Waving rainbow flags and carrying banners with slogans such as Bialystok for everyone both they and the police a school shooting them or pelted with stones bottles and fine crackers by a group of ultra nationalists one of the 4 Democratic congresswoman subjected to racists tweets by President Trump last week as insisted that she and her non white called leagues are not going anywhere Alexandra Ocasio Cortez was speaking at a town hall event in her New York district once you start telling American citizens to quote go back to your own countries this tells you that this president's policies are not about immigration it's about ethnicity and race as. Donald Trump tweeted that the 4 democratic congress women should go back to where they originally came from he denied in his suggestion the tweet was racist polls have opened in Japan for elections to Parliament's upper house the center right coalition a prime minister is expected to keep its majority in the House of councilors where just haul the seats are being contested if the coalition can win a so-called super majority of around 85 seats Mr Abi is expected to press ahead with controversial plans to amend Japan's pacifist constitution b.b.c. News. This is from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascoe Harter Hello and welcome to the program that goes behind the scenes of world news and into the lives affected coming up the Algerian soap opera that made a city a star also the midwives turned surgeons who are saving lives in Ethiopia and some pretty surprising political ideas that a Donald Trump rally including Monica ism the u.s. President recently described Iran as under siege as a result of tighten sanctions he introduced those sanctions come close to preventing Tehran from exporting any oil a tool Iran of course depends on its oil revenues so what is life like at the moment for ordinary Iranians how can we even find out when the Iranian government routinely blocks press freedom and jails journalists during Martin patiences recent trip there the B.B.C.'s access was controlled and as with all foreign media his crew was accompanied by government representative at all times there is a danger of course that we only end up showing what the regime wants us to but there's always a chance that we get a glimpse of something meaningful This was my 1st trip to Iran or nor mt of reading or speaking to people before hand can ever prepare you for the moment when you 1st arrive in our time train I am expecting the breakfast buffet the hotel to resemble a few old horse put on women's faces were bruised and swayed then bam they G.'s it's andar there was a hospital nearby there was offering very decent plastic surgery at bargain prices north jobs were in and then there was the weekend pool party just across the road it was for men only the perhaps a better known face of Iran is shown at Friday prayers but if America can tame the few surprises. As we were checking through security one of the workers said Don't let the Brits and they've taken our ship he was referring to there Reynie an oil tanker seized by the u.k. Off the coast of Gibraltar a small done easily and then he laughed at the joke despite all the tensions with the West the rains I met were incredibly welcoming and hospitable and the mosque there were thousands of Washoe Pers a senior cleric delivered a salmon denouncing a litany of American crying's as he saw us including a reference to the Iranian passenger plane that was shot down 31 years ago by the Us killing almost $300.00 people we happened to be there and then ever. And then we moved on to more recent events including Iran shooting down a u.s. Drone and that was followed by choreographed chants of Death to America Death to Israel and death to England and from all honest a fella exposed but one man came up to me with a warm smile and say we used to chant Death to Russia things can change you know. For many Iranians at the moment know things are looking grim the sanctions are heart sank and it's the most vulnerable people who are being hardest hit one newspaper editor told me Iran can extend hardship but not humiliation Maybe I should have been surprised that so many Iranians we spoke to wanted to leave their country they don't see a future in Iran Bassett been told things can change I went up Pope concerned ran words I never thought would come out of my mouth and one of Iran's biggest stars a singer with teeth white enough to light up at our room was belting out a ballot now in most other countries the fans would be on their feet dancing and perhaps declaring the underlying love for the heartthrob in front of them but in Iran it was all a bit more restrained a bit more sedate nobody was allowed to dance so instead fans were laugh swaying in their seats the audience responding police spy eagle eye the ushers whose job it was to make sure everyone followed the rules occasionally Olga about hand a female fans head scarf would slip and she would reveal a bit too much hair one of the ushers with then start flashing a red or blue laser pointer at that Fender until she covered up again before the performance ever been agreed that we wouldn't film people's faces but we were allowed a wide shot which would only show the backs of people's hands with pointed out that it would have been rather odd to film a concert and no actually see the audience our cameraman trundled off to get the short always going well but then everyone started getting jumper we were asked to wait backstage the security officials were coming they wanted to see our footage. Scrutinising are short rare asked Why do you Westerners always get around wrong and then the latter's go with all the fruitage later I looked over and for the life of me I couldn't see where we'd gone wrong you couldn't see any here in the dark cavern arsehole and then I realized that's not what it's all been about the security officials probably couldn't care less about the hair they were worried about falling foul of their bosses and so they needed to be seen to be doing their job it was in front one small example of the undercurrent of fear that runs through a rainy and life Martin patience on the 1st b.b.c. News trip to Iran in 5 years Ethiopia is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women giving birth a few years ago at the Hamelin Fistula Hospital in addas Saba I met a woman who was lucky to be alive but was still suffering from the complications of childbirth it had taken her 2 years to save up enough money to get to the capital for treatment 2 years of extraordinary pain but Ethiopia is making huge progress maternal mortality rates have come down by 2 thirds over the last 30 years and one key to success has been a kind of task sharing training mid-level health workers like nurses to perform emergency surgery in places where