. well, at least 13 people have died in an explosion in west and gonna trog carrying explosives collided with a motorcycle triggering the blast that flattened dozens of homes. government has promised to cover all medical expenses and assist with the areas recovery. high stakes talks to com fears of a war and ukraine of ended without a breakthrough. although the u. s. in russia agreed to keep negotiating. senior diplomats met in geneva, this tension spike over russian troop billed out near ukraine. west as want of serious consequences of russia invades, although the kremlin denies its planning and attack. based on our discussion, i believe we can carry forward this work of developing understanding agreements together that ensure or mutual security. but that's contingent on russia stopping. it's aggression towards ukraine. so that's the choice, the grocer faces. now, you can choose the path of diplomacy that can lead to peace and security, or the path that will lead only to conflict. so you're consequences and international condemnation antigens. and you see linda digging deep to help out victims of saturday's volcanic eruption and su nami and 8 center has been set up for people to send food, water, and other items to tomba. more government aid from new zealand and australia is also arriving in the pacific nation. communications also being restored, allowing people to finally speak with family and toner. 11 iraqi soldiers have been killed in an attack by i sell. now. this happened at night at an army barracks in the l, as in district, north of baghdad. this is one of the was to sold on the iraqi military in recent months. so the stream is coming up next, looking at activism in poetry and feta see a bit later on ah i i am for me. okay. you're watching the stream bonus edition today act as an artist . he's work it inspired by current affairs. i'll be revisiting some of the special moments when we deemed the studio lights and ted this space into a stretch coming up the south african diekama is ation movement that spread around the world. and the israeli actress and director who support of palestinian rights for death threats and censorship. we start we 3 black muslim spoken word poets. tak tory sadie, had the sheer mhm at all. listen to my hard go. bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. god made it today. god made it today dar, made a do do do do, do there barbara? barbara, barbara. capitalism wants to put an end of that. that god in me. because since god is wealth, but god, himself ain't never been dollar. bill greene, i've seen politicians baptized and false dreams, but i've been great with like, keen enough to see past the facade and recognize god. that's because i've been grace with the spirit of fidel, ready to cash marquetto with the cash when my false settle wage, a war against minimum wage, with the range of free law cody and the coffee witness in the bloody aftermath. capitalism leaves behinds. and when get left behind, the machine says you're fine, then it takes your struggle. and he tries to refine like sugar. it's a domino effect. god bless, how we both wreck and take our bones and as to the shrine, how divine death must be. that's what the poor man used to be for man. before he was a 4 man before blacks, whole man, he knew he was the whole man. he meet somebody, the whole man. they helped him down the whole man. square cough never k. so today he got a whole pains and pray, like say, go verify in several. saddam mom reading the koran from me from say, die in while fighting to being on the, to me. but some people have really down for the cause. because if they could, they put me down for the cause, just because then they'll ask, now come how come? and he'll say what a grin like matson, mama should have known that the marksman already marked him. men who speak against the invisible cage are mocked men, the invisible hand, le call mocks with marks of round his neck, a spect creative flush filled cut and fill the bill. fill with cotton. how does the white man keep me picking all myself? see, i might have caught 10 if i never caught on to the both of the gold coast kwame kramer, removing the tumor, you're both centric countries attempted to make black men. they all prison for profit. now all profits in prison, man, dallas medallion, small, small living. even though they try to n next, my chess. so i may saw that i'm always kept la best. the cornell west. he came from the west side living in the west in now, smith and wesson. con, put the government, tell him that i meant to tell him that i meant to this poem, right here with me to dismantle the invisible cage. you are at a point where you are influencing younger poets out there. but i want to talk about how you got started because i know there was a point in your life where you were told you weren't good enough to be a poet. definitely. the high school was attending school. and basically they, they didn't think i have what it is to compete for spoken word in the specific competition a year later, at transfer scores. and we had a theater arts class. and the drove for that day was to tell a story. and it didn't matter which media we chose, we just had to tell the story. and i remember a year ago i wrote a paul, and i said, let me, i was comfortable in the class. everybody loved me. i was like when he shared his phone with me and when i shared it, everybody went crazy. well, this is crazy like everybody was like, oh that's hot. that's hot. like it was. it was a very like diverse group of young people. and then it just took off from there, my mentor at the time, jacob mayberry, he, he heard about my performance, and he came and met with me after class. and he said, i want you to come to our post club on thursday. and so when i went to the poetry club, i perform the same paul, he was, i congratulations on the baltimore city poetry