Ah, its good to have you with a slo, adrian said, i can hear it though. All the headlines on al jazeera, russia has admitted carrying out of the tackle, the cranium port of odessa on saturday. The Foreign Ministry says that it was targeting a naval vessel. World leaders condemned the strike for jeopardizing a gray export deal. The World Health Organization has declared the monkey pox outbreak of Global Health emergency. Its the highest alert that it can issue more than 16000 infections have been reported across more than 70 countries. A funeral is being held for 2 palestinians killed and an Israeli Military operation in the occupied west bank. A further 19 were wounded. 2 of them critically in the raid in nablus, john hallman has more from where the funeral shaking place. Grady forces came into the occupied west bank and here to the city of nablus, which is in the northern part 5 west bank. They went into the old city, they then shelled a building a house there where gum was sheltering. After that, there was an exchange of fire and they shot dead to palestinian men, both of them in their twenties, their names muhammad, as easy, and up to rockman sofa. Now both of those men, afterwards, it was announced that they were part of the military wing of fatter the palestinian Political Movement that military wing is called the alexa martyrs brigade. The pope is traveling to canada as while apologize in person for the Catholic Church as well. In running indigenous residential schools, pope frances is calling to visit a pilgrimage of penance. Warnings of extreme heat have been issued in dozens of cities in china as its walters. On the soaring temperatures, a mercury is expected to reach more than 40 degrees celsius. China has lost a rocket, taking a new Laboratory Module to its john gong space station. It blasted off from the island province of hein on the new additional features biotech and aerospace facilities. Its the 2nd of 3 modules being deployed to the space station. A fire in an illegal fireworks factory and peru, a skilled at least 5 people. 5 Service Officials say the unauthorized workshop was operating from a room and a private home. Others the headlines want hes for here and ill 0 after democracy maybe next 11 years after to move you thought the i would spring up or i think the only democracy to emerge from the people is to vote on a controversial constitutional referendum. One bit its critic via could pay to way back to the retiring even stay without is a rapper all the latest developments and in depth analysis. Ah, if i am on just a moment, a loan with a ship bag to la bella, the laugh. Ha ha, ha ha, my luck with a young man and may say, pay me. I know i make a me a man on luck, the 1000000 mark to run a. Ready a number and a low you say were hoping molly law way beside your shift on buffalo that the chicago to learn a fisherman what he must sorry. And what do i say when it must allay . Had a dont me mr. Latin that dont. And then shop. But dont know what and am is when im know buffy. My family had a valid told me i had a real i so i have no way. I met my feet. I had mclee raj. Im with maam. Miss. I little mom made a domain. None of talking to you, none that to she ah, 11 on was one of the 1st countries and the written to have a democracy. A on victor. We are a democracy. But in vin life its not that a demo. Krista has certainly been hijacked. Its a resemblance for them. Walker, we live on corruption everywhere. Now, we have one of the oldest democracy in that a boy. But the democracy is not functioning well because its not responding to the benefits of the citizen. Oh, we are in an era when a lot of people are angry. Ah, there are discontented with their leaders and. Ready government for not being able to deal with economic challenges like growing in equality and declining social mobility. Ah, and a lot of people are willing to vote for politicians who dont seem to have a lot of concern for those democratic in space in a willing when they come to power to ignore some of the limits on their power. Ah, and making sure that that power is not, and that means a long standing tension. I have been studying the development of democracies and dictatorships for much of my professional life. Ah, were in a period of what some social Sciences Call democratic recession. Now that has to be taken in context because what happened at the end of the 20th century is we had an explosion of transition to democracy, an explosion of dictatorships that collapse. Oh, how many of those democracy, not surprisingly, was quite neat. But saddening. Whats also happened is that democracies in places that we took for granted that we assumed were solid, that we assumed were no longer threatened by autocratic tendencies. These democracies have also proved to be much more vulnerable than we thought. Ready ready a lot of people make arguments about democracy being for sale on the high chair. Its very hard for me to understand how we can have something approximating political equality with the degree of social and economic inequality that we have. Sort of tragic example of that in the middle east, of course, is lebanon. Ah, a ah. I was born in the war when peace came, we were hopeful that something good would come of a true occupied by foreign country by syria. Ah, so before this occupation for a long time until 2005, when the occupation just left the country and this huge manifestation that took place on the 14th of march, where we actually believed for once that this was our chance to create a country. Ah, and then everything collapsed. Mm hm. The political id just decided to cut the piece of cake and share it with when i was a close, they taught us what the 1st state would be. I can tell you that we are definitely on the last tracks of switching the felt state. Lebanon was built as a safe haven for all the persecuted minorities in the middle east. But the problem of the system with this country is that we couldnt build a system that answers the Diverse Society that you have 11. 