there are no surgeons Ruth Evans spent 4 days with one of them in dangler a small town in the m. Her region of northern Ethiopia my hands were shaking with a gentle and as I pulled on the green surgical scrubs covered my hair and hooked a face mask over my ear as I was rushing to get into theatre and exhausted woman was being wheeled along the corridor she being in labor for 3 days and her baby was stuck. She'd come for treatment at a small rural hospital one of hundreds opened in Ethiopia over the last 20 years the government has also opened new medical schools but outside the cities there are still not enough qualified doctors the nearest surgeon with 85 kilometers away but someone else was about to a parade say Dougherty a former nurse in her early thirty's with brown eyes and a warm freckled face framed by a pink headscarf as she changed into scrubs She explained that the baby was in fetal distress not getting enough oxygen so she needed to do Mrs Varian immediately she said she did everything she could to save the woman and her child but it was a high risk case earlier say they had told me how she ended up doing this and she was working as a nurse in another clinic a pregnant woman came in bleeding and in danger they referred her to the nearest hospital and they settle but she died on the way I always remember that incident she said that was the moment she decided to compete for a place on a new masters course which would turn her from a nurse into an emergency surgical officer in 3 years less than a 3rd of the time it would normally take to train a traditional surgeon operating for the 1st time was scary she said I knew what to expect but when you hold the knife and run it through someone's skin that was something else but the 2nd one was easier a surgeon who trained the offices something to say told me he and his colleagues were skeptical at this that would I let my wife be operated on by such a person this is a crazy idea but over time he changed his mind he saw the surgical offices saving lives and thought what would have happened to these patients if this person was not he backing down I spent 2 days following saida on wood rounds and joined in one home visit with a new mother. The house was cool and with thick or thin walls and a high ceiling others say they checked on the 10 day old twins that did a boon a ceremony roasting coffee beans over charcoal Well the smell of frankincense filled the room the thick sweet coffee was delicious but left me totally wired Well I tossed into into my hotel bed later on say he was working a night shift and saw through 3 natural deliveries the next day state I had an emergency case so I rushed back to the hospital inside the bright white tiled operating room the surgical instruments were laid out on a tray where the woman's bump was wiped with are using the cut was quick and decisive the scalpel a burning a red stripe across her belly and then within seconds the baby was pulled out he was blue and floppy not breathing so say to handed in to a nurse while she concentrated on the mother the nurse whisked him away wrapped in a white cloth and laid him on a bad still not moving at this point I thought this is a dead baby I can't recruit this and I turned back to save her and her patient a colleague motioned for me to come back the nurse was sucking fluid from the baby's mouth and giving him oxygen with a hand pump he started rubbing his chest really quite telling the baby cry cry cry cry cry cry and I learned the baby gave a squeak I heard his 1st breath a pink touch appeared around his mouth and started spreading outwards and within a few minutes his week mewling turned into a proper cry I looked at Sade and I could see she was smiling behind her face mask big wet t. Is was slipping down behind mine the following day I returned to the road and spoke to 1000000 ash the mother I'm at her tiny baby Emmanuelle a sick child as she fed him she Thanks Sage in the nurses for saving their lives if they had not been here she said I would not have my child. Ruth Evans you were listening to from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascal Harter on next stop is Algeria where the March of political progress since the ousting of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stalled elections scheduled for the 4th of July have been postponed and there's no new date suggested the pro-democracy protesters blame the military overseeing the transition but the army complains that the opposition gives them no one to talk to life of course doesn't stop in the midst of political chaos as we know in Britain so what's it like to be in Algeria these days not in the capital but in Iran a city to the west of Algiers looking across the Mediterranean Sea to Spain here's Neal Cassady in Iran Algeria 2nd City the legacy of centuries of migration from under Lisita is still evident today jumping in a taxi only had to say door for the driver to understand my destination the Spanish word for blue is the name of the neighborhood where an enormous 19th century boring stands when it closed in 1980 the Iran was the last remaining boring in Africa it's just been renovated and reopened as a conservation you bullfighting isn't a traditional Arab pastime but then Iran isn't a traditional city you won't see many headscarf surveils there and people are just as likely to socialize in the nighttime cabarets as in the cities cafes. Maybe this is why Algeria's edges t.v. Show today was recently set here a short drive across the city and you're in the old Jewish quarter of a better but this summer during the month of Ramadan are ignored the usual glossy Turkish and Egyptian soap operas instead everyone was talking about a homegrown show viewers got to know the neighborhood of a lot of intimately through the lives of the characters of a drama called or led little which loosely means the children from respectable families on screen within these neighborhoods dusty streets and ramshackle apartment blocks a working class community deals with issues like drugs violence and poverty the sopa trade the lives of ordinary people the hopes and dreams and the bonds that hold a community together and it's the neighborhood itself which emerged as the hero Some critics said it painted the city of Iran in a bad light but to most it was an honest portrayal of life in modern Argyria holding up a mirror to a society undergoing dramatic change this great immediate Hollands is just one small example of the explosion of free speech driving out here is dramatic political revolution every week since the middle of February Algerians have filled the streets in the millions demanding an end to the corrupt and oppressive regime this road them for 20 years only a few months before it would have been unthinkable to openly criticize the country's leaders but