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known as the flare rising up again as the end of their sky. their flight lasted all of 45 seconds with a top speed of almost 250 kilometers an hour. and that's all for now. thank you so much for your company by the name was like a stepping points. you know, time what you into that warranty wants to be finished your studies. now you have a certificate from the train. you can just go back or somewhere else, come and see more people than ever on the world wide in search of a place in life categories. something that is come in very, very sense. yeah. can we learn more about or know when a story info, migraines, the
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an archipelago in the middle of the atlantic cape, the 3rd residence of these craggy volcanic mountains looked out over an endless expanse of c, the in contrast to the rugged landscape, the special sound of cape bird, news is luxury and soulful and melancholy. the there's no means in the 15th century, portuguese sailors discovered the uninhabited archipelago. the mostly barren volcanic islands are fringed with endless speeches, fishing, agriculture,
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and tourism. are the main sources of income for the cape for dns, the deals and the shaking things up around here. that's new to the drummer. it's only 4 weeks to carnival, a beloved cape verde and tradition. it's the most important date in the countries calendar. new know, has 2 things to take care of before that building drums and finding more drummers for the carnival parade. the sports field is a wash with new talent, not just athletic, but musical to take 12 year old jobs on most of the, to fish. yet this year's his 1st
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time. he's never played as a carnival before. he doesn't know how to do it yet. we're doing basic training here. but i'm nervous. i've got a piece pumps ready? if i've never done this before, and i don't want to do anything wrong, the an independent african country cape virgin islands are located some 600 kilometers west of synagogue in the atlantic ocean. 9 of the islands are inhabited. there are also smaller uninhabited islands. santa and tell is the greenest and perhaps the most beautiful of the cape virgin islands and serves as the islanders fruit and
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vegetable garden. the sugarcane flowers is here. a long side coconuts. bananas pie a bread fruit trees, and a condos. the coffee beings grew on the mountain slopes below. the less for tile island of savvy, sent a is kept well stocked with fruit and vegetables. thanks to its neighbour. its capital mean dello is home to the largest port in cape bird and is a meeting point for globe trotting sailors. the keep for it is not a prosperous country. it lacks industry engine natural resources, but it does have
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a homegrown treasure, a special genre of music, known as more now the saudi is a young musician. she's actually studying law, like a friend of mirrors. yeah. but music is her passion. she takes the bus down to the beach to compose a new, more now than the style. jake, melancholic, life affirming music of cape bird. saudi a wants to keep the musical tradition of cape virtual life with their songs and earn some money in the process. just like her role model, she's aria able to made cape birds. more noise indicate for to famous the world over a central theme is so dodgy, the pain of leaving cape bird and the longing for home cheap bird has long been a country of emigration.
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the like many here because out here is catholic and deeply religious legacy of the islands. portuguese colonizers, the this is anya, able to is buried in the mid gallo san mateo to this day. she's a role model for the young generation of female musicians who like cloudy, a hope for a better future. many of their songs address the cape verde and dilemma to stay and suffer or leave long for home. others are about love, poverty or more to base. the local creole word for hospitality.
