Learn English Malala Yousafzai and Emma Watson A Message Of Inspiration with Big Subtitles

it’s an honor to be joined by Malala

yousufzai hello Malala I know first I

just wanted to say how wonderful I

thought the film was and that you were

just my absolute heroes so this is this

is some glad to see you oh that’s really

kind thank you I think that the best

part of the film for me was that you got

to see what obviously made you so

extraordinary but more importantly

ordinary which shows that anyone can

encourage change and I just thought that

was a wonderful message from the film do

you have a sense of a tangible goal that

you would like the Malala fund to reach

with in your lifetime

so it’s my simple dream and very

straightforward I want to see every

child to get quality education and in

order to make sure that that dream comes

true we have to work hard and we have to

take action and that’s why through the

Malala fund we are working each and

every day and now the Sustainable

Development Goals are going to be set up

so we are raising our voice saying that

not just primary education should be

focused on but both primary and

secondary education should be available

to every child and this has been my

mission and I will make it come true

I’ll try my best

how does it feel to have your story

shown on film and screen to thousands of

young people today as part of the anti

film festival it’s quite interesting

what I don’t like seeing myself on TV or

I can’t even hear my voice so but once

the film was made and I watched it it

really inspired me the way Davis

Guggenheim the director of the film has

delivered our story through animation

and spread the message of Education

across the world and it was his

commitment to this call that led to this

the making of this movie and it covers

as you have seen it it covers like the

family story and how we stood up for the

right to education at that hard time of

terrorism in Swat Valley

so hopefully the message will spread and

it will inspire more people to come

together and join the campaign that we

are having through the Malala fund

hashtag with Malala and to come together

and do something it’s not just that you

watch the film but you do something and

I want this movie not just to be a movie

but a movement

that’s amazing and I thought that the

animation in the film was so beautiful

and I loved the mythology behind it and

it just really it was so beautifully

done and so well told and I completely

agree with you I think it’s great that

people are watching the film and it’s

wonderful but it’s great that you want

people to really do something and take

action as well and and that this is

about a movement not just a film I think

it’s amazing that it’s it’s going so far

beyond that a part of the film that

really touched me was how big of a role

you know your father has played in your

life and and in the film how would you

respond to anyone who said that you know

men can’t be feminists or shouldn’t be

campaigning for for girls riots

well my father he has set an example to

all parents in all male on all men that

if we want equality if we want equal

rights for women then we have to men

have to step forward because if we if we

complain that women don’t get equality

equal rights it’s mean like all the

things are taken by men so they need to

they need to step back and say we want

we are here to support so it can’t

happen the main are just thinking is

just a few women’s job war crazy

feminists and they’re gonna change it

and things are going to be changed soon

it’s not going to happen like this we

all have to work together that’s how

change will come and this is the the

role that my father has taken he

believes in women’s rights he believes

in equality and he calls himself

feminists but interestingly this word

feminism it has been a very tricky word

and I hope when I heard it the first

time I was heard it in in like I heard

some negative responses and some

positive ones

and I hesitated in saying am i a

feminist or not and then after hearing

your speech when you said if not now

when

if not me who I decided that there is no

way and there is nothing wrong by

calling yourself a feminist so I am a

feminist and we all should be feminists

because feminism is another word for

equality Wow I’m sorry to hear that

that’s absolutely amazing and

I agree with you it’s um it’s become

this really difficult word but I think

it’s it’s wonderful when people do

embrace it because it should be

synonymous with the quality people have

forgotten its definition they really

really have so that’s wonderful wow I’m

so moved to hear that well it’s kind of

a similar question but what would you

say to people who argue that religion

and educating women are at odds I

thought again it was so wonderful in the

film to show how important your faith

and your spirituality you were in giving

you strength to do the work that you do

I just thought that was such a wonderful

part of the film but what would you say

to people that you know the use

Scripture to say that women shouldn’t be

educated or that argue that educating

women is a Western concept or a Western

idea

I think people fail to understand

religious beliefs especially when it

comes to Islam they have failed to

understand that really Islam the word

Islam means peace

so never fail to understand that the

