The challenge was an icon for ethiopias biggest ethnic group the aroma. His music was the soundtrack to protests that propelled Prime Minister made into office in 20 until now not much but how chile was a role model for the struggle for democracy human rights freedom and justice he was treacherously murdered by some external and internal elements who have been planning for a while now to start a strife and chaos among our people. His killing has spurred angry protests which led to the government shutting down the internet on tuesday there is now little evidence of what is happening inside ethiopia. There are unconfirmed reports of gunshots and explosions in the capital where the military has been deployed in response to gangs and legibly roaming addis ababa Prime Minister has accused Foreign Forces of assassinating the singer in an attempt to the stone. The mines the country. As the u. N. Security council was meeting to discuss the relicensed and crisis this is cessation crime took place external forces may have colluded with local forces to destabilize peace and security in the country. Others argue its unlikely another country orchestrated its killing isnt it tensions have grown in recent years with iran complaining of marginalization despite them being the biggest of ethiopias groups and having a fellow aroma as Prime Minister i challenge other romos had become more critical in recent months of one of the Big Questions is to actually kill the musician. That touched everything off and i think what youre seeing here is a great deal of. Rush which has. By this incident. Human rights watch has accused the government of making a volatile situation worse after some of these political opponents were arrested including media tycoon john well mohamad. The europeans now fear. In his hometown of and on thursday may result in more violence shalah ballasts and jazeera in other news rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah have said they will Work Together to fight against israels an extension plans for parts of the occupied west bank the comments come a day after the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu was due to launch the whole process we are united and we will this the tactics on the ground the tactics on the field according to the israeli actions is that are easily behaviors that is that are easily. Way of trying to destroy trying to do this coalition and so on as there are for intifada for us is it mean the end is to in the cube wish the end is to end and to remove the annexation from the table a decision by turkeys highest court on the status of the highest of fear museum is expected in about 2 weeks the council of state met on thursday to discuss the governments push to convert the Building Back to a mosque prior to the ottoman conquest of istanbul that was also a christian cathedral and government in mexico killed at least 24 people and injured 7 others at a drug rehabilitation facility the 2nd such attack in the city of it apart or north of mexico city up to date with the headlines here on aljazeera the latest edition of witness is coming up next. Larry. There. Are so you can find a group of young male revenue so there. Are now. You. See horses. In interleague. And this doesnt look quite like the team basically. I was told in a different day than. I. I. I. Now have a fixed commissioners home ready to take the funds from the agency you made a mistake people are just certain things happening in a change always have. A few. People in the blackness always felt what would you have. Im not going to talk about one athens because we all know that there is no one. Ok i think weve got a great question on the floor and that is how do we filed one athens how do we build the trust that will be necessary to go follow it is there an elected official like to respond to that question. I had a. Im very familiar with your neighborhood very familiar with your neighborhood and i want to see your organization succeed were not trying to make you go away we want you to succeed and we want you to fulfill your potential. Is nearly have a common we need for you all to look at race. Because that is a large pot of laugh problem but i hope that us saying what i say here with all due respect this is not from a about racism. I taught school i taught black children i taught white children i taught very very poor poor black children when i taught school and every child no matter where they lived what their parents did what clothes they wear what they smelled like and some of them smelled not too good because they lived in homes without kwame got my equal attention they lived in mill homes they were poor children rich children and white children black children i am not going to stand here and have you accuse my actions as being racist mislead only stop talking out. Please be quiet you be. On. On talking is for god and. Now i am not going to say that there has not been racism in the community there have was and i think thats true. And im sorry that there has been but to simply say that our actions are racist is not correctness nearly and i will not let you accuse me of that im just thats thats all i want to say and i want to say thank you because this leap in just yet needed to wake up to what you have done. Is. The flying. To that got a body. Thats going to blow up more than just this situation because theres too much else going on all you know