Hi, I'm Denji. And in today's episode of my self hosting series, we're going to take a look at how you can install your very own peer tube instance. Before I begin with the tutorial, I'll just explain what peer tube is. Peer tube is your own self hosted, federated and decentralized version of YouTube. I'll explain what that means. Well, you know what self hosted means.  And then you can access your own website by your own domain, which you should have if you're going to be doing this. You should have a domain and you can watch your own videos. You can upload them. You can like them. You can comment them. You can do everything you can do on YouTube differences is that this is, you know, self hosted, which means, you know, there's no real rules as to what you can upload within the realms of legality, of course. And there's also the features of federation and decentralization. Whenever I watch a video on peer tube, so clicking on just any video of mine, I connect to peers. As you can see here, I only have one peer that being the server I'm currently watching this video off. And if more people were to watch this video, so as you can see in his five views, if those people were online, then I would have multiple peers to connect to. It's the same thing as BitTorrent, where when people download a file, they begin seeding it, which means that when I download the same file, I begin downloading it for multiple people who are seeding it at that moment. This works in the same way. So if there's multiple people online at the moment with that peer tube data, then I can connect to them and the video loads faster. In this sense, peer tube is more bandwidth efficient. The more people watch the video, which is a very good thing because normally with these self-hosted video sites, there's a lot of bandwidth usage. The federation feature of peer tube essentially lets any instances that follow you have your videos show up on them. And if you were to follow any other instances, then their videos would begin showing up on yours. For example, if I were to follow Luke Smith's peer tube over here by copying his domain address and putting it here in my follow domain, then I would send a request to follow him. Soon enough, Luke Smith's videos will start showing up on my instance. But anyways, that was a demonstration of how peer tube actually works. Now let's take a look at how we can install it on our own server. So I've got Debian Buster over here, that's Debian version 10, and we're going to go over to the anyOS recommended guide. Now, before we do any of these things, we want to go to the dependencies guide first, install all the dependencies over here. So we're going to skip the Debian Ubuntu derivative section, which is right here. And the first thing we're going to want to do is install these packages. And these are already installed on my system. But if you want to install them, run this command as root, then there's a tip over here to disable root access and do the rest of the entire tutorial as a user without root access, which is what I'm doing, which is what I'm doing right now. I'm sending this Alex, which is a user that has root privileges, but does not have direct root access. The next thing we're going to want to do is install Node.js 12, which you can install by clicking on this button over here, then just go to Node.js, binary distributions. This will be linked in the description, so you don't have to do any of that. Scroll down all the way until you reach a section that says Node.js version 12.x and go to the Debian section because we are Debian and copy paste these two commands and run it as root. So we're going to want to change to root just like that and then run those two commands and just give it a second. As you can see, it's now installed. And if you run the Node command, you'll see that, well, Node works. So Node.js version 12 is now installed. We can exit the root user and close this entire thing. And now instead, we're going to want to install yarn. So you're going to want to just click over here and there's a command you can run that being MPM install dash dash global yarn. You want to run this as a super user. So sudo MPM install dash dash global yarn. And then it will install yarn, which is the build system for Node. All right, now we're just going to want to install a bunch of packages. And for this, you can essentially just copy paste the command and run it just like that. But I'm not going to do this because I already have all these dependencies installed my system. Once you've installed all those dependencies, the two things you have to pay attention to are Redis and PostgreSQL. So these are two packages you'll be installing here. PostgreSQL and a Redis server. These two run as daemons in the background, which means you have to start them right now. And by default, when you install any daemons on Debian, it automatically enables them on boot anyway. So we're going to want to run sudo system CTL start Redis, PostgreSQL, because while they are enabled that boot, we've just installed them and they're not started yet. So I'm going to start them right now. And as you can see, they're starting. All right, now that we're done with the dependencies, let's begin actually installing PeerTube. So back in the any OS section of the guide, we're going to first of all create a user called PeerTube. So the way this entire system of PeerTube works is you should set up a user. As you can see here called PeerTube with password PeerTube. And this user will manage every single aspect of the directory var www PeerTube, which is where the videos will be stored, all the configuration for PeerTube will be stored, everything PeerTube related on the system besides the database will be stored in var www PeerTube, which is a directory that is going to created once we run this command over here. Just in case it already exists on your system and you're reinstalling, you can run this command rm dash rf then var www PeerTube and then a star just like that to remove anything that might possibly be in there. Now you can set a password for PeerTube. I'm going to give it a password one, two, three, four, because this is not something I'm actually going to be using. So one, two, three, four is fine. And now we're going to create a database. Now when you install Postgres QL, it added a user to a system called Postgres and Postgres can create new users that it can use with its databases. So we're going to just copy paste this command and we're going to create a new database user called PeerTube. Now it's going to ask us for a password to use for it. I'm going to set the password to one, two, three, four and one, two, three, four. That's just a very insecure password. You should set a custom password or something quite secure, which you can then add to the PeerTube configuration. But remember this password because you will need it. Okay, now that we've entered the password, we're going to want to create a database for PeerTube to actually use. So we're going to copy paste this command. And as you can see, it's going to create a database with a bunch of different features, a UTF-8 formatting and that kind of stuff. And it's going to name it PeerTube underscore prod. We're going to press enter and run that command. And as you can see, it created the database. Now we're going to just run these two commands over here, sudu-upostcript, just to add extensions to the database that it needs. So just copy paste these two and run them. It's not exactly a very complex process there. Now we're going to want to actually download and install PeerTube. So how this works is it gives you an environment variable called version and it figures out what the latest version of PeerTube is using that. So we're going to take that and copy paste it in and just press enter. And as you can see, it tells us the latest version is 3.1.0. So now I've gone to var www of PeerTube using a CD command. So just copy pasting this. And now I'm going to create three directories as the PeerTube user called config storage and versions. So there we go. Now if we list the directory, there's config storage and versions directories which are owned by the PeerTube user. Now we're going to go into the versions directory and we're going to want to run these two commands. This first one is going to use that environment variable from before, which is version, to download the latest version of PeerTube and put it in a directory that is appropriate for its name. This is a quiet wget command. So you won't see any prompts or loading things or anything on the screen. Just give it a second to run. Okay, now that that's done, you'll see there's a new file in a directory called PeerTube dash version 3.1.0 zip. And that's a zip file we're not going to extract with this command over here, which uses the unzip command to unzip this into a directory. Once again, this is a quiet command with a dash q option. So you won't see any prompts or anything on screen. And as you can see, we now have a directory called PeerTube dash v 3.1.0 because it also removed the zip. Okay, now we're going to go back one directory so CD dot dot into var www PeerTube and we're going to install it. So first of all, we're going to symbolically link the two files using this command over here, which means it's going to create a file called PeerTube latest and link it to that version of PeerTube that we just installed that folder. So now if you go into the PeerTube latest directory, it's the same contents that would be in the PeerTube version 3.1.0 directory. That's just for convenience. So you can easily switch and swap versions of PeerTube if you're updating. And now we're going to want to run the following command over here where it goes into PeerTube latest and uses yarn to install everything. So just run that command. It will take a while, depending on the speed of your server, but this is actually going to compile and install PeerTube. Okay, so now it's done. Just to clarify these warnings and things, you can ignore those. So I'm going to clear the screen now and I'm going to go back to the previous directory because we're not going to do some configuration, scrolling down to the configuration section over here. We're going to want to use this command to copy over a default dot YAML file that's for configuration. We're not going to edit that file, but we are going to edit this file that we're going to copy over with this command over here. It's config production YAML. So we're going to want to use our editor of choice, in my case VIM, so sudo vim. Remember you have to use sudo privileges because this entire directory is only technically meant to be accessed by the PeerTube user. So we're going to do sudo vim config production dot YAML, which is in the config directory. So we have to change a few things here. Like for example, the web server, we're going to want to change the host name to our actual host name. So in today's example, I'm using test.denchi.live, a host name that has an a entry, so a regular, you know, website entry that points towards the IP address, the public IP address of the server. So that's the domain I'm going to be using. You have to set this correctly, otherwise authentication and various other things will not work in PeerTube. So the port is four for three because we want SSL. We're going to scroll down over here and we're going to go to the database section. And as you can see, it gives us a username and password for PeerTube. And as you remember, we created a database user for PeerTube instead of password to one, two, three, four. So we're going to want to put our password in here. We also want to configure a few more things in here. If you