these days at every protest you can see banners and hear chants calling politicians traitors thieves and sometimes much worse. Through peaceful mass mobilization our Durance have succeeded in toppling President would flicker the 82 year old leader they'd barely seen in 6 years following his debilitating stroke his brother and close adviser has been imprisoned as have 2 former prime ministers a number of government ministers and a string of business leaders all on corruption charges the man leading this purge is Army Chief Gates but in Algiers newly reclaim space for free speech he has not been spared either during protest marches in the press and on social media he is regularly accused of being as corrupt as those he purged or of being in the pocket of militias foreign powers join in the weekly protests on a Friday in any given city in the chance openly calling for reform are deafening it's not just in the safety of a crowd the Algerians now feel free to discuss political change talk of politics is everywhere on the steps of the National Theatre each Monday smaller crowds gather for public debates nothing is off limits with people regularly discussing how they can limit the power of the military or what's to be done about the country's rotten judiciary watching the citizens on the marble steps debating in public brought to mind descriptions I've read of Athenian democracy in the 4th century b.c. This newly reclaimed freedom has not gone on challenge though recently they have been arrests of opposition politicians and journalists those displaying the m a z flag representing the country's Berber ethnic minority have also been arrested accused of threatening the integrity of the country one football fan supporting the national team at the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt was given a one year prison term for displaying a banner in the stadium demanding all politicians clear off those in power and not taking this revolution line down. But even as they celebrate the imprisonment of those in the old guard whom they blame for the decay of their country many are juries are wary of the military they believe this institution ever present in post-independence Algeria is trying to appease them by throwing them a few bones rather than committing to meaningful reform as we approach the bull ring in Iran that they I asked the man whether people would make much use of the giant arena he shrugged Maybe he said he then grinned and suggested the politicians in prison on corruption charges could be thrown into the ring and made to fight out for survival you know like Russell Crowe in Gladiator he said it would probably be just as arbitrary as the kangaroo cause they're being sent to but at least this way it be more entertaining for us I wasn't so sure about this idea but the fact he felt free enough to express it is a measure of how far things have changed Neil Kessel in Algeria this week the u.s. House of Representatives declared president Trump's tweets about for Congress women of color to be racist the unusual censure was just part of a wider are prole but the tweets calling on the Congress women all u.s. Citizens 3 of whom were born in the u.s. To go back to the broken and crime infested places from which they came played well with much of Mr Trump's base So what are the real core beliefs all of a loyal Trump supporter just before this particular presidential Twitter storm broke Mike Wendling was at a gathering in Scranton Pennsylvania getting to know people there I met Michael outside a dull conference room on the fringes of a pro Trump event. We were inside Scranton's grand old railway station which is now a hotel one bright spot in a decaying city that has an outsized importance for Democrats a working class place that's also the home of presidential candidate Joe Biden if the challenger to the president can't win big here next year they're in deep trouble Michael in 2 friends had driven 3 hours from Maryland but he didn't want to talk much about conventional politics Republicans or Democrats or the 2020 election I would describe myself as a traditional reactionary Michael told me smiling a monarchist I tried to look unfazed Michael didn't mean that he was a fan of the Queen he explained to me in sweeping historical terms that he was against the Enlightenment against liberal democracy the people in the conference room were mostly retirees small business men and the local chapter of a group called Women for Trump I put it to Michel that this cross-section of middle America wouldn't have much time for a king you might be surprised he said what if you told them President Trump for life they might get excited. Something weird is happening in the fringes of American culture 20 years ago if you were a freethinking slightly rebellious young American you might be drawn into the anti-globalization movement or get deep into environmentalism maybe you get attacked to stop eating meat devil in drugs or underground music but those rebellions of the late 1990 s. Are now coming passe or in that killer slur of the Internet age normie marijuana is legal in many us States online streaming has made a mockery of underground anything and then there's the politics to an outsider the radical left today could seem like a dreary performance art spectacle of safe spaces and language policing and so Michael and his friends and many others like them have been drawn to a constellation of fringe ideas all coming from a very different slice of the political spectrum they include a few monarchists and of the reactionaries Trump fanboys libertarians and at the extreme ends the right race warriors ironic neo nazis actual fascists they get irritated when you lump them together but they do have at least one thing in common they hate what they call the dominant culture of political correctness I ask if Michael is a white nationalist he says No His concern is more about the form of government like he says he's a monarchist but then he tells me it's completely acceptable to advocate for the benefit of any race except for white people Michael tells me about his intellectual heroes and name drops a French Nazi sympathizer and a blogger who inspired the right later I take a look at Michael's Twitter account and find that it's full of white nationalists along with rude stuff about gay people and black people. Many people will find Michael's views very weird and possibly deeply offensive but I can't help feeling sorry for Michael and people like him because they seem to think that they are part of some sort of counterculture edgy cool footsoldiers of a revolution against the p.c. Nannies who rule academia and their scary liberal friends that their martyrs unfairly censored online because of their beyond the pale views but that argument isn't interested the straw man the truth