what can you. Do or be on your lonely im hope for around the corner i have a copy of the designation report for the local is stored as a nation here for the reshowing community and i also have a flyer that i would like for you to give your mom about a meeting this week ok. Ok all right thank you. Ok. Thank you where. Theyre putting a mailbox were having a Community Meeting tomorrow at 7 berry just to talk about the Different Things that are long on in the community you know how they were torn down so if you have time please stop ok stop by. My mother lives here this is her home was my grandmothers home my mother was raised here are one of the homes that my mother was raised in. My grandmothers. Grandparents lived in this home. And then of course you know we have a fraternity that theyre moving in right at someone. And you think now here they have not found these 2 homes and the other is that. The homes where does the malitia. The basically leave my mothers house. And the k. A house. The only thing left on the wall. Yes hi mr atkins i was calling because i want to order i guess about a 100 or 200 and custom play and all right all right thank you sir are you happy. Weve been in business for. About 50 years if generation or more titian ive only been in the forest 7 years now my young as i dont know who was supposed to run the business. When he was my age. The system thing that went bad after my grandfather passed in the eightys on whats my line with. The stability in this business. Is. Based down to her way of living julie. So theres my hood was. Able for me and where i was when john where this girls father and grandmother they sacrificed so much to be able to keep this business going and i wanted to keep our legacy continuing. Not. With the you. So let us. Say well that was close. To god. I am. So blah blah blah. Oh on the law the law law the law shall ah ah ah sounds like he was so lucky as he was when al was growing up we were the 1st black. Churches mother and. Son. Tito de reese the school. That was when i went to high school in. The law. It was for you haskell. I am one with a they hate to be all in one with the home. And the other was where their fellows used to go. On believing. They had it in order to. Win people would come down and they hate day sit down. And was aware and asked. When we finish tasks we were. And across the street to mark church here 1st Baptist Church. Thats where we have graves. Right here for this baptist you. Know what its really when they get to a point to look at their show. The research a community is very valuable because its close to downtown and also close to the chase camp and. What do you do do you protect them to protect try to protect the people that are already there and the shock shoes that are already there and the history thats already there are do you just not. Whatever buys property well milly come in and you know tear up the neighborhood that you knowing you up. We got involved with the restraint when the case 1st bought property there because the neighborhood got exercised and began to get organized and we started working with them and eventually the neighborhood decided that they wanted to try to get their due to their neighborhood locally doesnt it as a Historic District and the important thing about local historic does a nation is that it protects the neighborhood this is a map for the proposed re street local Historic District. This is the hill 1st Baptist Church at the corner of reese and polk street and that is where we have our Community Meetings its a very old and and significant africanamerican church the property that the k. S. Bought is a a large l. Shaped lot here which is just south of hank street so their house will be here theyve got a parking lot here they also bought these 2 lots here the 2 houses here they were roughly 100 years old a little more a little less but still they appeared to be pretty sound structures k. A. Said that they were not what they were about all of them but i dont know if we can believe that or not this 237 Church Street this is the house that dr hurley lives who was hope by the hearts mother and her house is now the only historic residential house from the number one. If we dont get this local has torn down the nation for development for going to start popping up all over the place the 2 homes that were purchased by k. They are no longer standing as soon as we realized the houses were vacant on the other or contacting a me. So i was sort of about logging with care a jot came with neighborhood meetings and he said in here and he you know when asked he was supported we want to be part of the neighborhood we want to support the neighborhood and then to turn around and do that like a car and told him. You move i was given the car to see a call but of course they didnt tell us that it was the houses were going to be demolish so at best kind of trickery making me kind of leave me ok i have a lot of power they do they get over everybody they do what they want to. Know is true in affects you and your family most of them affects mine because your mother is right but. But you know sometimes you think you find lives and that when i came to the 1st meeting our recalls pat allen across maine and those return to boston do not sit out there tell us absolute last they lied to us i mean grin in his face and im not going to grin and his face hes not in a better than me and i