tv In Good Shape Deutsche Welle April 28, 2019 7:30am-8:01am CEST
7:30 am
without borders animosity towards the media leads to violence dora fears that this could also happen in hungary. five years ago the boko haram terror group abducted more than two hundred girls in northeastern nigeria today half of them are free and in rolled at university but not all parents approve. a muslim is in high spirits and he can laugh again something he wasn't able to do for a long time we first met a morse five years ago just a few months after the terror group boko haram abducted his daughter from her school in chibok up to her but i was totally devastated then i couldn't eat for three days and i cried and cried. like i thought i'd failed as a father. but my most important duty as
7:31 am
a father is to protect my daughter and i failed to do that. in my. two and a half years ago his daughter comfort was suddenly freed after the government's negotiations with boko haram. her family is finally recovering but a farmer is still not entirely at ease he lives in chad book and his daughter received a government scholarship to study at a university that a whole day's journey away. i'm proud of her and happy that she can study again but that's one problem no one is telling us exactly what the girls are doing. more than one hundred freed girls from chip book housed at the american university in your life to attend a kind of prep course reginald bragg's the school director shows us around for the girls' protection filming is allowed only during the school break he says the
7:32 am
trauma has left its mark. you know. so we're very sensitive to. just feeling depressed. you know. liver. a leg. back you know just. bragg's says the girls need peace and quiet and time to concentrate on their studies. says he says only a few parents have been as critical as. most of the people you know are supportive but you always have people who are not you know where you. need to be out here are in the beginning very easy to do so don't listen to those naysayers because in the
7:33 am
. process stage. degree. you say wow she did. called his daughter comforts at least twice a week that's his only contact with her he says she'd like to come back to chibok after her studies and work as a doctor or entrepreneur and serve her community her father can hardly wait. thomas jefferson first came to shanghai as a student then he married today his funny online videos of being a foreigner in china and having chinese in-laws have made him an internet sensation . when thomas docks also known as often straws through the streets of shanghai he rarely goes unnoticed. beyond. thomas is
7:34 am
a celebrity on the chinese internet seven million people follow him on social media we post clips about his life as a foreigner in china. says it's done out there shanghai accent is great there are real shanghainese. there were there. thomas came to shanghai as a student in two thousand and twelve he fell in love and stayed in his videos he talks in fluent chinese about a broad range of topics. like traffic. he wanted to be them. but it all started with a sketch about his sorry no german marriage. you know what. i see height full of. body stuff why would you pay for the guy who. thomas and his wife julie write and produce the clips together and they can
7:35 am
make a living from them it all started when they came across a video by a chinese internet celebrity. sketch she recorded a sketch about coming hung for chinese new year that's when people are us the same questions over and over again when you getting married how much do you when you're going to buy a car when you're going to buy a flat julie then said to me you should film a clip about marrying into a chinese family as a foreigner. but. when i told my parents i'm dating a foreigner my father chris glass down we were having lunch and he said what did you say that i said a foreigner. he shouted are you crazy what's wrong with you all these foreigners
7:36 am
are playboy. it's true i didn't like him at the start he's fat he said he was poor and the student base don't talk about that it's embarrassing. they continue to joke about what has now turned into a wonderful friendship for his part thomas says he's lucky to have found a chinese family who share his sense if you want one sketch at a time. what's the connection between bread flour and the european union he knows the old mountain
7:37 am
view correspondent alan baker can stretch this killing line with the world's second by the genius. cuts in no. small thing recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . some time in the twenty six. my great granddaughter. what with the world being like in your life time in around half a century. your world will be around two degrees warmer. inevitably sea levels rise by at least one meter in this century. we're going to have some climate impacts maternal greater than what we see on the. screen.
7:38 am
why are people more concerned. little yellow. starts may thirty first t.w. . there are one thousand steps in the staircase that leaves from the monastery to the cave where st anthony is said to have lived in the fourth century. for father lucas and the other monks at st anthony's monastery in egypt the cave is a holy place this is where it all began.
