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player. playing. this is d w news live from berlin russia's vladimir putin is sworn in for his fourth term as president of the k.g.b. officer turned world's leader has almost total of forty and russia he's also thrust the problems into a new rivalry with the west street we will look at how russians see their long serving president or is it also coming up he is the man who vowed to shake up
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france and reclaim a leading role for europe on the world stage it look at what a manual mcconkey has achieved at home and abroad after one year in office plus is saving migrants from the sea horowitz or a crime the trial gets underway in the breeze of a man who says that he has rescued thousands of stricken syrians but prosecutors say he was a people smuggler. you. play . i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. vladimir putin has been sworn in for a historic fourth term as president of russia at his first act was to reappoint his close ally dmitri medvedev to the post of prime minister putin won a decisive victory in march with three quarters of the vote but critics have
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accused him of corruption and silencing dissent voices. the start of mr putin's day with carefully stage managed. russian state t.v. broadcast his long walk through the corridors of his office on his way to the ceremony. eventually he right to sue car waiting to take him on the short trip across town. then the grand entrance. and the war continued. all choreographed to maintain the suspense some five thousand invited guests waited for putin to be sworn in but the us is just leaving it alone what you see is if you get us putin promise ritek the country since serve the russian people. he praised russia's return to the world stage is what he calls a strong and influential voice when he talks about the importance of making
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economic and technological progress to benefit all russians like. a new quality of life the wellbeing security and health of a person are the most important. these are the issues of the center of our policy focus is russia for the people as a country of opportunities for self-realization of everyone. but for all the build up in bombast if you believe mr putin's next term in office will bring much change he's already said that he wants incumbent prime minister dmitri medvedev to stay in his post putin himself has been in power as either president or prime minister for almost twenty years. most young people have no no other leader and there's no sign of a successor. for more let's bring in our moscow correspondent emily sure one who has been following the ceremony for us and emily there were notably some
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differences at this inauguration compared with the last walk us through those differences and why they were so. so in two thousand and twelve there was this famous motorcade that basically took vladimir putin through empty streets which were closed off ahead of his inauguration and people really accused him of being kind of out of touch of that being in an image of him being out of touch and this year they did away with the whole ceremony was a little bit more subdued it's still obviously in clude some pomp in the kremlin palace that palace and also this year there are more guests than there were last time as well so kind of again showing him to be in touch with the people and it was also interesting to see that after the ceremony putin met with a lot of young people outside and that obviously is an attempt to show that he's in touch with the future generation now in russia as well now of course putin game to
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power for the first time eighteen years ago so there's a whole generation of of young voters of young people who have basically only known him at the helm of the russian state the so-called generation putin i met two of those young people to find out what they think ahead of the inauguration. meet twenty year old daniel. and nineteen year old son. for as long as they can remember mir putin has been russia's leader but their views on him placed these two members of the so-called putin generation in different worlds sophia is a member of seats a program and youth group that acts as a hub for young artists designers and journalists as long as they support putin. sophia is a journalism student she's been coming to sit for nearly
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a year to gain professional experience writing for the group's online sites putin's fourth term is something she's looking forward to. noumea middle of the motivation for me vladimir putin embodies the entire government in russia but he but you know for my whole life he has been in charge and his actions are usually very wise. in the first by a touching moment. of disagrees the economic student complains about stagnation and is concerned about who gains restrictions on democratic freedoms in russia since he was sixteen he's been campaigning for the opposition and encouraging his friends to protest he was just two years old when putin was elected it says he's ready for change. yes there were missed the if we had a person as president in putin's place who doesn't like corruption doesn't use lies and violence like he does then everything would be much better.