have a mail server and you want PeerTube to be able to send mail to verify users, that kind of thing. If you want to enable that, then you can edit all this kind of stuff. Now I'm not going to do that because I don't have it. Also ignore this admin email over here. This is only for self-signed certificates, which we're not going to be using today. So scrolling down more and more, there's different customizations where you can decide where you store all your various videos and that kind of stuff. It's going to scroll all the way down here to the admin section. So this is lying 220 as you can see down there. And we want to change this email to your email or an email you wish to use for your admin account. So I'm going to set it to my email. That's my personal email over there that I use. And it will generate a password for the administrator user at build, which is what we've already done. So now we've successfully set our email. We're going to want to write and quit. And I'm assuming you know how to use Vim if you're doing this tutorial. So we're going to write, quit that configuration file. And now we're going to set our web server configuration. So PeerTube works by using the Nginx web server. And with Nginx, there's two directories you got to configure that being Etsy Nginx sites available, which contains all the websites that are available and Etsy Nginx sites enabled. So these are the actual websites that are on and the Nginx is served. So we're going to create a new file and sites available. Actually we're going to copy it over from the default. So just copy paste this command over here and paste it into here. And we're going to use these two set commands to change a few things. So this first set command, you want to go all the way back down here where it says PeerTube domain, delete the square brackets too. And we're going to put test.denshi.live or whatever domain you're using for your PeerTube. Press enter. And the next one you can basically just copy paste because I'm assuming we're not going to be changing our PeerTube host. It runs on port 9000. And unless you want to use a different port, maybe that conflicts, then I don't think you really have to change that. If you want to do further configuration, you can edit it, but I'm not going to do that. Now we're going to run this command over here to symbolically link that file to the sites enabled directory, just like that. And now comes the certificate part. So as long as you've set that domain correctly, this step will have no issues. The first thing you are going to want to do is stop engine X if it's currently running. So I'm going to stop it right there. So that's sudo system CDL stop engine X. So that stops the payment. Now we're going to run this command over here where it generates a nice little domain for us. But you can delete this last part where the post hook because we can just do that later. Just sudo cert bot, cert only dash dash standalone. And then we can specify our domain with dash D. So in this case, we're going to specify domain test dot denti dot live, just like that. So we're going to press enter and it's going to generate a certificate. As you can see, I've already generated one. You won't get this prompt if you haven't, but in my case, I have generated one. So I'm going to renew and replace it with the option number two, just give it a second while it verifies it. And as you can see, it's done. So now we can restart engine X as soon as system CDL restart engine X just like that. We want to go to the system D section because we're going to copy over a system D Damon to run peer tube. So we're going to copy this Damon called peer tube to our system D system directory, which means we're going to be able to enable it just like we do with engine X and post-gray SQL and everything. And if you want, you can edit it, but I'm not going to edit it. And now comes the moment of truth. We're going to enable and start peer tube sudo system CDL enable dash dash now peer tube. So that means it turns it on a boot so enables it and it starts it right now, peer tube. And if you really want to check the status of peer tube you can run and and sudo system, CTL sudo journal, CTL dash FBU peer tube, which tracks peer tube and what it's doing. So if you run this command right now, you'll begin to get this prompt for what peer tube is currently doing. It started the peer tube. Damon's going to begin running everything. Give this a second to launch because it might take a second. Okay, so once it's actually started, you'll see all this stuff on screen. At some point it will tell you that it has successfully started the server. But anyway, now if we actually go to the website itself, so test.denshi.live, you'll see that yeah, it shows prompts on screen that shows that I am indeed logging in. And here we are, we're now in our own peer tube instance. Before we actually do anything we want to sign into our administrator account. So if we log in, we're going to want to, we'll type in our email address of course, which we set before in the production.yaml file. And to find the password, we can actually go check the peer tube logs. So that's quite easy to do. We're going to want to use sudo though. We're going to sudo vim storage logs and then it should be peer tube.log which is located once again in the peer tube root directory for our www peer tube. And if we look through it with our vim text editor, we can just search for the term password and there you go. It's right there. dojimoblerosema, all right then. So I guess I'm going to just put it so you can see it. Not that this is even public, so it doesn't even matter. Dojimoblerosema, just a sign into the admin account. So log in right there. You can save the password, I'm not going to do that. And as you can see there's a little peer tube guide over here. It's time to configure your instance. All right then configure my instance. You can go through a changed name of it. I guess you could call it Denchi's test tube or something. I don't really know. So congratulations. You've successfully created your own peer tube instance that is self-hosted. You can federate it, you can do everything. Thanks for watching this video. I've been Denchi, goodbye.


Today on the show we're taking a look at the Creo Transformers Microchangers Build, Creon, Figure, or Vehicle. So stay tuned. Hey guys welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV where all geek culture collies if you're new to the channel don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. As I said guys welcome back first of all today we're taking a look at the Creo Transformers Microchangers Build, Creon, Figure or Vehicle 2-in-1. So once again it's Mini Figure Monday if you've tuned in here before you know that every Monday we do Mini Figures. This started back with the this started back with the Mega Constructs and the Lego Dimensions well Lego Dimensions first off Cyborg and then it continued with the Mega Constructs Heroes line and now we're taking a look at the Creo Transformers. I know what you guys are thinking well you haven't done all the Mega Constructs Heroes series one line I know I know well first off I can't find any of the aliens I can find the colonial marines no problem but they're so generic looking I didn't really want to waste time going over that along with the Call of Duty ones and the and the Halo ones I'm gonna have to order a bunch of them off online so until then these Creo Transformers Microchangers will have to do I can find them all day long at my local Walgreens it's only two miles down the road I can pick some up I bought three today it's been about 11 bucks so it's not not a bad price back when I was a kid these would probably go for maybe 99 cents so just a little clue as to how how far inflation has gone since I was a kid so anyway as you can see this is the yellow package I did not get another green I did not run the want to run the risk of getting another or a duplicate of one of the ones I got already so what we got here we got alpha try on we got barrage brawn breakneck cyclonus demolisher slip strike sandstorm rodimus rhinox auto bot cup and iceberg and this I don't know if you can tell but this is pretty bulky I'm pretty interested to see what we got inside here no wonder is so bulky they put the instructions for all of them in one all right so which one we get it looks like we got barrage we got that one right there it looks like barrage is a decepticon you guys can see that there very cool look different display base now and once again we've got extra pieces you guys know that I I did test extra pieces so this there trying to figure out how to use all the pieces is quite the chore but I think we may have gotten it kind of looks like a scorpion now which I think is pretty cool all right guys so there is robot mode for barrage uh I took a few liberties as you know since I don't like extra pieces hanging around and this way he kind of looks like a scorpion which I think is really really cool so let's uh go ahead and take him off there and we're going to go ahead and transform him into beast mode take his head off take his blaster off flip this around this is pretty difficult doing it on camera with the lights in the way and the camera in the way beast mode is this thing supposed to be we're supposed to have really look like any beast I know of except maybe a bug and of course you've got the leg and uh yeah we got it right that's how it's supposed to look guys I think it's supposed to look like a bug I don't know I I kind of like the scorpion look better they really could have made him look like a scorpion there you go guys I made a few modifications to make me look even more like a scorpion robot rather than uh insect type robot thingy I put the little piece that goes in between his uh chest and his head actually down on his waist so that the back piece looks more like a tail use every single piece and that's what you come up with really looks like the stinger tail of a scorpion which I really like he's green and tan green and brown looks yellow on camera though but he really looks more like a scorpion than some sort of insect creature so there you have it guys this was the cryo transformers micro changers barrage make sure you tune in every monday right here on com again tv the only place on youtube where i'll keep culture collides for another mini figure review we may have another cryo transformers micro changer we may have another uh mega constructs heroes you never know could even have a hot wheels I consider those mini figures or gi joes or whatever you know something cheap you can find at the dollar store or you know wherever so i'm shanin for come again tv take care everyone


This study investigated the expression of microRNA-16, MIR-16, surviving, and tumor protein P53-regulated apoptosis-inducing protein 1, TP53-AIPI, TP53, in preclamptic and normotensive pregnancies and checked for any correlation between MIR-16 and mRNA expression of surviving in TP53. The results showed that MIR-16 expression was significantly increased in preclamptic pregnancies compared to normotensive pregnancies. Additionally, the mRNA expression levels of surviving in TP53 were found to be deregulated in preeclampsia with decreased surviving and increased TP53. Furthermore, MIR-16 expression was found to correlate negatively with surviving expression while showing a positive correlation with TP53 expression. These findings suggest that MIR-16 may play a role in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia through its effects on apoptosis-related genes such as surviving and TP53. This article was authored by Zima Ali, Azma Zuffer, Zima Zaki, and others.


