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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  July 27, 2019 8:15pm-8:31pm CEST

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news up next reporter this time with a look at what life's like for 2 dads raising twins together and remember it will be back at the top of the hour and stay up to date on our web site in the meantime that's d.w. dot com for me to comprehend the entire team here in berlin thanks for watching the telly. robots are still in the development phase. but it's going to happen when the world . will humans and machines should be able to peacefully co-exist or are we on the verge of a robot collapse. artificial intelligence is now spreading through our society
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they are the experts be able to agree on ethical guidelines for this technology create deadly new autonomous weapon systems. joyce in robot alerts start aug 14th on t.w. . johnny and stefan are a couple now they've become proud parents too. this is rooster from stray from as soon as i met stephan i knew we could start a family together and it was such an incredible feeling to see our children for the 1st time to see him. 5 minutes to see us this morning by the. sun.
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for a while yet never let me feel. we got a lot of books from friends and neighbors and acquaintances we looked up a few chapters like i'm sleeping and stuff like that. we spent a lot of time talking to our midwife. and we followed our instincts are lots of things just work themselves out. i live for him come for. every day family life and yet it's remarkable. night. he saw johnny sister mary angela and his niece rosa supported him on his path to fatherhood was. this one of the new merch are sure to create so 1st the embryos were created and then we met robin. that was 6 months later or and we liked her right away we thought she was great and we knew we could picture going on this journey with her. and she felt the same way on 6 so as of april 24th we knew
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if all goes well we'll be pregnant soon. robyn carried the children to term as a surrogate mother they'd been conceived in a laboratory with 2 eggs donated by a different woman and sperm from each of the fathers in germany it's against the law to donate eggs or act as a surrogate but it is allowed in california funding investments in. the process is hugely expensive. especially if you want to do it in the us and you could probably afford your own home with that kind of money maybe not downtown but you could definitely get an apartment in a smaller city was among us an apartment the common way. stephan and johnny were lucky and everything went well. so never. johnny was in the operating theatre i was outside looking through across pain since it was a twin but only one of us was allowed in i said i'd be fine if i could watch
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through the glass and of course robin was the 1st one allowed to hold them. even because they were born we knew which baby was biologically related to whom and amalia and already oh both have to say much of the same egg don't know this is biologically speaking they're half siblings and i fathered one when johnny father the other. immigrants on the us thought you know. today they're expecting an important visitor robyn the surrogate mother is on our way to stuttgart for the 1st time to see the family. to. busy give it even maybe if yes. the twins are 6 months old now. that it.
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robin has 2 children of her own her daughter agree and i came along with her. really as. i gave birth to twins because surrogacy is something i've always wanted to do and then when i met johnny and stephanie when they were perfect i loved being pregnant and so those are my reasons for doing it was to help johnny and 2nd. to make them better off without radio. of course you make money from being a surrogate. but if you boil it down to the name and spare pregnant they say it's less than like 3 or $4.00 an hour for 9 months so really i could go get a part time job at mcdonald's and make more money than i would be pregnant for 9 months and i can't imagine just going through. the money you make if it's it's the whole package. saturday is family day 1st they visit johnny's
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mother at a nursing home alone after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage she's only able to speak. who. don't speak for me. i love being able to feed you. you fed me for years and now it's nice that it's the other way around. in the. us surrogate mothers give birth to about 6000 children a year in germany the embryo protection law forbids it even for heterosexual couples who can't conceive. critics say the ban is outdated by now plenty of couples like johnny and stefan look abroad to fulfill their wish of having their own children. the next stop is stephens parents' house in a small town in upper swabian there are devout catholics.
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who feel more in their voice so on a little. more. the sunday walk is a firm tradition to gay dads with their baby carriages isn't something you see every day at least not here. it wasn't easy at 1st to deal with the fact that he was just different and gay but at the end of the day is over. this image of this is where i'm going to sing now so it's known as the holy mountain opposite it's a very special place people without children go up this mountain and pray for children maybe it works off the wrong. we used to call up paris kids all the time when so it's a great feeling to be back here now with our own kids on the bus and like you know from the since aside from them a kid was sure the 1st one i told us that they were expecting it felt strange to
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decide this but we accepted it and accepted the way things happened i mean we're happy with the children or here it is even if the church doesn't want that because but i don't agree with that he said it's me 2 children have arrived in the church needs to accept that fact they're living creatures no matter where they're from and they're here now come and i was in town it being caught their 1st attempt was immediately successful i must say it looks like god means them well that's what i think you know that's right. so thinking. you know they're doing ok you and amalia might face tough questions down the road shows or even hostilities. but their extended family supports them wholeheartedly stuck in his lawyer martian flowers and stephanie and johnny can pass the strength on to their children but the boat house isn't your boat i back in stuttgart johnny and stephanie want to keep
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up their social ties. it's a challenge all parents face. you know. not all winning is not having a good day today. i. know but this is 5 you can't do it like that you can't give him his pacifier. you need to take it away or he want to understand that it's time to eat now. but he doesn't want to eat then let him cry. just leave them. well there are. very nice all wound up there he just needs to go to bed.
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you're in a bad mood today on ship. stefan doesn't look anything flustered him not his 1st son or his partner. it's hot and then suddenly everything's all better. order. 2 months later it's the twins' 1st birthday. so it's going to since just as things are a little hectic right now i've just left the office and the guests are arriving at 230. it was important to us to celebrate with our family and friends now but our little ones have been with us for a year and find no would be one for you and stephanie left the office early to make it to the party on time the twins are still in daycare. when moving since we have space to see 10 people. johnny's in the big final table cloths and stuff like that . that's up to me all done so i suspect says that. johnny and
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stefan share a business that means they can choose their own work how it's perfect for the small family i know or yeah some of this it looks great here. everything is ready. it looks fantastic i wish it was my birthday. it's all right it's just you and i but it's a positive kind of stress and we bicker sometimes but that's just the way things are but it's all worth it when the kids come home and see everything is about what they saw everything this morning to with her and that was lovely it's sad and that's just something that takes time no matter why. and just kind of all nervous i was called and i still hear. that i had said oh it's so. tough not love how. men see their will to live it will kill somebody.
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out look honey she can walk. so can you. go way off. here's on tip toe very selfish prick ok. well i know you're you're. sitting on. the host families come to celebrate. i. think it was. really you know julie and stephanie want this to feel normal for their children they want them to understand that a family doesn't have to be a mother and a father to be full of love. and they want to keep in touch with the surrogate mother often she sent a special gift for the twins 1st birthday. packets from america
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right now robinson something look below oh my. gosh. well i was already through o.-i are we sure 1st birthday is fun all day through from your 1st kids to your last dream come true hardly ever there was. i did. not. know you did amalia and how they are in the very best hands i am. tired oh how do you. think my morning.
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