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views are on common for the putin generation in this year's elections over seventy percent of voters under twenty four cast their ballot for the president but then u.s. says in his social circle almost no one is a fan principia whether you support putin or not they're basically comes down to whether you have the ability to think critically there is objective lee no reason to support putin unless you are brainwashed by russian propaganda on. sophia on the other hand believes many in the opposition simply lack real as a so how does the future look to her generation and who should be in charge of that . scene in the uk when viewed in the her strong self-assured principles that's the kind of leader i want to see as more who knows maybe putin will even run for another term in office nor that i certainly wouldn't want anyone who is weaker than
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flooded. well into middle of the marriage. the main thing that gives me hope that something can change is my generation the opposition protests we go to there are a lot of people my age they're energetic and free and they aren't afraid to express their opinion the future belongs to us and i mean. plus no one lives forever. whether russia's young voters ultimately want consistency or a change in the kremlin putin's inauguration means the political future is at least another six years away. so two very different perspectives there when it comes to the nation's youth and we also know that you saw protests this weekend ahead of putin's inauguration ceremony just generally speaking what is the mood among russians as putin begins his fourth term well those protests that we saw over the weekend sarah were very widespread they
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were across russia there were ninety cities that were involved and people came out under the motto he's not ours are obviously referring to putin there and ahead of this inauguration all the pomp of the inauguration ceremony and there was a big crackdown on those protesters over one thousand five hundred arrests but overall i think the majority of people in russia do continue to support putin in the last in the election in march he won over seventy five percent of the vote so really a landslide there and i think the majority of people here do continue to support him emily sherwin in moscow thank you. of get a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world in yemen at least six people have been killed in airstrikes by the saudi led coalition targeting who threw rebels the strikes targeted the presidential palace in the
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capital sanaa now under hoofy control witnesses say that two powerful explosions hit the building which is in a residential neighborhood. british foreign minister boris johnson is urging the united states to continue backing the nuclear deal with iran he says that it would be a mistake to walk away from it at this time johnson is in washington for talks with the trumpet ministration ahead of the may twelfth deadline for the president to decide whether or not to pull out of the accord. and some two thousand people on hawaii's big island have been evacuated from their homes that's has new fissures have opened up part of ongoing volcanic activity at these twenty six homes have been destroyed and officials say that volcanic gases pose a threat to anyone still in the area. a trial has started on the greek island of lesbos that could have major implications for the migration crisis in europe prosecutors have accused a humanitarian worker of people trafficking and say that he is
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a criminal but salama deme says that he has saved thousands of lives and believes that he is being targeted by authorities to discourage migration to europe we'll hear from correspondent mary a lawyer who has been covering the trial for you in just a moment but first this report. by many he's seen as a hero in two thousand and fifteen dean an intrapreneur from denmark decided to change his life. i saw the picture of an encore do i go like shocked to this after. i was sitting on the plane on the way through. the photo of the three year old syrian boy made global headlines lying dead on the beach after drowning in the mediterranean the european migrant traces was at its peak and with around three thousand people arriving each day the greek island of
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less pass was a hotspot. i was actually in the water have my body was in the water and i looked back and i saw all this refugees like old people like children women. and i want to scream i really want to scream and cry in the same moment i was the worst the help how come if there is nobody here. and then like from the change my life. at first all teens thought he'd go help for a week but one week quickly turned into five months. he assembled a crew of other volunteers they called themselves team humanity and bought a rescue boat funded by donations. the group worked day and night helping migrants make the treacherous landing on a last pass at its closest point the crossing from turkey to greece is only ten kilometers but the overcrowded boats regularly sank i'm calling because going to
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say i'm a child the mio. it's common to. take a child i don't know what to do it's a little girl and they saying to me keep leather be there were coming in for like twenty or twenty four hours. it was a probe your old girl she lost alive in the sea. so. me and my feet would be great. for six hours. buried a family if you bury children and there's something wrong with this world. and it's something profitable. one january night everything changed the greek coast guard arrest a team humanity at sea foreign gene it felt like a trail many times have been helping coast guard because their boat couldn't rescue people it was people in the water for a lot of people in the water and the waves were so big that i put my life in danger to rescue them greek authorities accused deen of people smuggling if you sound
