tv World Stories Deutsche Welle August 12, 2019 3:02am-3:15am CEST
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this week on world storms. rwanda the scars of genocide. frederico protesting corruption. we begin in yemen where there are growing numbers of people fleeing violence and poverty in eastern africa they have to cross the war torn country on the shores of the red sea to get to their desired destination saudi arabia. yemen is at war with itself something they know very little about. you think. he's the youngest migrant i meet today he arrived by boat with his brother from one of about 100 this man is haunted by images of the dangerous crossing. out of the many when we got into the boat there was no water and no food. it was to
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go in to get. some people had to stand others were sitting in. the boat was very crowded. that. the ones who do make landfall then have to walk for days through the desert this migration route is less known compared to the want to europe through sudan and libya and it's cheaper but dangerous yemen is littered with landmines and aid organizations stops by they're all be prepared to talk off the record i hear most migrants will never reach saudi arabia most of didn't match the person or 85 percent this technique that caused the war in libya. one of the places in war torn yemen where migrants are drawn into the conflict. in aden i meet one of the yemeni smugglers wants to remain anonymous the war in yemen of forced him into smuggling he says i'm like there are no jobs we can't find
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anything else to do but working at sea. fishing for people lawlessness makes smuggling a lucrative business he earns the equivalent of $400.00 euros dollar of it each migrant he tells me. the smuggling business is widespread because there's no security no stability no good living the business is flourishing now. yemenis are struggling with chronic unemployment and poverty in their midst the stranded migrants. arrived 2 months ago from. he says he was beaten by smugglers and has no money left to continue his journey his message to other migrants who just want to tell them. not to make it to any country. they have to stay. home. but the smugglers promise that the migrants we reach
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saudi arabia will continue to pull them even to a country that has as many problems as yemen. turbulent times in puerto rico the islands unpopular governor ricardo was forced to resign over sexist e-mails but the protests against corruption and the establishment continue leading the way are many musicians and artists. he's well known for his hard hitting political and p.j. seems well off one of the artists we have inspired to purchase in puerto rico he says he's proud to be a part of the most. active with this concert we wanted to celebrate the summer and the fact that we kick the governor out of office in only 12 days but i also want to motivate people to continue to fight and to protest look how many came here today. here's where he works on his lyrics lyrics that have
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earned him a reputation as a versatile artist p.j. since who else says he writes about what's happening and what affects him right now it's political crisis and the anger of the people caused by a corruption scandal and text message just in which. disparaged ordinary citizens as well as political foes. look at all the messages he made phone. in when they were king came he made fun of. community he did so many things wrong and he was very nice. well for everybody to so to like get the message this guy's wrong he's got to get out one of the people targeted by the governor was joined almost benjamin taurus he tells me he was angry but not surprised to find his name in the leaked text message just because he's always been critical of the administration but he didn't anticipate the consequences. i'm very proud of what happened and
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really surprised by the extent of the civil commitment and near the puerto rico is for the most part or all the passive country. my arm and we do not take to the streets easily. and if we do the protests are small and you know we see the same people and groups you know my persona is a party. for out but also worry that's real change the fact that so many french rican seem to feel since governor rothsay you know announced that he will step down that's why there are still protests taking place. from some who won we drive sell. the protests attracted ordinary people from all over the islands people like omar so 2 for 2 and he's a wife to write a couple is still amazed by the size of the crowds and their unity people i walk with this situation i'm going to do they more seriously than the next elections.
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i don't think i don't think we are ready. for example when the corner or a warning from waterbury but people are are more aware of the situation they argue about politics at their kitchen table the governor successor and what should happen next and the posse ride out says she didn't pay much attention to politics but the protests really touched her heart. to a 1000000 people were killed in the rwandan genocide which took place 25 years ago . in 1904. the vast majority of these perpetrators were men some of them are now meeting survivors to work through their trauma. was awful today these men sit side by side in community based social sarah p. to share their experiences during run this darkest hour the 1994 genocide 25 years ago when up to a 1000000 tutsis
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a moderate hutus were wiped out in just $100.00 days but it would divide it among those who carried out the killings and those who survived it. memories of being on the run and how his pregnant wife had to give birth and hiding of it. when we couldn't find a way that the baby would survive being with us but i still had friends who i was doing business with they helped me and they took my newborn at night to a woman who run an orphanage at. the baby stage but a few days later the perpetrators went there to look for him they took my baby and killed him. up don't know lives a peaceful life with his wife. but he struggles with the guilt of not being able to protect the 12 members of his family who were killed during the genocide similarly former release perpetrators like every step have served their sentence are still haunted by what they call the shame of their past he says he's guilty of killing 4
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people including to members of his own family. i came to realize that i can't escape my judgment i accepted it and went to ask my father in law for forgiveness it was too much to handle the fact that i had killed my mother in law i was in so much pain. many of the men returning from prison have struggled they found their families estranged their role as the head of the household challenged in the image of their very own masculinity destroyed. they say these feelings however cannot be talked about in public. and always has to be strong a man has to suffocate his pain and behave like a man. the way i see it a man should also show his emotions in rwandan culture i can accept it in public. a man needs to overcome his pain. away from social pressures of at least an up or
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down i'm glad they have found a safe space to reconcile and work on the psychological well being. therapy helped is. because we used to fear each other. whenever i saw a person i had wronged. i could feel my heart racing. we have no problems with the perpetrators anymore because they're also part of the families of social therapy. when we meet now we are the same we have the same heart. about each. and both of them. the men of the same use social therapy group hope to contribute to the healing of their country so that future generations won't repeat their mistakes. by facing their demons together they set an example. so that rundown men learn how
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to show their emotions. and the society learns to accept that. electric scooters are quick in said to have the potential to revolutionize city traffic a few weeks after their introduction in germany there are some 25000 of them on the streets but not everyone is impressed. together with your special someone on a new electric scooter touring for relic a moment too romantic to bother with traffic laws for some but a lot of car drivers and cyclists can't really share the excitement. well the feet of the kind of vera so many people using them who have never written before who have no idea how to write them and then they even write them on the sidewalk and they could end up really hurting someone good this bit i feel bad that more people
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are on the road makes it more dangerous didn't make moves and you know they just choose out of pocket spots without even looking. at the top speed of an electrifying 20 kilometers per hour the fun factor sometimes switches off commonsense rights have already ended up promptly with abrasions bruises and sometimes even severe bone fractures since mid june that's been more than 20 accidents in berlin alone. but accidents are not the only concern a few weeks after the introduction the 1st east is a lying around in the city some fear they will end up as you waste according to manufacturers' the school just last year but a u.s. study claims the average life span is actually only 28 days than one line unless durable scooters are scooters they can easily be damaged by vandalism with a life span of 28 days is much too short because then new resources have to be used to produce new ones that's not in the interest of the environment and not in the interest of conservation. according to her east tutors can only be
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ecological if they can completely replace trips taken by car otherwise they're nothing more than a hip new toy. robots are still in the development phase. but it's going to happen when the world. will schumann's and machines be able to peacefully co-exist or are we on the go. over robot collapse. if we just bumble into this totally unprepared with our heads in the sand fusing to think about what could go wrong then let's face it it's probably going to be the biggest mistake in history. artificial intelligence is now
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spreading through our society. will experts be able to agree on ethical guidelines or will this technology create deadly new autonomous weapon systems. like a school robot collapse starts aug 14th on t.w. . you. know what the region of the world produces crude oil as cheaply as the coal states . it's a wealth the in trouble from the ground for a long time to come. bottom demand could dry up earlier than supply as a former saudi oil minister warned in 2000.
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