room. and a year ago he was telling me that you need to join this team. do you need to sign? you have what it takes and i was like now i don't think i have what it takes. so as soon as we left the room, i rented a bathroom now cause he went to you for when my niece grows up with too much backbone for men to kneel before her, stan and a tongue as sharp as buyer. and she asked me and see, what do you do with skin that screams terror? i will tell her, right? because i know be well too ignorant to tell you not to sister, you are soldier safe in the melanin, in your skin for ink. so join your truth, but know that they will come for you even when you're too broke, to buy a spare to send for them, and their privilege will try to take all the letters of your page to write their legacy. and once there's no more inc, their privilege, we'll say what i don't see color. so as a guide to made you of ink for when you are broken. ringback and bloody from them you can ring, right? sure. legacy by tenderly caressing your skin because now there's an angel in you and god sends you a book that rhyme so that you could define the divine in you name one of our prophets. who wasn't a poet whose tone was more of suns to shine for you? and she will ask me, what kind of poetry does your skin love to recite? and i will tell her an insur writing poems that breathe like survivors for writers never die. we make heartbeats out of syllables in an eternity and of semi collins. for when my niece grows up with too much backbone for men to kneel before her bed and her tongue as sharp as fire. and she asked me and see, what do you do with skin that screamed terror? i will tell her, let it be heard for your skin. is the most supreme spoken word? the words of a said yeah, but share our community is responding. i mean has says the 2 things that always puts an emphasis on our speaking your truth, think you just heard or do that and not ending your poems in victim hood with her help, i've been able to take and bring a level of rawness and poetry to empower to my poetry which didn't exist before. and another person writes in that she's had the pleasure of watching city a perform and says that she loves it. because for me, it was the 1st time as a black muslim that i saw part of myself reflected in poetry. i me to did you feel that you have an extra responsibility that the gentleman on either side if you don't have you all representing it then you are representing here. yeah, yes, definitely. yeah. i feel like it's just kind of like you already have a responsibility as a black person, you already have a responsibility as a muslim. and then i'm a woman who's like, i have that responsibility as well. this isn't to take away from the fact that, you know, they had their own intersections but yeah, i feel like i have a responsibility to to represent all of my voices. i found god. 1 in a beam pie i think cool fees, place a top, the heads of felons who smiles to swallow, the mississippi. a witness the crackling morse code of test be double for life ref . why do are incinerator a suicide note? the a slam on no term mel, but the dope fiend. to marry him the philosopher malcolm the animal to chavez. ships, set sail and the name of isa jesus. hey, zeus prophetic nouns inscribed on the broadside of vessels, blessed by the highest councils in the land. human call go aboard it to the land, to turn souls and to profit with the lab in the face, children of mohammed in its belly, back and forth on the atlantic fro a mother raising her shackled hands to the heavens. for beggar law delivered his name until the famous mouths of her family fallen once again into chains, and we proclaim their shadow in the same position distant mother. i hope you'll see that the dawn is the 8 away drum still shaking us to the atom that su jude has dignified our pastor. yet again, know that a 3rd of those nations children of black like you bold like you wriggle like you. that kinked hair falls in the spines of crowns and valleys and mountain tops. we have never had a home here, but lord knows we can turn a banjo into paradise. lord knows we can turn them into la la. hey la la. yet down payment. just enough for us to buy our mo, lana's, religion and cold cash. you should see we've made space here, bothers arabic, gorgeously broken over a southern twang. i saw a nest under a northern b bob care shake the jazz out us step. can't pill the boom bat off our lips for us? this is always been about burning masses house to the ground and dancing in the ashes. a stadium full of our ancestors looking on this theology has always been about a soul. this of justice, a parade of freedom marching through the soul of return home. so one day the giver of light sees the light on our faces, sees us for our faces and welcomes us back beyond the veil. so for our says, how do we move? black must some poets out of the nice category and have it seen as a fully in will some or a slab make a poetic form of expression. and i would also say mainstream, then how do you make this mainstream? do you think there is a way or does it need to be tard, i think our responsibility as poets and definitely with these 2 phenomenal people next to us or to sister. so for our say that my job is to continue writing and on the people who produce the shows, ah, we'll work with them to see if we can get platform more. but our job is to write and convey as authentically as possible. and thus, i should be our focus as far as a niche category. um, ali slam is also rooted in expressing our experiences in coming to a slam and being muslim and all of that. and all those things are intertwined. ah, my mother, she became muslim. bol ah, becoming a part of you know, back over ration movement and things like that and being, i'm interested in deeply involved and trying to find herself in a society that didn't wanna. and then she became muslim