Yes. Ah, iraqi stacy have earned the right to have a little jane basra, the ultra 0, but. Ah, im told mccrae with the headlines on al jazeera, theres been an explosion and one of his samples most popular to response to key as president says at least 6 people have been killed in 43 have been injured in the blast. Lets give you an idea of where the blast happened is tickled straight is a thoroughfare thats lined with shops and restaurants, and popular with tourists and local was the street is also famous for its heritage tram system to key as president risk type, edwin head, this update a short time ago, he seemed a little woo, could i do . It would be wrong to say this is undoubtedly a terrorist attack. But the initial developments and initial intelligence from my governor is that it smells like terrorism, initial finding share among the people, flaying a woman has played a role in this. In other news, the Democratic Party has retained control of the u. S. Senate catherine cortez. Mester narrowly defeated, her republican challenger at a lex ulten, nevada. Control of the house of representatives, remains undecided. I tell you what, congratulations the offender schumer. He got a majority again. Were focusing now on, on georgia. Feel good about where we are. And i know im a cockeyed optimist. I understand it really. Im not surprised by the turn out. Im incredibly please. And i think its a reflection of quality, of our candidates in the theyre all running on the same program or anybody wouldnt run on what we did all stay sticky with. And so i feel good, im looking forward to there couple years. And with just to weeks to go until kick off the faithful will come. Trophy has landed in katara. Its been on a tour right around the world, including stop. Ive isnt all 32 nations that have qualified for the tournament. Host katara, take on ecuador and the opening game next sunday. Those are the headlines. The news continues here on al jazeera, after a sense of community up next. Me. Ah ah, ah. I welcome to the hebrides, scotland ah, the hebrides, a chain of island off the west coast of gland. Ah, the valley far weve got some spectacular scenery ah, to be on the beach and the sea can look absolutely beautiful. Caribbean blew me off. Any close knit community, Everybody Knows everybody in awe, challenges their populations have been the last 60 years. Ah, we dont have people to walk all the jobs that are going on. Its a really alarming scenario that weve got the population as something that we can change. If we just, we but more a chart of rebuild our communities rather than just lament or loss i ah, ah, i absolutely feel blessed. And every time you get this excitement, like, what are we going to see this time . Ah, is constantly while its always keeping you on your home, but it doesnt matter what whether the colors are always back. I dont co starred Laughlin Laughlin would have been enough for all the area to see our ah, my dad is very involved with the c as well. He runs a boat to a company here where they go to look for wildlife and take tourists around the island. We have loads of animals. Here we go, alters steals whales. Dolphin, eagles, everything. And there is no place white like ah, i have been wild thing. My entire life, me, if it was up to me, i think id be in the see 247. This is probably the war miss time of year, the temperature wise, right . But 14 degrees, which is roasted, but winter drops to source of 5 or 6 degrees. The people, even in the whole of the hebrides, know me as the hebrides and mermaids or our mermaid. I started swimming with a model often with my feet stuck together. And then i got a tail, although i thought it was so weird, i put it off for years. But i thought last too short. Why not just do a depend posted a video online. And the reactions were actually quite positive. It just seemed like a sort of breath of fresh air for the world. Ah, the, i think ive definitely become unintentional. Influence. So here i hope to be someone who represents our way of living to sort of paradise. I see in me ah, we we, we, we, we, we, we mm hm. Bye bye. Bye. Bye bye. Boat day. Been working today the full of beans. Come by. Come bye bye. Ah, its not an easy place to live. Youve got to work hard to live here, and you only get out of it. What you put into it when youre outside in the winter and its raining mud all over the place and your boots come off in the mud. Done yes. Up to your knees, and its just like, why am i doing this . Why am i young party is when nothing goes wrong. Something always goes wrong. I spend my whole life croft up. Its 2nd nature to me, a croft as a piece of land. The way across with farming is, 1st of all, i do not own the land. I am a tenant. But as long as i use that Land Property agriculturally that land can be taken off. The cutting, uniquely scottish thing family help on that cross crop doing is a way of night. It is a job that is a pain in my box site. That is something i love. It is my passion. We dont have loads to she each of us, you know, youll have a few people will have maybe 23040. 