guess that maybe one of my downfalls i dont come to suck up to you just because you know youve got the authority. To try to make a fly on a Confederate Flag just to show them sitting in this thing. I remember at the church where they showed us the plans to do with the the architectural adia for the home that they were going to bill and i question that. Was different about this when it would be on the plantation you know this is the same confederate house confederate everything that that this picture shows us is a hurtful time by africanamericans. Is hard to just bear that history of hate and dislike and you dont even know the people and now you want to live in the same neighborhood with us. Pretty much everyone has the you know we were exactly welcomed with open arms into the neighborhood and. We did while we didnt want to leave our 1st location in the 1st place either and told us we had to move. The guys that are in control the were in charge of. The leaders of the adult leaders. Made it possible for us to have a house closer to the school. My uncle my mothers brother was. Back in the glory days so. I ended up getting a bill through fraternity its been a wonderful wonderful experience for. Some 1st year i was 12 i shot him with the blue. Those are my 2 grandfathers the on blue passed away in 2000. And he still. And this is our al well he had a rebel flag on this account. And he was the thing that doesnt bother me for having a rebel flies because the the the reason the civil war was fall and was to keep slaves which it wasnt to hurt black people because yeah they were not they were part of society and they were slaves it wasnt because the reason the way we fought the war was because we hated black it was because we wanted to keep an institution going of oppressing black people but it was a owes all about money its basically what im trying to say it wasnt about oh we hate white people lets make sure they dont ever have a real job in their home. To me having that little flag in my house on a whole host is really big. You know. Thats just out i think a lot of people would agree with me. Oh. Brother was it unless the mothers lower started saying only although it will probably fruit under the force the mention of selflove can sure see the only your presence i think a man of whom i dont really overall virginia was. In the cause of the race of the 1st that youre the dame a southern girl and so as for deal pleasanter it was in the us when dexys play center itself on the wound up the Service Nurse has the abilities of jackson and davis and the nurse all those less fortunate unreconstructed get used that the south has truly risen the. Writers they were yeah youre right youre the salad were. All. 6 the whole reason that we have old south parade is that at that period of time. A man like a gentle southern gentleman had to be a nice person and had it all he had was his reputation i did some thinking about this and thought about you know why this is how it is you know you have was your reputation so being a gentleman was a necessity to me being a gentleman is seamless and its its just the way i was raised is just the way i was taught to be. I know nothing else but to be nice to everyone that i know and just do what i think right and that entails you know and you know Holding Doors for ladies at all times like you know having nice table manners yes maam no maam shaking hands looking people in the. Those are the things that come to my you know. I tie myself in the mix something. People always thing the morning a problem to me and then you know i work with in the middle of there trying to do the same thing to bring about change or i kind of take it on my cell. All right were ready now to move to our public hearing and deliberation on the recommendation from the Historic PreservationCommission Regarding the dozen nation of the restricted areas a local Historic District. Madam mayor and commission i stand before you today to ask you see approve the local historic designation for re sank all for restraint we have worked really hard to see you see this coming to fruition there are only 10 historically africanamerican districts across the state we would like to be a let the 11th we the restraint Community Want to say and what we what our Community Looks like and feels like we are passionate about our community and we will light positive Single Family growth so we are asking for the local historic designation thank you. All this labor saying. Thanks. Just like people napkins people sleep right now oh my mom is checking on somebody who is chicken to smoke ok what about the fraternities i think. Its much say hey i think we should think that. I mean at my mom when theyre really keen on but. We just happen to come out of saturn there are like ghosts. Powered bottles like right there in from our 1st day at my lawn so i dont know but i feel the tension in the air just when i drive through the neighborhood and theyre looking at me and im looking at them. But i dont want them to just say well no one ever approached us or we would exclude it was even though they are stakeholders in the community the only reason only way theyre going to act is if they are. I was a force but they were. Brought in to participating i dont know how its going to match but. We just dont see how a war this neighborhoods those organizations that theyre groomed to participate in Community Events no i think with a political courage you know i think they know that you know theres the side that leaves you know all of their beer bottles out on game day and then theres the side that you know will be very light and respectful so let me just go ahead and send them a copy of the fire send them a. Copy of the donation sheet that way and weve done our part. 