very first word of the Holy Quran was

Achra which means read it wasn’t that

only male should read it and not female

it was it was about reading it was about

learning and getting knowledge

so in essence of you believe that God

has sent you to this earth you are there

to gain knowledge to learn and to

discover more and this is what what we

are here for and so people have just

misinterpreted the religion and for me

it’s always a religion of peace which is

for the goodness and of whole humanity

and it’s for the brotherhood kindness

patience love for each other and I don’t

know why like people just go crazy and

kill each other and start terrorism just

live a better life and be kind why is it

so hard to love each other that’s

amazing and yes I completely in terms of

brothers it’s different because I have

two brothers and we are never good to

each other

that’s a separate case but overall I can

relate I actually have brothers there’s

a lot of my thing that going on he’s not

very peaceful yeah

tough for the parents I was wondering

are you excited to see Hillary Clinton

a woman running for president in the

u.s. well I don’t really have any views

about like I don’t really know I haven’t

really decided on which political side I

am in America I know but I really want

I really think America needs a woman

president that’s what I think I agree

with this I agree with this very trivial

question compared to some of the others

but I had to ask that really really

bright pink color that you wear it’s one

of my absolute favorite colors and I see

you with it a lot and I wondered if it

was lucky or if it had any sort of

special meaning to you I don’t know this

but I have always liked pink color and

when I was going to the UN speech I wore

pink that day I don’t know why and so

yes and now the film is all the origin

things yeah

pink is everywhere yeah it’s good thing

I feel it’s nice because I get the

impression that you’re someone who is

generally sort of you know shy

struggling with all of the attention

that’s been thrust on her but I thought

it was wonderful that you chosen this

this bright color which meant that you

wanted to be seen and and you know and

you wanted to spread your message in

spite of that and I thought that was

wonderful

thank you as a big book fan I have to

ask you what was your last favorite book

was there anything that you read in the

last year that you just fell in love

with right now I’m reading a Thousand

Splendid Suns by kind of Husseini and

it’s just beautiful everyone should read

it

it’s a 1:1 book I’ve read this book yeah

it’s an amazing book I just can’t

explain it it’s like the best book read

it curious what the thing you found the

strangest about England compared to

Pakistan well it would be so in our

books we studied that there are four

seasons and in Pakistan we had four

seasons but in the UK I just found there

was one season winter that it was quite

surprising then another surprising thing

was that in the UK people follow traffic

rules yeah it was quite surprising in

our country maybe now in a few cities

people are nice but in the rest of the

country no traffic

rules at all so that was quite

surprising and but then more than that

it’s the love of people and how they

have given so much support and I and I

have never felt like being from another

country it’s just I’ve so many friends

here and all the teachers in my school

they have been supporting me and giving

me like a normal girl and that is what’s

really good and I love it yeah I’m going

to stay here okay I’m glad to hear that

I’m really glad to hear that because I

know you have to deal with being famous

and I was going to ask you well I

sometimes get asks which would be what

you would do if you could be anonymous

for a day and and then it sort of it

stopped me dead in my tracks because I

realized exactly what you would do and

it really struck me you know what you’ve

sacrificed for your ideals and your

dream and this movement and it made me

really emotional actually and so I just

wanted to thank you again for being who

you are and for being so brave so other

than going home is there anything that

you like the idea of doing if you could

be if you had magical powers and you

could be invisible for a day what you’d

do well I haven’t gone back to Pakistan

14 years since their take and I would

love to go back to my country and it’s

just to achieve the goal I have because

sometimes people feel like I’ve got the

Nobel Peace Prize and the book in the

films are released and like there’s

nothing else did I need what people fail

to understand that my goal which is to

see every child going to school hasn’t

been achieved yet and that’s what I want

to see come true and it’s really

important that we come together and we

support each other this is about the

future of all those 66 million girls who

cannot go to school right now it’s it’s

what our future it’s going to affect

every one of us if so many children are

out of school they don’t get education

and they have girls especially they have

potential they can contribute to society

if you are stopping half of the

population not to come forward how can

you think of progress and achievements

so it’s important that we think it’s our

responsibility to participate actively

in bringing change it’s we who can bring

change 66 million girl

is such a huge number it’s such a

