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tv   The Chauras of Bangladesh  Deutsche Welle  February 21, 2024 10:15pm-11:00pm CET

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save the award and speaking of his obsessive love for sending by and said that he will keep making more movies is ladies film killers, and the flour moon will be competing at the oscars in just over 2 weeks. it has 10 now, i mean it's not bad. watching dw nunes, we'll see you again with up the, the we are all set and we are watching to see all the to bring you the story behind the new the will on about come by as information for free might say, due to me in the the since the beginning of
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time, melting glaciers in the himalayas have been feeding countless rivers, they pour out of the mountain range, running like veins throughout the south asian continent. one of the most powerful is the drama to truck, which travels thousands of kilometers before crossing bangladesh and flowing into the bay of bingo. here the river is known as jim the jim lunar, creates and floods and many islands and its course. in ben gully, these ever shifting islands and bars are called chalk, derived from schroeder, which means wondering the 3000000 people who live on the island called them's the
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child. but we don't migrate. they say the islands do. we just have to wonder, along from june to september, during the month to the rivers tides wash up fertile settlement that produces a bountiful harvest in the dry season. the floods provide both fish and joy to the child, but they also take knowing at the shore line of the old jobs flooding the islands and causing pain. the like no man's. the child has moved from flooded islands to newly emerging ones. but they are used to this. they know the river gives them fertile soil on which they can grow and to work again. a
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life of construction, destruction and reconstruction, the weakness, dish or nothing over the last i'm i don't know what the thing is told you. oh dear, didn't you catch anything? i'm so far careful. careful about it. that's enough for lunch.
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the news i have been talking to 33 year old that i am sure to god isn't actually a fisherman, but a farmer together with his wife aliya become he feeds his 6 person household besides their 2 children, his younger brother and mother also live with the the raw him and his neighbors live on child early, but in the middle of the june, the monsoons began months ago and the river is knowing away at the island. but the
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tidal waves that usually flood the jobs are not here this year. even in august the me but for us tell rose to be there is the cost and the blessing. and here with that you know, now flows which i believe her was actually everywhere. they were both schools concrete building and i've been, we had every day, we're 5 minutes with probably single readings and then from the east, the river started pushing and ripping everything away. i was glad to do it again. say i'm, i'm sick. i'm is this all right here, a child could come up again and people could settle again. what's the use or is it fine to, to the, wherever the village of relief is now, the moon used to flow from the big ships used to pass by when i saw it myself as
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a child and the child early, but has now been stable for 12 years, but it is the exception literally, but is one of a dozen charge that make up the gum shot a union district. not all the islands in the district have reached such an age every few years. jemina washes away some of the jobs only to later wash up new settlement elsewhere. the not far from the heem until recently lived. shoot some on the there only one or can be seen now because you're moving a has reclaimed the large parts of his former home. jemina has taken over the shoot us i'm on a farmer,
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lived here with his family for 8 years. it everybody kept over here was my home, a piece of field was washed away with the property that kind of worried about here was a house over. there was a neighbor, there was another problem. anybody here was another friend of mine. 7 homes were here. the school that showed us a month son attends, must be demolished. the water is only a few meters away from its foundation. the rubble will be reused. building material is precious. it's not clear where the school will be rebuilt for now it remains closed. yeah, my, my son went to the school. my property is gone and now we are losing the school to
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the ca bubble into the some in the building. you see here we build 66 years ago, so we have to take it down and think of it before the school was some or else. then we have to take it down due to erosion and rebuild it here. tens of times we have to move at the school by the name of the monsoon season, and erosion go hand in hand. you never know which island of the river will take next. noted board, perhaps the this job is only 4 years old. that doesn't make a particularly powerful impression,
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but farmers who don't have many fields often have no choice, but to settle here the cause. follow your mother. i mean, i could tune lives here. she is married and has 2 daughters. her husband, a seer, or dean khalifa is a farmer. unfortunately, some of his fields have flooded and he's no longer able to feed his family from field work alone. he also sells goods at the market, the