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guilty he faces life in prison. rights groups say the case is politically motivated to discourage small boats from setting sail for europe. for human life and just for what. for saving life saving children. one day is going to be them. running who knows is going to be running. a case there which is sure to polarize and covering up for us the state of his very young man who is standing by with the latest now from los person mario as we just heard there. saying that he has saved thousands of lives but he's on trial right now for people smuggling in the penalty could really be serious life imprisonment potentially why such a harsh crackdown. well and that night
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when asylum in a school where arrested they were on their way to rescue a refugee boat which was at risk of drowning but before even getting there they were arrested. you know i spoke to human rights activists and they say if aid workers of humanitarians like dean or the spanish firefighters are criminalised like this just because a rescue trouncing refugees than this sends a clear political message. which which is aimed at dissuading volunteers from helping refugees mariya muller with the latest there from les bose the trial underway as we mentioned thank you for your reporting. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program unofficial results show hezbollah posting big gains in lebanon's parliamentary election we will find out what it means for the country and around influence in the region. well now we had to france where another
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president has reason to celebrate today today a manual knock on marks one year in office at forty he is the country's youngest leader since napoleon he set out to reassert the idea of powerful french leadership both at home and abroad but he has earned mixed reviews since his stunning election victory twelve months ago. this was his moment of triumph. emmanuel mccall the newcomer who led the on march movement shook up france's political establishment defeated the far right national front and introduced a new style of government. couldn't off horse. drawn thousand times such a powerful leader for decades. even on the show the goal of the presidency wasn't such a top down operation it can be brought always about by himself this is not
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a president who conquers a party but rather a party that took shape after his victory. in disavowing the long standing right left political spectrum macko has tried to join pro e.u. forces with those opposed to globalization he's tried to unite right leaning business leaders with left leaning intellectuals what remains is a splintered opposition which has served to fuel michael's power to the dummy deploy. this has enabled him to introduce rapid and radical reforms especially in the job market the railway system in. a sense that something even nicolas sarkozy didn't manage to do. but not cause domestic politics have made him a polarizing figure it is ambitious european agenda that's won him more praise in france he wants to introduce a special finance minister with a separate budget and an army. now the european spotlight has shifted to mexico
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away from the german chancellor something on the america will have to get used to after her central role on the european stage went virtually unchallenged for so long. life and from where let's forget now georg mattress with standing by with the latest from paris so we just saw those images barrack a arc of angle americal and a minute together i mean mccann really being seen as possibly the new go to. leader here in europe taking over from merkel how is that happening he is of course a politician who is fully aware that his only chance of success is to make most of the momentum he has and clearly he has opted for a choice different for instance from the austrian chancellor who has overtaken some of the right wing far right wings arguments he has decided to take these arguments from to come just to put himself as an antidote if you want to the far right wing leader here in france the marine le pen and to counter these arguments head on and
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his way of doing that is to argue strongly in favor of the european union he has big plans for the european union he knows he's not expected with open arms but he really wants reform he wants three wife the european project and that is one of the biggest challenges easier to face and one of the biggest challenges also i mean you mentioned the domestic issue is one of the other domestic issues as of course on his approval ratings apparently almost two thirds of the french are dissatisfied with him tens of thousands also staging protests just this weekend against him is that having a very big effect. of course it's sort of natural for a french leader that the popularity fades a little bit into the presidency but again here mike ross tactic is really to make make sure he keeps his promises and the key of the biggest reforms we've started to push through of course that is not going down well over the public and with cutting
