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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  April 22, 2019 3:02am-3:15am CEST

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welcome saw world stories. germany debates prenatal genetic tests. the philippines a muslim rebels take on the i.r.s. but first the colombia around the million people from neighboring friends as well have sought refuge there violence poverty and chaos but they face many problems not least when it comes to finding support to live. this three story building owned by a colombian family in southern bogota houses ten venezuelan migrants they eat breakfast together on a quiet sunday morning. these people are among the two hundred thousand migrants who have come to the city in recent years since the city council provides few shelters the migrants only choice is to rent shared rooms with two or three other people most of the holding market lassalle and we sleep here in the living room and it's a little uncomfortable sometimes since we need privacy but other than that it's good
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or landlady nogueira lives on the houses upper floor the colombian national decided to rent her rooms to venezuelan migrants in part to earn some extra cash. was moved by their situation the quality of life they had in that moment they had no place to sleep a some people would not rent to them to me and not enough but they're not as happy in that she tries to create a comfortable atmosphere with plenty of space to talk and laugh with her tenants and she even goes a step further. more demi moore may sometimes they call me their mom so i scold them when they do things wrong or when they don't go to work or paid utilities i'm looking out for them. despite strict rules for cleanliness and order there's also sympathy for the migrants tough financial situation especially when bills are due. sometimes we are late with payments so we simply tell her look mrs no such and such
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is happening i don't have the full amount give me a few days and i will pay you and she understands. andras martina is a bogota real estate association explains how landlords are making money housing venezuelan's and rundown buildings. where many property owners have made a business out of renting or receiving payments making people pay a daily fee to spend a single night in a tenement. the so-called pug i.d.r. yos or pain dailies only offer a bed tenants have no guarantees and risk getting kicked out at any moment nineteen year old luis works as a barber he barely earns enough each day to pay for his pocket. to me this is like something for prisoners three bunk beds that means six people you don't have the privacy you want and you can never leave your valuables here. venezuelan
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migrants are at the mercy of fate if they don't encounter helpful colombians they risk being exploited and can only hope to someday be able to afford a place they can truly call home. germany has been debating whether to allow public sector health insurance to cover the costs of screening on born children for genetic disorders such as down's syndrome is an emotional issue circle to provoke a lot of response we have this reports. sophia is a year and a half old. an estimated nine out of ten women in germany decide to have abortions when they find out their unborn child has down's syndrome. and to sing was seven months pregnant when she got the diagnosis. of. i was scared i was worried i was also feeling a bit desperate i didn't know what to do i was still in the last year of my studies
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. but i had a lot of support and courage and because she was so active in my belly so fear also showed me that she wanted to live and she should be allowed to live. the weeks that followed were difficult for ana who was also working as a geriatric nurse she read all about down's syndrome which is a genetic disorder in which children are almost always born with physical and intellectual disability the doctor told her child would be born with a heart defect suddenly and a face the dilemma of whether to have an abortion. kaleena hennig a gynecologist counsels women who decide to have an abortion when they get a diagnosis of down syndrome she knows the pressure for all involved. as. there are so many factors to consider how old am i how stable is my relationship to my other children still need
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a lot of attention hennig says the blood test that detects down syndrome as early as ten weeks of pregnancy gives families time to make difficult decisions early on that's also important to ensure that mother and child are well looked after if the mother decides to have a baby. for an it isn't because she goes deeper. she says the blood test sends a message that society does not accept children like sophia. i ask myself why. and if you then don't have to pay for the test these children will simply not exist. even though they're perfectly happy children who radiate joy and have so much love to give. the blood tests for down syndrome are already a standard procedure in denmark and france in those countries few children like sophia are born. in the philippines the island of
