About this happen i believe famously Lady Reading Hospital and births are all law. Abiding running out there were 90 basins in the isolation wards and died of god included mostly 19 kids however 7 of them died because there were. All the oxygen supply. There sure there were criminal negligence because nobody was manning the door to. Have a minimum of 10. 00. However there was none there were no backup. There were no. One turkey has eased its coronavirus restrictions off to a weekend of partial lockdown with businesses now opening again but the daily infection rate in the country remains one of the highest globally some costly one who has more frustrated stumble. After a partial lockdown over the weekend that ended 5 am local this morning life is back to its normal across turkey and in istanbul especially where we are in the tocsin district life is really back to its they were seen on this only sickness streets where we are all shops are open as you see and you have the locals and tourists coming and forcing buy and the restaurants and cafes are open for almost takeaways and deliveries and there are some extra measures especially for such a terrific area for instance there are Police Checkpoints in order to control the number of the people who will be able to close at any given time through the area and these partial measures will they will they help to curb the koran the virus is still on them but as some of the Health Experts suggest that the government needs to impose a full lockdown for at least 2 weeks but of course these are full lockdown is a concern for small businessmen across the country because they have to make their living and they say they need Government Support and for now its only the partial weekend like stones an overnight curfews us begin 9 pm and 5 am every morning and this is this is alarming for turkey given that the in within the last 24 hours the daily koran the wire risk cases hit a ball 30000 and the death is a ball 190 thats why time will show whether this partial measures will help curb or on the virus. Help people in ghana aversion to choose their president and members of parliament the main president ial contenders a nonactor for outer and the man he replaced 4 years ago John Dramani Mahama now both of them have find a pact saying they will accept the officially declared winner. Egypts president is in paris for a 2 day state visit hes meeting manual macron activists meanwhile are urging me to use this visit to address egypts Human Rights Violations and to push for the release of Political PrisonersIrans Foreign Ministry says its welcoming the progress made by all parties in solving the council blockade thats days after saudi arabias foreign minister said all involved are on board to try to find a resolution saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt imposed a land air and sea blockade on cats are back in 2017 among their demands was for doha to downgrade relations with iran tehran however says its relations with cats out will not be affected in Australia Emergency Services are evacuating homes in the path of a bushfire in queensland people on Fraser Island have been told to leave after the fire burnt large parts of the northeastern coast there the blaze was sparked by an illegal campfire 7 weeks ago and scorching temperatures are only making the situation was all those other headlines ill have more news for you here on aljazeera off to rewind. My. Hello and welcome to rewind im Richelle Carey and the decade since we launched aljazeera english back in 2006 it built a library of moving and powerful documentaries here army wine revisiting some of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on today we are rewinding 10 years to 2008 and rug amar set out on a unique journey across the United States to get to the heart of what it meant to be muslim in america and that was back in the decade of 911. 00 and the iraq war that followed since then of course the world has turned with the rise of isis the political upheavals that followed the arab spring the chaos of us and gulf 1st libya then syria and of course the election of donald trump and his travel ban so today its more important than ever to understand the history of a vibrant diverse and still growing Muslim Community and what it means to be both muslim and a patriot heres islam in america from 2008. Well i would think it was i think that. It. Would. Have. You. Mention america and islam and most people think of irreconcilable conflict but i suspect thats not the whole story in this 2 part series i hope to discover the truth relationship thats evolving between the 2. There is said to be 8000000 muslims in the United States and the faith is said to be the Fastest Growing religion in this country and the roots and history of islam a longer than most people are aware of i want to travel across this huge country to find out the stories of what its like to be an american muslim. In this program all the searching for the origins of islam in america talking to africanamericans who had just discovering that own islamic history and exploring is being american fits comfortably with being muslim. My journey begins with a trip to minneapolis in the midwest it may seem an old destination for a program on islam because its citizens are mostly jewish and christian but in 2007 voters here elected americas 1st muslim congressman Keith Ellison. Keith back on the campaign trail on a most significant anniversary today is juneteenth it commemorates june 19th 865. The abolition of slavery these are local political activists and theyre coming on the parade to get people in this community fired up about voting and at the halls of their efforts a young muslims playing their part trying to get congressman Keith Ellison the 1st muslim in congress reelected. Oh good spirit nice to see you Keith Ellison is a charismatic politician