Jazeera. Ah, hello, are you watching al jazeera, these are the top stories this hour. At least 30 people have been killed. Following a sage on a hotel in mogadishu, the standoff which began on friday ended after Somali Security forces stormed the building. 40 others were also injured after al chabad gum and blasted their way into the facility room. Matessa has the latest from nairobi in neighboring kenya. Is the 1st major attacking the capitol among the dishes since prism i came with the power in may and when he came into power, he promised to deal with insecurity. So now questions are being asked, how did algebra manage into tell how did manage to hold onto it for so long, 30 hours. And what is this government going to do to prevent further attack from taking place . In recent weeks theyve been smaller attacks, but also bob mainly need the border with ethiopia. And if you have managed to push out bob back. But then of course, people are saying that this could suggest that according to the man lives that maybe its also bob trying to change tactics. The daughter of pro kremlin and political commentator, alexander duke, and has been killed in a car bomb explosion in moscow. The father and daughter of vocal supporters of rushes, invasion of ukraine rescue is in iraq, are searching for people trapped under the rubble of a collapsed shrine and believed landslide cause part of the shrine in kabbalah to caving on. Saturday. Officials have confirmed for injuries and save italy could rise brazil former president lewis in a cl lula. Desilva has held his 1st rally since campaigning officially began for october. President ial election, lula says the current president ial a both scenario is attacking brazilian democracy. A poll published on monday, she has a 12 percent laid over both in our and work is at one of the u. K. Busiest ports had walked off the job, but felix stow port accounts were close to half of the countries Container Freight traffic the a walk out by the union with my pay dispute. All right, those are the headlines. Im emily anglin. The news continues after democracy, maybe to stay with them. What is life . Why in maximum security prison in these 2 parts, special report, one, i want a goes behind it. Singapore is showing you prison on just 0. I know i i what is a democracy . I dont know. Ive never lived in that just guy i i grew up in the south. During the crack epidemic me, people was shot in front of my door. My neighborhood was rougher than anyone can ever believe. 5 kids. 1214 shot in the hey. I was just always, i was always different. You know you realize how hard you make it for people in the community to realize how far you make some people in the community. I had serious anger issues. I was drinking a lot. I would love. I gave my life back to god and it put me on a different path, right. So i came up with black lives matter, create a new york. If i see the police doing something wrong, always because the problem is the average people in our community are too afraid to say anything. Activism chose me. You know, my parents met at a civil rights rally. My father was leaving the protests. My mother looked out the window, he was like, you know, what are you doing up there were protesting girl come on down. Right. So she went down, rest is history. Black history, we are doing really well with the African American community, with a hispanic community. Were doing well with women, were doing very well. See my childrens lunch because i cant stay in one place for too long. Im bouncing around kind of live in my life on the right. Right. But im not running. Im just not making myself an easy target. I live out in the back of the car daily. Im going to kill you. Im going to kill your family. We make ourselves hard to kill. Thats our goal. We are hard to kill bourbon women. They love the, you know what . They want security and they dont want project mean right next to that i dont want omar has never been a Rural Democracy in the black people will never experience that. Oh, today do not want to see our election victory stolen by more than radical emigrants, which is what theyre doing and stolen by the big news media. Thats what theyve done and what theyre doing. We will never give up. We will never get to see it doesnt happen if you dont. Good with the january, 6, assault on the Capital Building in the United States was the most shocking day in america since september 11th, 2001. Ah, and in many respects, more horrifying. It wasnt done by foreign terrors. It was done by merican ah, it was an attempted coup against democracy in the United States. I am often asked why have you spent your whole life studying democracy . We have extended family who narrowly escaped the holocaust. There remember, one friend would come over is a survivor of the concentration camp and the numbers were tattooed on his forearm. So when you see in extremis, the ultimate cost of authoritarian rule, when there are no checks on the power of a ruler and a ruling party and a ruling ideology gone mad, it ought to drive you had certainly drove me toward a very passionate commitment to freedom. Ready ready ready democracy is in retreat, freedom is in retreat and more and more countries are slipping backwards. Ready many of the liberal democracies of the world, the high quality democracies, have been losing ground and in particular, the United States, our democracy is under unprecedented song. I never imagined that democracy itself could be in danger. Like anything weve seen in modern tribes with last a lot of ground in terms of Voting Rights and polarization. The independence of the courts trust under the electoral processes. So i, americans tend to be a bit insular and proud. And so its natural to think american democracy began in 1770. 