Welcome to the Premier League show, Eric Tan Haag has been named as the Manchester United manager for next season. Steve McClaren's is number two, incredible. That is fantastic. How do you say fantastic? Good old Steve, back at Old Trafford of course. He had the very successful period there as the number two before, but he is joining the Tan Haag as part of Manchester United's new management team for next season. The job has been touted as a Poisoned Chalice by many. This is what the lads on the last fan-standard thought of that. Is it too big a job then for Tan Haag? Can he do it, Paul? Is it a Poisoned Chalice? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, it's the biggest Poisoned Chalice in football alongside Real Madrid pretty much and probably Chelsea to some extent as well. Although I think Chelsea will settle down now because ahead they'll have two. But now that there is the pressures of seeing at Manchester United then it's the weight of history that adds to that pressure nine years out of the league title now and that quickly becomes 10.  And it is that weight of global expectation from the fan base adds to it. And then in addition to that, you've also got all the players who were absolute legends of the football club, the ones who won everything, who hold the club to higher standards on the pitch and they are tearing that football apart on every single channel that hosts the football across the world. And I know all this because this is what it was like to be a Liverpool fan in the 90s and early 90s where you had to listen to Alan Hansen, try to explain to you why Bjorn Torcavala wasn't good enough to be a centre-back for Liverpool and be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no one was really as good as you made. And so, yeah, you've got all of that and then you've got the bickering that goes on with it and then you've got things like certain players are performing, but maybe they're not really at the level for the team ethic and all that kind of stuff. And it's very hard to unpick what is good enough when you're in that sort of mind. And tennau, it looks a really good manager, good coach by all standards, but is he of the same standard as Klopp, Guardiola and Tuchel? Maybe he absolutely might be, but he's going to have to be at least that good, and even if he's that good, he's still fighting against the football club. Hmm, Poison Chalice. Is there only a Poison Chalice because people have just been a bit crap at the job? Yeah, Liverpool would have been a Poison Chalice, wouldn't they, before Klopp got it right? Everything's a Poison Chalice right now. Every big job is a Poison Chalice because fans are demanding. Clubs have had huge success and have big financial outlays. Manchester United have brought in Ten Haag because they believe he's the right man for the job. Now, time will tell. What I like about him as a manager is he's got... There's no baggage that comes with him, no fanfare. He is what he is. We went into Ajax and he came into Ajax as an outsider. They brought him in from another club within Holland. Teams in Germany were looking at him. They could have brought in Pochettino, but it would have been the whole thing of, well, he failed at Spades and he's failed at PSG really. I'm sure you've got the job a few years ago.  This guy is a fresh face. He's new to the Premier League.  The club have put their faith in him. What has to happen is at any club is that the club has to back up their side of it. This is something that we've seen at Everton. It doesn't matter what the manager does. If you undermine him, if you bring in players that he doesn't want, if you bring in the kind of players that are egos and it's all about selling shades or that kind of thing, Manchester United now have to back their manager completely 100% and say that you're in charge and you have, whether you're bringing in a technical director or how that works, we don't know, but they have to let him do his side of it. If he wants to get rid of players, which has seemed, Manchester United has struggled with it before, they've got to let him do his job and I think the fans will be on board. That's the thing. It's only a poison challenge if the whole thing is going wrong, not just the manager. If the manager is allowed to do his job, the fans will get on board. The fans have showed their side at the moment at Manchester United. They don't like the glazes. They want them gone. They think they've been appointing the wrong managers, but also not helping those managers. Every job can be a poison challenge if everything is around it is wrong. Obviously, to bring it in, it was very much his own man. He didn't buy me anything, he didn't buy me anything. He's done all the stuff. He's coming in, he'll get on with it, he'll want to get on with it. McLaren's an interesting one, because he's obviously been at the United at the number three before, so it's interesting on that one. It's just that long day allowing to do his job, obviously, Rangic there at the minute, will he take the director of football job, or will he leave John Mater and Darren Fletcher still doing stuff there. So, it'll be interesting to see. You talked about big egos, the big names and the dressing room. You've got to try and get a grip of that. You've got to be patient with them, because if you're going to try and put in a brand of football, that's going to get Manchester United going again, you've got to back it. One of those big egos is Cristiano Ronaldo, and he got a hat-trich at the weekend against the Norwich, and he bounced back from the Everton, beat Norwich, 3-2 in a tight game. He led 2-0 before ex-everton, cair yn dal, scored, and then put a great ball through for Pookie to make it 2-2, and then Ronaldo won it with a free kick. So, I got dragged then back in, obviously, into the battle for the top four. And then they played Liverpool and Amfield on Tuesday night, and what is obviously a grudge game normally, two big rivals, and it was a bit of a mismat, Liverpool destroyed them. In fact, it was 55 minutes, I think, before Manchester United had a shot. Liverpool don't have 4-0 winners, which led Bruno Fernandez to say, after the game, well, we've got nothing to play for, which I thought was a mad thing to say for a team that needs to be in the Champions League, and a team that's one win off the Champions League. I mean, obviously, it was a very sad situation this week. So they were playing without them, which was sad, but I think that shows the mentality of this team and how they are rudderless in many ways in the dressing room, and have the wrong... It's funny, isn't it, because for all the sort of winners they have in the dressing room, they don't seem to have the right mentality, and even coming out after the game and saying something like that is appalling, I think. What message does that send to your fans? But the club are appalling. The fans, for the knowledge game, they protest and were walking in on the 17th minute, and Manchester United on the 15th minute tweeted a video of their American fans celebrating, and it's just little things like that that just cause... Divisions. Divisions, and you don't need divisions, you need a club. Look at the top two, everyone buys into it, and that's what Manchester United have got to get back to if they want to start winning things, is everyone buying into it, and I don't really think personally that can happen under the glages. I really don't. I just don't think that if you've got people running the club who cause problems for the fans, that club, they're taking money out of that club. That money could be going into strengthen in the squad. They should be considering how big they are and how commercially fantastic they are. They should be hugely wealthy with everything. And they are wealthy, but the glages have took so much money out of them. I mean, the things like... Just looking at the stats in the Liverpool game, 14 attempts at goal for Liverpool, two for Manchester United, one on target. Liverpool 72% possession. It's like you've lost four-nil in a game. You know, Liverpool have beat them, they beat them four, five-nil-roll, Trafford have beaten four-nil-roll. From Manchester United, that's mad. You know, I think a lot of other teams would go out there and to Anfield and have better numbers. So, I want the biggest rival in the Premier League, which is, you know, rivalry in the Premier League. For me, United plays the team in a display like that.  Again, probably they're bringing, you know, ragnig in. Again, it's let a lot of players just be able to go, we haven't even got a proper man. Let's just do what we want. There's a lot of... I mean, Oly, Donner Solsker said this a few years ago. He said, I have to be able to get rid of the plays. I want to get rid of them. He got rid of the Cachew, but he never got rid of Pogback, because he said he couldn't really fall through both of them in one summer, and he shut off. And that club is a little bit rotten.  