whos keen to get young muslim started in politics well you know were just having fun out here you know keith introduces me to his intern column would you say just sort of young muslims living in other parts of the world think being a muslim in america is a very tough thing and such are i mean theres advantages theres disadvantages we definitely have a lot more opportunity is that its kind of difficult going up any different especially where im from its a stance and the only muslim in my school the only muslim in my high school so thats definitely a challenge but once you get past that you know you can theres so many different avenues so many different opportunities for you to connect with and what its like to be able to come in the United States get challenging and rewarding on the same time but i think the most important thing to remember is that you only you know what we can make you know if we want and i encourage all muslims around the world to actually do the same you know please get to know you elected officials will get all thats the only way you can make a difference. And its going to get. You guys who are happy to see you know this is when the slaves go free right this is a great example of the american author of glad handing its the way to the electoral heart of the nation how candidates meet their votes is and has paid off for keefe here in minneapolis and its worked elsewhere now americans have elected to muslims to congress. All these historically been on the margins of American Society now come in you know when theres enough for. Everybody right now. For those muslims around the world in western countries who have no idea about the community here how would you say life is for muslims in america at the moment oh yes american one you dont hear about people getting hassled in the airports you know theres a long way to go absolutely because impression i mean come from britain in terms of sheer muslims is a base level is hiding under there. Thats broadly speaking that muslim living is really the beast not only did i not only did i just get elected by an overwhelmingly Jewish Christian Community so did andre carson whos a muslim here in indiana so people need to not look for excuses to disengage you have to get involved you have to run the risk that youre going to encounter bumps in a long way but you still have to see them yeah. Good friends are certainly keith needed the votes of christians and jews to get elected but theres a community of 44000 somali muslims here the biggest in america they even have their own t. V. Network and they got behind keep. Some of the t. V. Off minnesota and were so glad to hear today. From. Redlands focus to the muslim. Countries i think muslims in european countries. Believe that you know they joy the greatest freedoms in the muslim communities in the west are thriving most of all in europe and when they think about the position of muslims in america to be honest with you i think they think that the numbers are tiny before i caught the plane here actually i was with my mom and i said oh you as we send someone. How many muslims do you think theyre on in the whole of the United States and she said 100150000 you know the whole United States in the whole United States but i mean as i understand there is anywhere between 5. 80. I mean when you think about america as a land of opportunity and sort of seizing things with both hands maybe the sort of you know the next rock humas if i could be so arrogant as to say that will come from here it is you. I have distant relatives in the Somali Community here theyre among the 1st to escape the civil war thats been raging in my homeland off and on for decades 20 years on and the new wave of refugees has arrived from somalia some of Just Graduated College and the throwing a party to celebrate their achievements we came here to take advantage of the opportunities here at the same time to keep our identity as muslims were all going through the same experiences lets not forget our identity and lets give back to the community thank you very blast person because. I get a little bit emotional. Weve been given so much you know weve learnt so much. Well you read the news its happening at home i have nothing to complain about. After that we need some laughs so i want to welcome i am doing. Thank you very much but the problem is that it is beginning to close me so mother right it is better than me. Luckily hes a big shot making one me about a year who knows that i dont know how you do among the much alcohol you know was at the height. Of the. My adopted home england has a bigger Somali Community the minneapolis and its been settled for longer but they do tend to think of england as home my parents the typical their mental bags are still packed to return to somalia but thats not true here the somalis are no less scarred all traumatized by their experiences of planted roots deeper and faster than any Somali Community ive seen in the world they dont talk of returning home they are going over the last mission thats got it i want to. Tell you something its a message that came across loud and clear and i was still hearing it in the taxi to the airport with how much so whole of you lived up to 2 years 13 years yeah and you came from some honest somalia. Having been there for a long time there was a lot of problem last 1517 years. In england we somalis you know were not that organized you know here in america you dont organize if you dont vote if you dont disobey the american way of living you lost. You know but thats the way to be visible thats the word to get heard yes can you be muslim and american up to yes do you have to sacrifice one to be the other you. To be america 1st and you have to do what other americans decertify as a live to defending america because this is our country this is feel that you know i mean you dont think about. My