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Aljazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs a much better marketeers than bill gates was apple is going to reinvent stuff all below made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs inspired a digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on aljazeera. Part 2 of witness is coming up in a moment but 1st well check the headlines and tension remains high in ethiopia 3 days after a popular singer and activist was murdered a child who has been laid to rest following a funeral in his hometown of just west of the capital his political songs provided a soundtrack for antigovernment protests that ultimately led to a new Prime Minister in 2018. Rival palestinian groups hamas and fatah have said they will Work Together to fight against israels an expansion plans for parts of the occupied west bank those comments come a day after the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu was due to launch the whole process that has been delayed as high level talks on the issue continue to be held and we are united and we will this is the tactics on the ground the tactics on the field according to the israeli actions this is the israeli behaviors their israeli way of trying to destroy trying to do this coalition and so on as there are for intifada for us is it mean the end is to in the cube wish the end is to end and to remove the annexation from the table the decision by turkeys highest court on the status of the idea severe museum is expected in about 2 weeks the council of state did meet on thursday to discuss the governments push to convert the Building Back to a mosque prior to the ottoman conquest obvious temple it was also a christian cathedral this is a move that is heightening tension with neighboring greece. A landslide at the jade mine in may in ma has killed at least 113. 00 workers bought of waste collapsed into a lake burying mine is in a wave of muddy water disaster in the mineral rich region follows days of heavy rain. Gelman in mexico have killed at least 24 people and injured 7 others out of drugs rehabilitation facility this is the 2nd such attack in the town of it up what the north of the capital mexico city an area that has become one of the main flashpoints of gang related violence they go to europe today with the headlines news hour in about 25 minutes back now to witness. It. Rachel. Ill kill where you put it just where you want those who. Want that alley i would like me to cover it for you manley. Think i would associate having our best people and they were the 1st historically africanamerican mabel who had been a local who ordered the nation and always hand in maybe 2 words. To get people her way to the place if you pulled up to a war. If i were to put up. An evening jim with a. White bear again a little bit further. Thank you appreciate. It we. Were in a rare one would be a breakthrough. Imo honor. And therefore we want to have all my faculties like her when im 82. I. Have a bear flame out from time to be shamed. His. Family it would really really appreciate. Shes made me very tough. But she is definitely sacrificing given a lot for me to me. While hes there. With. My. Kids was the plan. Bowling and some other stuff but they are over there within them and theyre women and theyre here on the corner play im. Constantly. Everybody out there can you hear me. And im very happy to be here today to celebrate the restraint neighborhood a group of organizations and individuals joined together to take the steps necessary to protect the Research District people such as hoe and her mother and grandmother but actually this journey started well over 100 years ago when people began to settle here doctors lawyers teachers Businessmen Community leaders there were churches and a vital vital cultural area now this area nobody can come in and tear down a house nobody can come in and make major changes to the Historic Properties here so yeah all right good idea. That. Was. It was. A pain. To. Play. With. I really love this community my husband ive been here for just about a year and i wanted to contribute something to the community and picking up trash is a way to make the Community Look nice on a daily basis. I know that there were some big parties last night which was. Kind of a game that. You could see in this last block that theres been a lot where trash the and the other blocks the other blocks are Single Family houses mostly or apartments with maybe 2 to 3 people who need to 3 different apartments but turning to house of course has a lot more people on its always a problem you have a lot of People Living together to manage to have to manage your church which. People in the community told me so many interesting stories that house just up the street with the help of the 1st africanamerican dentist and i can see and im a doctor an africanamerican doctor lived right here on this route used to be a boarding house on the 2nd floor and the bottom floor was a place where people ate and drank and so when i started clearing