0, its about having a diverse site, the living in a unique system and the system not answering the needs of the minority 11. If you ask someone, would you rather have any group from your own sex that might be caught up, or somebody from a different sex, but you dont feel anything about them to this one. Its mainly when you understand this and you understand that the problem is within the system, then understand why these people are caught up. And when they come to office, they dont work for the better of the state and the citizen, they work for the better of the party and their group. Me you have a society that historically been carved up in terms of power and wealth by these different confessional leads from these different religious and social groupings. And it just becomes a kind of a leap cabal, to extract the wealth of the society and serve the different, competing a lead interest, but not the call activity, not the society as a whole. Now here in 2021. We are in the 15th Consecutive Year of democratic decline, a democracys fail for many particular reasons. They made me extremely corrupt and self serving with the leads that are not governing well in serving the public trust. People get a dissolution with the ruling elites and parties. Ah, and when people see that the rulers they have elected are serving their own interests rather than the public interest. Its very alienating, its very d molar. Moralizing. Its very infuriated people are supposed to be able to choose their politicians, and those leaders and governments are supposed to come to power and put in place policies that help make peoples lives better. That is what democracy is all about. What weve seen over the past several decades is governments that have been increasingly either unable or unwilling to do that. So if we look at the trends and the last few decades, we can see some very troubling trends. Growing levels of inequality. A sense that the future is going to be much less certain than we expected during the post war period. And in these kinds of contexts, people are likely angry people become vulnerable and appeal of populist, illiberal, or authoritarian leaders who say, im the answer to me. And of course them, when you trust and authoritarian populace things get even worse. Ah, another really critical political trend of the last decade is an unprecedented number of protests against existing governments. Whether democratic or undemocratic is for corruption, for lack of responsiveness across the globe. And i think more and more lebanese are recognizing this are seeing verse and wanting a new social and political bargain in the country. Oh, so be 17. Was the turning point in my life. That was the chance people were fed up because the government, instead of thinking of the forms were thinking of, i think texas, we want something new. This is finished with the dont, dont able to spray it at 7 pm. It will only 3040 people. And so we started getting messages and people started coming with it will 40000 people in school. For the 1st time old confession, boy religious effects were on the city. Those individuals just voicing their concern and in anger against a slogan of that illusion. 11 was, Everyone Needs everyone. Everybody needs to be held accountable for every action that they have done in this political system. For the past 30 years, the 1st demand was for the government to reside and the government reside. And then we asked for formation of a new cabinet of independence. Deepen i were going to have not come out of this lease until the government stepped out. And a new government is going to come up with the professionals and they dont belong to any sectarianism to any Political Association with any of the ones that we have currently with one of the forms that have been it wasnt made of independence and the Political Class faith to gifts with them now and Nothing Happened and i think with and we thought that we had to do nothing with them. We discovered that has layers ah august 4th explosion came and we lost houses, lost people, and lost hope in the process of ever finding a solution to the problem that you are in the 3rd explosion and the world. Apparently it comes after hiroshima and nagasaki in order to soothe half of the city and killed more than 200. 00 people in cost. I think 5000000000. 