladesh is the front line state of climate change because of the multiplicity of impacts. announcer: cyclones, bursting rivers, torrential r rain fall.. climate changege is felt here more than anywhere else in the world. climate refugees from all over the country are pouring into dhaka fleeing for their lives.

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