as it always is offline is so much more complicated to take the most obvious thing in America the right is in power Republicans and this increasingly means Trump Republicans control the Senate and the White House which means that the online reactionaries while they have grown in influence don't really have a counterculture there are no films or music or art of any note just a bunch of Internet memes youtube videos that drone on for hours a different flavor of language policing and constant infighting over hair with political differences taken together it's almost enough to make left wing social justice Warriors look fun the censorship argument is also weak Michael still on Twitter so are the white nationalists he's retreating and so I'm wondering how long the fake counterculture story can hold up it's been decades in the making Could it survive a 2nd Donald Trump term or even beyond that the chances might be slim but they certainly aren't nail I'd say about as likely as meeting a monarchist in a hotel in Scranton Pennsylvania Mike Wendling And that brings us to the end of this edition of from our own correspondent so do join us again next weekend for more stories from around the world. 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World Service it's Boston calling with me Marco Werman In Nigeria it was legal to own a slave until 1916 and today the descendants of slaves still face discrimination it's clearly a taboo topic people ashamed of it it's something they hide now author Adobe Trishala Bonnie is writing about the descendants of Nigeria's slaves but it's not something people want to talk about the people I have known all my life who I know a descendant of slaves and we've never discussed it on Boston calling after the news. B.b.c. News with Neil Yunus big Zach to moment the 1st human scent foots on the moon 50 years ago has been marked with a celebration at the Museum of and space in Washington d.c. Crowds of visitors but dissipated in a New Year's style countdown to the moment Neil Armstrong to quality memorably called giant leap for mankind the NATO military alliance has described the seizing of a British flagged ship by Iran on Friday as a clear challenge to international freedom of navigation budget welcome to Britain's efforts to resolve the issue through dialogue a British newspaper is reporting that British ministers are drawing up plans to impose new sanctions on Tehran in retaliation for the seizure of British Airways has suspended all flights to Cairo for a week it said this was because of security issues but didn't elaborate the German carrier Lou fans are also abruptly canceled its Saturday flights to the Egyptian capital saying passenger safety was its number one priority Egypt and would run extra flights to London to help stranded passengers one of the 4 Democratic congresswoman subjected to racist tweets by President Trump last week has insisted that she and her non white colleagues are not going anywhere Alexandria Cossie a court has said Mr Trump's immigration policies were motivated by ethnicity and racism people in Japan are voting in elections to the parliament's upper house where the center right coalition of Prime Minister Shinzo are they is expected to keep its majority if it can win the so-called supermajority Mr is expected to press ahead with controversial plans to amend Japan's pacifist constitution the Costa Rican health ministry says 34 people have died after drinking alcohol laced with methanol the ministry issued an alert against drinking several brands of spirits b.b.c. News. Hello from Boston I'm Marco Werman and this is Boston calling from the b.b.c. It's a program as you know that puts a global perspective on the American experience great to be with you as always this week let's talk right now we're not even giving a fair chance for people to tell their stories it's clearly a taboo topic people ashamed of it it's something they hide it's a metaphor it's a very poetic metaphor it speaks to the heart at a certain point we just need to put it all out there on the table let's be blunt let's be direct and yeah let's talk about the legacy of slavery in Nigeria so called reeducation camps for wiggers in China and yes the immigration debate here in the u.s. That's where we'll start our program today there are upwards of 10000000 unauthorized immigrants living in America we often use the term undocumented and if you're under committed here in the u.s. The sight of a van driving through your neighborhood bearing the logo of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ice can give you a jolt students at a high school in the Midwestern city of Minneapolis know that feeling almost all the students of the small charter school are Latino or of indigenous descent and many of family who are undocumented the trumpet ministration has been promising a wave of raids to round up undocumented immigrants and Norma Garces executive director says her students are scared this a lot of fear in the community and concern and they are known so we have meetings where we prepare the families to what could happen we bring lawyers they hear from their right sources about how to be for real tangible things that are going to help them to be prepared for anything in the past when these headlines of popped up possible raids I mean what kind of advice do you give your students do you give to staff we have a farm like a checklist they put an older documents ready in a box so that the kids know like there's where the passports are this is where you're very. Certificates are this is your vaccinations this is your bank accounts because I'm a high school so a lot of the kids might be responsible for their siblings if their parents would be picked up so if the parents were picked up then the kids are suddenly I mean that they have the materials they need but boy that's really tough because they're still kids right and suddenly they have trust into adulthood How do you get them ready for that they have to talk about it I have family members and I documented and I talk about it with my students have you ever been concerned that there might be a possibility that the caller here school itself would be rated ice will park a couple blocks from here and the kids were no because they will get off the bus and they will walk to school petrified because they so when they were good enough the bus when we talked to the politicians they said that they were looking for someone there so that's why they stopped right there at their schools that were nearby will call each other will let each other know where ice was but what we had to do with the students was that if eyes was nearby we blow a whistle in the playground and the kids will come in no questions asked and it happened twice while when we had to do that is that still a concern they can