because that was the answer for her. so they can't be detach it for me, it isn't particularly a niche so that you can catch up with the latest from tarik via twitter at target to ray sadie, i campbell found at either be well in bass at idabel well in and mohammed could handle 8th at fresh caught mo, back in 2015 students at the university of hate town campaign to have a statue of the controversial politicians settle, roads brought down the roads, must fall, protests were so successful. they energized the global discussion about how to de colonize education. some of the students who were involved in the original protest dramatized their story in a theater production called the fall. it was a hit in south africa and everywhere it taught. when the cast visited the stream, we talked about the play and how they became student activists. i was on the drama campus of the city. so we were very separate from the main body of the campus. and i remember there was talk of someone who had thrown pooh on the statue. and we were very interested in knowing what was happening. and i looked on my phone and i saw on twitter and on facebook videos of the sky and all these people standing around the statue. and for some reason, i was with a few of my friends who are in the play as well. and we felt drawn to the situation we, there was a, a rush of adrenalin, where we felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for. and we abandoned classes and, and we went to the brim, new building where there was a meeting held. and that's where everything started with people say, okay, well, if you're not gonna tell us when the status going down, then we're gonna occupy this building. yeah. and this is a subtle road statue which is on the, on the campus of the university of cape town. and it was a packet of poo that was thrown at cecil rhodes statue and a mirror for you. this was an education process to work out. what did this, can i done? the made some universal kate down students so furious about his presence there. yeah. and for a lot of students, i think we weren't really aware of what the legacy of cecil john rhodes actually was, because it's not really something that you get taught about at high school level. so only if you actually pursue history into university and maybe 2nd or even 30, or do you really start learning about the actual rock of colonialism as the twitter had said? um, so for me it was, you know, okay, people are really reacting to this statue to this moment. why don't i know about this? what can i do to seek out this knowledge? and really the only place that you could get the information was the movement. and it was amazing to be part of that moment where it wasn't only as a lot of people thought it was just this like angry bunch of students occupying buildings knocking down things. you know, being annoying to the staff members. there will also foam screenings that were hauled there were lectures with the black academics that were howled there was information that was passed around to people. and it was, it was really like an separate university to the university which was amazing. says well, what was it about this moment? why? why 2015. why not? 80000. why not last year? what was it about that particular tie? ha, i think it was time. i think, you know, the stars aligned and 2015 was lydia. and unfortunately to, to be part of that group of 2015 because of such a, a big symbol that the actual removed removing of the statute such a big symbol that, you know, we had that part to move the statue so the up till 2015 is the year, you know, i don't know why it was 2050 right, but it's, it's 2015 and that's when you know our lives changed. this movement belongs to all of us. it belongs to a whole lot of groups involved with transformation at the university. like the trans collective. i'm none binary. i mean that in bees all black monday, the black academics caucus, the workers' union. there's our see, i'm in that to when our comrade kamani through human excrement on the statue of rhodes. he was at a loss for words about how crappy it is for university students at this university . in fact, throwing some poor, the statue was a 100 percent articulate. it's amazing, really how so many people got let about some qu on a statue, but some very hard work was going on around transformation long before he did that . no, i, we need to talk about the statue and a dive. i'm a little confused. doesn't management want their stature to be taken down? i mean, i'm, they're just following due process to processing. here. my sister, we all know the history of all his debts on our campus. plumber tells us that men never wanted us here. yeah, no, sir. soul, john rhodes, i learnt about him in my 2nd year african history course. it was then that i realized that the history we were learning was not the history of africa, but rather that history of how britain and the western powers stole africa and covenant up into little countries. with people like livingston, leopold, and rhodes featuring as heroes. you see rhodes didn't only wrap up the kimberly diamond mines for himself or a couple of his buddies. thank you very much. he was an arc imperialist who believed the 100 percent in the superior of the english race. you know, all i learned about africans was how weak we were. we in weaponry, travelling, clothing, how we had to be civilized by the great christian nations. i mean, what kind of histories that, and they say he donated this land to the university, but whose land wasn't to begin with. the story of being black and writing history is not complete without addressing v most marginalized in society. you know, people like black people or women and then the struggle goes on to korea. bodies, non binary kid is like we saw one of the non finer kiddos in this kid that people just for now walking out. are people, whoa, whoa, who have