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jobs in the public sector but the key here is that he has the support of the parliament and he has the support of the people in general who see him as a chance of from bringing france forward. matus in paris thank you. so fun now helen humphrey is here and there are troubles that air france that's right sarah such an established name has been around for such a long time but already france is economy minister said the government will not be stepping in to rescue air france even with the future of the eighty five year old airline all the large european kerry is in serious trouble a wave of strikes has already cost the airline three hundred million euros and shares in air france tumbled on the paris stock exchange following the departure of the troubled airline c.e.o. and i ecan else his resignation on friday off to staff rejected a paid deal. but if you thought starbucks were everywhere there is definitely no getting away from them now swiss food giant nestlé best known for its coffee
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nescafe has struck a mega deal with starbucks now for more than seven billion dollars it's buying the rights to market and sell the u.s. company's products forming what it calls a global coffee alliance coffee is a record league growing market and the competition is fierce nestlé hopes this make it alliance with starbucks will reinvigorate the brand the swiss food giant will pay for the rights to market and sell starbucks products outside of starbucks chains like in restaurants and supermarkets this unit of the business currently generates starbucks around two billion dollars in annual sales mislay will pay around seven billion u.s. dollars for the rights the u.s. is the second biggest coffee market after the e.u. with a share of sixteen point three percent nestlé has announced it will take on five hundred starbucks employees who will continue to manage the business from the u.s. and the coffees won't be affected the deal is yet to be approved by the regulators
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. so we are asked our correspondent in frankfurt what investors think about the deal or how it will affect consumers. well if the deal is really going to happen it's still depending on the approval of e.u. authorities investors are actually telling me that they think this is a very good deal this is also reflecting on the share price off nestle today being traded at the s m i in zurich shares off nestle went up by more then zero point seven per cent in general the coffee industry is considered by investors a very important industry just last year in two thousand and seventeen the average german was buying four point one kilos off coffee for the customer not too much is going to change just when you go to the supermarket and you want to buy your favorite starbucks products there those products won't be any more sorta recchi by starbucks this will now be handled by nestle everything being sold in sight of
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a starbucks coffee shop just the one behind me will be still done by starbucks. art as i was sorry now for the latest on what was a long awaited autumn entry that absolutely we're heading to lebanon now helen now where prime minister saad hariri says that his sunni dominated political movement has lost a third of its seats after sunday's parliamentary elections meanwhile plymouth area results suggest that the iran backed shiite militia group hezbollah and its political allies have made significant gains despite the losses though where he still leads the largest parliamentary bloc and is the front runner to form the next government the election was the country's first parliamentary vote in nearly a decade official results are expected later on monday. for more let's bring in correspondent. who is following the story for us from beirut so we just heard there then the incumbent gave a press conference a short while ago what did he have to say. well essentially he said the
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government eleven are to be believed when he was asked about the seats his party the future we're going to have lost he said that does not really can use unbreakable but interestingly he also said that he officers hand to any one any group that wants that is desirous of stability and levanon so he was sort of indicating at his beloved there saying that he would be ready to share power with them in the parliament not that he has much of a choice but he's not putting up any resistance either and also express his will to return to lebanon as lebanon's prime minister it is also important here to mention that according to the lebanese constitution only a sunni can be prime minister and he is. the strongest and the leader. hezbollah's influence meantime in the parliament will increase what does that mean for the country and why did they do so well in the selection. they did well because
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they have got water which are absolutely large those who love the shias in the country fee they were much worse off before the whole supply and they feel that hizbullah is looking after their needs to a certain extent essentially that is the sort of politics of plays out in lebanon politics. the other reason is that as well as cracked clever alliances they want an alliance with the leading parties levanon is broadly divided between shia and sunni muslims and christians different sects of course but the major christian parties as below has had formed an alliance with some as the last board well and the sunnis on the other hand was led so there were certain leading sunni candidates and the sort of agent to islam as he saw into what. i want to thank you so much for us following the story for us from beirut we appreciate it. you're watching news still to come on the program outrage grows in india over a series of murders of girls and young women india has introduced tougher penalties