out that corner i found more than 700 beer bottles. And people used to come and look at old bottles. And a lot of im really knowledgeable about the ecology here and they had a good laugh thinking that i was from colorado that i thought i could control this vine i think its called kudzu. And so i asked your advice about what kinds of plants and vegetables would grow well here and what people thought theyd like to harvest this is colored in kale and daily called had something called mystery plants nobody knew what they were and so i planted a whole bunch of those mustard solid has been sort of a community project. Thing some for today actually. Im given a lot of my free time to try to provide a quality of life for my community and everyone there and some in community have appreciated not now do i. Still do a lot of activities within the community are do i give that up im pick and choose and i battle that that comes with wisdom and age so i. Dont. Want to. I have germinated tonnes of seeds in our gardens pretty much planted by now and i know a number of other gardeners in the community now so im transferring some plants so that they can come pick them up this is what my husband gave me for christmas this is what it looked like and december of the year ago it was completely full of. Are you here a couple of weeks ago walking down here with bare feet i was also all right. I thought i thought i had was a kappa alpha guys but i didnt know if it was the barefoot one or not but im glad you had refused. To go. Yeah its yours well no its you know its actually the Neighborhood Garden oh thats how i do a lot of farming but the produce is for the neighborhood we have people planting some people digging some people bringing water we were hoping that would be a place where the community i mean. I think one of the interesting things about Community Initiatives is you cant plan everything and you cant plan anything actually you start something and you see it evolves with the needs of the community. But if people coming into the fraternity realise you know that theyre part of a community where could major go to meet. You know i mean in theory you could go a lot of places but it might just happen here. You know its somebody who is living right next to hopes house if they no hope to be if theyre just going to be a whole different dynamic and behave here and if i just think its a wonderful idea and im convinced it will work. Major and i have not yet and im going to become a part of a good part of maybe maybe and also in back you know i you know we have service imo and i know theyre going to rough them. Back some dont come with us on monday to be. Sure he caught them and there are things that we. Noticed community in transition so we just dont have time to time you have to work you know have to go dont bother going away so we did that thats how communities were and i thought we were. Speaking on behalf of you know jahar and you know i think. If you all d of anything also its a mutual some mutual relationship where you know if you have like once in the morning without it was something to sort of members well i know im not going to really im not going to rub. Your friend i might be all right i did lose again if i could be really good to maybe need to come to. My life not me it was nice to be hard i mean i know what. I think i got a bad knee so when i get up i want us all you know and well be around this afternoon ill see her and ok all right thank you. Karen had you know well you know a lot of things we coul want to do with the garden and its hard to do a lot of these saying especially when you know you have to dig a trench like this. To do with just 2 people and get it accomplished in one day im like well you know every fall we have 4018 year old kids that are very well equipped to help out and they are required to do the series or is it something. I go. You know right now were. A korean pipe from the gutter system and were putting in night not rain barrels on the side of a hill. And so the garden can get water and in summer it will be like a 75. 00 foot long trench about 8 inches the hope to get it all done and i hope this all works out. And for me. Feel like a 3rd grade teacher to be on their best behavior. The only or best behavior today. I guess that is the rain barrels and were going to this corner right here at the church im going all over. Marked off. Everybody come i guess grab the shovels. Take a pic take him down there leaf or down here and then just right there. On the run and on the ground 0. 000 a awarded storyboarded you know it was door was going to go to the right of those little digs and what youre going to get making right. You know. And you know you go in the western white new no need for us now live by you know you know im saying team based out of work you go. Thats ok. Well be fine. If you want to size you can get it so you have you have more pressure. On that quite a few people just working in the garden. But honestly until i started work in the garden i didnt have it at all. That really no interaction with anyone in the neighborhood. Because when she came out about. Maybe 40 chicken in order chicken to fish yes or ok our eyes open she said was ok and ill bring that ill bring you the money tomorrow you check this out of spite make you feel the 1st that still 1st that is all right and thank you. It was nice to meet you did you. Come. Up and say see what you want i want a thing. Thank you and now. You want to contribute 60. 