Just Liverpool's very briefly on Liverpool, obviously. Very briefly. Manchester United there to go top of the league. Four-nil, two goals for most shallah. I mean, the first goal Manchester United defending on the halfway line against one of the quickest teams was utterly 3-v-1, basically it was for the fid Lewis Diasers goal. Manai, and shallah with two very well-taken goals. Put them top of the league with, you know, City when playing till Wednesday night. So, you know, go for them, they just beat Manchester City when we obviously didn't have a cup of the weekend, and went above them. City came back down the next night very strongly with a 3-nil win against Brighton. Big second half display. Could have been one of those where Brighton parked the bus a little bit. But Manai City went out second half and turned them over, got the three goals and went back top of the league and it's going to be ridiculously close now for the rest of the season. You know, both teams have essentially got to win every single game. It's crazy, isn't it? Every single game. The pressure that that brings. And both of them will finish in the 90s, the mid 90s. They've poated unbelievable points. It's just unbelievable, two unbelievable teams. That's a big win after what Manchester City, you know, put out a B team basically in the semi-final. It's a big win for them and put them back top of the league. Top of the league. In the race first, you know, because we just talked about Manchester United and that was what implications that had for the fourth place, you know, winning that game of the weekend. We saw Spairs play Brighton with, you know, early on on Saturday with the opportunity to poor a marker down for the rest. And we're beaten with Troshard goal in the 90th minute. Never got going. No, and obviously, then, you know, Arsenal were back to Southampton and then they get beat. They got beat. So you got, and don't get me wrong, listen, it was an unbelievable display by Fraser Foster in goal. He made some unbelievable saves for Southampton. Arsenal did really bad on them. But, you know, two goalkeepers in goal, one's touted as an England goalkeeper, the other's touted as a former in goalkeeper. But I know which one. And they're having goal because Major was huge. 23 attempts to goal. So you've got those, obviously. So Manchester United put themselves back in contention. Chelsea obviously playing, or at least basically guaranteed the third place. They've played. And then that led us on to obviously Wednesday night, Arsenal, away at Chelsea. Chelsea threw to the FA Cup final. I'd obviously beaten Southampton 6-0. There'd be four. And Arsenal come and score four goals against them. And Chelsea have suddenly considered four goals in two home games, which is, in both home games, which is mad. But a brilliant performance by Arsenal to put themselves, you know, could have been four defeats in a row. But, you know, Chelsea had 68% of the possession. 11 attempts to 14. But we're beaten four to two. I mean, some, a couple of the goals, one of them, Kety's goal. I mean, what Christensen was doing, just giving it, knocking the ball back straight to him. But, you know, great result for Arsenal, because there was, again, crazy talk that Arthetta was getting questions again as whether he should remain as the manager after losing three on the rumbum. A huge game there. And that leaves, that leaves Arsenal toting them on the same point and on the same games now. Arsenal have got man united, of course, at home in the weekend. Did you face each other in a few weeks, but Manchester United, yeah? That's a massive game. It's going to Brentford. That race for the top four is going to go right down to the wire. It's hot enough, isn't it? It's hot enough when you're looking at it now. I mean, we show West Llammer with another team in the run on four. It's a bit different point of drift now, because they have been there home. First off, for West Llammer, it's just sluggish. But they were coming off the back of that game against Lyon, which obviously was, to get themselves into the semi-final of the Europa League. I think that, you know, West Ham are a classic team in and around six, seven, eight with the Europa League. They just don't have the squad and something had to give. And obviously, barely missed a penalty as well. At 1-0 up, that could have sealed it, but West Ham should have gone on and won it. Well, they ended up with 61% possession, 21 attempts at goal, eight on target, Burnley had nine attempts at goal, one on target. You know, and they've got out with a point, because, again, Nick Pope turned in a wail di display to grab them a point. West Ham, like you say, four-pointed drift. Well, they're in the race for the Europa League, isn't they? Europa League, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's mostly, should be... Five-pointed drifts, but play the game more. But it really, it's looking now, the Spades National have got a game in London tonight, a point on 57 points. So it's looking like the tattoo it's between, isn't it? You know, the game's over the weekend, so... Do you have a seat at the bottom? Damn, at the bottom. Really? You know. I'm sure Wofforda, Brentforda, Rowman would be able to get, give themselves off a chance, they had to win this game. Went behind early on, equalised through, mangybl Dennis even though looked about 46 yards off serve. And then lost it with the last kick of the game, basically. After they should have scored. After they should have scored, hit the post and they'll have stuck it over. And then Pontres Jansen's popped up with it, the last minute. The minute for Brentford. On a great one. Make sure they're safe. They'll play again. Wofforda are very much writing it now. Obviously knowledge lost as well as we said to Manchester United. So, Wofforda looked a bit of a loss course. Now they're losing home games after Titan Center. It's going to be a really difficult ask. Obviously Bayley drew one-one with Westam as well. So, a new castle practically, you know, secured their safety, they beat. They've got six points in two games. Lester at home with a 95th minute winner from Bruno Gimera. She also scored the first goal, which a face was ruled out for a foul, wasn't it? But when VAR checked it, Michael didn't have any hands on the ball. So, deal harder, after that, I'm all the luck when I give Lester the lead. You followed her up in midweek with the Almarong goal. He beat Palace one-nil around. 20 points. Incredible. See, that was one-one game in December. They bought well. They bought the players in all the right areas and they bought well and they're keeping clean sheets and they're getting the old goal. That's all you can say. They got the right players in. They didn't go over the top. They bought one really good player and everybody else was the right kind of player, a striker and they bought exactly how they should have bought. And it's got them out of trouble. They said, Lester, then Lester went to Goodison obviously, went to the night, took an early lead, conceded the last minute. Conceded the last minute. They're safe, obviously mid-time. 41 points, haven't they? They're into the semi-finals of the conference league as well, so it'll be interesting to see how that dictates the next couple of weeks for them to see if it's now four points ahead of Ben, who obviously play tonight as we record. And it's going to be a fascinating few weeks at the bottom of the table as well. Well, looking at the table, obviously sitting ahead, 77 points from 32 games, Liverpool's 76 from 32 games and then Chelsea bit back 62 and then obviously we talked about Spurs Arsenal and United and at the bottom end, Norwich, 21 points from 32 games. They look like they're gone. Wofford, difficult, 22 points from 32 games. Haven't still got a game in hand. On Wofford. And then there's Burnley 25 and Everton on 29 and then Leeds just a bit ahead. Everton do have a game in hand. Everton and Burnley have a game in hand on Leeds who are on 33. So it's, you know, interesting, tight. And we'll see. It's going to be a big few weeks. It is, it is. The top, the middle and the bottom. And the bottom. Lots of stuff off the grab, so. There you go. Make sure you check out the rest of our last fan stand debate, the sort of stuff on there as well. The link is in the description. Subscribe as well. Subscribe. Leave a comment. Give them a comment, like and all that. Make sure you subscribe to us and if you want more videos including daily live videos on editing, join us on Patreon. See you later.


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Aloha, thanks for considering the views expressed in this ThinkTech commentary. It's entitled Voting Rights, The Unkindest Cut of All, Right Out of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, A Tragedy. So many issues are bounding around the media. COVID and vaccine mandates, build back better, inflation and the economy, immigration, racism, gun control, extreme weather and climate change, and much more. But the thing that will have a direct and almost immediate impact on the future of our democracy, is voting rights.  If we don't get the voting rights bills through the Senate now, the terrible things the Republicans are doing in so many state legislatures are likely to govern. There isn't time to have those bills stricken by the Supreme Court, even assuming the court is willing to do that. We need to repeal or change the filibuster to get these bills through Congress. But changes to the filibuster won't be easy, even though the Senate made an exception to fund the government last week. With the filibuster still in place it is very unlikely any voting rights legislation will pass the Senate. None of the Republican senators, not one, will vote for that legislation or even for a debate on it. Do none of them care about it in a republic where voting rights are the cornerstone of our democracy. Guess not, these Republicans are completely intransigent on the issue. Is it because of Trump? Is it a wish to destroy the country? Is it a cute trick to game the system for the next election? In any event, it's really sick and destructive if not nationally suicidal. They're not relenting even in our current compound crises. When the 2022 and 2024 elections are in a state of chaos, where the public loses all confidence in the government and in the right to vote, maybe the Republicans will have second thoughts, but by then it'll be way too late. History will not judge the GOP kindly.  We can hear the conversation only one generation away. The sun says to the father, what did you do to protect the country when it was coming apart? The father replies, nothing. I did not support voting rights and I did not support democracy.  And unfortunately that will be the tragic end of the story, like Shakespeare. Thanks for considering the views expressed in this Think Tech commentary. Mahalo.