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for rapists but critics say it has had little effect we will have the latest from delhi and despite harsh punishment iran is losing its war on drugs three million people are believed to be addicted we will see what's fueling the problem. and don't forget in the meantime you can always get to know you news on the go you can download our app from google play or from the store it will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the app to send us news relevant photos and videos and watch this program. back in a few minutes. but
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welcome back. i'm sorry kelly and burlesque our top stories flattery putin has been sworn in for a fourth term as president of russia and his first act was to reappoint his long serving prime minister dmitry medvedev and putin won the election in march with three quarters of the vote and french president manuel mock kong marks his first year in office today he's worked to position himself as a leading voice for a more united europe but faces growing resistance to his programme of economic reform at home. officials in india say that a teenage girl is fighting for her life after she was raped and set on fire the attack took place in the eastern state of chocolate on friday on the same day another sixteen year old rape victim was burnt to death in the state public outrage has been growing in india over multiple rapes of young girls and teenagers in recent months india has introduced tougher penalties for rapists in response to the
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outcry but critics say it's have little effect. and for more let's bring in our correspondents and if on the car who is joining us with the latest from penn so tell us a little bit more about these rape cases in eastern india. hi sara so authorities in charge kind of said that the teenage girl the victim in this case and seventeen year old is like you said in a critical condition in a private hospital she was admitted there after she suffered well that seventy percent first degree bill and now police have arrested a nineteen year old man in connection with the crime he comes from the scene neighborhood as the girl and some reports suggest that he allegedly wanted to marry the girl but she has funded and like you said this case is the second incident of its kind in charge in recent days in the other case police have already arrested about fifteen people in connection with the rape and burning the life of the
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eighteen year old girl and i mean the details of it are just so horrific one set on fire another burned to death as you mentioned how does such extraordinary brutality come about. that's right i mean it is an extremely disturbing case of chilling brutality as you see and it comes at a time when india is really kind of rocked and reeling after a screen of really horrific and by lindt sexual assaults on minor girls there's been in particular not been a secure the country after the gang rape and killing off of it on girl in the northern state of georgia and crucially of that that incident prompted angry protests across the country not india also is not a lot when it comes to rape incident but i think what is true in this country is that the conviction rate. is very low especially in the case of my no go and i think experts here say that has really led to a set sense of impunity among between turns
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a sense that they could really get away with anything because there was a total at since awful lot of punishment odd to clinton's there have been a few instances where of bushels of lawmakers that actually she'd agree is only for the few really because it's cultural that many of the big problems with their criticism of the authority is rife just walk us through how the authorities in this particular these particular cases how have they been reacting. well in the entire can the chief minister of that state has announced financial compensation for the families of the victim in one of the cases. and of the parties generally have been under pressure to act act you know last monday indian cabinet approved measures to to approve the death penalty for the raping of our children below the age of twelve the indian government in the wake of the twenty twelve gang rape in delhi also an act of tough anti replay just nation so we have a lot of stringent laws in india that aren't b.s. but i think the problem here dominus
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a very we can force them and off the laws we have a criminal justice system that is overburdened that is often marked by delia's and laws and i think most importantly we have courts and policemen who are still unfortunately governed by katrina norms where rape survivors in india still have to endure or a very hostile environment when they do go to court and their beauty with suspicion so i think that remains a real challenge in india sonia from the car joining us from poland thank you sonia . and elizabeth shoaf from social media has been following reaction to that news that we were just discussing the latest that she is seeing online so what have the reactions been there on the internet. well we're seeing a number of india condemning. rape cases though we're not seeing them using a common hash tag or a unifying message you can run through a number of tweets that we have found one says another girl lost her life to