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somebody takes inspiration from cape foods stunning natural landscapes. the newest songs celebrates monte carter. the mountain with the face of famous been landmarks the the, the, the sooner she will be performing this new song. for the 1st time, the close to the beach human dello, the capital of so if you send
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a to see seems close enough to touch the there is an abundance of fish in cape bird, but house is outside the capital are not connected to the water supply system, all the water comes from a single to say of the nation plant. if you're not going to to its pipes, the kind of stir is your only options the at the highest point of the island. miguel antonio has been especially creative. the peas worked out how to procure the
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precious water he needs for irrigating his garden, on the cliff. he fishes it out of the clouds, the book. which meant that you don't get the reset me here in this net. the washer condenses during the night. isn't it because this, i mean the, the gwinnett gets west at night, the more you and the washer or is it the bronze diet you do 1st and then flows into the cistern. this is the sister and where me go collect water vital both for himself and his garden every
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night. 50 to 60 leaders of water accumulate here. think that this i could do that will hold 4000 liters. a lot grows on his for child. 100 square meter plot been with carrots, aniseed central. now let's is rosemary and others. this is a happy with his live. is it? yes. very happy. i was going to see if i lived in the garden and the water or his livelihood along the road just above his garden. he keeps a small stand here, he transforms his herbs into tea and shops and sells them to the locals and tourist the rest. he keeps for himself
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from his spectacular cliff top garden. begin antonio as a magnificent view of the islands capital min dello the on the neighboring island dose on to one tow. a piece of sugarcane from the roadside is a popular snack on the way home from school. there was a school bus for the pupils who live further away. pupils like is yours, a 16 year old jew sierra lives with her grandmother, uncle, and, and their children. in one of the small mountain villages her father is not present, which isn't uncommon in cape virg and her mother is also absent. the money is tight,
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the legal minimum wage is about $130.00 heroes per month to 0 must also contribute to the family income after school. she earns extra money with donkey deliveries. spectacular as the landscape is. it's not easy to navigate. many journeys are only possible by donkey, and many people also rely on donkeys for the crucial resource of water. pipes are often out of service and some areas are not connected to the water supply system at all. l ton has 3 dantes which you rents out to school girls like jews, era when he doesn't need them himself. it will takes you zara and the donkey an hour and a half in the scorching heat to transport this heavy canister to a house high up on the mountain. the
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see was tons of bits and parts done. so there are many elderly people living in the houses here and there isn't enough water and the pipe supply isn't reliable. so we have to load the water onto the donkeys and we also bring them their groceries. so me, so for me for just call me please 20 will earn about 2 euros from elton for the strenuous time she's expected on the mountain top. who doesn't have to take the water to the house up there. i always do it. when i come home from school, he seemed to get some money for it. for a lot you got me just c h to the it's a difficult journey with
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a stubborn donkey for the place itself is special. the the news out of the news is it's beautiful here which causes the houses and the green after the rain supergroup the scene go, which if you listen noise, you can only see it from up here. the window viewing as a news made it the barrios whose lives here with his family, its 5 kilometers by foot to the nearest village guy. because the, the,
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to the expert who him look into don't keys vital for survival. here is the transportation for the we to have no water without the donkeys you know, to lose could cut the case. but we'd also be missing the other by 6 to move effects of materials for cement and stones, etc. but everything new who is in flux meant like a good donkey. so important look or because if we don't eat the fruit and vegetables supplied by sun to one child to the neighboring islands are also transported by donkey. in the market hall mean dello, cloudy, a and a friend, museum, or shopping. they want to cook. cape
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birds, national dish. got you so you could also put in each filling in it. so we have everything for the got you. yes. is the current in the bag, the right one for catch a bus. thank you. the, the traditional recipe includes both meat and fish, the
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they take the bus home do we cut it into pieces or wash priced, or the main ingredients of cut coupon or corn, beans, vegetables, meat, and fish. the hardy su simmers for hours on a medium heat. once cooked the traditional dishes, reheated and eaten over several days cut out. he now lives in one of the most expensive neighborhoods near the beach cheese
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a dentist and a huge fan of carnival this year. a very special challenge lies ahead for the 1st time. she's a carnival queen in carnival. the queen's dress plays a central role. it has to be unusual, respect to traditions and have a seat send me whatever means carnival is fun. but it's also culture and tradition. i'm interested in social equality. having a balance between the winners and losers, best this dresses catalina's design. it requires a lot of fabric. and much like the responsibility of being queen it's waiting. my dress has a metal base. the costume represents the balance between rich and poor.
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colossal shaw this but it also has to be a big, sexy yes. of course. there's this part open with pearls. the more beautiful the dress, the better or has a dentist contract. tina earns good money. the dress will cost around $300.00 euros . being a queen requires a lot of investment. dina has a sewing studio and one of the port of districts of the city. it's also cloudy as neighborhood farm from the beach closer to the mountains for weeks
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before carnival, it's all systems go here. dina andrews, seamstresses have their hands for making costumes for carnival. teen is stressed. most carnival costumes are fairly standard so they don't cost much to queen. stress is a big exception. and so the stress is a job for the boss that dina and this is how it should look the yeah know, put into the advantage and that comes to the federal government. can it be done in time for carnival or? yes, yes. that's hard or easy. the hard does it look queenly? this is too much. do you see?