00 search with the declaration of independence or the freeing of the slaves and the granting of the franchise to African Americans in the south. The United States had become full electoral democracy until 1965. When we pass the Voting Rights slaves and the slave on would they be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood . I have a dream. Washington, d. C. 1900. 63, im microsoft speaks, and on my voice when president johnson introduce of Voting Rights at to the american public, he used the language of the civil rights movement. I mean, it took almost a 100 years to realize that those civil war amendments granted because there was a push back to the rights that were granted on the amendments. We had the what we call the jim crow error where lots of states pass laws that made it impossible for minority voters, black voters to be able to vote. They had literacy tests, they had poll taxes. So while on the books, it said you had the right to vote. In reality, you didnt who you know, you hear that america is one of the oldest democracies in the world. But in reality, most people have not had a chance to participate in our democracy. And even now were facing a lot of laws that try to limit or create barriers to that participation. I could direct the Voting Rights project that work with the open my eyes to the challenges within our democracy. It wasnt just about elections, but it was the rule that Racial Discrimination played in voting right. So is america . Democracy is the country thats learning how to be a democracy, but its not there yet. And wanted to make sure that my daughter would become a citizen of a democracy who is really engaged and not taking that democracy for granted. I with democracy in the ideal should definitely be one person, one vote in a simple way. Democracy is self governing right. People choosing their own leaders, people being able to govern themselves. But were finding out that democracy requires the quality ah with the development of technology in the development of a global system, its becoming much clearer how equal we are and how far we are from the values that we claim to have with a certain point to think about when we set that intention, right when we called our son democracy. And i think we spend the rest of our existence of the country trying to get there with i have spent a lot of time thinking and writing about the into war period in europe. I never imagined that setting the into war period would have a lot to teach me about what was going on in my own country. I hadnt thought very carefully about how fragile democracy was, how much it took to make it work and how easily people could forget how valuable democracy was. Democracy originally, the term comes from the greek rule by the people. So on some basic level, on this idea of rule by the people is quite ancient. So on the most basic level, democracy means that people have the right to choose their leaders and governments in free and fair elections. Now that sounds very simple, but in order to have truly fran farrell actions, 1st of all, you have to have freedom to organize politically, to Campaign Around the country to run for office. You have to have freedom to vote. That means all different groups in the country have to have, at a minimum, the franchise the right, the right to vote on the right to contest for office. I think democracy stem o from the innate desire of human beings for dignity, for respect. One person, one vote that citizens have political equality. And of course, in the United States, as in many other parts of the world, that remains an ideal, but not a reality. I do not think that the election system and of countries bear, i think that there are so many problems with the way that we do elections and is extremely inaccessible. We do not have universal voter. Reggie gratian, like many democracies do. So there are so many steps between an eligible voter and actually voting. The rate of voting in this country is low and thats a direct consequence of an over overly convoluted registration process. Do you register online, you register by mail, for example, in texas you have to be deputized. These are all things that stand in the way of people boating. So our elections cant possibly be fair. They arent actually representative of the american people. First and foremost, not everyone has the right to vote, and of course, that disproportionately affects people of color. Thats why trump one, because we havent done anything about racism in this country. Ah, no, its a question. We often ask ourselves, how did the us get to that point . Ive just received a call from secretary clinton. When a donald trump emerged on the scene as a president ial candidate in 2015. I thought it was political theater. And really theater of the absurd. I will totally accept the results of this great and historic president ial election if i, when he gained more momentum and was able to win the republican nomination and a divided feel, im asking for the vote of every African American citizen struggling in our country today. Who wants a different and much Better Future . And i told my friends around the world, dont worry about it. It was an unlikely event, like a once in a century story lakes. I love what healing ah, so november 8th, 2016 was one of the most shocking and alarming a nights of my life. I was worried for american democracy and i was worried for democracy around the world. The combination of the 2008 recession. It had hurt working class incomes in the United States salon stagnated for the last 2 to 3 decades, while the very rich