Today our discussion is on the topic of following in the footsteps of our predecessors and the giants that we ride on their shoulders to do the work that we do. I was reflecting on this and thinking where exactly to start the conversation. And SubhanAllah, thinking about where you start with the topic of teachers, you know, and thank you brother Ahsan for your kind words, and thinking about the different roles that I play today, SubhanAllah, and thinking how in this masjid, and many of you, the sisters I'm addressing here particularly, attend with me classes here at the MCC. This very room fills the conference room every Friday night, Baruk Allah Fikrun, and I hope inshallah that continues to grow and all the girls that have been served by the Rahmah Foundation because MCC has been such a blessed host to the girls and women's work here in the Bay Area. And I think about the thousands, now we've reached the thousands of girls that we have mentored through our programs, through our halakas, through our camps, through our women's qiyams and through our classes, through the hipth school that we run, SubhanAllah, thinking about what that means when ten years earlier there was really no such specific organization set here in the Bay Area for women and girls. And when I think about the legacy and what that means and whose shoulders we're standing on, I have to think of course of our teachers but I'll come to that soon. When I think about the work, another field that's underserved which is on mental health and thinking about how to integrate Islamically the work of our predecessors, again, into the field of mental health today and think about the shoulders that we stand on to do that work, I'm also reminded of all of our teachers, SubhanAllah, that have instructed us not to take things at face value, not to take things exactly wholesale how you were taught, but rather go back into the tradition, figure out what Islam and our great legacy actually said, pull that out and figure out how to implement that into today's society. SubhanAllah, this kind of work is the kind that you have to look and you think about that journey, you have to figure out who inspired that journey. And for me SubhanAllah, I'm reminded of the famous saying of the scholars that whoever has taught me even a letter is my master. And some of the shayyuch would say that even if you taught me just a simple concept, you are forever my sheikh. What is the most important concept that each and every one of us here in the room have? Think about it. What is the most prized knowledge and possession you hold today? What is it? Think about it. What is it? What is it? La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasoolallah, that is your most prized possession. Who taught it to you? Who? Your parents. And I think about all the teachers that I've had and all the scholars who I've been blessed to sit on their feet and study. But ultimately, the first teachers, the first, my first teachers, the teachers who taught me the kalima and likely taught you the kalima is whom? Your parents. And I'm reminded that that's where the journey has to start when we first discuss our own journeys into Islam and into the study and continuation of teaching of Islam. And I'm reminded SubhanAllah of my own father and here I'd like to share with you a story specifically for all the parents in the room and all the young people in the room and particularly as a woman teacher, I want to share with you the story. My father, when he was maybe in somewhere like around middle school, went to his father and said, I think I want to be a teacher of the deen. I think I want to study the deen full time.  And they went to the admissions office and said, we'd like to enroll young Yasir in Al-Azhar. The response was, well, since he wasn't with us since elementary school, he can't actually be enrolled. My father was devastated. He was very upset. And it was really the foremost place in Cairo where he was from to study the deen. But he held it in his heart and continue private studies. And he said that day, as a young middle schooler, he made a dua'at to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and said, Ya Allah, if ever my child was to ever come to me one day and say, I want to go study the deen, I would let them. Fast forward, years later. In comes Rania. And the day came where I was a middle schooler, SubhanAllah. And I said to my father, Baba, I'd really like to go study the deen. And he said the realization hidden. And it's like the ayah and the Qur'an, right. He said, what am I to do? I made a wa'at to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala that if my child ever were to want to study the deen, I would fulfill that a'ad. And what was open at the time was Damascus, Syria. And SubhanAllah Ta'ala, what was there was a beautiful tradition for women, particularly young girls, to go and study the deen, to study Qur'an, to do their hifaf, to work on the traditional classical Islamic sciences to the level of Ijazah. And it was beautiful tradition. And I say was because we all know the state of Syria today and I ask you to make du'a. In that time period of studying the deen, it was a beautiful journey that started when I was a teenager. And the roundabout way of how I ended up in Damascus is also a beautiful story. But what I want to share with you specifically here is the kind of teachers that I met when I was there. Because when we talk about standing on the shoulder of giants, we also have to talk about how it is we have programs for girls and women like today that we do. I'll tell you what I saw. I saw women who were hafi that of Qur'an, who are faqihat, who are muhaddithat, who are women who held Ijazahs in, and I should translate all of this, in Tujweed and Qur'an, who held their Ijazah as a license, an Islamic license to teach, in fiqh, which is Islamic law, in hadith, in Qur'an, and all of the major Islamic sciences. But you know what I saw? I didn't see them as one-dimensional beings, just classes with a teacher, and then you go home and it's a different life. No, we followed them into the home, and this is the beauty of having women teachers for women, especially young women. And I would be reciting my, doing my tismiah, my actual recitation of Qur'an to my teacher while I'm following her around her house, and as she's doing her dishes, or folding her laundry. And every so often, I would see the members of the family go by, and life was being lived. And I learned more than just the lessons of the book. I learned how to be a wife. I learned how to be a mother. And those were more important than the black and white that I was learning in the texts, you see. And this is why that lesson was so powerful, and why it is the programs we have for the girls tonight, which is modeled on exactly what I saw in Damascus, is a mentorship program. It's not just come and learn a couple of good words, feel good and leave.  The in and the out, like my teachers would make this du'a and say, Allah, let our insides match our outsides, and let our outsides match our insides. That you're true to your deen from the inside and the out. And that was so powerful about what I saw amongst my teachers. And all the work that I do, and all of us do collectively, it is on their shoulders that they taught us these things. And we have to give thanks because the Muslim, the Mu'min, is one who has to give thanks. And I think we'll fast forward again, the trip to Damascus continued many, many, many years until the war started, which meant that it paralleled all of my studies because my parents, as much as they, it was always a struggle, always a struggle to get to Damascus. But when I think about the request to continue my regular studies, as they called them, they insisted that I continue my regular studies. And so the dean studies were interwoven in with the high school, college, medical school, residency. It was all interwoven in. And when I think about that struggle, I think, Subhanallah, how we have so much time on our hands, and people would say, how do you have the time to do what you do? And I say, I'm just following what I saw my teachers do. Every single one of those women, even though she was a Hafida, or a muhaditha, or every type of Islamic scholar there is, or multiple, she was likely also a physician, or an engineer, or a teacher, or she was working in the public sector. And I think about the combination of roles, and then I think about our scholars, and how they were what we would call encyclopedic scholars. Where medicine doesn't necessarily define me, it is one of the studies I've studied and one of the things I do. And that is how our scholars were. Just earlier today, Shahamza was telling me, did you know Imam Ghazali was also a mathematician? I'm not surprised. They were encyclopedic scholars. They mastered multiple sciences. And they were real people in real homes that had families that had children that had parents that they cared for and children that they cared for. Subhanallah. And now I want to tell you, you know, I would love to talk more and more actually about Syria and the blessed things. I want to tell you about one particular teacher. I shared this story with some of the sisters here. I think it was last week in our Halaqa. But it really, really hits the heart really much, masha'Allah. It is a story that takes place when I am actually doing my Tasmiyah, my memorization to my recitation rather, to get ready for my Ijaz exam. And in this case, it was for the Qiraat of Wadish.  One of the giants of Damascus, masha'Allah, somebody who all of the women and all of the men knew to be a master of Qura'an. Someone who was so diligent and so well versed in Qura'an, that it is said that the, not said that it's true, but the main in Damascus, the way the setup was for receiving your Ijaz and Qura'an, is you have to recite to your teacher. Then your teacher takes you to their teacher. That teacher takes you to their teacher. Until you reach the final, basically the top of Qura'an of Damascus, which were five, and you had to recite to one of the five in order to actually receive your Ijazah that had the official Khatim from waza'at al-Awqaf of Damascus. It's a very rigorous process. And so here I am reciting to my teacher's teacher's teacher. And I'm getting ready, just about ready to go to the sheikh and recite. So I've prepared for some time and I'm sitting there reciting to her and her heiba, her presence, her the vibes, masha'Allah, this amazing person, despite all of my studies, all I could get myself to read was t-t-t-t-t. And so she, she said, Rania, Rania, Rania, you know, take a break. So I was so embarrassed, masha'Allah. She said, take a break. And then she decided to, like, call me this beautiful story, masha'Allah. She decided to calm me down by telling me a story. And she said, Do you know my story?  