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see yes. yes. the um the the circumference of the extravagant dress is recorded on the floor. dina isn't thrilled. she's under a lot of time pressure. every one is relaxed except her. steve. it's always the same. everything comes at the last moment just before a carnival, and i only have 4 weeks. the 3 weeks later, there's not much to show yet. first they try out a model. an employee serves as a substitute queen the
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we would there would be enough time before comfortable more or less the time is running out for new know to use red suit and matching red hat still have to be made for carnival. the band leaders outfit society a able to is on the present in new knows workshop. there was no money for drums or costumes. they create everything themselves,
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including the music at the go full. so he lived there and then go to i've come up with my very own prism for the carnival. dell flushed. i mean you both did so kind of mixture of sky reiki and galloping horses as we move up to the deep no change. we'll jump out of here and look a sound good movie bash can visit you. right. right. you the right next to this is anya everett. a cemetery is guitar maker on this settles
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workshop. more not the music of cape bird also serves as the collective memory of the cape verde ends. its central theme, so dowdy expresses the melancholy m yearning for home, so by those who had to leave their country due to poverty. before the 1st performance of her new morning songs cloudy, a once to give her old guitar an overall une set to the guitar maker is not very impressed with her plastic backed instrument to do you need to re okay, the guitar, it's where we have the best ones here, i'll show you our videos and desire defense classic. let's move in to what you thought.
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somebody else may i try one, a cloudy i can't afford. i'm a settled guitars, but there's no harm dreaming. activity if i can pay the one. i think the guitar she has is no longer adequate for so do you agree? i don't for my kind of music, one of your guitars would be great. for a brief time, she gets to hold a really good instrument. it costs around $600.00 curos far too expensive for cloudy and she'll be sticking with the old guitar for now. the
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new places somewhat harder, faster with them about to cut us are the drums sections of the carnival parades. they were key part of the cape dirty and musical culture. min dello, the 2nd largest city in cape bird, is the cultural center of the archipelago. new knows drummers are rehearsing on the soccer field as they do every evening before. carnival john sons in the line of some, $150.00 drummers will come together for the event. the neighbors can forget about sleep during these weeks,
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but most of them are taking part anyway. i, the rest of the sessions for dancers every evening is rehearsal. the noodle is you for it. we were the 1st group to start rehearsing. at this point, i'd say, will be ready for the what looks like and i do like beach was one so place of har for some 3 centuries. this beach was a sight of one of the world's largest slave markets. the under portuguese colonial rule,
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thousands of africans were chained to this pillar before being sold onto the americas and the caribbean. 2 days, the dungy vidalia the former capital is a world heritage site. after centuries of portuguese colonial rule, cape bird finally became independent in 1975. the the country's modern day capital is about 15 kilometers away. it's called prya,
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which means beach. like the old capital. it's located on the cape birds, largest island, santiago, 70 percent of cape birds population. the creole descendants of both and slaved africans and the portuguese colonizers, the cape bird, creole language developed from the communication between slaves, engines slavers, both portuguese and creole are still spoken in cape for today. around 20 kilometers from the capitalize the tranquil town. oh, so domain goes the keywords where pasquals lives. use the last cape verde and who can still build and play the traditional instrument of the in slaved. the symbol it's base is a hollowed out gord swimming pool. a symbol remains the magazine. symbolize the oldest string instruments and kate,
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but it goes back centuries and has neither european nor american origins. it has to have come from the african continent. and as mentioned in slave accounts from the time scraps focus each for a couple of bands. mostly along the exact yeah, this happened is now with a group of slides flipped to the mountains. they would dump the bad guys, both of us box a me in nature. they found the materials they needed to build an instrument. then you won't buy it for you being so you can remember the lives of my 3 o, d b can so simpler replica was created. so 1st and k u o as in boy e d,
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the last uh 30 is mostly deep. mm. and this marked the beginnings of the 1st, specifically k for the music shown right cold the but to go there are still goats in the mountains today, just like back then. but school needs their skin for the sound box. the animals can to be too young or too old. the to the next part is more difficult. horse tail hair, the boat and the strings are made from it says, you know,
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i saw a time not here. so you could literally send here the one for them was a female, so this is the for now the instruments can already be given a rough, choose one side as each loomed up. i see. so it's important to basketball, that distribution be kept to live and with a, the memory of slavery, the bank and so be sent. it's nadia is also working to keep the keep dirty and musical tradition alive. her next performance date is approaching. she's excited, but it's difficult to practice when her mother wants to see her studying law. about his thoughts straight from her studies to our new compositions and the