were becoming ever richer. Much of the middle class, the traditional white working class, felt threatened as well by social change by immigration, the movement of racial equality. And its just so much social change happening that a lot of people felt their world was being turned upside down. And the way that has been manipulated by populous like donald trump playing on racial anxieties and divisions. It was a very, very volatile mix. We are returning power to you, the american people. Ive gotten more indian blood in me than you do it. I am not. Mm. Mm ah, i deal with a number of organizations are referred to as patriots in georgia. Im the president of new york halls keepers. We expect people to live up to that definition of honoring their role to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Ah, my background is that i been in war, i was in vietnam. The reality is that you learn things and more that you cant learn any world people wonder what a patriot its someone who loves their country and wants the best for it. And there are many people who believe that there are factions within the United States who dont want that. It seems like our country has moved away from being a christian today, based country to wanting to be a socialist country. My biggest fear for america is the decline of america moving too far to the left. Joe biden. I dont believe hes moderate less. I believe hes going far left so that the people can be more and more dependent and the government for everything. If you dont have a job, were going to give you money. But the ideology of the right side is that capitalist society, it gives everybody an opportunity to be rich. My parents came from puerto rico, both of them came from puerto rico. Ive worked hard for what i have. I went to school i study, but look at me where i am, we need immigration. We need to bring people into this country. We have to, we cant have uncontrolled immigration. Uncontrolled immigration will lead to a disaster will lose our country. We have oh, oh, oh, you gotta be thankful for true. He exposed america for what it really is. He showed you that 70000000 people in this country are races. Evil hateful people, the reading houses of mexican brothers and sisters. We protested for that. I was arrested for that. Police beat me up. They damage my spine. Ah, america expects us to protest peacefully. Meanwhile, is country was founded on bloodshed with with there was a lot of painful moments in a trump presidency. He did a lot of evil things to people. Well, actually set it out, was guilty of treason, insurrection, in sedition. And after he did that, the following week i received over a 1000 deft, right. I get Text Messages every day, saying were coming to kill, you dont come to my town. Lynch. Were going to hang you. Were going to lent you. So people put threats on my life serious threat on august the when it happened, i was like, ok, i graduate i graduated president of the United States of america. Heard my words and thought i should be put to death. Part of me say im doing something right. He put it on the were using now you just want to lose your right eyes with history. They want to kill you and youre doing the job. Youre doing a work of liberation. So we wait a bullets, well learn how to fight. We learn how to shoot. We will have weapons to defend ourselves. But this is just what it is. You step out there and put your life on the life of black people. You are looking america in. Im saying, im ready to die. Race continues to be the single, most powerful and enduring dividing force in american politics. We all know this is the original sim of american democracy is slavery. It was incredible that the america, at its beginning, was able to say all men are created equal while having a significant enslaved population. When america started only white men with property could vote. And america has been struggling since that time, with the ideals that are written down in our documents. All men are created equal ah, my dream is that people like a my daughter, the young people does have a full voice and dont feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. I think about how, how much has changed, and then with the kind of thing that Martin Luther king with faith and john lupo, at that time. But at the same time, you had to think about how much still hasnt changed. And we still like we were celebrating the 50 something memorial, but we still were talking about the same thing and just different versions of it. I guess that those fundamental issues havent really changed. You have to be vigilant because it just, if you dont pay attention, you go right back. Exactly ill those times. And i think thats really my fear as we move forward because now we have a new president. But i dont want that to mean that we stop try that we start working because thats exactly how itll come right back around whenever you go backwards the arc when you fight for progress, the arg was a little more of a head. So you are going forward, but you all still have to fight about going back, you know, and i think thats an important thing to think about because especially when you think about how much really hasnt changed, its easy to feel defeated, feel i good point low. But i think, i think every actor is us to try to address that for themselves, knowing that you will work your entire life and in that being will really change. But just think about what would happen if nobody did anything ah pro democracy activists risking their lives fighting autocracy on me. I know that i might go to prison. Good. So i will join the ronnie. Democracy may be exposed. 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