00 sheep. So you get together and you do a lot of work together, sharing the sheep. Quite often its done together the crops he would, i love that of that. Around about 7 acres. I got 3 of them. I used to common confusing as well. So the common carriers in the shared glazing that everybody can access on ups. Tens of thousands of acres in the coast. Id able to roll over a large area. Ive got to be careful by this one because she, she, she think be a little bit violent. The times. She hurt me 3 times with our horns. Not the point to the horn, but like the front of it, its like been baseball back. I ended up in hospital 6 months ago. These are the highland coast that a native scottish breed. I think the gorgeous that theyre brilliant. They look great. I live in nest, which is a district right up at the northwest took off the hebrides. What really, bugs me is when people come here and say, oh youre remote, youre isolated, youre cut off. I instantly turn on, its hard to say what im ever remote from. This is the center of the Universe Center my universe. Ah, i feel a whole year. I know everybody, Everybody Knows me. He brought me the city and anonymous. Its easy to be surrounded by people and be all alone. Youre never alone, youre even a few people are right. I. We love our factors out of the 1st time away to the city. Not like we didnt really pick of factors because the world that i was everybody had their own backed up. So factors out a big part of like its difficult to describe because its just a selective road. Its fun. All factors got the stock point. And then i have around the whole district going through every village, the tractor run goes right and you collect the money. And we all know beforehand its going to this family or individual we, Everybody Knows is having a tough time. So its a note of hebrides code for the the are giving me a wee bit harder to get the pin center was a cut off the i dont have a large number of the Historical Society and the record in the heritage culture of the island and something normal joy to work in a place like this. Every day, youre surprised by the thing i thought about people bring in quite often we get people to nathan photographs we find in that house. And often they dont know who the people are. So we have a, could you guys could come in every week looking up for to get off identifying the people in them for the records. You can see the history in the landscape everywhere you look, ah, we have places like the colonies. We have churches, monuments, lots of historic building. The site shows up when people on the table to be for 10 years him to the society is traditional. That shows the who love the same. So this area have the highest number of garlic speak. Ocean scotland is vitally important that we retain this information about language, head central, no culture for future generation ah, committee to office locals, musician teachers to children, maloof in for important to keep those children from those and keep them alive. Right, so you start lilian. Second 12844. Her cd. Good to go for just spoke with her one, launching a whole village. Come and just enjoy an evening of music and dance. I feel is they important to, to be a bridge from one generation to the next m, so that we dont lose the unique and vital heritage that we have. My mother was born here and all her generations of her family. From here i was born on the mainland. I just really loved being here, and i also liked helping, growing the croft and helping with the sheep. What ive learned from living here is that you just have to take time and enjoy whats right and you help other people enjoy being part of an a community your hold it donald my. When i 1st joined the band, it was all under 60 plus aged men, not one in the band. This is where we meet the thursday night and have them for the past 20 years. And we play some tunes and beat them yarn. Some of them very long the i was quite shy when i moved here. Well, the band, i wouldnt have grown into the, the person i am no, it was actually in my uncle. He used to tell me to come along to him a large band, and i was really grateful that i did ever do miss those days. I didnt pick them up the time when we lost my uncle. He was the 1st member that we actually lost and it was very hard to come back into do bond over the years, the numbers have declined with losing membership. You possibly do fear that the music will be lost. One of the things that keeps me coming back is to preserve it. I me i if you drive around the island, youll see a lot of houses many of those houses have been empty for 2030 years, possibly even more. Oh round about 2010 i started can so quite seriously interested in photography and i think probably the old houses appealed to me because sometimes when i go in the choir this very clearly it almost fail yourself. Imagining little bit about the persons life just by what you can see around it in in the 1st time i photograph rep help to raise the issue, put it more in the public waltz, allowing some of the population thing to happen is that so much of the land is owned by absentee landlords, very wealthy individuals, the own large slices of scotland, and they dont have involvement with the actual place. They completely out of touch with people trying to make a living here. Oh, the me. Ah, shes always been part of my family. If you go back through my family, her people have been here for hundreds of years. My own family were cleared from the original land to make way for sheet farms all shoot any states that were just told your times up. Youve got to move on. People who are forcibly either evicted, sent a way to really to counter to america or to less respectable talks about islands such as the rocky east coast of the islands, thomas lunar landscape. Its just like a massive quality in places. Suddenly made life very difficult. And i would say even today, hundreds of years later, which i real frustration as to how we have been molded in some ways to be the community that we are today when theres been things taken away from us. I, my industry pushing is significantly impacted by the population that are both going. She with just one or 2 people. So youve got a very small crew trying to do the work of many. The crews on rollers working from these islands from ghana and also from Eastern Europe to make up the shorter gently about the