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mindanao was long been the scene of a power struggle between the christian and muslim communities not a filipino army on muslim rebels but joining forces in the bottle like kids as terrorists. we are on patrol with the largest muslim rabbit group in mindanao the moro islamic liberation front or m.i.l.f. for decades they fought for independence tens of thousands were killed. but since the self-proclaimed islamic state burst onto the scene in two thousand and seventeen the muslim rebels have joined forces with the philippine army both sides feel threatened by us fight has now laying low for. the muslim minority strongly supports the m.i.l.f. only five percent of filipinos are muslims and almost all live in mindanao the
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areas are among the poorest in the philippines many here blame the christian majority government for their plight. we visit the military headquarters of the m.i.l.f. the government needs the rabbit support to secure a peace and to fight terror president rodrigue has promised them a far reaching autonomy. the chief of staff isn't in uniform a sign perhaps of the shift from insurgency to politics the m.i.l.f. has seen defectors joining i as we ask him what might happen if the autonomy project goes badly i would or could be really did a lot of people really become diminished. the ice history of. his station. all the followers of the war adore him for their good will and. that it will become bigger. he tells us that they will disarm
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up to thirty thousand fighters but only with full muslim autonomy. not. the men we will not do commission our war and we will not give up our firearms which we promised to the government. this is what both sides are trying to avoid another more robby the largest muslim city of the philippines lies in ruins bombed out after a few hundred fighters had occupied mahratti for five months two years ago. more than one thousand people were killed. tens of thousands remain displaced. it was president to territory who ordered the bombing but he's also a strong supporter of muslim autonomy his form of peace advisor tells us. it is a strong signal to the bad guys that this country had been in the peace process
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under several presidents and we have. far as we have this time. but if the autonomy drive fails more disaffected muslims could join radical outfits in addition after the loss of their caliphate in syria and iraq more foreign i as fighters might also decide that mindanao is the new front. the sun flee it's small and it hurts the barrows on the skin and mostly affects the feet the sun flee is common in africa and it's believed well over two million people in kenya suffer from the parasite known there as chiggers we want to find out more. to read a pesty loves going to school the best part is being able to concentrate on her lessons but that wasn't always the case the twelve year old's feed used to be full
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of jagers tiny sand fleas that bar into people's bath nash causing burning painful lesions. i felt terrible i couldn't play i couldn't jump i stretch myself most at night for a long time. other children at this primary school and soon county still suffer from the minute parasite constant itching and severe pain makes it difficult for the infected students to walk and impossible for them to concentrate in class untreated figures can lead to deform claims gang green and fatal tetanus infections jagers are a widespread but neglected health problem in africa official figures are hard to come by. in the schools here in consume almost a third of pupils i'm connected with tickets it's not just the pain of the actual infection that's a problem but also the teasing and social exclusion by the other children the students here dipankar primary school have decided to do it differently instead
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they are helping each other across kisumu students i know how scouts they are challenging the believe that having to give is a poor people's disease and to helping their schoolmates heal and instead of the traditional method of pulling out the fleas which is excruciating they're using a pain free technique when the good i do mean we start with the ones who are severely infected and we wash their feet we put them in a second basin with fresh water and they stay there with their feet inside for five minutes. then the scouts wipe the whole legs with medicine and we ask them to sit in the sun while the plane tell us let me introduce a decus treatment if noticed a definite change in the student's performance at this school generally improve and this caught high in the national exams and seeing them heal and starting to play with each other that has made me happy as a health teacher and that to me come on when you want. it to get treatment has changed these students lives. and oh i love going to the river to fetch water i
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love to study and to play i feel better because i'm healed and i can play i can walk properly i can jump us well. we'll delve a little. and there will be a reaction. i. began around six hundred years ago in the. the revolution in fashion a bit less mention of people became aware of their abilities and strengths a new way of feeling there was an outpouring of self-confidence and mentions it's the first. architects. artists.
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culture the artist enjoy. this week d.w. . the image of the missing pieces basilica and the vatican city and run the cathedral on the same piece a square is a magnificent edifice capped with larger than life statues of the apostles. playing.

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