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Insecurity, which leads to housing insecurity and food insecurity. and the weight fell heavily on those who were already living on the edge. and i call it the year of clarity because for once, we could begin to see how disparities in this country that have existed through society get amplified. and we hopefully could see the need to address them. and related to that, in terms of the topic of gender violence, you know, during the pandemic, predicted in about march of 2020 or so, various health or...

Come later today when there is a vote on a motion that calls for a £15 minimum wage, something unions would like to see and a lot of the party membership would like to see but it�*s something that the party leadership, sir keir starmer and but it�*s something that the party leadership, sir keir starmerand his team attempted to remove from that motion. now they are saying they are quite happy for it to pass and it went automatically become public policy and will be a decision on the manifest...

Clarity besides the death of george floyd and others, can you tell us how the pandemic made 2020 year about gender violence? >> yes, of course there was isolation. there were the health challenges that people experienced. within that pandemic, there was a further burden put on vulnerable populations. so there was economic insecurity, which leads to housing insecurity and food insecurity. and the weight fell heavily on those who were already living on the edge. and i call it the year of clarity b...

Jake, this is the city that those deportees are being returned to. and it isnt just the very obvious and painful poverty that you can see all around the haitian capital thats the problem. its the sheer violence. you were just hearing more than half of the capital now in the hands of gangs. kidnappings that happen on a daily basis. just today, there was a kidnapping at the end of the street we were standing at. people blockaded it. so fed up with the fact police are not intervening in time or eno...

Have been released into the united states after being detained in del rio texas in recent weeks. alejandro mayorkas said theyre being monitored as their cases move through court. >> others still in custody could be deported to haiti. were on the ground in port-au-prince, haiti. >> reporter: good morning, christine and laura. another six flights of haitian deportees returned to the country. after so many months on the road and so many years away from haiti, their plan is simply to try and leave o...

Germany. i spoke with an analyst yesterday -- excuse me -- the other day, and she had a very good way of putting this, that angela merkel resolved quite a lot of problems, but she didnt solve the problems. those problems are financial and economic insecurity, and in the european union, a lot of the appetite for existing the european union we saw in the immigration issues, these are issues that will continue to exist even with angela merkel not stewarding everyone through them. >> matt bradley, t...

This kidnapping is at least the tenth in the haitian capital since tuesday. the very week that has seen thousands of deportees returned to port-au-prince. a city many had left in the fears following the 2010 earthquake, fleeing both its poverty and insecurity. now that is only getting worse. >> each time theres an uptick in the number of kidnapping, the authorities react by adding more patrol in the streets. >> reporter: you can see on the streets, that increased police presence. and yet, as vis...

Rights activists who say since tuesday there have been at least ten kidnappings in the haitian capitol including one at a sunday church service in which a man tried to rescue his wife from being kidnapped only to be killed himself. >> there is an uptick in the number of kidnappings. >> clashes between different gangs have blown out of control. the idps that are here, they had to leave their permanent village or camp site they were residing in since the earthquake since 2010. >> reporter: that is...

You currently have a big u.n. force as well operating in that region. one of the deadliest in terms of impact on those blue-helmet soldiers over the past few years. the bigger issue here is that this entrenched instability in the sawhel region doesnt appear to get better. youve had countries in a way look at a simplistic metaphor but fall like dominoes to this instability. increasingly burkina faso, which was a more stable country, is seeing this. the big fear is not only these countries in the ...

Watchdog. this is what she had to say about those kidnappings and that huge spike that weve seen over the course o. laf the last few weeks. >> translator: now the gangs are able to kidnap people day and night in these middle class neighborhoods. they move around on motorcycles or cars with impunity. the police and army are passive and have remained inactive in response to the actions of armed gangs which operate with much more intelligence. theres no response. the police did not respond to the i...