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coming up this time on world stories. rounding up criminal clans in germany. breaking conventions in iran with body art. we start off in rwanda twenty five years have passed since nearly one million people mostly twisties one that is the legacy of this genocide is a heavy burden for the younger generation to bear. we want to. this is where our house used to be before the genocide nothing is left of it now the killers bent it all down after looting at the gas prices. everything when he was just three months old when his parents and four siblings
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were killed by hutu militias he's a survivor of the one nine hundred ninety four genocide in rwanda the fastest of the twentieth century during which close to a million randoms mostly to see well wiped out in just one hundred days eric was too young to remember his family dying but he says he will never forget the day his and told him what happened when it. was caught on this unusual rejoinder she carried me on had back during the genocide right up until the killing stopped she told me how horrific it was she witnessed that all the rain was pouring down on us where hard times for many lives would flee from the careless you know while we were fleeing we would jump over that but yes i will be sure. eric stark family history as one shared by many his relatives like countless persecuted to see across the country had sought refuge in a church when they were killed at church just like this one and yet an estimated
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fifty thousand people died during the genocide today this side stands as one of runners most poignant memorials as a stabbing reminder of what happened and physical evidence of crimes that should never be forgotten. doris you can't imagine how it feels like growing up knowing that you're all alone with no parents and no siblings while about children you know each of them. eric says his generation's identity is deeply entrenched in the true one thousand nine hundred so many survivors who lost their families who are still processing the past but also children of perpetrators who participated in the killings nichiren amos that oh. yeah i would say. it's very hard to find yourself all alone either because your family members were killed for being to see or as in my case with parents who were in prison because
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they were convicted of participating in the genocide with. four. children we have to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age to. the genocide could cost a long dark shadow over the lives of future generations yet i believe in the power of reconciliation is offering a new chapter and rhonda's history. as the youth we have to live in a way that brings us together to keep our country moving forward. to use the future of the country. totally but of residual. law enforcement has long underestimated the power of criminal clans in germany now some high profile crimes have prompted course i'm pleased to crackdown on these largely arab clans.
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a large scale raid in berlin's not come under strict investigators are mainly targeting shisha bars where they suspect organized crime clans are laundering money customs investigators auditors and federal and state crime authorities accompanied by hundreds of police officer. as are searching the bars it's the biggest operation of its kind in berlin nikon district mayor martin hca has come along he wants to know how the mission is going. to work. this time the improprieties are minor offenses tobacco without tax stamps and violations of trading and child protection laws but the district mayor says he won't turn a blind eye. but is instead we can publish everything with these checks from minor to major offenses we are implementing a zero tolerance strategy here large scale raids like this are part of a new campaign against organized arab crime clans suspected of committing major
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offenses including the breaking of a luxury department store in broad daylight or the theft of a one hundred kilogram gold coin worth millions but convicting clan members is difficult not least because few are willing to testify about two hundred thousand individuals are reportedly members of arab clan families in germany the government is increasing the pressure by seizing luxury cars and real estate but organized crime researcher ralph gadahn says that's not enough to break the clan solidarity fifty three they're all sworn to secrecy and that's what makes the investigators work so difficult there are unable to break through these structures. there would need to be a support program for people who want to leave the clans program but there are no such programs yet how do you came from syria ten years ago almost every day she
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sees the clans at work along zonen ali one of noise current main streets but she's afraid their crimes will strengthen prejudices against innocent migrants and muslims is on the one and only to leave the mafia's here concentrated here on those on the way life goes on you know well in this and i think sooner or later something is going to happen here of us but you just hope still she said she's most afraid of a xena phobic attack. germans should get used to huge police actions like this one authorities say they know these are not enough but that they lack better resources in the fight against organized clan crimes. the people have a hunger of skin russia's far north have no taste for trash a landfill is planned near the city for trash from moscow the protests go beyond the garbage dump and target the federal government in the far away capital. he took
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with the police of all can girls urge citizens not to take part in the protest. the federal security service the f.s.b. and the police are trying to prevent the demonstrations in all can get asc david arrested one of the organizers their goal is intimidation but to no avail thousands show up. there protesting against moscow building a landfill in the region for its waste this footage was shot by activists. locals fear that the trash of the capital will destroy the local environment one of the organizers of the demonstration is twenty three year old alexander pet sculptor . well it's just the disappearance if the demonstration will end at lenin square where protesters will show their frustration of of the being in business when the with the democrats communists and conservatives are demonstrating together i mean
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putin supporters hard to find. was. no enforcement agencies trying to stop the march but they overrun by process this young adult body b i am ready to go to war do you understand that and everyone in akron gallagher feels the same as i do. with it we need food we demanded a referendum but they ignore us they don't want to find a solution together in the u.k. they bring trash from another region to us but we're already swamp with our own garbage with them with the water was about something you could do i don't want them to poison our water our residue rina and our white sea. it took the demonstrates is an hour to reach lenin square activist among that the government invest in environmentally sustainable waste management organizes a blown away by the support they didn't expect so many people to show up. they are the winners school personally i'm happy that fifteen to twenty thousand locals have come into the region to treat people here are seriously worried was the
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reason why they didn't go to. everyone here hopes that this time the government listens. more and more young iranians especially women are getting testy news it isn't illegal but authorities say it doesn't conform to his hammock values buddy ata breaks through conventions. this is how asinine he had to spend most of her time perfecting the contour africa's tamar's eyebrows her beauty salon is tucked away in the first floor of an apartment building in eastern tehran. but the thirty year old artist also offers a different service to women who know what to ask for one that is not openly advertised and can be only performed behind closed doors here in iran. a tattoo ng is the job she's most passionate about and her preferred form of art i
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think it's much more beautiful to me than drawing or painting on paper which i used to do when i have a sketch and then i to tootle someone's body it's amazing the fact that i change someone's appearance of my art gives me a good feeling. a good feeling that's shared by the women she tattoos but none of them want to talk about it on camera or even show their faces that's because having a tattoo is widely considered taboo in iran. in public body art mostly remains hidden beneath the moderate dress code that's mandatory here but inside coffee shops where terrans hipsters gather tattoos are openly displayed. so hayloft lackey is one of the scenes most famous artists he considers tattooing to be a symbolic form of medical treatment for his generation a way for people to heal what he sees as spiritual wounds well living in a culture in crisis madama as laws are more. getting more and more hollow.
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for this survey used to use and also expensive clothes as a beautiful cloak to hide what's missing inside was. more so as a business tattooing is getting more and more successful. but for customers well it's hard to make an educated choice. because when something is kind of illegal in a society you know it and it's hard to find out information about it and. going to a car job that's something i've seen a how do you would like to change as well instead of creating her art secretly inside a beauty salon she would like to bring it out of the shadows. i guess that i'm waiting on as i have. had enough money i would open my own tattoo studio. time that i began then i could work along with many other tattoo artists i don't
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