life defending this country. I get the welcoming i get. Thats a powerful thing compared to where i come from how we were how i was you know slaughter a friend of mine who died the war where we come where i come from coming here. You know having what i have. Is home. To minnesota is a liberal state in the democratic heartland of the midwest a welcoming place for the somalis the latest black immigrants to establish themselves in america but in the early years of its history america was the very opposite of welcoming for the 1st africans to reach these shores. For 300 years africans were brought here in chains a slave labor im heading to jackson mississippi in the deep south to meet some of the descendants of those 1st africanamericans because it seems that their history lines at the heart of the story of islam in america. This impressive looking building is actually the state capital of mississippi and ill be honest ive come with my own really strong preconceptions about the south for me its about being in the hearts of the bible belt its about prejudice and the history of segregation but actually being told that the story of islam in america begins of all places here centuries before. And its a story that begins with slavery. Its. Starts here because most of the slaves shipped from africa came to work the plantations of the south among them when muslims. Forbidding from practicing their faith they found secret ways to keep islam on life calling the faithful to pray here in mississippi is abdul rashid he believes that one way they achieve this through. The africans brought to me was a kid slave people blues came from mississippi i dont think so ive been hearing about the link between the call to prayer and the songs that slayings used to sing in the fields how they similar the call to prayer a lot. If you ever went to a Baptist Church then you can hear this in a Baptist Church all of the baptists especially the southern baptists. With a capella. Singing and the whole congregation to sing you know. Love. And be called the entire koran was basically chanted yes as you know and it was chanted basically a minor scale you see that connection to you and your singing things that had deeply embedded within the sort of African American experience in the blues not only that but that was one of the things that. Guided me to islam really is the music and when you start reading when i was introduced to the koran and that was he founded there as well founded well. So i think for my opinion this is just what i opened it with my opinion of the dollar and something you get a cup of coffee maker but this is my opinion that this entire movement is a Spiritual Movement and is geared toward islam. Like abdul more and more people of all ethnicities are finding their way to islam a 3rd of all muslims in america about 2000000 a converts the people at the mosque in jackson convinced that this is having a positive impact on the entire nation oconnor was shed is one of the founding members here today have you heard so much about it yet. And were expected to have a caller who is involved in a new Research Project with 25. 00 other historians they believe their discoveries will not only rewrite the history of islam in america but transform our understanding of african cultures i think were leading the way actually. As part of this initiative a cofounded the International Museum of muslim cultures the 1st in America Research here suggests the number of muslim slaves was much greater than previously sold one 3rd of all of them slave to africans that were brought to america actually were muslims nobody knows this is new cutting edge information because when we read our history books we dont see that we have one of the Great Stories here in mississippi in a place called natchez mississippi we have the story of our prince abdulrahman ybor he he was an african muslim prince and scholar came out of the area around cambio and he was actually slave to matches for over 40 years and we have that story but but youre a combination of all these things thats unique here to the to the deep south on she i mean africa american and muslim and why. Why is that why is it important to stress i mean in this exhibit in your work this missing link of islam in this in this makes the most important reason is that its going to help the africanamerican to become a 1st class citizen am opposed to a 2nd class citizen and this whole standing up for rights fight for freedom leaving the whole effort in america for reforming america and bringing america to respective own constitution blending is really was thats what makes me optimistic about the future. This corner of the exhibition is really interesting because youve goals real evidence of this link between islam and slavery in mississippi and it him of the man who was known as the prince among slaves who was sold into slavery for 40 years before winning his freedom and going to live as a free man in liberia and i understand that there are his descendants still living in the United States and im going to try and find them. I now see that whats up the heart of the story of islam in america is the story of slavery and on this issue america was divided as early as the 17th seventys some americans were calling for the abolition of slavery one of these Thomas Jefferson proposed forming a colony in africa to take freed slaves but it wasnt until 863 after the civil war that slavery was finally abolished with it came the economic collapse of the Southern States which depended on slaves the big plantations fell to ruin and 2000000 freed slaves headed for the northern cities. For those who stayed behind life remained brutal well into the 20th century lynching and murder where every day facts of life africanamericans across the south. African americans have been telling me that here in mississippi a place ive always assoc