come into a school and arrest a student because they're overeating so we don't know if they will show up. I mean that's got to be really tough for the kids to see you know ice patrol cars on their way to school when you brought those immigration attorneys to the school to talk to students about their rights how did that go akin to what kind of questions of the students ask they're very concerned for their parents they're very concerned for their aunts and uncles who don't have documents they might have an older brother that is not documented and everybody else is just and so everybody has somebody so they were asking a lot of questions about that why did they go back what it what if you have a green card will you be deported or what if you get detained as a citizen they're very concerned that they will get confused how would they prove that they're citizens and what about your staff Norma I mean they're the ones who have to come for the kids how are they feeling well we have to be there for the kids right and in here we're all helping each other and my staff knows what to say where in a community that we're safe that we have created that more intentionally in the last 2 years these rate announcements the White House announced one a few weeks ago and then President Trump met some resistance and said they'd be postponed due the on again off again announcements impact students at your school of course you could see like the on site and because you can see through everybody on their phone texting their friends like I'm Ok but I was in the corner all we needed was one person to put 2 blocks from a call if you know if I'm a parent of color here I'm going to be worried do you have a particular story about a student who is worried about all this maybe even worried about deportation or being separated from their family and I only have a green card and my son who's a u.s. Citizen worries about it and gets inside of I like Mom would they take you and because of their job that you do they come in. And I will be the one dealing with eyes outside so would I be arrested because I'm drifting to take one of my students so he worries about that what do you tell him that I'll be Ok. That we have a lot of communities that a lot of communities that will back us up and that will not let me you know take away but if they take me away in 24 hours I'll be in Mexico probably And she'll join me in your heart of hearts do you believe that you will be Ok. In my heart of hearts I think you might be a bigger deal. Because I'm a principal and I'm putting everything on the line Norma we're thinking about you know your students there at the color heel high school and many Thank you thank you so much. Norma Garces heads called The Hill High School in Minneapolis she mentioned that the school has increased its vigilance over the past couple of years but if you think that immigrant crackdowns are recent thing or even a Trump thing think again we are a nation of immigrants but we are also a nation that loves to debate immigration policy and that's been true since day one that's Bill Hing a law professor at the University of San Francisco he spent decades working on immigration and he spoke recently with our own Monica Campbell Bill Hing recently went through history and recent presidents to look at immigration and he began with President Jimmy Carter in one critical moment we midnight a noon today 23 boats filled with over 800 Cubans reach Key West Florida Jimmy Carter gave a speech near the end of his administration welcoming refugees to the United States and Fidel Castro actually took him at heart and released many people from Cuban prisons and from mental institutions and put them on flotillas the Carter administration did accept most of those Cubans into United States some of the criminals he put in jail dictatorships and civil wars also triggered mass migration from Central America in the eighty's during Ronald Reagan's presidency at 1st Reagan denied asylum to many of the migrants but at the same time that they were denying asylum to Guatemalans and Salvadorans Ronald Reagan went ahead and signed Urco Immigration Reform and Control Act did ran amnesty to about $3000000.00 undocumented immigrants and so President Reagan recognized that undocumented immigrants actually benefit the United States the border itself the infrastructure around it was also far different than the border in the 1980 s. It wasn't militarized It wasn't until the Clinton administration when Operation gate keeper is into. It is wrong and automatically self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must do more to stop it they close off the border and the easiest place is to cross and they put up double triple fencing and they began to use high technology with infrared body heat sensors Bill Clinton actually lays the groundwork for what we have today Fast forward to George w. Bush the creation of Homeland Security and in 2003 the creation of ice Immigration and Customs Enforcement we have a responsibility to enforce our laws we have a responsibility to secure our borders they passed the Fence Act in 2006 and I might add that 2 prominent Democratic senators voted for the Fence Act Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama they actually both voted for this bill that would have built a fence all along the southern border just never got fully funded and that's obviously laid the groundwork for Mr Trump's rhetoric on building a wall if we can imagine trying reaching into a tool box when it comes to immigration what are some of the tools that he's reaching for right now the one tool that Barack Obama unnecessarily used that Mr Trump has taken full advantage of is the detention of family court judges or the release of thousands of women and children from immigrant attention centers in Pennsylvania and Texas President Obama admitted all along that he was being tough on immigration enforcement in order to bring Republicans to the bargaining table there are more Border Patrol agents and surveillance resources on the ground than at any time in our history. And we deport almost $400000.00 migrants each year after a certain point I'm not believing entirely his argument that he was being tough to bring Republicans to the bargaining table I wonder if President Obama just had a similar sentiment toward the border and toward undocumented immigrants but it's something that he's never fully addressed since leaving office what would be your recommendation for attending to hundreds of thousands of people coming to the u.s. Over the course of this year. What I would recommend as we exercise the humanitarian nature that is in all of us I would hope I'm not expecting that every person who comes the United States be granted asylum or protection they should be afforded due process but right now we're not