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this week on the world stories. the roots developers building a jewish mass grave india an acid attack victim turns activist but first we go to syria in past years women from western europe came here to join the islamic state now many want to come back among them a german who claims she didn't join the terrorist group voluntarily.
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stranded in the middle of nowhere seventy four thousand people live in the al whole camp in northern syria it was made to hold only ten thousand the conditions are unacceptable especially for children most people want to leave as soon as possible they want to return to their former homes which they left years ago so they could live under the rule of the jihadist group islamic state out of conviction carelessness or compulsion. they now gergen studied psychology and berlin and married a turkish man during a trip to turkey he took her to syria where he joined us at least that is how the twenty three year old describes it the. doctor she calls them is often terrible things happen they're kind that women and children do not have any value. women are terribly abused and beaten by us mine in
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my time on my former husband died about two years ago. he locked us up and abused us in horrible ways. i couldn't recognize myself one day in day out. talk and talk all since this has son was born during the chaos of war the two of them suffered years of hardship and now she hopes she has survived the worst and things will get better. i'm happy that i can return to my beloved homeland i'm germany. does. the kurdish authorities would like to get rid of foreigners like zainab as quickly as possible but hardly any country wants them back the local authorities are overburdened with investigating securing evidence clarifying guilt an international court is now supposed to solve the issue but the west is treating this initiative with great caution. the presence of
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thousands of fighters and their families is a major problem for the autonomy's authorities in northeastern syria. we do not have the possibility of bringing them to justice here if they have committed crimes against syrians or iraqis now they spend their days waiting to go back home but their fate remains uncertain as long as they are not welcome in their former home and. then we go north to belle roost smartly apartments are planned for a site in central breast but recently a mass grave of jews killed in world war two was uncovered there and a story and is opposing the project. bones jewelry and even shoes the past is pushing into the light here this is the site of a mass grave of jews shot by the nazis it was found during construction work in the center of breast during the german occupation in the second world war the area was
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a jewish ghetto tens of thousands were executed in and around breasts during that time the site is currently closed off to the public including to local historian every lover of gaia she has been petitioning to stop the building work and argues that should be a memorial park here and not an apartment complex and. people shouldn't be able to live on the spot of a mass execution half of the population of the city was killed within several days here half of the people can you imagine. that pain continues to exist and will not give us peace until we learn to respect history and what happened here. when it is so so so ragini and from wish to preserve. a special battalion of the belorussian army has been in charge of the excavations. most of these young soldiers are doing their military service here in total they have found
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the remains of over eleven hundred bodies which will be repaired at a local cemetery and right next to this musgrave the building work for a modern apartment complex will now continue its a lucrative project one square meter is selling for nearly twice the average market price in brest the city authorities say the foundations of the building won't touch the mass graves and it will be marked with a memorial plaque. at the apartment complex is the right thing for this spot it's what the city needs a well tended to area in the center they used to be unsightly houses here when it should be tidy and beautiful this isn't the first time that builders a fan bones during construction and historical center but not everyone impressed agrees that should be apartments on the mass graves. it will be time to build houses that there should be a memorial instead. of the world here we have to find a civilized way to solve this problem after all every city in europe is built on
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people's bones. arena is determined to see the site of the mass grave with her own eyes before it becomes a landscape courtyard and the quaintance of hers as a direct sixty from her window she says the building project shows that the bella russian authorities are insensitive and haven't learned any lessons from the past belorussian authorities have been criticised before for building unsure cemeteries as recently as twenty seventeen or so on last straw in this country the authorities only respect the memory of the soviet protectors of the breast fortress for example of soldiers who fought unequally to tell a tarion country with weapons in their hands that they respect. the construction company have told us the apartment complex would be a gated community now city or thirties insist the grounds will be open to the public. every year
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hundreds of women in india fall victim to acid attacks one of these women refuses to be intimidated as an activist campaigning against acid attacks she's already achieved results. a comic with an unconventional heroine the story of a young woman who has been attacked. she transforms from being a victim to being a super heroine her mission is to help the survivors of acid attacks. videos of the comic show readers who's behind the story lux me who suffered a real life attack and twenty five. after i refused his advances he and his younger brother's girlfriend turned up with acid in a beer bottle they pulled the acid into
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a glass and threw it on to my face. i think they would if i fainted and when i came to again it felt as if i'd been burnt alive i mean i think it would have been the. laxmi was only fifteen when she was attacked by a man seventeen years her senior. she had refused his advances so in a cruel act of revenge he attacked her and changed her life for ever hundreds of acid attacks like the one suffered by laxmi are reported in india every year in the dad didn't kill me he attacked me so that i would have to live my life in agony and he knew that society would accept him either and that is same society would reject and victimize me in my. but lets me refuse to be a victim and became an activist she's part of a campaign called stop sale acid she's helped make great changes in india the sale of acid is now regulated and prosecutions of acid attacks have been made easier but
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she wants a complete ban her comic book focuses on male and female equality worldwide she hopes children will learn about the topic in classrooms lakshmi is a mystic of girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she's also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe in legal my dream hasn't yet come true but there has been a huge change these last few years. and that shows me that equality and the changes we're all talking about now will happen you know that there were teens that. likes me wants to see an end to all violence against women and spare future generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. the small farmers
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in northern gaza often have a hard time finding buyers for their crops middlemen dictate the prices now the farmers have that helps them find a market. caramagna is a small community in northern ghana. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his progeny useful but now he and enough to support his wife and two children thanks to a digital platform he's able to sell the fruits of his labor on a regular basis and a fair price. at that at their devices in over here and i just finished have as done my maize. and rice and i sold it out to santa and their payment was done rides on my my my phone through mobile money. garners capital acra this is where the digital platform is based that has helped to
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make joshua's life so much easier. agro center is an agri tech startup that connects rural farmers with big buyers the company takes up to thirty percent commission from those buyers it's in agra centers own interest to get the best possible prices meaning the small holders also profit. so far we've had about close to ten thousand farmers are probably fell from the platform. before that they were making less money now i would trade has helped them to increase the their income tremendously so the farmers after they love us. back in caroming agro center agents are visiting the village they're here to teach the farmers not only how to use the check market prices but also how to maximize their output rules. this is agro center's regional storage center from here the farmer's produce is
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sold to big food buyers earlier the farmers had to sell their produce to local middlemen often for a third of its real value. the digital platform has helped the farmers to increase their income by about twenty five percent. if i don't sell to me what happens far as i want to sell at fair market prices and the final is fair market prices are too good with money to be able to tickle your family tree to even reinvest a portion into a farm. joshua tangere is not worried that he now depends on a virtual broker for him the benefits are very real.
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