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a he knows crime committed by disgusting indian men their punishment for raping and burning a child alive was one hundred sit ups and a seven hundred fifty dollars fine why are these voices not being heard and why are men not scared to commit such crimes and opposition leader from the state of georgia where this happened he says while we speak up against the horrific spate of rapes in jericho and we must also remember that most rapes in india go on report and this is something that also government statistics show and all these recent cases of also made way outside of the country here is the editor in chief of the liberal us magazine mother jones she says the rape culture in india is barbaric and attempts at reform are lackluster that there is no large outrage within or without india is a so depressing and to many critics also say that prime minister narendra modi is
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slow in condemning a such rape cases also he is not doing enough to protect girls and women elizabeth show on our social media desk thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program following on from today's stories about rape in india this life sized sculpture is a reflection of indian women's vulnerability some symbolism there it's part of an exhibition in germany by six female indian artists and you will have a view. but first helen hunt for his back with a look at the tunisian economy thank you sarah well as voted on sunday in their first local election since the twenty eleven arab spring revolution but so far turn out to be no no jobs are scarce in tunisia and first the apathy is widespread some young people feel they have no other choice but to mix better prospects in europe
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and that's where a german she is in training center. not some is a fisherman but the thing that really makes him money is smuggling people across the mediterranean into europe. instead of fifteen people on this side twenty five and twenty five. and twenty on the day seventy passengers. there are very few jobs even for the highly skilled she needs us younger generation is losing faith in the country. man just saw wanted to take the part but his father convinced him not to and now he's doing a traineeship and achiness the textile factory. here on the finishing my dad found out i wanted to leave he paid me to stay i listen to him and then i heard about this place. the factory has a training center that's funded by germany it's one of thirty pilot projects in
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tunis here run by the german association for international cooperation. the german tunis and advice center was set up a year ago in cheeriness one of its goals is to find suitable skilled workers and transport them to germany legally the other more importantly is to share young tonights ians the job opportunities in their own country and discourage them from leaving. but we've now reached more than three hundred thousand people and offered most of them a prospect for the future. like iman sassy the center helped him retrain from hotel management to a social media manager and he's found a permanent job. it was a huge opportunity for me. now what i think about going to germany anymore. i feel good. but german funding alone can't solve the problems in tunis
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year. after the political americal the uprising of seven years ago we now hyper an economic miracle is so important for our young people. and anyone deterred from the perilous journey into europe could be a life saved. if you enjoy a glass of red wine you're here to expect your drink of choice to come from red grapes of course but what about red beat why in rwanda one young woman is making red wine out of beets which grow really well their business is booming and orders the coming in from abroad. and wine making rwandan style instead of grapes they're using beetroot and it's ripe for the picking the whole family helps out twenty eight year old sometimes one mario came up with the idea when she was unemployed and looking for a job. i became friends with
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a german who knew how to make wine i told him i was interested in wine making so he taught me how it all happened over skype once i'd learned enough i started to experiment with beet root and pineapple wine and you could indeed show could your i can understand. the beetroot is cut into small pieces and then boiled. and then it's like to ferment resulting in a red wine with eighteen percent alcohol. it's important to drink has the right aroma and flavor. oh yeah i have a wide range of clients for example wedding planners or other event organizers because i can't keep up with the demand i get so many orders. most of my clients come from the democratic republic of congo some of them by three hundred bottles at once. about
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a thousand bottles go on sale every month costing the equivalent of almost ten euros each. but the demand for a car is simple use so high she's playing to increase her production capacity with machines from china. sometimes wine has also gone down well with experts. because it to it's nutritious healthy and the quality is consistent. the difference so consistent. anyone who can afford the wine here serves their guests cover cindy . which was issued. the wine is charming it definitely stands up to other wines i drink i had some after the food and it went down nicely it's a good quality wine we're proud to say that this wine is made in rwanda why you need to see the food you are missing if you go out to the media one day you. not only has the wine been well received it's even one of prize for innovation.
