tv Documentary RT November 8, 2018 7:30pm-8:01pm EST
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right. through one thousand nine hundred ninety four. the country is torn apart by brutal ethnic conflict. nearly a million died in offer here and the streets of rwanda cities was steeped in blood and lit up with bodies. the term genocide is often used to describe what happened here. but for the people who saw it all firsthand it was the end of the world.
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witnesses to the genocide in rwanda against the tutsi tribe say that when the genocide ended mass acts of retribution followed. the widespread killing and made women the working majority country wonder an accidental feminist country. in time that involuntary social shift transformed into a positive social trend that fell to the country's women to rebuild what the men had broken. have been. oh right. you know going to go i.
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don't care how much but on are not in fifty and i have some of them to shock me hunted emitting one unit. you know whatever one do and are true as they knew my i quit now that it's not i'm going i'm afraid i'm going to funding for tended to you for what took over the world. well you know what it is and knowing who i am boy. i have been a long. time so. it is only to only live
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it to we live jendayi quietly to pin me to we say so to reality it's. a wish or so now to dream. you. just think. can justify these. here is one of those statistics seventy percent of girls in rwanda do not complete secondary school melissa a typical rwandan girl is one of them. was . a. chuckle because you never receive any more.
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of course there are job hunting sides and to golly. but to use them you need access to the internet and the skills to use it. so job searching much more commonly looks like this. in the morning and go from door to door. it's as demanding as a job but inevitably it doesn't say. now i get ideas. that i give. him but on my cunny i'm. lucky. one.
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is often mistaken for a man. one that really. would be. with us to leap over each. other. but because many of her clients are quite cautious they have more faith in her than they want on my own. she rides a bike for a living there locally no one has a motor. hasn't had any trouble with the cab driving community. she's on equal terms with every one. hundred people you know who. owns. a makes about fifty to sixty thousand rwandan francs fifty five to sixty five dollars a month. we're going to take me.
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with a. little controversial political leadership if you. want to keep. god. out. of the good of. you. thinks women just lack self-confidence which is why they don't make money by giving people lifts on a bike cab company owners don't have faith in women either but that's all about to change. melissa's walking home alone and the night. may not seem out of the ordinary but in neighboring uganda a walk like this could be dangerous and it could be risky of the congo cam
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sometimes be done in kenya or tanzania but in somalia a goal could never go out chris like this not even in daylight. we can't talk about. quite a few we've go to. mission in the main aim for genocide against tutsi because before nine hundred ninety four genocide against this country has been corrupted our is the. sort of discrimination. discrimination. discrimination ethnic discrimination even discrimination based on sex so women stuff out there ought. not. in two thousand and nine grow under introduced stop centers. anyone can report violence and get help the recurrently forty four centers like this across the
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country. and while gender equality body has been introduced into the rwanda one place remains very different to the countries. that were to. come or. are they were. victim book and just quietly come or who are who are. these may just look like ordinary notebooks but since these call centers were introduced the number of reported wife beatings or wonder has fallen by thirty percent. who for iraq was going our gov our war. to cut it out of what it. took. about whatever our will. and it is also. you were there were proper was
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a. buggy was very happy how often she scored her very first knockout against. another boxer . and then my saying that. and then. then you can come when the. movie. is out. he was born in ninety eight ninety six two years of to be gentle so. she started boxing in two thousand and eight to train for three years before financial problems forced her to give up drop out of school. says that when she's in the ring she overflows with energy and pride. this is genevieve who was born in one thousand nine hundred five just a year after the genocide. she started boxing when she was ten and at sixteen took
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part in the world championships in antalya and came fifth. genevieve saying she's fearless. she's now become an entrepreneur selling clothes. she likes boxing but has to run her business to survive. and now part of the tour is out. there. and i'm going to. show all cop a. homophobic or no no. when i say we did it out of i think. that there's a there can we. it was allowed the casts a preview before nineteen ninety four genocide so. many thing.
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think it's important to do something that you're. not. even or you know you may not think you can do that i didn't think there was any chance of me becoming an astronaut but i realize that's what i was passion. about mary wanted to at least try for at least if you try whatever it is you're interested in in general for people if you have that passion if you have something you think is really interesting but you think it might not be possible that doesn't matter just discovered a triumph and you never know where you might end up. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know lawyer i mean your list book video put him in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president
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recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. which you are not an institution when you are not a government. you'll force is your voice belongs to you and using these tests in your voice sent people accept to do seems they would not accept was a situation it would if this is a difference which between palin diplomacy and the official people to see.