even giving a fair chance for people to tell their stories that's Professor Bill Hing from the University of San Francisco speaking with Monika Campbell and you're listening to Boston calling on the b.b.c. World Service with me Marco Werman giving a fair chance for people to tell their stories that's a big part of what we try to do here on Boston calling no matter where people come from no matter their immigrant status now over the years I've spoken with countless people who have immigrated to the u.s. And so often I meet immigrants who are overqualified for the jobs they do here this isn't just anecdotal there are several studies that back this up this summer in New York the Brooklyn public library has been trying to reverse that process by offering a unique learning experience through a program called University open air Alina Simone signed up for class like most of New York City Prospect Park in Brooklyn is often packed but the Rose Garden a grassy hollow built around 2 old fountains isn't a waste this today however it's walled off by a thick patchwork cloth threaded between large posts to get inside you're forced to double back several times since people get frustrated and just start ducking under the barrier Welcome to America it's a metaphor it's a very poetic metaphor it speaks to the heart Yakob horses as with university open air free classes on hot button topics like intersex activism and the immigrant caravans from Central America topped by experts meaning professors immigrants who came here pretty much giving up their anti-doping license career and most of. Have you ever had the opportunity to teach the subject for Jaco himself an immigrant from Hungary the idea was inspired by an experience the milieu to just anyone who's ever been a tourist who sits in a cab and turns out that your driver is a port for your server at the restaurant he's a scientist from another quarter of the earth but as a classroom a taxi turns out to have a lot of advantages in the open field the tents are set up to block the summer sun with a couple dozen fold up chairs a seating Hello Everyone thank you all for joining us so we have here Kendrick and I'm sorry I missed your last name think I think Jennifer Kendrick demist bar is here to talk about the history and conservation of Sciences palace the only UNESCO world heritage site in his native country of Haiti damage far came to the u.s. After earning a Ph d. In cultural anthropology looking for a job at a university that was 5 years ago and he feels like I'm still in a transitional period as a teacher I need to continue to teach because it's my real cation so nowadays I'm a substitute teacher working mostly on charter school for elementary and high school students but them aspire never stop looking for opportunities to get back to doing what he loves and that's meant looking beyond Linked In when I realized the season was taking place here I thought he was like an opportunity also to network with a lot of people in the same field if you have a problem with my headaches and you can stop me I'm going to take you on the other side of the park not via Bokhari a journalist originally from Pakistan is here to talk about the origin of Islam she feels like Americans views of Islam have been distorted by coverage of radical clerics and terrorists and she has another mission to eradicate the word Islamophobia So the to some a phobia I don't know who created this lawyer because of word some a phobia if. I'm in peace so if you are going to just read this word it is severe mission like be useful be a who who says peaceful b.-a the library is trying to spread the message about peace phobia but also the need for jobs by bringing people from local universities and teacher training colleges to sit in an open air lectures or so says they are planning a winter semester this time indoors the help wanted sign is staying up recently Yakob says he interviewed an immigrant from Russia now working as a baker who wants to teach philosophy then he came to the interview he's hands here all though. And we immediately in 10 minutes we were talking about subjects like seriously last August subject and having a bakery explaining retakes hands gesticulating he just put the entire scene in different perspective. 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Dot c o u k That's Boston calling one word at b.b.c. Dot co dot u.k. . All right on this let's talk edition of Boston calling there's another difficult subject to broach slavery and its legacy today throughout the world and here in the u.s. Slave meant rain for 250 years on these shores when it ended this country could have extended its hollow principles life liberty and the pursuit of happiness all regardless of color. But America had other principles in mind that was award winning author tunnel Hasi coats speaking at a congressional hearing last month about the debate over reparations for descendants of former slaves this debate is not just happening here in the u.s. In Nigeria it was legal to own a slave until 1918 and today the descendants of slaves there still face discrimination and even shaming when it comes to getting a job getting married or becoming a village leader but slowly things are starting to change Adobe Trishala Bonnie's latest this bet for The New Yorker magazine is about the descendants of Nigeria's slaves and their fight for equality it's clearly a taboo topic people ashamed of it it's something they hide their people I've known all my life who I know a descendant of slaves and we've never discussed it but in the course of writing the story I forced myself to talk about it with some people and for them it was the 1st time in their lives someone who wasn't a member of their families was discussing with them a number of people just said no I can't even discuss this I can't you know and even people who agree to speak with me some would whisper that the entire time it may not be spoken about openly but everybody knows who they are it's talked about behind their backs and people are cautioned the you can't marry that person remember he's you know descendant of the slaves so these are things that I whispered about and I've heard these things all my life as you researched your story you interviewed a lot of slave descendants and their advocates introduced us if you were to get your quote mud to our goal and tell us about the group she founded Well digital model is a young woman in her forty's in 2017 a close friend of hers was prevented from marrying Asli descent and she saw how devastated her friend felt and from then she decided that she was going to do something to bring an end to the discrimination against slave descendant and today mother who travels around Nigeria to try to convince traditional rulers to remake the rules for slave descendants the traditional