00. And. If you want to you dont know ok so ill just put. This is what i want to. We work so that we have monies to give. These so we we we get from the fruit of our labor and we live from the from drugs. So what you gear becomes a seed. We leave. From our people. Ok this moment right here he said with news like socrates and plato. How do. I know ok thats. Going to crack. The make sure. You bring back what you want to be doing ok not you were going to do it and i want back i want to marry. You all right im going to comment right. Well supported doing to me service and someone else has to be you are not going to do it in your own right a block away. We got a lot of work done quicker than i thought we would today a face i was gathering again over the chair and so another to be our ally sure where it is out on the books yeah thats all and im. Fine i think they might be all right hes really sweet and. Yeah were really appreciate. Were told that your car wash your butt to make sure you know that on the way on time with you come march absolutely. Youve got to. Do it i mean i. Definitely learned a lot about people i myself. Initially i was a little you know like. Yeah they dont look at me funny but they. All right were getting ready to start of meeting if everybody would take the same plays. I want to welcome you all here today and wasnt necessarily about ok per se if so about the community. So its really a neat thing to be able to recognize these people if i dont change what i hope you know when how far from. One high filmmaker down. My contestants time on. Ive moved on sat what we need to do right now is just kind of introduce ourselves and students can talk about what they have what is what are they good. And what are they not so good because i think we all need to know each other in the sense of what areas we need to work our you know thats our 1st. Take over. 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Its all built the war for those that the top military over on or younger did it who knows mars youll see at the unit where the sensors are staring at us they dont want us all to do what it is that they are sure it will source for they really are going to hear this they didnt say ok. As you create a relationship you learn each on their own we have to create relationships in order to make this thing more or stop with each other man in a bad way i say that horrendous contacted had. Someone help go this were the time that we can look up to take them off their asses ok so well see all their stories are really paint a very. Nice night. Out with a private hat it just to be things that we all of them seem to be they didnt just say we are all without a baby a. Driver here anything that i could name to be sent to you my church the children of course i will anywhere you live have to become stakeholder its not mine youre not a part of the community and if youre not a part of what makes the Community Work and why are you there. New road trip this summer and sewing up a white truck or. Buying a smaller one put my cover on it yeah ill need some kind of campaign chivalry. Hopefully i can get somebody you know a me to but if i dont start a proud day im going to go do it and ill go get those states out and then to. Its worked i mean its its working. Say i know everybody on the street i know everybody on the block i know about their families they come and they help me in the garden its just a good place. Thats. Not is resistance. In a crack people are grabbing social and political issues by the horns. And time to seeing creativity parity and protest to challenge and change i. D. s. Gonna controversial a witness documentary on aljazeera. How do we have a cold wind blowing across one of service at the moment a fair amount of cloud into that based inside of south america whats the weather driving through here as well well see temperatures around 11 celsius than what is there is around 45 to be below what they should be at this time of the year little bit more in the way of a war weather there for santiago 17 degrees there we go somewhat to whether someone whether theyre just up the eastern coast of europe wide pushing a little further north much of brazil stays dry and far not so many showers showing up across the amazon we have got some showers into northern parts of brazil pushing up towards the columbia and also into venezuela some rather every show. Not too far from panama at present a loss of clout showing up around that western side of the caribbean pushing across towards cuba spattering of rain across the islands will see want to show is creeping in for many more in the way of sunshine than shaz some rather heavy rain for a time looks likely into parts of haiti at all into the Dominican Republic the weather will make as well little for the west was as we go on through friday still some showers there into cuba lossie try and find fortune maker with the kingston with a high of 33. This is aljazeera. 1300 hours g. M. T. One can all santa maria and this is the news hour from aljazeera. A popular ethiopian singer whose murder sparks 2 days of violence is laid to rest in his hometown. Also in the news more than 100. 00 jaded minus killed in a landslide in me and now the worst accident of its kind in via its rival palestinian groups come together to voice opposition against israels