tv [untitled] February 15, 2012 4:30am-5:00am EST
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fs. these are two units have the main international headlines now rallies to mark the anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising in bahrain a put down tactics and weapons from the u.k. sparking claims of western governments hypocrisy over different revolts in the region. syria's state t.v. says a referendum on the new constitution take place in them days reports claiming the regime for atrocities continue to pour out of the country seen by some as an attempt to hide the truth of the conflict sweeping rebel crimes on the carpet. and sizing up the rivals u.s. leaders could china's visiting vice president and leader in waiting she jinping the
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two nations guide for the upper hand in a relationship. those were the headlines on back with more in the less than half an hour's time but first a. special report. and the finale is evident. spinor as a syrian citizen it's my responsibility to work hard on the music of this country and now you're a democrat. leno i want to present it to people
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who are convinced that syria is some terrorist country. we can help politicians through music let them in when you develop culture in your country your working through issues in the world of politics do you. come in now you can get to see yes this is the best message we can send to the rest of the world to say come and see what syria is what it is and what it has.
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a stable because of the palestinian conflict is that israelis came from all over the world expelled the palestinians from their land and toked their country. or trying to create surely jewish. out as many arabs get rid of them as we can. israel is waiting to be off i think there are as my poem beats a trail so that israel controls every single detail. our life itself is the system the ball being institutions. the walls all the separation will. put the toughest of the four. suspended
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for. somewhat. less even. though the other element is domination loot eighty five percent of the country a lot the palestinians in these little on places. so we control the country we control the water we control the economy and the palestinians are going to still even a person. is really not a good reason for them settlements secure. them to claim the land. do you still want to time teacher i raise for security build the injury to so israel you do need to haul a speed alcohol stands for security. just threw the ball for the floor under the tiger i'll still go inside but it's.
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just going to go for the worst of. all you the only thing that will be left here is hatred if. you think that's funny. states or soldiers you find out funny moments or. just feel good everything it does. and doesn't care really both reaction because it all just as you know the speed spun. they were taken out of their houses they were going out on the street they're killing down. there and not letting them have food water or electricity or anything like that. it just puts them in the worst circumstances every instant his identity and took
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his country and took everything from them what do you expect from them of course he's going to blow himself president to kill people so long as they can animal and heard that under oath even if it's a remarkable thing like taking care of your dog for years and you put them in cages start hurting him hurting them because. the biting you. just plug the you. believe. you did. most of the we have tried all the way we tried to fight we tried to resist after that they started calling us terrorists but we are defending our land we are defending our rights. and. that's my look. at the larger.
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this is about security and. it shows how this village was wiped out. and the grass grew and he took all the remains of the houses to make it look as if there was no they wish here. this is the tune we should use to communicate and to keep alive the history the memories. and i. did not want to be the number. of jerusalem and the sea by the separation. sounding music was composed by a band called the five and they are palestinian rappers from a refugee camp in lebanon.
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are you on the top of the crumbling muscle you know when. you buy your mom drugs how you're going to eat you know. why do. we sing for people who don't listen to rap rap is not the main goal the goal is the cause for which we are singing because as the most important thing . there will be no peace in the world as long as there are people being killed in palestine. chosen such as i was told the cats can make you know they're going to take suffocated by the circus times. it's important that they just express their kind of kids and their political turmoil because. i don't feel life is a picture in the future i would like to become
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markers in some parts of rio de janeiro brazil there are more deaths than actual war zones. here it's an urban war where any living being can be a potential targets. for murder it's like an epidemic of minor conflicts everywhere where firearms. small disputes. disputes over power people shoot for no reason. also not only the criminals but also the police. but i watch these barbaric i. watch people being murdered in this way i'm not feel anything. to change people's lives but i do my part as an artist.
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to come. home i did a year. of a mother hugging a school kid who had been shot dead with a smiling policeman next to them holding a smoking gun. if you. got a day came in the middle of the night and painted over this billboard. is fascism. one absurdity of the silences another absurdity if you open the paper today there is going to be a new absurdity that will make you forget yesterday's. play . it'll definitely.