powers of the I guess are often baffled by her efforts to shake up the so. They are baffled but they listen to her some of them feel well we'll see how far we can go some say yes we're going to take definite steps and a lot of them a lot of the traditional rulers these days are well educated so they understand you describe how you are goes to a town called or borrow where the descendants of slaves have had a very rough time and the traditional leaders of the town suggest the slave descendants pay the families who once own their ancestors $80.00 each to end discrimination it's like reparations in bizarro world how does that idea go over 1st thing else these African solutions for African problems this is a specific issue that has to be dealt with in a way that the people in this part of the world will understand it they're not painted by their freedom I mean they just see it token amount of evil is a highly spiritual people that economically relieving this group of yes the ethnic evil group very spiritual people Africans generally spiritual people Nigerians very spiritual the people believe in a realm beyond the physical Now the reasoning is that money changed hands you know before one became a slave and the forces that take possession of a human being and perpetrate what we now describe as oppression into these world hunger into that exchange that transaction and so if you want to send back those forces you need some transaction as well for there has to be something for them to to send back of those forces so clearly that I will have to pay that Mark happy happy about this. Well some aren't but then they're the the minority believe it or not really and the majority at all they are the majority just wanted to end they want to dish the nation to end so this is strictly an African solution for an African problem and I question so too do people who don't need to get outraged and begin to see how can slaves pay for themselves because it's not about a payment it's about the understanding of the people and something that will work for the culture we're dealing with it is a fascinating look at just what slavery has been in Nigeria what does it all mean to you today Adobe because this is clearly a story that's still evolving I listen to the stories of the sle descendants many of them people you know like me and people that are well educated people that were wealthy people that you know they could have been anything in life and they did tell you the experiences and how their lineage has been such a handicap and he was just so painful to me to realize that the mayor fact that someone's great quick with a good grandfather was owned by somebody else has money to hinder somebody's life that for me was the part that I found so horrifying so emotional and I thought my goodness this has to end and I'm just hoping that the story will lead to a process of deep soul searching and amongst the evil people of southeastern Nigeria and I hope also that it will encourage more sleep descendants to openly declare themselves yes I am yes I was whatever and then you know bring this issue out into the light and hopefully we can all squashed it together finally writer editor Shobhana speaking with us from Nigeria's capital Abuja thanks so much for being with us thank you. Starting a conversation around a difficult subject like slavery is far from easy we see it here in the us as we struggle to address the legacies of our own history but for some people the pain of being wronged is not rooted in the past it's here and now for years China has been targeting Muslim citizens with surveillance and persecution it's believed to be detaining up to a 1000000 wiggers and other Muslim ethnic minorities in the Far West Region of junk but you don't need to travel far from our Boston calling studio to meet a family deeply affected by that a week or family whose members pledge Injun and now own a restaurant specializing in their own cuisine and a customer want to meet them Monday morning is the slowest time of the week at Silk Road in Cambridge the chefs prep in the back sharpening knives and making the dough for their signature hand pull the noodles and deal a severe open the restaurant in 2017 with her brother in law not many people know about doing this year so we want to present our culture. Because even here we girls are mostly Muslim ethnic minority from machine John in northwestern China but their culture and cuisine is closer to central Asia lots of rice pilaf and lamb when Silk Road opened a city or says most people who came in didn't know much about weekers now they're asking a lot of questions for the couple constantly just stuff. My family. My stuff kind of thing so the banks clearly have the severe is 27 she's here in the u.s. With her mom younger brother and sister but her father is back in Shinji He's among the 1000000 weekers believed to be imprisoned in what China calls a reeducation camps they are cut off from their families not allowed to speak their language or practice Islam said yes father has been detained since June the last time she heard from him was in November in the beginning of the missing I didn't. Speak down and think I was just made my partner get felt like in one month or 2 months I'm a day man I read in December she stopped waiting and went public she started posting on Facebook in Mandarin with the hash tag me to weaker my posts to be given up exchange online and social media link Facebook and speak of when I ask if she worries this might put her father in danger she says he's already in danger she says sometimes people respond to her posts with pictures of their own family members who are being held in camps city or says when she comes to work at the restaurant she avoids talking politics she estimates around 60 percent of her clientele are Chinese mostly local students she says she doesn't talk to them about what's happening back home and they don't ask. The only non we're working at Silk Road is Jackie limit said the best friend who works in the kitchen American born Chinese East Lynne grew up outside of Boston and spent years working in local restaurants before I worked there I'd never heard of her but that after I worked there like that came my phantom. Limb says he feels terrible about what's said here and her family are going through and he supports them and city as mom has taught lamb some fundamentals of weaker cooking like hand pulling noodles so just like that though we just let it show let it sit and then we have to handle it when the noodles are done the chef fried them in a big walk with vegetables lamb and a dozen spices and sauces. The beer has lived in the Boston area for almost 10 years but she still refers to as home she wants more people to know what's happening there if I didn't do anything I'm. Right I shouldn't fight for my