disabilities? our image is not complete until all those people are, was empowered, feel like they can participate and can contribute into the movement. you know, as we, we have the privilege of taking the show internationally right now, but we definitely weren't like the architects of the 4 of the, the movement. but it's, it's a great thing that a movement in south africa was able to influence so many other universities. i remember in the shack down happened. and we also had a lot of universities supporting as shutting down their universities because their supporting for african universities in shutting down. so it's incredible. also the use of social media has helped the movement. so incredibly much it's connected so many voices that are going through. so many similar things across the world and across campuses for us to be like, oh so we're not the only, it's not crazy to feel the way that we feel and we're not the only people feeling this. so it's a great feeling to know that people that are in these educational these institutions are not there to just absorb information. it's like no, we're done with that. we are here to change a narrative. we're here to make sure that when we have children and they go into these institutions, they're not necessarily going through the same problems that we're going through, that they're there to learn because oppression and all types of forms, it disturbs you. it takes away so much of your time, so much of your heart. so much of your energy, you know, in areas where you could be grown as a person. that is like stunted because you're constantly having to validate yourself in situations where you really shouldn't have to, especially considering the fact that we're in africa. you know what i'm trying to say local where the majority we are in africa at the bottom of africa. but yet a lot of times it doesn't feel like that. and i was just going to refer to something that goal said about cape town came down is it's a beautiful city to look at us there typically. but it's very problematic, and i'm not surprised at the fact that the university of cape town because it's firstly, it's very hard to get into that university. and it's very diverse, which is a beautiful thing. but there's not enough of presentation and it's in cape town. and it just shows the type of environment that you know, we live in and yeah, i'm just glad that it's been able to influence other universities and then that name has stuck because a lot of things need to fall. the cast and creators of the for chatting to me, amicable out back in 2018. and we had to split the conversations into 2 episodes. so we had enough space at the desk to speak to all 7 performers, but they were definitely worth the effort. finally, the potent impact of political fietta, the plate shame, 2 point oh, explores the challenges of being an activist, an artist. in israel. it tells the true stories of his wally playwright, a. net wiseman and palestinian actor moran hassan in this expert foamed the production, killing delaney plays the role of a net, and then the real a. net joins the stream from television. sometimes it's the little decisions that make all the difference. that sunny morning in 2006, i chose a t shirt from my closet. it was a political statement, of course, but it was also a rather naive one. what started out as a torrent of abuse from members of the internet public went on to push us to perform this little play shame which led to others. what i didn't know then was that these voices of public abuse weren't merely fringe voices. but would go on to become the voice of the mainstream that my plays would be heated. we debated in parliament that the government would push for laws to try and stop me as a friend to terrorists. and so my personal transformation from t shirt wearer to playwright is also the story of the radical descent of my country . while despairing, the worsening and critical situation in garza and in all other parts of palestine for israeli artists from my country that i love. there is also a little hope that art, even if stumbled upon by hazard or chance can make a difference. i should something i know at your facebook page in that quote is on your facebook page on a poster here. there's also a little hope that art even is stumbled upon by has it or chance can make a difference. what difference is your art and morale, art making? and i think the most in a good example for what is the importance of us, is it, is that a loyalty law that a the minister of culture was trying to pass in the israeli parliament? a law of the m. m. a. every artist should be loyal to the states and a and if not, a funds will be taken from him. so i think this law that them, that me, that i gave was trying so hard to pass. it is like testifying to the importance of art because if and there is a needs to a whole government and pass a new law in order to, to fight against the play, white or poet, or a philistine in institution. that means that power in the art indeed has a power, and i think that they struggle here is about narratives and about perception. and i think that art has its role and together with history was the media and it was politics and norm. so yes, so i believe in art that wraps up i show for today. thanks for watching. phoenix, lou. ah ah, inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide, and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shape, tomato, award for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship. and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou on counting the cost one year, all the bite and administration. how has the u. s. economy fed unemployment done, but inflations, pop, and americans aren't happy about it. and also turkey's unconventional approach to inflation, could it actually boost economic growth? 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