7:39 am
father lucas came to st anthony's in two thousand and ten the monastery played an important role in his decision to become a monk today a small altars stands at the place where st anthony once prayed when it's on the whole that the bible says i forget what is behind me and to reach toward what is ahead. i have always been moved by that. this is where i spent my first time in seclusion and where i prayed before deciding to become arc one of the. desert monasteries like st anthony's remain one of the most visible symbols of the coptic orthodox church a christian community with a long history and tradition in egypt and northeastern africa. but the coptic tradition is also thriving in cairo a bustling metropolis of some twenty million not far from the musky market district in the middle of old cairo accompted churches holding easter services this. curating is tight. in recent years islam is the
7:40 am
extremists have carried out numerous deadly attacks against the coptic community the egyptian government has put coptic church is under police protection especially during the religious holidays. oh. palm sunday is celebrated with a procession through the church this is also part of the coptic tradition as is the participation of the men of the community in the liturgy. most coptic women cover their heads in church and during prayer. father more curse has served as preached at this historic church of the virgin mary in haaretz or violent for many years in this very unofficial. yeah and i will try as i'm from this region. i was baptized at the baptismal font in this church.
7:41 am
this is always been my church since i was a child. but the writing is at the church of the holy virgin that's the way and has a very special spirituality and everyone from this area even if they've moved away come here to celebrate special occasions in the church. curious about the kind of heart of the story. i love about this i got must but mostly on their flight the holy family came to egypt. they pass through the country from east to west from north to south following the path of a cross. this is one of the places they rested when they came from old cairo has he. you know. we're not a minority you need some of our church the coptic orthodox church is the native churn. the christians of egypt little belive it is thank god
7:42 am
a strong them growing the church yes it is growing the enemy as you can see from the fact that there are costs all over the world. for many here the attacks carried out by members of the muslim brotherhood in twenty thirteen are still fresh in their memory. ever been misspending in the field. among the muslims there are admittedly some fanatical groups but we don't deny that lost going to win the muslim brotherhood was in power a door was open to fanaticism. we saw that during the riots in the rob i'm not a district city of efi many coptic church is in egypt were also set on fire. thank god fings have been approved under our current president abdel fatah el-sisi. ordinary egyptians do not feel hate the whole this is an enormous opportunity to live together in peace be another i usually say feel that.
7:43 am
although there are no official figures between ten and twenty million copts live in egypt between ten and twenty percent of the population there are hundreds of coptic church is in cairo but exactly how many is unknown. the most important churches are in the cities coptic district at the church of surgeons and baucus there's a crypt where mary joseph and the infant jesus are said to have rested. and then the other well come to the holiest place in the world the world's oldest and smallest church. it will be cavernous where the holy family stayed for three months a church was built here during the apostol a cage and the cavern church of saint sergius and pakis is one of the very oldest churches and has a special altar apps these are the original stones. on which the messiah rested state in the city. the most famous come to church is next door
7:44 am
known as the hanging church it is named for its construction on top of the ruins of an old roman fortress. the hanging church contains many icons which are revered there is also a collection of relics of the saints which draws many believers to worship and prayer. art. even here in the old muslim city center the narrow streets and alleyways of the bazaar are dotted with coptic merchants and shops. in. a somewhat silver works shop is a city institution. as is was of himself among the many objects in his shop are
7:45 am
coptic hand crosses. the sleeves have a shot at the him this is an old cross from abyssinia that wow it is about one hundred years old or not it's made entirely by hand and out of silver almost all of them i mean all of this is handmade you don't see work like this anymore today so not even the crafts people in egypt can do this if you also want to make a cross like this they say no it's too much effort and takes too much time you look at oh no i can't it costs too much if you have to understand every one minutes tonight if you gave it without a thought of. feel if someone also sells bracelets many of which he buys from bedouins feel the end of the bubble in the with their lives can be shot has been in
7:46 am
my family for three generations. my grandfather my father my brother and me there were always been silver merchants now half the family sell silver or gold. or the profitable part of the business is the trade in silva. we have traditions to maintain. i can't always do whatever i might please since there are certain ways of doing things. that's how we've evolved. unlike the market district there are many other places in the sprawling capital that tourists rarely venture. like the slum known as the garbage city.
7:47 am
garbage city is one of the city's poorest neighborhoods the people here most of whom are comped survived by sorting and recycling kairos waste. sacks of garbage are everywhere the residents live along side the place that they earn a living from. overlooking the slum district the comp to community has established a place of worship the cliffs are decorated with scenes from the bible an enormous complex contains several churches and a large assembly hall all adorned with cardinals. they are the work of mario who is originally from poland. just. a little high above the district and with little by way of safety equipment.
62 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on