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be a k forty seven is the most popular rifle in wars throughout the world you can buy one on africa for eight u.s. dollars for the armed groups like it because it's light and children can carry it and shoot it with. the fly. city is this if the weapon which was designed to kill if it can be changed and why can't humans change to. i i. thank. god for reggae as a cultural organization. i gave them one of these guitars so they could keep
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working in the slums of rio de janeiro for music the kids find the tools to change their reality. i. think you have to be very quick. and continue in the rossini islama you can just walk around like that. for my work at the racine islam was created to open doors so people could understand the slums in the people who live there. besides i have photographed ten other slums. less than five percent of people in the slums are
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criminals they are the ones who give the slums a bad name. but the slums are filled with hardworking and honest people it's estimated that in ten years more than half of the world's population will be living in these types of communities in these communities where the violence exists but why in my photos i try to show where the problem is and where the solution is. and i think it starts in childhood at this age. ok here is where the problem is. but if we target that age i think that a lot can be done. about this. but i.
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know that i have come down that might bend the right i want to set things my bullets date. in the case of minutes it's poetry that is united the community. more than one hundred fifty thousand people get together each year at the international poetry festival of men. and demonstrates to the entire world that in a country so drained by war. shows tooth humanity the whole world's problems are. suffering as every war but also lives in the world. but since i live in such a big country. that everything is far. education . food. health. house in.
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my country still be the new justice doesn't extend to all. there is abuse of power and greed from that troll resources because we are the children of a planet a planet that we're depleting with wars and everything. doesn't unseat governments but it does open consciences and hearts it goes like. take. in more gold. we must stand up as boys and begin to say that we should let. the time has come for us to remember our values to put right all our wrongs to
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celebrate our humanity and truly live the belief that each of us is the same person as all of us are home. the. if you use only one hand nothing happens but with thousands of hands things will change. why did i protest i know people are scrounging for work without any freedom they are repressed and arrested by the government. of the. garden only the military trucks smash the gates and entered the monastery they beat up everyone and destroyed everything they tied up
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the monks and they kicked anyone who looked up. or you know that even though they made the monks crawl to the trucks they beat them from behind until they vomited blood. regardless of our lives we protested we protest for freedom. it's always the what the regime is doing is very unjust getting students and monks in jail as political prisoners. monks were and continue to be tortured and. sit on military dictatorships never care about the people. they control and subjugate with fear of the law don't be i'm a change in. the last that was i. i.
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i. i i. i i think. as monks we don't take up arms did nick that we don't start revolutions. and make a political situation would not benefit from armed revolution. i would say that the protest wasn't successful because many were killed. but in the past no one knew that the dictator tortured and arrested people need upolu moment we are what we. really are
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some from the revolution showed the world the cruelty of his regime you need to know yes that is what all of this is one tangible victory. your government. the notion of what we do as people all around the world have huge consequences. to the extraordinary implode will mobilizations of february fifteenth two thousand and three when the world said no to war there were somewhere between twelve and fourteen million people in the streets that day all with the same slogan the world says no to war in a hundred different languages it was an amazing outpouring of love. the guinness book of world records said it was the largest outpouring of humanity on one issue
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in the history of the world. and truth is later the new york times wrote there are once again two superpowers in the world the united states global public opinion that was huge we failed to stop the war. but it did me in that when the war happened no one could deny that it was illegal this wasn't a situation where the us had been able to bribe and threaten enough countries at the un that the un gave them permission. might be. the. best thing. pentagon playing own in your dives it's such a. great comic book. so we're trying to
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realistically as possible present this world as it could be so people can see what it's like. you start to work towards it and then we have to push to make things actually help. you. the strike you have to. do what you want to do all the time just to make things interesting and the best outcome would be. different. and that should be because we. keep. the tax cuts. for the we need to go back to take our lead not from a political party or politician. but take our leave some people struggle cross the
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