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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  April 20, 2019 8:15pm-8:31pm CEST

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but little has changed in washington president donald trump has banned so-called bump stocks that make semi automatic weapons fire fast but he has promised to veto a bill that would tighten background checks on gun buyers. two decades on the name calling by and still represents an unresolved american tragedy. you're watching. the games remember you can always get all the latest news on our web site. when the answers are people fight for survival when he gets a bunch of money but when there's a flood water comes up to your waist on your clothes fast everyone even the total
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lack of water is equally dangerous. move south so they can plant crops and. floods and droughts floods climate change become the main driver of mass migration you could write any. you want. the climate exodus starts april thirtieth on d w. o. only female paralympic athlete. her next goal is the two thousand and twenty paralympic games in tokyo and her dream is to bring home a medal. i see two trains instead of close to the capitol
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four times a week basketball athletics and weightlifting. she's a single mother struggling to get by without state support. i said to nine was born with an impairment to both legs all of her teammates have disabilities but she's the only woman many gambians object to this arrangement they feel men and women should train separately. i said to whom everyone calls ita takes a different view she sees the other players as her brothers. and as is common with siblings things can get
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a bit rough. oh yeah. i know. the club is like a family to the approximately twenty basketball players. discrimination against people with disabilities is common in the gambia. as the club founder and coach well knows. i've got a pet first i said to couldn't play basketball. she dropped the ball and she wouldn't pay attention so the ball would roll away. that i don't know how to make sure that that what it did do or did what i use the south is going to think i guess if the festival after this that fought it for many years. in the us but twenty years yeah i'm done now you can see i'm not up to me this is for sure here are
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affected by the sure it's rooted out the belief that really. most to me at this apartment events you know it was. the basketball players hope that one day they will all be able to compete at the paralympic games together at the moment there aren't enough funds to send the whole team abroad to gambia gives no financial support to paralympic athletes meaning they rely on sponsors to fund their travels and training. i am. i. getting around isn't easy but i said to is used to making her own way. sometimes her son helps her. i want to push my wheelchair place. i have. flared up again you know.
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i can't do it. there's too much sand here. just stop looking around concentrate and push me so to conduct can be a challenge to people in wheelchairs few roads are paved while public buses are often packed and don't have ramps. even a trip to the local market can be difficult. but that's. what. i said to buy his fish and other groceries there are only a few supermarkets in town most of which are expensive.
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for her son would like a new football. yeah that's how much yeah the. six hundred one could afford. that's as much as a bag of rice i. think people. over the long. run. they demand would you sell it for three hundred fifty but it will be three five hundred five hundred what's your final price. they get three fifty that's all i have on me thank you all four hundred. the groceries are heavy so i said who wants to take a taxi home and today she's lucky few taxi drivers are willing to take the time to help her pack a real chair. taxis are a luxury i said to him many people with disabilities can seldom afford. one i.
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will not if i wanted i'm in. if. if. one not one of them will be in the. way them or both of them of their local yellow. here at the universal gym i see two is weight training. i am. basketball isn't the only discipline i said to wants to compete in she's also a weight lifter. she can train here for free she comes several times a week. now that. grandma is
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a friend of hers mickey rooney also started training at the gym a while ago which helps her stay motivated lower than minimum and my lead. i see two tries to walk on her own legs as often as possible although she can't cover long distances. she needs to train hard to qualify for the paralympics in tokyo. you go. oh. wow. this is in london yeah this is the fourth time you but this is. going to work you invented well this is my fourth. athletics participate so. i came out fifth yeah i was more happy that day because it's the first time representing the gambia this is the real twenty sixth i was not there in the games because the one who used to
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sponsor me not. have the money to pay my bills that's why i could not make it to the games. at two pm it's time to pray. like most gambians i said to is a practicing muslim. more do and i said to begin the journey home. she and her family live in one of several hundreds poor neighborhoods. of relief. that ten of us in the house. boys my sister. my mom and father. had brought us wife and i brought us. together. i did. the family likes to spend sundays
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together. i said two got married when she was eighteen and had her first child one year later and then the second. she got divorced eight years ago it was a difficult time and she still doesn't like talking about it. but i think right. her family supported her back then and today then able her to take the necessary time to train travel and compete internationally and on the menu today is a rice dish called been a sheen which the family shares with a few guests i said to his close to her parents i'm grateful to god for giving had to me though it was difficult when she was a child i cried when they told me i had given birth to a disabled child. that my boy. god gave her to me.
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and i accept her and good faith. in. us encouraged me she told me to take good care of vida and that she would go far one day. i said tuesday mother is sorting cowpies every day she sells fried vegetable balls on the roadside like i said to she doesn't have a fixed income i'm like. i know. you. got me here for this they will do what they're. for disabled people here all that all that albeit little that we can do is to go outside and get it because even if you have your application up at the moment they see you did think that you good to look for my little. one or two people will come and give you morning and name in
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the text stand to listen to explanation or whatever you want it will be. the gambia does not provide welfare for disabled people so every morning at six am i said to sit on the roadside asking passers by for money she does this for three hours every day. and the people in her neighborhood know about her athletic success so many hesitate to give her money as they think she must be rich but i said to made no money competing and will only be able to go to the paralympic games if she finds a sponsor. when the stores open people asking for money and there are many have to leave. i said who has been contacted by the head of the gambia as
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paralympic committee. i see two lives on the breadline she gets by with the equivalent of around twenty euros per week far below the national average her family struggles to make a living. when the fact. is for three of us and i. i said to is poor but she's holding on to her dream of competing at the paralympics . despite the many obstacles she faces she believes she can make it. thanks.
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