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performance. music is a refuge. her father left when she was very young. i mean the, the us, you, my life never been easy was used, explain part of my life for as long as i can remember, if i was singing along to the radio when i was to and my mother got me a guitar when i was for the ball sadie, a couple of the leaves is area a bar i showed people morning music and made it big. ella x and brought cape bird to the attention of the world. see me yelling mean of the closing did my job as a young woman living here today? i see that many other young people aren't listening to music anymore. i think a couple of little yeah, this big long cutting chosing the got a more like the music starting to disappear too cool. good stuff with you. home is
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offering, it was for my part, i didn't. if i was more now, i can't allow us to lose our roots interest. that's why i sing more and a lot of you need them. feel comfortable model is difficult to make a living for music. things are extremely expensive, a square the socialism is got us take the price of a loaf of bread. recently it shut off from 150 to 250. a school does the equivalent of around 2 years 50. a whole loaf of bread is often too expensive to buy. hello, do you have some cookies or conflicts? yes, sure. or anything else t the cookies. thank you. sonya and make sure to leave some cut to but for her mother to eat when she gets
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home late in the evening from her job as an accountant toddy is mother doesn't earn much and most of it goes towards her own. the daughter's tuition fees about a 130 years each month. it's a constant battle with my mother. she keeps telling me musics, no good, my child. and i tell her, yes it is using as a part of me. and then she'll say cloud, you go and study cape virgin use, it won't pay your way. it'll do, you know, good of the blue scarfs there. done. have you forgotten anything? it's already 9 15 pm
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on the evening of the 1st performance with the new saw it's about to begin the the key will earn her around 30 years. but it's true where it is greater. the saudis, songs are helping to keep keep birdie and music alive. the that song she wrote on the beach about the mountain with the face. now it's live on the concert stage, the
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contravene a to is preparing or rather be prepared to be queen the this year's queen's dress has been kept secret from the public until the last moment the the catalina is nervous. people are already gathering outside for the carnival under
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queen stress isn't ready yet. the dina is at the end of her rope and catalina to needs all her strength right now. first to get into the dress. but how the it's a bit difficult. this dress difficult to get into meeting, but what dean is conjured up in the last 4 weeks is truly spectacular. the last few weeks of taking their told on dina. very, very, very tired. i haven't slept for 24 hours. i've worked non stop. no, not $2430.00 or so
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it turned out beautifully. her parents are here too, and they're so proud the but the biggest challenge is yet to come. how to get up there onto the carnival float. with the help of a construction because they head up. but it's not very stable up, she goes the, it's shaky, needs to be where they get there. the
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the queens in her place higher, but the people just as she should be. down below there is during the now we can begin carnival the highlight of the year in cape 3rd, the,
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the, the different part of the parade for new know, it's the combination of months of preparation is red hat and
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suit somehow got made ready just in time the but he doesn't seem entirely satisfied. the, even the sound of his whistle can't be heard. and the deafening dain attention, you have to watch me the somewhere in the middle of it all is just on the soccer player. fairly recognizable under all the make up his 1st carnival. and this is their song there and some
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3 things you need in life. health, money and to love. the parade only lasts for one day for one glorious night. but they've been waiting and preparing it for a full year in cape bird. it's the music that brings every one together, the on the trail of a nazi highest v, as of jewish families, whose prophecy was expropriated all searching for then last saw what have and so the policy that was stolen from jews, 80 years ago, researches from germany also posting the defendants in the search the nazi all the highest in 30 minutes on d w. the written by
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a single question. where are they? retainers and one has been searching for his brother and father industry at a search for the victims of the military dictatorship has led into colonial she may say in 90 minutes d, w, the music can be destroyed. you can try, but it's impossible to be performed for head lice in housemates he was the nazis, the 2 musicians who lives in the
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savannah office austin film about the sounds of power and inspiring story about savant music under the swastika scott's may 25th on d w, the, this is dw news, and these are our top stories to northern gals, or seeing some of its most intense fighting in months after israel moved to recapture an area from hom, us. israel says the organization which carried out the october 7th terror attacks has reestablished a presence in the north. meanwhile, the un says in the side of some 360000 people have fled, rasa over the past week. is israel prepare is a ground offensive their accord in germany has ruled the far right
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