And she said, No, no, no, no. I'm also, I had no idea, I'm also a professor of mathematics at the University of Damascus. And I have been, and since the 70s, the only female faculty member in mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Diversity of Damascus. I had no idea. I was blown away. Amazed. And I'm just sort of, and she said, Did you know? I wasn't always a sheikh. I wasn't always a muqri, a jamia. She had all 10 recitations completed in Ijaz on all of them. And she said, I wasn't always this person. In fact, I came to Islam late. I thought I came to Islam late. And then she said, You know, when the wave of feminism hit Damascus, so many of us were taken by it. And all of all the people that were thought themselves to be educated and more advanced, maybe social economically, we all took off our hijabs. And we all, you know, and she said, I just was raised in a family that wasn't at all religious. So it's not like she took off her job. She just was raised in a family that wasn't religious. And I thought to myself, I can do what any man does. And I'm going to study the most complicated thing. And so she chose mathematics. And she became very good at it. And it's incredibly brilliant woman, very good at it that she became a professor, the only professor who was a female in her department, in a very male oriented department. And so she said, There I am. And I wanted to affirm that I as a woman can do this, right in that kind of mentality. She said, One day, the girls of the college came up to me and said, We want to have there's very few women on campus.  So she said, Yes, anything for women. So she met with them. She's not very busy as a professor, but she went ahead and met with them. And so she's sitting in the circle of woman, and she said, I don't know how I didn't realize what I saw later. So here we are at first, the discussion is just going on about academics and being a woman and how difficult it is and so on in education. This is this discussion is back in the 70s. And she said, I don't know when the conversation switched from the discussion of academics to the discussion of the Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I don't even because if someone had told me they were going to discuss the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I would never have showed up. I was so closed off to this idea. But as they were talking, as the girls were talking, she said, suddenly something hit my heart and it just opened. This heart that had been so close to anything related to religion, to Islam, to the Prophet anything was so closed off. And when Hidayah is meant to come, the moment and how and that on the tongue of whom it comes with, Allahu ta'ala, and it just opened. And she said, There I was suddenly I was hit with this wave of love for the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And I found myself listening intently. And then I realized, wait a second, this group is almost all hijabies. And she said, And do you know what I was wearing that day? And this is where the real crux of the story is. I said, Yeah, and you could possibly be wearing. So she says to the whole conversation is happening in Arabic. And then when she came to this point, she said, Mini skirt. And I said, what? So in English, she repeats again, Mini skirt. Clearly, it showed on my face. I was just, and she said, You know, yeah, Rania, if the woman had judged me for how I looked, I never would have entered into that room. If they judged me for who on my just what my outside was, I never would have been invited in to study the Dean. If they had judged me and said, Oh, she's one of those women. She's one of those feminist. I don't know what woman, right? I would never have begun this journey. And there I was fully welcomed by this group. And one thing led to another one holoca led to another one teacher led to another and that brilliance that she took to get a doctorate in mathematics at a time when all their woman had a doctorate in mathematics. Imagine putting that brilliance into the memorization of Quran. She became so learned in Quran and so accurate in all of her pronunciation that the sheikh, the head sheikh that we receive Ijazah from Rahimahullah, Rahimahullah, both of them, upon Allah, that when he would travel to go on Hajj, even though he had hundreds of students, hundreds of male students underneath him, he would choose her in his post to fill in for him to give Ijazah on his behalf when she was when he would travel. That's how qualified she was. And she said, had they judged me, had they looked at me and said, oh, you can't enter the message like that sister, here's a blanket. I'm being very serious. I tell the story to you because it really resonates with me. And it resonates the kind of woman that I studied with. And it resonates that anybody, this dean is for everybody. This dean is accessible to men and to women. This dean is accessible to your daughters. This dean, I'm talking to the woman and to the men. It is accessible to your sons. It is accessible to kids like me who grew up in America. And subhanallah, there are options now. There are options to study now and out here in this country. And I could go on and on about my teachers of Damascus, but I want to bring back to another important teacher. We'll kind of take you from the land of Damascus back to the Midwest. And here I am, having begun my initial studies of Damascus. I'm a teenager. I was very young, just a teenager. And my parents, Jazahumullah al-Khayr said, you know, they had a group of family friends, like many of you have family friends they would meet with regularly, would go to each other's houses and so on. And so they said, well, everybody now is a teenager. Maybe we should make sure that all this Islamic knowledge we've been telling them in their Islamic schools and their Sunday schools and their Saturday schools, we also went to Saturday school. And all of the extra things that, you know, we've been teaching them to make sure it's really resonating. How do you make sure that teenagers really understand the Dean that you've been teaching them? So the parents, the ammos in the group decided that each teenager was going to go ahead and give a lecture. To whom? To the parents. And before I knew it, I was picked to be the first one. I went to my father and I said, with my mother, I said, I don't have anything to speak about. What am I going to talk about? They said, anything, anything, everything that you've been, you know, reading and studying and just anything. Don't worry about it. Well, right before that, right before that, I had been to a conference, one of my first, and I'd heard some really amazing speakers speak at this conference. And Sheikh Omar outdated himself, so I'm going to outdated myself too. Inshallah. And the speakers were amazing. I'll tell you, my very first, my very first encounter was I was, they asked me to volunteer and to give out little note cards to the people who are sitting in the lecture to collect questions. So here I am with a stack of note cards and I'm kind of just going around giving different people. And then the speaker gets up on the stage and he starts to speak and I can, and I can't even begin to tell you the amount of eloquence and the Arabic and the English and the so on and the Qur'an and I had never heard anything like this. I was standing in the middle apparently in the middle of the aisle, right, because I was giving out note cards to where somebody had to tap me on the shoulder and go, move. The speaker was Sheikh Hamza Yusuf. I didn't know who Sheikh Hamza was at the time. And I remember finishing that lecture and running over, we were in the youth hall and the parents were in the adult hall, and running over and going, Mama, Mama, I'm looking for my mom frantically and going, there is this person, and he's a connovert and he can speak, and he can speak Arabic, yes, and he, and he's, and it's amazing. And she said, tell you, tell you. And then right after that, the next lecture in the Arabic hall, right, that was giving, the lectures being given in Arabic was the same speaker. Sheikh Hamza had just finished giving us a talk in English and then gave the parents their talk in Arabic. And then my mother said, oh, this is very special. So I took on, that night I took cassette tapes back home. And I also, in that conference, heard an amazing other speaker. Really, really taken subhanallah, just amazing. You think of the young hearts, what these what these lectures do to young hearts, and took on the cassette tapes. So back to the story of my father when he asked me to prepare the lecture, I was looking frantically through the, my stuff, I was like, what do I do? I need to prepare, I don't know what to, pulling books off shelves and figuring out. And then I went through my stack of cassette tapes, and I pulled out a tape titled, Whom Do You Follow? Whom do you follow? It was by Imam Siraj Wahaj, which is the other dear speaker that I had spoken at that conference and really touched the heart. You know what I did? I copied every single line from, from his lecture, literally. And in the lecture, I hope you hear this lecture one day, every few sentences he says, Whom do you follow? And then he would keep going, Whom do you follow? And keep going, masha'Allah. So I would write Whom do you follow, every single time. And when it came to my turn that weekend to teach, to give the lecture, I held, I sat between the mom's hall, the woman, where the woman's sitting, where the men were sitting, they put me in the middle. And I held the papers, and I gave my very first lecture ever. In the words of Imam Siraj Wahaj, Whom do you follow? Letter, by letter, word, by word. Alayjzi al-fred. Especially for those of you who've been in my halakas, you're all giggling right now. Yes, this is how we started. Now, fast forward a couple more years, just a couple more years. And suddenly, I am responsible for putting together a MINNA conference. I'm still high school there at this point. MINNA Muslim Youth of North America, which was a youth conference that continues to happen, and I encourage our children to go, and had happened when I was growing up, and I really believe the MINNAs, the MSAs, and these kinds of organizations really made from our