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killing of the game. we all have to live in a hot with the animals because we are afraid of thieves or robbers because the river is so closely if there are often river pirates. here we are poor. we have a few animals. if the thieves and robbers take that away from us, how will we survive the new zillow and it is it just last time the water was up to here up to the waist. it was very difficult to live here under the name and then we moved to a neighbor's house for a few days and the flood hit us there too. then we had to build a rack up high to keep the animals away from the water. often we also slept on a boat and there was no gas. the water taxi keams job relief, but is stable for the moment. the people here still feel safe from jemina
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and its powerful tides. but even they are not completely saved from the floods. is the dominant them you don't want i'm that's mine. i agree with that myself. it's growing. well. it dropped out that is that the same, these arises brand new thanks to technical development and we can try a new varieties. you're looking at just the see it on a grow, the very well hi can be used as high on. so when the, when i was a child, you could only have as just the feeling like this, a began for up to 50 is what i'm, what i'm gonna be a problem at all. feel free to on monday at $830.00 the, the job. and they came up from the 12 years ago, but well, people have become wise on we'll get to go to quite a hook up because somebody planned trees immediately to and get this oil and the
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level one lucky pulling definitely got happy, definitely 7 though. and we can eventually sell the trees later. is that one right? does business in this foundation we built in 2011? ever from after that we had to wait until the settled our mission is why the edible doesn't mind when the water comes onto the property here, we have to bring extra soil here, like with the boat. and then we build a hill. and then we put the animals on this hill near that. can you tell us how lucky and for cooking? you can see the dove, and of course, it gets covered with water, finding police mazda, and then we build a high rock. and on top of this, again, a new stove, we tried to keep the wood dry, and on top of it we sits in cook. i often tell him that maybe we shouldn't move to the mainland, but he doesn't want to leave the char kind of. he loves the child more than anything the mainland does. that's the question for him. i'm glad that i tell her why didn't you get some money from your parents? why don't you get 500000 tucker to buy a plot of land today, but she contract?
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she dreams of a house on the mainland. we just don't have the money back on the whole night ready to go to the flow that about him and his wife aliya are busy all day like her husband. she's educated a lot here on the jobs. there is no opportunity for women to put their schooling to use a lia supports her husband in his work and earns extra money as it seems through the neighbors by their clothes, from her instead of on the mainland. the
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because little harvesting takes place during the monsoons, many showed us live off of fishing during the rainy season. but in recent years, the highly sought after catch has been dwindling. the, there are many different kinds of fish and practiced showed us can even catch them with their bare hands. the look how big it is, the,
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the farmers no longer use the fish solely to feed their families at the port of golden darcy. they bring their fish to be auctioned off a supplement, seeing their livelihood on the. 2 team to sometimes visits the market and go be not cheap. nothing to me here. the 400. 6400. 60 anyone? 7400. 7. the 501500. 15515 nobody. then he's gone for $500.00.
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the so he brings the expensive fish home for supper, the law he can still trust that his land is safe from the rising waters. but not far away. it's a different story to do some on has given up his land and is storing parts of his house and his relatives, the excellent. yeah. all the individual pieces of a complete hon to go to the end. if you was of another hunt. i also put them on top
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there. how does it say go to another one, i find out how i can buy when we take down no rebuild the home. so it takes a lot of people to that. how does this logistically? it's a big effort that also costs money. what it's from getting is very tedious. what started monitor the vehicle, so on the buses, but we charles help each other. i mean that if i decide to take down my house today and tell the neighbors they come right away, we have to have this out a little bit. if i hear that another neighbor is relocating with it. he tells me, oh no, it's on my guard by go that i'd help take down the hunt. transported away and rebuilt it. this i think we'll try to move on. got a little showers help each of the sorting one long as that optimal desk. as the
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shoes of mine and his family have to stay with relatives until they find a safe place for a new home. the river is rising, the as unstable as the childs are, the land and farm land on them are still surveyed and entered into the land register. all showed us keep their title deeds in case they are flooded. land reappears perhaps this time should have some on we'll get lucky and
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yamuna. we'll give him back the land and took the. this is what it looks like before the flooding waters arrive. the green grass land is food for cattle. but in order to cultivate the land, the grass has to disappear. usually the flood takes care of, but when it doesn't, the farmers have to destroy the grass with chemicals in order to be able to plant. the the cute is a particularly hardy crop, but it can only be grown in the rainy season. the, there's a reason it's called the golden thread of bangladesh. it drives even when flooded