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what is there to sarah now as a country gets to grips with an addiction we are heading to iraq now in fact where we talk about a drug epidemic nationally speaking no part of the society is immune from doctors business owners to homeless to addicts living in the streets in the past six years the number of addicts has more than doubled to almost three million some say that the figure could go even higher and our next report we meet a woman once caught in the spiral of addiction who is now helping others find a way out sharon earns her living making handicrafts which she sells on the streets this would have been unthinkable just a few years ago cheering was a drug addict she was hooked on crystal meth for eight years her father was also an addict he introduced into alcohol when she was
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a child. so she's baffled that so my father fermented his own wine when i was a child. but he was then when i was six he gave me a glass of wine for the first time that he hunted i became dizzy and it was very strange. and then i started dancing so it somehow clicked for me at the time even that's when my addiction began. it was easy for sure and to get hold of drugs as an adult even though along with alcohol they were forbidden in this theocratic state. how much fuss. i learn there you can get anything anywhere drugs and alcohol but. much of our young people start with drinking and then come the drugs. it's very easy to get drugs and alcohol. that there are
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a lot of drug dealers especially in the southern part of tehran. but also in the center. is. the government ignored the problem for decades and the result it has never been easier to get hold of addictive substances and the number of addicts is higher than ever. the figures are so alarming that a former police chief felt compelled to write an open letter demanding that the problem finally be made public. iranian state television did then announce that there were nearly three thousand drug related deaths that there are a lot of drug dealers especially in the southern part of tehran. but also in the center. force is nothing more than. the government ignored the problem for decades and the result it has never been easier to get hold of addictive substances
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and the number of addicks is higher than ever. the figures are so alarming that a former police chief felt compelled to write an open letter demanding that the problem finally be made public. iranian state television did then announce that there were nearly three thousand drug related deaths annually. and sharon was invited to appear on a talk show. this was unthinkable just a short time ago. the moderator probably can't believe that he can talk about this on t.v. . official figures put the number of drug addicts in iran at one million. the unofficial figure is said to be much higher than what is known is that thousands of leaders of alcohol are confiscated and destroyed every year and that the health ministry has opened a detox clinic but we are told that most often in attics are simply locked away.
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the non-governmental activities in tehran are impressive in the south of the city aid organizations care for the plentiful addicts living on the street. the volunteers offer more than just a warm meal. was saying it's not our goal to just feed those who off forced to live on the street the meals are a means to make contact with the drug addicts to gain their trust. that's yes it will give them hope that someone is there for them. and says that the soft thank you they have reached many this way to help them get off the streets and get clean those who manage it are celebrated each year. i have been teaching for ten months and ten days i never thought i would manage it. we need cheering again here she now wants to share the kind of help she got with others. but.
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for me there are still a lot of people who need help especially in the poorer class but also in the middle class. unfortunately there are many women too and i work especially closely with them. many consume because they don't know any better many others because they are just curious. as to us. she says that helping other people gives her strength and confidence and it prevents her from falling back into the jaws of addiction. the the the. the people here help her with that meals bringing them to those who are seeking help.
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in english soccer champions manchester city finally got their hands on the premier league trophy on sunday after dominating the top flight but coach has struck a cautious note ahead of next season the champagne flowed despite city being held to a goal a straw at home against huddersfield they'd already sealed the title back in mid april article that emphasized the difficulty of winning let alone defending the premier league crown looks easy know when you will have games is so tough when it's usually done for because your prayers were to be due we would be a little bit relaxed and we have to be focused you want to maintain would we have done this is that is that is the. that is the point but help us win this then these games for example hold if you can who would be next season and porto have been showing off the portuguese league trophy with their fans after winning the title they were handed the championship after a gold a straw in the lisbon derby between sporting and. that ended and ficus chances of
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claiming a fifth straight title party in porto began just minutes after the final whistle with thousands of fans celebrating their clubs firstly crown since two thousand and thirteen. well as the temperature rises in the northern hemisphere and the flowers bloom homeowners know it is time to start the weekly task of cutting the grass but where some see drudgery others see an opportunity first or allow us to introduce you now to lawn mower racing. it's not and smoggy but these drivers one want it any other way to. mastering the bumps and navigating through tight curves i too have to drive it's biggest challenge as. the sport is more painful than it looks. at. the championship rounds of twenty laps which doesn't seem that long in the laps on that long but if you're
