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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  May 18, 2019 1:45am-2:01am CEST

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probably a gun to for us thank you. so much and our next story is in cameroon way environmentalist have expressed concern over the effects improperly discarded tie is have on the environment now and upcycling project with input from prison is giving old wheels new lice. a worn out and discarded car tires they litter the environment and can release toxic chemicals into the water. but in your own day cameron's capital there's no public refuse service that officially takes care of recycling. where other people see problems civil society activists christian lake ac solutions he has local youths collect the old tires providing a purposeful activity for the young people because the scrap tires are considered are all material for new products. a lot of people culturally believe you just
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asked to be burned so we are also using these are sort of what you do to sensitise them that we can give to these tires which would be more durable which would not affect our environment. the tires are transported to a business partner about 20 miles outside. of prison here in mates who refer to themselves as prison printers produce sandals out of the old tires it takes about 4 hours to make one pair and 7 flip flops can be made out of a normal size tire we're not allowed to interview the prisoners but the project is seen as an opportunity for rehabilitation and it's helping solve an environmental problem at the same time you know engagement in prisons we saw the process of transforming tires firstly as an effort to protect the environment as an effort to support you know the global conversation on climate change and we saw the inmates
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in prison as the 1st community we can talk because a lot of people abandon them but they have time they need people to give them an opportunity to transform. eventually the rubber tires become fashionable professional looking products christian he hopes to market them under the prison brand creative skills for peace a project for young violent offenders they're sold internationally for around $35.00 euros a pair the inmates receive more than 50 percent of the profit the rest is divided between the prison and the state. who want to build a big market because it is part of the called the ground which is the branding of the products that we produce from prisons and we're hoping that you know nationalities consume and acclaimed we're hoping that this young people in prison is able to be financially empowered and have the need to be able to you know make a life out of these. the send those are also available here in cameroon of course for somewhat less than on the international market. christian personally seeks out
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customers slowly the locals are buying the idea of eco friendly items made by prisoners. it's a one of a production i love it and what the reason for that because black ahead is middle prisoners and even the prison prison has meetings so you know we used to push them to jordan that we have a police van on. the tires to send a project was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nicky made the 2017 africa youth awards a list of the 100 most influential young africans and 2018 he was named the luxembourg peace prize as an outstanding youth peacemaker and that is it from. africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and a facebook page in sudan protests still camped outside the military headquarters in
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up. gets to work. and jazz musicians from all over the world are converging on the western german city of baltimore the jazz festival that. germany's biggest music export ramstein have just released a long awaited new album the 1st single door which came out in march already caused a lot of controversy but it has to be said that manipulating the media and that's exactly what they've achieved the video for the single is out of a $50000000.00 hits on you tube so far without further ado let's find out how they've delighted their fans at the same time most probably created bowl controversy with their new album. controversial rule and extremely successful way to mark the band's 25th anniversary ramstein has
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a new album the topics of the usual fold them 6 ballance jam and history to video for the lead single direction and caused a scandal as a teaser for the video the shock rock has released an excerpt showing the band members stressed his concentration camp inmates sparking accusations of using the holocaust to self promotion. once the food video was released it was clear that ramstein was addressing the topic in a more complex manner as one of the duncans chapters in germany story. keyboard player lockout and guitarist power land is good there's stuff in the 1990 s. as members of the east german punk band feeling be. in 1994 they started around shine and in them. fans worldwide even in the u.s. . intelligence the crazy out of control i'm learning german for that i just
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finished my 1st year but i got back. to bill in band's music videos are at least as important as their music and always focus on the dark side of human nature. the kind of many tricks that if you understand them you'll find beautiful but dark lyrics you can expect a journey into the unknown into the dark side to evil. music. and they repeatedly to speed limits of good taste for instance the video for stripped featured excerpts from a nazi propaganda film by many refinished i'll. cop to being accused of being politically right wing the band responded with the song spine dry feet. and ranch time really put the grin into grimm's fairy tales turning snow white into a drug addicted sadist.
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it was a really nice story in itself with snow white back doors but our version is out for trouble. graham stands previous 6 albums have sold a total of 20000000 copies they waited 10 years before making album number 7 and a tennessee in.

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