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for the jude water is upfront. it likes stagnant water, the more brackish the better after harvesting, the stalks must be left to soften in the water so the threads can be pulled. the, the remaining parts of the plant are used as building and burning material. the
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material dude, that is about one year old the farmers earn about $400.00 to $500.00 euro is from the significantly more than the $100.00 to $200.00 euro's they would otherwise earn from us. not with products like dude and rice. the cho does have adapted to the rhythm of the dry and during the season when it comes to electricity, they must also adapt to the rules of nature. solar panels are easy to use and the mobile. until a few years ago, expensive oil was the only source of energy for the child us
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today, children grow up with solar energy as the norm for 6 year old chic, it's common place the that he was brother or only chicago even runs his laptop off the panels, the computer is connected to the internet through his mobile phone. when you are done here, could you please wait the patty for you? okay, i have to go to a meeting or go away and want to take you to a little while i get my product graduated well from school event. the timing is his
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great fashioning that he didn't want to do anything else. sure, let me put him in devices and i want to work as a web designer from home who were doing the brother supports me to learn this profession. i'm going to get with to buy all this equipment. so this is supposed to be financially is helping us as a visual visit. gosh, and what else is she knows here is how much is it out to them a little way this? i get a get with the one thing that we don't love economical image. the honey, but i don't have any training and web design, so i follow the work of professional web designers in the country and then even the internationally known ones that you read the books, the follow the law and g cheap the most. i me the, the kind of the, the need to see the absolves boardman life event. i think the young people on the charlotte, the very small now that if i can get them together, i would like to start the company to provide services like this online. but it's always been a the
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unusually late in early september. the title floods have finally come normally the child as expect 3 title waves between june and the end of august. but this time, the rising water is come only once. here to climate change is evident the within a few days, the flooded waters reach dangerous levels. as the river takes its toll, no one's thinking about the fertile settlement. it breaks. even though the floods will ensure to mountable harvest for the child us in the coming dry season,
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the by means you're doing the one with the water has been standing here in the field for 3 days. 7 days ago it started to rise. first the river was swollen and then in the last 3 days the water ended from here. if the water just continues to rise folder rice will be lost on what is a good. i figured it was the, i don't know if i'm lucky enough to save this rice crop. it's growing so beautiful in the bottle. here at the finish of the me see, find the water is close to l ya. now my move when the children play here, i think they could fall into a hole. it's dangerous. i want to take
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a bath papa hyphen because you know, you just had a shower when a good day they loaded. well, that's how it is a life for you. in a few days ago we were working on this past. everything was due, dried it off, and now we're walking in the water, the water. sometimes the water comes up to a chest for over a head. sometimes there is even a current to you. will die come to grow. he seems relaxed about the flooding. aliya is more concerned, the ground near their home is still dry, but if the water enters the yard every day, life will become much more difficult. as
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evidenced in this footage from the past quarter century, the child us have had to develop extraordinary survival skills to adapt to the flood floods which the child us they are increasingly worse due only in part to nature. a bridge was built here 25 years ago. forcing the once 14 kilometer wide river and to a narrower channel. the child say that until the bridge was built, the floods we're not as dramatic as they are today. the, the, the,
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this time there was only one tidal wave in the monsoon season. it left behind huge amounts of fertile soil that had to be till the dry season has long since begun. now, 5 months later, it's harvest time, the the but uh she, uh, jo mode. it goes to a to me uh they could, but uh she uh, not to be long done that the hard. no, but sheila, i'm going to go look, gone all monday had the bus to
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come back from. you mentioned that he was not lucky with his rice field. the water destroyed the crop, but he was able to save his other fields of the the landscape, which until now was a disaster area. suddenly looks very different. it now gives the
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impression one can live well here it is a different world, but distances that could be covered quickly by boat or water taxi in the monsoon season. now take much longer the in the monsoon season, the water is overwhelming. now it is scarce. but farmers desperately need it to irrigate their fields.