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going full throttle from the first from the first starts of the sword lap boy if you're probably going to start to like a little bit. tricks to succeed in this tough sport piecing pacing pacing and otherwise drivers risk tiring themselves out in many ways it's not that different from formula one the point system works very much like formula one where you get twenty five points race during this meeting which is over two days we have four races twenty five point eight one hundred points we came in the driver with the most points at the end of the season takes the crown and non-moral racing may not have the same glitz and glamour of formula one but it's on the cutting edge. of. it time now for culture news and peter crave it is here on the set for us to tell us a little bit more about a unique exhibition that is underway in the german city of wild spark and this is
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quite a unique one indeed this interesting is new voice work as you will know if you mention the word volves book the city of football spoke to many of our viewers here on the w. they're going to say well it's the headquarters of v.w. the common good factor of but there's much more going on in the city there's an exhibition at the moment where the focus is very much on six female artists from india the exhibition is called facing india and it's all about looking at life and politics from a contemporary perspective from a female perspective and one of them let me give you an example of riba girl author whose work centers around the. environment and looks at what it means to be a visual artist in today's india in her documentary breath by breath she collected polluted air at various locations across the urban environment it's an ironic work that mocks consumer practices and as we see here people wearing face masks against the smoke that has become an everyday part of life in cities like delhi. and other major cities around india like mumbai now go
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a lot it's quite interesting she actually talks about the fact that these days in india you can actually buy canned ass fresh air that is being brought in from as far afield as australia or canada or all the u.k. just imagine it and she says that it's a terrible bitter irony because it's consume a pretty promiscuous consumerism that is go to us into this environmental gem in the first place and it's not going to get us out of it let's just have a look at some more of her work and some of what the other women featured in the exhibition have been have been up to it's all very interesting stuff. facing india addresses the realities of life on the sub continent. the human eye is a sacred river in india severely contaminated by industrial effluents and raw sewage yet locals who live along its banks still use its water for bathing cooking and drinking and have philmont an artist viv hogg a lot raju says poetic imagery to document the environmental disaster socially
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engaged and critical art is at the heart of the facing india exhibition. definitely see i was surprised at the level of social engagement these artists of all collaborated with n.g.o.s established broad contacts including to lower social classes i've learned a lot from the way they work and their approach is reflected in their output they found a very apt visual expression for highly complex pictorial content like the. deaf or in is the title of this installation by bharti care the bricks are made from melted glass bangles commonly worn by indian women it's a lonely space a tribute to the countless silenced victims of sexual violence which remains widespread across india today the life size sculpture six women is also a reflection on women's vulnerability caste from the bodies of kolkata sex workers . visible and invisible down trees
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a central theme in indian society and in this exhibition. and chronicle by rena kalat is a map of migratory paths taken across centuries how does migration affect a sense of national identity and how absurd a border conflicts symbolized by barbed wire in an age when digital communication has long since transcended all boundaries. i. need to sense work is more radical than museum of on belongings is an astute metaphor for an egalitarian world. gaping grimace and false teeth questions the dividing lines between castes ethnicities and genders facing india an uncompromising view of the sub continent and the world we live in.
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so many issues there raised many issues highlighted and is it fair to say that many of them are not specific to india you know i would say so i mean these are women the inner gender is the common factor here and obviously women around the world are faced by limits and divides that kid that divides them from their own societies on ethnic lines on religious lines on emotional lines all sorts of different things but clearly gender is the thing and the fact is though that obviously life in india can be particularly tough for women as we've seen already in this show the outcry there has been going on in recent years against male violence is reaching fever pitch and part of this crosses into the caste system which is officially illegal but its legacy could still be widely felt we can see these protests here in india very recently let me just take you to the the youngest artists are in the exhibition project her hotness she's very interested in how boundaries that word again can be overcome both emotionally and physically as she takes a close look at the home especially the kitchen usually seen as being
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a female place if you like pop mrs interested in this type of conflict ok so fascinating and it's on until well just october seventh ok thank you so much with that and with that you are up to date now on t w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin after a short break phil gayle takes over the news it's watching. they
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