father and so dear says she knows speaking to me a reporter could put her and her family in danger but she's done being quiet. Add a customer reporting there and we are done for this let's talk edition of Boston calling you all can keep on talking if you want to hear us talk more catch up with us any time at b.b.c. World Service dot com slash Boston calling or download our podcast where ever you find b.b.c. Podcasts buzzing calling is produced at w g.b.h. In Boston in partnership with p.r.i. N.p.r. X. For me Marco Werman and the rest of our team until next time have a great week this is the b.b.c. World Service with a story that fueled conspiracy theories for 60 years tend to have been cut open from the inside as the many to skate from someone or some saying in 1959 the bodies of 9 Russian hikers were found in the snow that deaths unexplained I'm Lucy ash and I've been retracing their footsteps to tell the story of the Jackal of costs mystery at b.b.c. World Service dot com slash documentaries. And in 30 minutes assignment in Kenya former employees of Unilever leading desperate lives in 2007 they were attacked in their place of work during her selection violence now they're trying to sue their employer in English courts saying they're owed justice that they can't get in Kenya that's after the news raid on the b.b.c. World Service the world's radio station. 400 hours g.m.t. Welcome to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Tanya Beckett that been celebrations across America marking 50 years since the 1st human landing on the moon. The. British Airways has canceled all flights to Cairo citing security concerns there was no information there was no help there was no advice on any alternative ways of getting the tense verbal exchange between a rainy and British ships just before a British vessel was seized. Immediately. Obstruct the free and free stand or in fear of the Vatican is searching for clues into the disappearance of a 15 year old girl in 1983 You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service. As we have for b.b.c. News the exact moment the fast human sat foot on the moon 50 years ago has been marked with a celebration at the Museum of and space in Washington d.c. Crowds of visitors participated in the New Year star countdown to the moment Neil Armstrong took one of history's most significant staffs. In 969 Hof a 1000000000 people watched the moment on town of vision on Saturday the space agency NASA streamed the footage on law in giving a new generation a chance to watch the landing the NATO military alliance has condemned the seizing of a British flagged ship by Iran on Friday describing it as a clear challenge to international freedom of navigation in a statement the organization said it supported British efforts to resolve the issue through dialogue Iran state media says the ship and its crew have been taken to the strategic port of Banda in the Strait of Hormuz Tom Bateman has more from General in terms of the other news I've been speaking to them throughout the course of the last 24 hours or so they expect and that anxiety for those crew they are mostly Indian but they're also Russians Latvian and a Filipino on board the vessel but one official from the company tells me that they have heard in the last few hours via their insurers from a port official in Iran across the water here that the crew is in what they describe as good health. The people of Ukraine are electing a new parliament on Sunday in a general election which the new president for the Tamir Zelinsky hopes will consolidate his power and continue to sweep aside the old guard of politicians Steve Rosenberg has this report it's 3 months since Ukrainians voted for change by electing a political novice a comedian as their president the love him is a Lansky pledge to shake up Ukrainian politics and to push through reforms but to do that he needs a parliament that's on his side in the effort to capitalize on his unpopularity presidents and ski cooled today snap parliamentary election the issues that matter most to voters are the poor state of the economy corruption and the conflict in eastern Ukraine the war that against Russian backed separatists has left 13000 people dead British Airways has suspended all flights to Congress for a week as a precaution links to safety issues said the security situation in the Egyptian capital would be further assessed but did not elaborate the German carrier Lufthansa abruptly canceled its Saturday flights to Cairo also citing passenger safety world news from the b.b.c. . The social networking sites Twitter has suspended several Iranian media accounts because of how awesome and against people linked to the behind faith the Persian language accounts of spending by Twitter include the young journalist slub run by Iranian state broadcaster I r I b. The conservative Manhattan news agency some users had speculated that the move was a response to rising regional tensions but Twitter now says it's active because of coordinated and targeted Housman of the Bahai's minority faith in Iran. One of the 4 democratic congress women subjected to racist tweets by President Trump last week has insisted that she and her non white colleagues are not going anywhere Alexander Acosta quote as was speaking at a town hall event in her own New York district once you start telling American citizens to quote go back to your own countries this tells you that this president's policies are not about immigration it's about ethnicity and race and. Last week Donald Trump tweeted that the 4 democratic congress women should go back to where they originally came from the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica says 34 people have died after being poisoned to drinking alcohol laced with methanol The ministry also issued an alert against drinking several brands of spirits officials said they had confiscated around $30000.00 bottles the state governor of Hawaii has said extra troops and tear gas will not be used against demonstrators who are protesting against the building of a vos new telescope on what they say is sacred land David e. K. Had originally issued an emergency declaration and said National Guard troops would be brought in to remove more than a 1000 documents blocking the access road to Mona chaos on Big Island last week police arrested more than 30 people the protest as wants to prevent the construction of the thought to be to tout his scope. If you're listening to the news room from the b.b.c. World Service with me Tanya Beckett people across the globe have been marking the exact moment 50 years ago when the 1st person walked on the surface of the moon a special event to relive the historic journey and $969.00 was held at the national and Space Museum in Washington d.c. Never to fake was there to watch the celebrations was .