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the soil is still what in some places and good for planting. rice. rice can be grown all year. but must be harvest it before the floods come the it's not just the rice that grows here throughout the dry season. the child as are
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busy harvesting one field after another at ground knots, mays, sweet potatoes, mustard, and corey. and are keep that he busy the number to bobby, that's literally what i'm gonna do. it actually sink. there is a river here. all these floods and like a blessing for us. i'm one of the because the more often the flooded comes, the better it is for our farm and i want the more we can grow stuff to dorothy with both the blood working smooth. this is just a reason when the monsoons come was that when it's all about this is l farm land that these fields only lie on plants if the 2 or 3 mounted on over the just where they are flooded up on me, peggy only during this time can we not talk today is the ticket then when everything is verbal when it but it, that's why i think we live in the river, but it doesn't seem like that. but in november i moved the odyssey. i'm of the
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portuguese. i'm a glenda soil here has a big advantage. we don't necessarily always need the plants. sometimes you just say send to the bar example here, the soil into the see how the peanuts a thriving problem is good, but you can see how drive the soil is good, but the phone will be making a difference in that. so can i go the that he was neighbor pseudo some on has been lucky. but jeff, port island has reappeared from the river. he owns a plot of land on it. the soil is nice and high and it seems to be protected from the erosion that cost him hudson fields during the last month soon. now he's building the foundations for his new home. here. it will need to be high enough to stay afloat during the next floods as well. that's why i'm
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taking the important box. now we're moving from the east and to the west and signed style about the problems that we can actually make a good living from finding new tank. we're calling chat from them. but this erosion is the pro body by the say, kind of model. by example. this house that i have to rebuild here. it will cost me most a $1000.00 euros altogether. i could have saved this money, but i'm forced to spend it a little promo. that's the problem for us. the child really have to do it every 3 or 4 years. the river eats away my property. i cannot keep my savings at the bottom in terms of talking about the the even though there are no trees here yet to fortify the island. the new plot looks
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promising. the river is a safe distance away. i should have some on plan to move ahead of time and all the neighbors are pitching in the things are looking good for showed us a month and at the moment. but no one knows when juno will get hungry again and start knowing on the shore line. the
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most of the told us are developed muslims praying 5 times a day, however, is something very few do. but no farmer wants to miss the spiritual chancing at harvest time. in late february, the if you see anybody to school, i saw the teacher. what did he say? he said i should study hard. i invited him to our house. to did you see the house? i think so, but check because of the you go abroad by playing the broad. that's right. and what's that that to you alone? you look see disruptive. yeah. do you know what that's made?
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ok. well banana tree, right. whatever. and what did they put on this roster? the how is it that she yeah, that would be and to look at the go, that's the boys this, the see how sketchy is. she's afraid of falling into the water. you will find me with a bit of like a there. but i'm not afraid of the water. the a child of noted food has also survived the monsoon. but now there is a lot to do in the fields. i mean, those husband associated with dean can take care of their younger daughter. she doesn't have to travel far to work. this means i mean i can take care of the older daughter schooling and have more time for housework the
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. the my father was a capital trader. as a child, he used to take me with him and i watched him alone, how the business works level. i didn't finish school, so i have to on my money. as a salesman. i managed a little bit until the 7th grade i. my parents married me off so i couldn't get in, you know, if a lot of people that are so the we are poor child on the with the know do the girls get married off quite early. but if and when you're married, you can't go to the 1st because then you have to work at home, but i feel like i would have had a good chance to finish school. my parents made an effort, but i blew i to the room. so probably one of the,
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or the states like you are blind even though your eyes are healthy, the people who have education or they can see properly, they can understand everything and do a lot of things with their lives. everything is much easier for the that and those who have no education at all. they are like blind people with healthy eyes. that's how it is. there are even people who can't write their own name or the pipe. i can home educate my children up to great stuff. i'm of the just because of of the i don't think another bundle. no, no, no, no, no, that's enough. one more. wait until next time. here i want to take one more minute. that's enough. and i want another one, you wouldn't make it. i well, the,
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the dry season has brought a good harvest and some security. the rice dogs are a precious commodity because they feed the most important thing of all the animals . they have to be store, look, look what i have here. my goodness, so much. where do i put it? bring it here please. for 6 year old chic life on the chart is still an event. sure. he doesn't know what's in store for the family. the monsoon season with it, a time of uncertainty will begin again the even though the family knows how to deal with the rhythm of nature, there is no secure foundation for an easy life. aliyah knows that the
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move you have to cross the river here every time to bring in the harvest. that's going to be hard again. because you did you grow crops then last you know, even further away and i think that was very exhausting. you were, they were down so, you know, we wanted to keep up in one. i don't know yet how to make it this year. are you coming home? is that? no, i don't want to. why not do what i mean? okay. did you foster volk? why didn't you get some of the, the, the of them we've gotta pay more lower. you know, the women who work in the fields carry a huge stacks of pain on the, when the used to it. so i've never done that was up in the diamond fiber. why shouldn't you you can try it sometime. they look at a got a home. no, i don't want to. i'm supposed to do everything myself or what,
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who else? i can learn. what do i go to? i was hoping that's at some point we would live on the main them so that the children could go to school. do you have assets there on the mainland, a salad? well, you don't want to give up your fields here. you also create your job in the city just to plow on the charles all the time, but that's not enough for allowing it a negative. we'll see. one way i could, i guess, i guess you want me to toil a line in town and send you money so you can have a good life, stewart, and then keep digging into sam's. you don't need a dog, but i sell that to a sons because they should make money on the mainland and due to life the. i'll stay here on the job. many child us think like that here. they may never give up this land, but to constance, remain the child shifting nature and the child us desire for security. the
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