Islamic identities. So I was in charge of 300 kids, 300 teenagers like myself, and I have zero previous experience organizing anything. But to show you where we got our start, Safanullah. And the organizer said, now mind you, this is before email, before texting, before social media, before, you literally had a landline with the cord. Yes? That's all there was. No cell phones. Just the landline with the cord. Or you write a letter, a handwritten letter. Those were the only ways you communicate with anybody. They gave me a sheet, and the sheet literally had the names of different speakers, and their phone numbers. And it said on their things like Sheikh Hamza Yusuf's phone number, Imam Siraj Wahaj's phone number. Different era, completely different era. I picked up the phone, here I am 17. I pick up the phone. Assalamu alaikum, my name is Rania. I'm organizing a MINNA conference. Would you be willing to come, Imam Siraj Wahaj? Who picks up the line on the other end. And he says MINNA conference? Where? I say Detroit. He says, put me down. And that was that. And Imam Siraj Wahaj shows up to Detroit because a high schooler asked him to speak at a high school conference. Not MSA college students, not adults, high schooler. He's in New York. He comes out because a high schooler asked him to speak. And if you look at Imam Siraj Wahaj's itinerary, you will see that every day, for years on end, he has been traveling all of the communities of this country. And the impact he has made on every single one of us without fail. Each of us has stories to share about this person. And probably, and I'll end with this, that the most beautiful story is that one of our own teachers was speaking this morning and she said to me, back when I converted in the 80s, Imam Siraj Wahaj was a name. And today Imam Siraj Wahaj continues, may Allah bless him and increase him, continues to be a name. And all the names in between, they're no longer names. And she said what's the most beautiful thing about that time period, or about him, is the fact that he stayed consistent, consistent, consistent, consistent without fail. And thereby affecting generations of people, I'm a nameless 17-year-old, who am I, continue to affect generations of people to stay true to their dean and on their dean and inspire those of us who went off to studies and now people call us teachers, right, who inspired us. But like the du'a of my teachers, my insides match our outsides and our outsides match our insides. Allahumma'ameen. And this is the like of Imam Siraj Wahaj. May Allah increase all of our teachers and bless all of our teachers and bless our parents. Ya Rabbi and our grandparents and our forefathers, SubhanAllah, we don't know why it is we're in this room tonight. But think about this. Like they say with the story of Sayyidina Musa Al-Khidr, when he said about why are you protecting these young children, these orphans' wealth? And he says, What? And it says in the Tafseer that it wasn't referring to their father, it was referring to their seventh forefather. And because of the seventh forefathers, Sulh, their goodness, that is why the grand children, seven generations down were protected. And the fact that Allah SubhanAllah loves you, each and every one of you, us here today to bring us here, to listen to the words of wisdom and to be on the Dean, it may have nothing to do with us. And it may have everything to do with our forefathers, our teachers, the people who had maybe less knowledge than us, less obvious religiosity than us, but raised their hands in the depth of the night one day and said, Ya Allah protect my progeny. And that's all. May Allah bless them and protect them and protect us and protect our children and our next generations. And peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you.


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you can see the candles here, the vigil for these people and on the other side of the road we can see cars basically bearing still the signs of the fact that they were smashed from the car in which another victim, a third victim were shot, you can see the right behind the bicycle still in that gray car bearing the signs of the accident, a driver was shot inside his car and then his car hitting the two cars here right behind me, a lot of anger here on the scene, people demanding security, we're here at the site and one of the funerals is set to begin in about 30 minutes right next to the place where we are, one of the neighbors who lives right nearby just came to do some shopping and he was shot just outside of his home, a lot of anger here among this community, a lot of anger generally speaking about those three attacks which you mentioned which claimed the lives of 11 people so far, a lot of anger here, people feel that they have a lot of questions to the government or the security establishment, many questions not a lot of answers. Okay, Janke, Falber is joining us now, thank you Jonathan, we'll be back with you later, Janke is a foreign news reporter for the new site, thank you very much for being with us on this difficult morning, Janke we were just seeing the scene with Jonathan there on site, it's just a residential neighborhood right, can you tell us a little bit about the location? Yeah, it's fine, we need to walk from my house, where I'm speaking to you now from, I'm actually going to the funeral very soon, I'm just waiting in my house to speak to you, yeah it's like a walk, my son was walking on that street like an hour before maybe, he went to visit, he went to meet his friend from school, he was riding on his bike and when I heard that I called my wife, I said are you at home, the kid she said yeah, what's going on, she didn't even know because I don't know, it's like the time when kids go to sleep, kids go to bed so not everybody is actually connected to the news and she told me that my son was 11 year old, he was just like an hour before on the street, the last street maybe the street after that, because he went to visit his friend now, I want to tell you the city is very shocked because we are not used to any terror attacks, I think the last terror attack in this city was like maybe 20 years ago, I checked yesterday, you know I googled so many, I tried to find, I think the last terror attack was like 20 years ago, maybe a little bit more, also not far from the place where there was yesterday a terror attack, it's crazy you know people just go shopping, it's not even a war against to, you know, soldiers against to a country, it's just plain terror, people go shopping, people live on the street, women, men, babies and just this guy as you can see now on the screen goes around and just killing people on the street for what, for why and actually, you know, most of the people, you know, in this city, also now you can see many Palestinian people working here, people working in shops, they work in buildings, they build us, this is a very welcoming city for Arabs, Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, they work here, nobody's arming and nobody's telling them anything and you know, when you see such as saying five people getting killed, one officer, wave officer killed the terrorist yesterday and you can see two non-Jewish workers from Ukraine actually, they didn't come because the war, I think they came here before the war, they came to work here and this guy is just killing everybody, he doesn't carry these people, Jewish, non-Jewish, I don't know what education this guy got in his house but I can tell you that my kids and the area where I live and you know, and the schools where my kids go to, they never get educated, they never get, you know, they always speak about behaving and being nice to people, I don't think that anyone in my city would ever do such a thing, it's crazy, I really don't know what to say. That's perhaps the most difficult thing with regards to terror attacks like that, that it only requires one radical madman and a rifle or a knife, as we saw earlier last week, to commit such a horrible crime that ends with the death of so many people. We're seeing some reactions, you mentioned that there is shock, what are some of the leaders of the community telling people today? Is there any way to comfort? Well, I want to show you, I don't know if you can see on the thing, this is a very, you know, very, it's a very strong newspaper at the Orthodox Community, it's called Gethe, it represents Degelatora, the party in the nation, I said, and the headline of the, it's like two headlines, one is one of the great Rabbi, great leader, Rabbi Edelstein, he's 90, he's 98 years old, he said that it's very, very, it's very, he said that because we lost Rabbi Kaniewski, you know, a week ago, we lost a very big Rabbi in the neighborhood, so he said, maybe we don't have protection from God. So this is one thing, one headline, and everybody's talking about it, actually, you know, yesterday, people said, when Rabbi Kaniewski is gone, we have no protection for the city. He was like protecting us, you know, from heaven, as we can say, and even when he was here. Now, the other headline is like he said, blood journey in Benet, but this is something that nobody knows. Now, everybody went to school today, and yes, the, you know, the, the council city are trying to tell all the schools how to speak to the children, how to explain them. But it's definitely a difficult day, though I'm sure people are trying to go back to normal today. Thank you very much, Yankee. Sabi, we have to part here. Thank you for finding time to speak to us before you head to the funeral. Thank you very much. We'll be right back. These images haven't been seen in Europe for decades, but now they have become Ukraine's daily reality. 