business are struggling all through the islands. Due to lack of workers, if you dont people of our work and age, your whole economy stagnates. I think the majority of people i went to school with of left as a local trying to meet someone here. Im related to move to the island. So its not ideal really. We are desperate to get more young people here, young families, and to keep the life and the activities going. The government started the scheme where they were offering 50000 pains to young people from the mainland to move to the habit. And far as i know, it didnt really work. They will struggle just as much as a local. Well, what we need is to help people and money isnt the only answer. I think about the people team, the boys and the people team, which 30 guy quite a few that we dont have partner. You going to stop it at night . Its not yours. I was at your i think part of the problem is that we have been exporting people for generations which neu, easy answer to it, to both jobs, to buy houses. The distiller use was brilliant because its provided so many jobs on the fact. So many people on it, skin worldwide tension. Mm. What drove me personally to get involved with because i grew up here. The eightys means everything to me. My family have lived here for generations. Courtland obviously world famous for producing whiskey, but because theres no history of distilling here, there were new people qualified to do those jobs. So the Company Invested heavily and employing people locally who wanted to have a change of career that came from lots of different backgrounds. And they sent them off to learn how to become to still, it was no way we were going to feel of it. You know, were all local. We have to make it work. And that did give everybody a real energy to make it succeed. We wouldnt be more people what not over the years. To ne fortitude jobs is a lot, a small community, a lesson to pay for people. And we do have a young workforce. Weve also helped be a capitalist to think for some other companies to set up and are also employing lots of people with great opportunities. The real challenge is that the young people that have come to work with those here, they cant stay here because of lack of housing. My partner and i rent a house on the edge of the ocean and it is in the middle of nowhere. But we are absolutely in love with it and were so lucky to have faith, we really, really struggled because everywhere is either 2nd home or its just empty or its rent during the summer months. Tourism brings in a lot of money to our economy. But because its such a seasonal industry that winter villages are growing dark because theres no one here. I think the worst come would be that we end up with no young people here. There is a possibility that a community could completely crumble. I live in the base of harris, the district. The population is a little over 700 people. They the current landlord. These an english person, the inherited it from somebody who bought it nearly a 100 years ago. The community. So for him, because the income, the generated go into the landlord is not being used here for anything since 2012. Ive been part of a Steering Group who ive been given the job of looking at the, into the viability of a community by out. The landlord basically suggested this. You have a vote gauge the interest of the community. If they send a strong signal that they want to go in favor of a buyout, then he will enter into negotiations with us over the sale we are seeing. Bordering best rates have gone into Community Ownership. They managed to do development to make improvements, and we think grow. Weve seen the population increase both of our neighbors and the base of harris on the absentee landlord. Weve kind of feel a little bit isolated and weve been left out ah, in. I think we knew best to look after land when it comes up i it, theres no guarantee that everybodys going to get people out of a quite often scared of change. Youve got to be quite brief to take risks. The both have taken place. Im quite apprehensive. I genuinely dont know which way people are going to a voted the turn i was sent. Want to proceed. The question like what are you in favor of Community Ownership of the be 290 . No 170. Yeah. Well that was quite rocky. Good night. Still go away to go. Weve got to get a whole deal settle with the landlord. The probably will be arguments over what projects of pursuit will actually get money into it. But i still feel that about far more beneficial to have those argument over that money because at least if hearing something will happen with it. A lot of people lament the loss of population and the islands and look back rather than looking ahead. A lot of that lament is based in frustration over the injustices that were done previously. I partially feel we need to be looking ahead b. C. Nobody opportunity that we can to build a sustainable feature for our community for our children. What i like about united hebrides is the people we have a very, very strong identity. It gives a real connection to where we live because the people here have had to work hard for our community. Ah, what the hebrides mean to me . Ah, is happiness home feeling at one with where you are . The community that youre in . Ah, yes, hebrides can teach the world to appreciate what the rain them. Some places are worth struggling to live in, but its worth the hardship. Its not all by a big modern, im up to date and social sometimes just by what the writing do. Ah ah ah ah ah ah. A with from talk to al jazeera, we got a limit of a gun. It was sent at band and by the International Community we listen, we have a huge price for the war against terror. 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