00 in losses. So many people data so many ah, tense, if not, hundreds of thousands homeless as a result of bad governance because governing really isnt happening. And the logic of rule in a country like lebanon isnt to govern. Its to divide up the wealth and power of the country. So it was a corrupt Political Class that had agreed to put massive explosives and the point of bade was, and that just blew up. And nobody to now is, has a town to mostly this we live in that smarts corruption. Thats even human life is not worth it anymore to those people. Its not just that they failed us. Its that they attribute. 2 me who i have an n g all. So when the explosion took place, unfortunately, we had teams in place for instruction because you had already done that because you have to know that in lebanon, its personal initiatives and Civil Society who does the work of what a state should be doing. Because we do not have a state that help me so so he could be an associate will. So you can have had that can. And what about media media later. Ok. So have the muzzle title and in his little solo he lives in the band for the initial make, you know, oh, i expect you entering in a tunnel which cannot see the night at the end of it. I dont think everybody in his language sets up in october 2019 when the bank is re open and people went back to the bank. They had limits on there with the 2nd talk was the gun and he started evaluate they, we had a fixed rate for that of a nice pound. Was 1. 00. It was 1571. 00. It was 15000. 00. 0. So today, we live in another enough inequality, and that has never been in lebanon. So had a station price increase, the receipt of verification. This is the economy good, the more inequality we have, the less democracy we have. I know nothing about equality of incomes. It says nothing about a quality of wealth, but it does say that everyone must be politically even. Rather, the problem really is when social and economic inequality seats into the political sphere, there is no doubt that wealthy citizens have more influence over political outcomes. Then poor ones, those who are already very wealthy use their wealth to corrupt the politicians. So when you have concentrated wow, the temptation of the extremely wealthy is to use their economic power to convert it into political power through lobbying political controls so that they can then reproduce their can amik concentration of wealth. And you get into a vicious cycle democracy does not succeed in the ad words, because we do not know how to deal with democracy. We have dictators there just people who just want to fill their pockets. Who are thirsty for power. Who want to apprentice in order to stay in the spring was a hope for everyone. It started in tunisia, this decision of this fruit vendor and taneesha has dignity had been repeatedly violated and humiliated by petty corruption by the police to emulate themselves. And that was the ignition switch because it spoke to the sense of humiliation that arabs broadly felt by abusive, monopolistic, corrupt, already, its about justice and dignity, respect for them as individuals which all of these era dictatorships deny the are bring. This is really quite upsetting to people who studied democracy the whole was, was that, that democratic wave had finally come to the part of the world that seem to be most immune to it. But of course, that democratic wave failed these uprisings failed because mainly of the regional dynamics that there were so few democracies in the region that there werent others that could, could come to their aid. The anger at old dictatorships was massive, but the ability to build new democracies was not yet there. Oh, governments can respond to the needs of their citizens, people. Mm. Think what we learned from lebanon is that democratic governments have some legitimacy simply by being democratic rights. But if those systems are corrupt and if they are unresponsive, they will lose legitimacy as well. And democracy will not be able to thrive in those kinds of circumstances. Ah, its my last, but this is the last time im going to fight. And if this does not happen, i dont want to see my children fighting the same buttons again over and over again. Ah, the solution for me is for us deeper does touch realizing that this is tough, norman . Wow, im sad. Its like civil co 9 soda that what were living and its not accepted, its not okay to accept that our leaders just are corrupt, kiddos and its fine. And this is the ethical crisis where and when you start questioning, its when we start changing, as long as were not questioning, we cannot change we still have some meetings in the country, but every day o dreams are coming lower. Now of a dream is if we can eat more or we can have the model if we can fill out cards with gus. So this is how much the country became a grave for dreams, especially for the with coleman with dody. Lets see a demo. But at a simon an events that i, jim i believe jimmy canup is that i, jim on the hes sort of being able to free to paki are we able to pick. Ready ready joe from. Ready a letter back later to home. Yeah, not now, but im not my, you know, my, it has been down for we understand the differences and similarities have cultures across the wound center match. Im glad you called hand al jazeera will bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter with al jazeera ah ah safe good. Mm hm. And then International Anti corpse Excellence Award boat. 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