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this here it is under the command of senior inspector jeanette's get us the facts. she's married and has two children aged twelve and nine. and is very understanding about the mom's of his wife's job. always wanted to join the police and her dream eventually came true. we spent about a month negotiating with the rwandan police to be allowed to film this. we expected fascinating insights into how police women him fight. judy and if you can get it. but
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we were told that wouldn't be possible because crime rates in or around us so low and we probably have a long wait for any real action. instead they staged a demonstration scene especially for our cameras. on a. question i know. i am upload a video. of and. that's about as exciting as police life gets when there's no crime. very few offenses are committed but their weapons a military grade and patrols have been stepped up the fear of what once happened
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here still lingers. i don't know if you read the bible. when all of the woods was the was destroyed it was victorious and this impact because you know the country was the bigoted it was the victory but also it was cry cry. because people always saw you know everyone was destroyed you know houses and everything and people so no hope. the revelation played an important role in his life. i saw him like women with no. in that women there's no arms and told me that goes women should be empowered spiritually emotionally and physically my two things.
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as a female pastor it took the religious community some time to accept it was a fight in there really really just you talk about violence sometimes and then so our view is destructive in the homes on the it can be. can be you know everywhere. will be. in the end this builds up an old female christian community. meetings resembles spiritual life coaching through women come here hoping to make their dreams come true. according to a. man i'm not keen on marrying a widow with four kids she understands why so self she is working to make her
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dream come true. and until it is that he was a legit is the look you get a. leaf was a was the will know who to go to the fortieth. people who. because this is who you know first opened my mouth. to one of the you. know that was a. historic opportunity of a boys. in harry their parents but no. voice at the same level and.
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my name is jerry and i know where. i have. been. my but i think i would make. it pays to get married and wonder why become entitle to their husbands property. this clearly strengthens a woman's position in society but jolie's long term partner is taking his time to make it official. but i don't have a problem with the government about why it is nothing to me in problem i have. zero or want to give you one. can't. tell you to give him stands. to give him anything. here and there is no. not isn't going to work for you. but melissa is now trying to find work as
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a waitress. to you. but there is still no miracles. if she is rejected again. most. there's a problem i think women it can be confident the president of the. group is the biggest problem you know. they have opportunity it's something we should. do not encourage them so does their biggest by the way. the smell of coffee and fresh bones is already filling the women's church service is in full swing. of the week. but if you want to know.
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when you. have. the services include stories of miracles with financial well being a running theme through all of them. this woman for example gave the last of her money to the church and after a few days gone to help get a loan of several million francs. and this woman donated a television to gold a very big television soon after during that she found financial prosperity. miracles like that as seen here every friday. some might say it's somewhat naive to imagine the donating a t.v. could be rewarded with a miracle. to please gatherings are teaching women to be more confident to feel
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good smart and talented. they develop hope for a better life something that was lost during the genocide. you know. yeah but also life after that you say and a kid who with three years to tell him to the kid is twenty seven someone who was like ten years to be like. grew you know people were really just. you do so much much so much humping you know. with someone they come in to keep you from really and you know do some good good pregnant you know you have like a kid from someone who killed you from the all of those feelings so you can see how dipping can be and also how. abuse abuse can just
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devices to its touch when it's about good folk good corners the future. so. there's no one who knows two more. but that we get we. oh norteno no but i think we. have a great future because of almost too young i know that i have baby but i'm syrian have a team and. i think. that i know that i will get a. good life when it. was that. our men who moved. in and i may have been going. even.
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seem. low. none of the women we met suggested that feminism in that country is just empty words. they all believe that the new rwanda was a land of equal rights. and they were also quite sincere when they say it was the country's women who rebuilt a happy and prosperous nation. and it will be the women who choose to pay over one does terrifying. me will. we. see. pulls the. whole. this.
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is. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need
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to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer hiccup what if i mean you are liz put video and put him in the neighborly is that idea splendid of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took the kite invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.
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country with the suitable to sleep. my little course under the syria. rolls can physically understand where the must be so it will. this is with. us out of washington i am. looking to see that the congo is that nobody else to look at them out on the funniest diplo it's almost the same token from the show such as the flute solos that. you were doing your list.
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of. police in the u.s. identify the gunmen who killed twelve people in a busy california bar on wednesday as a twenty eight year old former marine he is believed to have committed suicide following the atrocity. thousands rally in the u.s. against donald trump the decision to fire attorney general sessions during the muller meddling investigation is now under threat. and the u.k. government continues to face a backlash over its and the laying of the grand felt power fire it is accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy which left seventy two people dead.
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