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And we do have so many images that are coming out from these security cameras and from people who are filming it from the scene. So we do have a fairly coherent timeline that we can put together from the videos from the scene, as well as from police statement explaining exactly what happened. So from these narrows, we have that the attacker disembarked on a vehicle on Jabotinsky shortly before 8 p.m. We can see this video that's showing right now standing in front of a local store. He pulled out his weapon and began firing, said to have just missed passerby, some were walking by a man on a bicycle before then proceeding to a different store. He didn't find a different street. Excuse me, on Bialik Street, they said he didn't find anybody there that was an empty street. It was about 8 p.m. at night. Nobody really in the area. And then he went onto a grocery store. Two people were shot dead at this store, this attack. And then he continued to fire a passerby who were walking on the street. The police said there was a moment his gun jammed briefly before he continued to shoot people. He said also one of the victims was in a car who was told to stop by the attacker. And then he was fired really at point blank range. There's very disturbing video that's coming out from this scene. And we're not going to show it, but you can really see the moment that this man was killed in his car. It was a six minutes before eventually the killing spree was stopped when he was eventually apprehended by motorcyclists, policemen on motorcyclists. One of the policemen who did was one who approached him, was tragically shot. And he died at the scene later at the hospital. But at that scene, once he was confronted by these policemen forces, he was also shot, the attacker, on the scene. So he was declared dead at the scene. You can see this is the motorcycle of one of the policemen there that was in that shot just before. And a word about the victims, Mary, as we mentioned, two locals, two foreign workers who actually came to Israel from Ukraine, how sad. And an Arab-Israeli policeman who actually stopped the gunman. Yes, we know from, so Amir Khoury, he was 32 years old. He was an Arab-Israeli from Nofa-Galil. So in Israel's north, he actually comes from a police family. We know the head of the police commissioner spoke to his family last night where he exchanged thankfulness from the Israeli people, saying that he really was crucial to helping to stop this terrorist from committing more murders and from therapy mean more victims. So sadly, he is joining the people who were also killed last night. OK, Mary, thank you. For some analysis, we now want to turn to Brigadier General in Reserves, Yosyko Brvasso. He's the former director general at the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, among his many other titles. Thank you for being with us today. Thank you for having me. Good morning. I think the most difficult question, I guess, that I can pose to you this morning is of the ease of committing such a terror attack. Because unlike some bombing attacks that we're used to seeing in the past in which an infiltrator like that would need a network and would need more assistance, perhaps, here we're just talking about a person with a rifle or with a knife. So what can be done to prevent this? And are we expected to see this wave continuing? Well, first of all, it's really difficult to confront such a wave of people that are not members of some sales of terror attacks, that plant terror attacks. And it's sometimes almost impossible. If somebody wakes up in the morning, takes a knife and goes to kill people in the market, very little can be done about it. But I think, first of all, in most cases, there are some early warning signs in the social media and so on that can help you know that something is cooking. And in some of the cases, when they really armed themselves and prepare themselves for a long time for something like that, they do emit all kinds of signs that should be caught by the intelligence and the security organization. And I refer mainly to the event that took place with the two guys from Umer Fache. That's one thing that can be done. The other thing is that you have to deepen your collection efforts and be alert. And whenever you see something on the social media, react to it. And don't assume that nothing is going to happen. And because we see that there is this phenomenon of people that are inspired by one attack and they want to imitate it and go and carry out another attack. And I think we are in the midst of such a period, especially with the feelings very, emotions very high and the day of the land today and the Ramadan that is coming and so on and so forth. So we have to lower the level of the bar upon which we take action and arrest people before they go out. We arrested this night dozens of people in the territories. I think this is something that could have been done a couple of days ago. And this terrorist last night, again, was it Israeli prison in the past? And also, I believe, the one from Chura in the Nege, who committed the attack last week. So they're known to the security services. Sure, all these people are known to the security services, which is, again, something that bothers me, because I think that when in a time like that, you should have a closer look at all those people who were in jail. And there's not enough reason to believe that they gave up on their commitment to carry out their attacks. These people that had inclination to support Daesh are definitely dangerous people. And again, this guy from Yabed last night was in jail and was involved in attempts to have weapons in the past. Somebody that should be looked upon closely in a time like that. OK, Brigadier General. Yes, very, very briefly. Let me say that we have to realize that we are facing a commitment by the majority of the Palestinian people to support this kind of attacks. And that's why every person can be the next person who is going to take action. And as long as the incitement goes on and the inculcation of this narrative that the Palestinians are in struggle against Zionism is going on there by everybody, by Hamas, but also by the Palestinian Authority, it's going to be very difficult to locate the next terrorist head of time. That's a very difficult job.  So thank you very much for speaking to us today. Thank you. And Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a rare condemnation of the terror attack that left five Israelis dead in Benay Brak as dozens of Palestinians marched and rallied in support of the gunmen in his West Bank hometown. For more on that, we're joined by Ariel Osteran here in studio. So our rare condemnation, Ariel, from the president of the Palestinian Authority. Why now? Well, I think we are seeing recent meetings getting closer between the Palestinian Authority leadership and Israeli leadership. There are also reports that members of the staff of Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz approached after the attack members of President Abbas's staff and had asked him to send out this condemnation. It's also possible the affiliation of the attacker. He was known to be affiliated with the Fatah ruling party in the Palestinian Authority, the same party that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas belongs to. But what we know about the attacker, Diyah Haramshah, who's 26 years old from the northern West Bank village of Yabad near Jenin, he was believed to be in Israel illegally working as a construction worker in Benay Brak. There are tens of thousands others who are illegally here in Israel working in construction. That's why I believe multiple mayors across the country halted all construction work today in their cities. Now, he was sentenced back in 2013 to 18 months in prison over affiliation to terror organization and weapons smuggling, but he only served six months of that. And so as you mentioned, as well as the previous guest, he was known to security establishment as well as the attackers from the last two terror attacks. This definitely shows a gap in intelligence. Now, Haramshah is believed to have been very religious, posting a lot about the al-Aqsa mosque. Just a couple of excerpts, he wrote on Facebook, those who want to meet God, God wants to meet them. The Zionists are not native to this land. And so our previous guest also alluded to the fact that as opposed to previous waves of terror in recent years, this time we have social media that can help intelligent services perhaps get initial alert to perhaps suspects like this. This is also something that will need to be looked at. Okay, thank you very much, Ariel Osiron. Rafael Roshalmi joins us now. He's a former senior intelligence officer at the IDF and a security analyst. And we're happy to be speaking to you again, of course. We heard from Ariel Osiron now what one of the latest posts of the terrorist was. If Allah wants someone would join them, that was more or less on paraphrasing, of course. What he said, can the Israeli defense forces can the Shabbat, should they arrest anyone that tweets or posts anything like that on Facebook that just hints towards committing any sort of terrorist activity, is that even possible? Well, it's not possible because you would have to arrest thousands of people right now if you would go on the social networks of the Arabic population of Israel and especially amongst the Palestinian population. On TikTok right now, you have tens of thousands of messages, louding the attack, encouraging further attacks, sympathizing with Hamas and the Islamic jihad. So you'd have to arrest thousands of young, hot-headed Arabic youth, but that are not each one of them going to actually perpetrate an attack in Israel. So the other problem that is not often mentioned is when you say that people have been identified in the past, they even served time in Israeli jails, the surveillance should be more strict. You have to understand that to watch somebody, you need a lot of equipment, staff and budget. You have to follow the person, you have to follow their activity on the phone, their bank accounts. I mean, you need two or three persons to actually watch one. So it's not physically possible, even though we know a person is a potential threat to watch everybody every, all the time, every minute. The last problem that I can see is also a legal problem. The law today in Israel doesn't allow entirely the Shin Bet to operate freely, even though it gave it some tools, the main tool being preventive arrest, what we call administrative detention, meaning the possibility to arrest on mere suspicion of perpetrating maybe a terrorist attack. But on the other hand, as you have seen and has been said very adjustly, the punishments are too light, they are not distributive. The six months, three months in Israeli jails, usually very good conditions in those jails. These don't distribute people from doing anything. The law must be much, much tougher. The punishment must be harsher on perpetrators or even sympathizers. The very fact that you sympathize with terrorism should already be punished severely. Yeah, Raffaele Roussalmi, thank you very much for those insights today. And thank you our viewers for watching. We'll be back with more after the break wherever you are in the world. We hope that you're keeping well and safe. Thanks for watching.