massive number to think about that I

can’t go to school at the moment so

those are my questions I know that very

sweetly we have questions from members

of the audience which is brilliant so

I’ll stop taking up all of the time why

is it important for girls and boys to be

treated equally and this is from grace

Dane at Mill primary school in Leicester

I think it’s there to treat everyone as

a human being and just because your

gender is different does not mean that

you should be treated differently and

you should have certain jobs and you

shouldn’t have certain things in your

life that’s like the very you challenge

that very concept of inequality based on

your gender your gender should not be

any it should not create any difficulty

in the choices that you make it’s a very

simple thing like it’s about equality

it’s about feminism it’s about saying

that we’re all human beings why you why

you separate us just because our gender

is different really agree which of your

teachers inspired you the most and this

is from Delano in Manchester I should

say like my father was a teacher and he

inspired me but your parents can be your

teachers and it’s like the first stage

when you start learning but also I love

all my teachers I hear in the school in

the UK and all my teachers in Pakistan

school I just just love one my teachers

I don’t kind of I’m really scared of

teachers yeah okay so let’s say love and

fear both together yeah that’s good if

you could give us 12 13 year olds any

advice what would it be and this is from

Jake in Northern Ireland oh I think an

important thing that you should know at

this stage 12 13 years of age is that

don’t think that you are young and you

can’t do something when I was rewriting

the block for BBC I was just 11 years

old when I started speaking out that was

my age the age which you are 8 so don’t

think that your age can stop you from

going forward as we talk of

Genda as you talk about religion and all

these things it is also one of them so

don’t think you’re young so you don’t

have ideas and your ideas won’t work and

sometimes we just think I’m young so I’m

not at the stage where I can just make a

bigger change and I can explore all the

big big ideas age cannot put a limit to

what you want to do so come forward and

do the things that you want to do don’t

think that one day I will grow up and

I’ll do things don’t wait for the stage

it should be too late yeah now is the

time yes and now is the time ageism is a

is a huge issue actually and every voice

feeling is yes is important are you

enjoying your education these days in

your school in Birmingham and there’s

questions from Alyssa in Cheshire oh yes

I am enjoying my education well there’s

a lot to do right now because I’m doing

a-levels it’s like a sudden change from

GCSE to a levels but the subjects I’m

doing our history economics match and

religious studies and I really like them

so that’s why I’m enjoying it great

choices very serious choices brilliant

how is education for girls in your

country now and that’s from Asha in

Enfield and North East London so the

reality is that the situation is not the

same in every part of the country so for

example in the capital Islamabad in

Pakistan there are girls going to school

but then there are there are there are

many parts in which girls cannot go to

school and about five to six million

children at primary level are out of

school in Pakistan I mean in most of the

data that we mentioned like about the

number of girls who are out of school

there’s no data enough data about the

girls who are away out of the secondary

education because no one really even

counts them the number you hear are just

focused on primary level so that’s also

tragic that we don’t collect the data

that we need which is how many girls

drop school at secondary level and how

many are out of school but in terms of

primary education they’re about like

five to six million children in Pakistan

and it’s it’s really important that we

think of supporting them in education

Pakistan is now right now at a stage of

having

trying to develop strong democracy and

improve and fight against terrorism and

if we forget the education of our next

generation I don’t think we won’t be

able to achieve that progress we need to

educate the future generation and then

they can build a more peaceful and

better Pakistan what would you say to

young people who do not like enjoy or

appreciate school and this is from Miss

Skinner she’s a teacher in Cardiff well

I should tell that like my brothers I

tell them every day that they should

focus on their studies because they

spend their time on Xbox and computers

and sometimes we like we go to school

every day

and it’s for many many years of our life

but in between II forget its importance

and I know its importance because when I

was 11 I was stopped from going to

school and the next day when I woke up

and I just could not go to school and I

could not believe it that for the rest

of my life

I wouldn’t be able to study at all and I

wouldn’t be able to become a doctor or

teacher or anything I liked and that was

the state when I realized that education

is really important for every child

so before you see that stage realize it

now I don’t want you to go through that

situation ever so realize that it’s it’s

for your future it’s for the future of

your country you know where you are

contributing to your society and just

believe in yourselves believe in the

power of Education I think it’s very

easy to take for granted and is actually

a gift

what do your younger brothers think

about your efforts and this is from our

time in London well they’re really

annoying they fight with me all the time

however they they’re sometimes nice and

sometimes they think I’m doing good work

yes well sometimes yes sometimes but

that’s something my brothers are the

same by the way what were your feelings

when you had to speak publicly for the

first time in front of presidents and

prime ministers and that’s from Miriam

in Manchester I think I should say I

feel very scared in in school

speaking in school and but in terms of

meeting presidents and prime minister

and then talking about a cause

it really matters then you have to

forget about getting nervous and the way

you deliver the speech forget all those

things and say what’s in your heart

don’t do not hesitate when I was meeting

the president of Nigeria to talk about

the girls who are abducted by Boko Haram

I said it very clearly that what are you

doing what have you done so far because

three months had passed and the

President had not even met them and then

he announced that he would meet the

parents this is you say it clearly why

to hesitate why - why to stop yourself

and like before it was meeting the

president of America Barack Obama or

anyone I say things very very clearly

because it’s not for me it’s for it’s

for children in their future that’s

great that you see it as something which

isn’t it’s personal obviously but it’s

so much bigger than that and you use the

power and the strength of that to really

you know push away any nerves which is

great how did you find the filmmaking

process and what did you learn from it

from Olivia and East Lothian it was very

long it covered the two years journey of

my life and like going to Jordan and

just be called for the Syrian refugee

children going to Nigeria and Kenya and

giving speeches meeting world leaders

which also tells the story of our family

so this it was a very it was a great

experience working together with Davis

Guggenheim and well I think I didn’t

know what what am I going to see at the

end and the way that he made it was very

beautiful especially the animation

because I was wondering how is he going

to tell the story of my father my mother

in our past and he has done it well what

do you plan to do next to further

promote equality and that’s from Mavis

in Middlesex oh well it’s so as I said I

have this fund the Malala fund and

through that I’m working for education

for equality and to ensure that girls go

to school but like how many schools can

I build I can either build nine ten

schools and it’s all through your

support through your donations that we

will school

then we need our leaders to take action

we need every one of us to come forward

it’s not the just a few NGOs who have to

do this work it’s each and every one of

us who have to come forward and

contribute to it from world leaders to

parents to civil society to everyone

even to you even if you are 11 or 12

don’t think you can’t do it you all have

to come forward and participate in it

and now it’s time that we ask all

governments where the money is spent

we give taxes we expect something from

all governments and now it’s time that

we stand up and look where the money

goes

is it spent on education if not why not

and why are our governments not willing

to help children’s education especially

in conflict zones right now in in Syria

well two million children are now

refugees in they’re out of school and

it’s important that the we raise this at

this point otherwise things won’t change

it will just remain the same voices are

important speaking out and asking

governments to do the right thing super

super super important well we’ve got

through all of the questions that we’ve

been sent which is brilliant so maybe I

will take this moment just to say thank

you again the film is so wonderful and

your story is is is beyond inspiring and

thank you for your time and it’s great

to have you and I think it would be

great if you give a message to all these

children who are listening to us right

now because you are sustained for a

cause that is very important if you want

equality and there would be so many boys

in the audience yes boy is in the

audience specifically I work for a

course called he fishy if you haven’t

signed up yet then that would be

wonderful but we we really need you as

the next generation to extend a hand to

to the girls and the women in your life

and to include them and to make sure

that they can live their lives without

discrimination and that they have access

to the same opportunities that that you

do

and you’re in a unique position you have

a unique opportunity to do that

to support the girls and the women in

your life and if you have the chance

if moments are presented to you do speak

up do you raise your voice your support

could literally change a girl’s life

could change to change someone’s life

and and you know it’s gender equality is

something that will affect your life too

as men and as boys and it’s just an

issue that I believe about so

passionately and and any of your your

help or support is is greatly greatly

appreciated

and thank you so much thank you Malala

thank you thank you