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but this season dalton may just have the edge over their perennial rivals. now there's a new fairy attraction drawing crowds at the zoo in the peruvian capital laim a great bengal tiger cubs have they have made their public debut with one rare white tying up part of the mesa the youngsters were born early last month and after weeks of around the clock attention from vets the club the cubs and now strong enough to leave their enclosure official periods when we have more news headlines at the top of the hour this is day to be news thanks for watching. the. early clues tourist guide truman is booming capital i love berlin the scope of the multicultural metropolis you know where you're a vaccine to fit. the time in times like this recently. i love you even want
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to show what a certain looks worse like me strikes as the 15 nations 50 story. and 53 personal tips on berlin's very best. now. every week on t.w. . going to. this week a wall stories. bolivia completely legal child labor. what stuck crushing you know knots hippie past where we start off and it's in just over a year ago the moran. bridge ingenue were collapsed killing 43 people 600 more were
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left homeless now those affected are fighting for compensation. not rita chart though has lived near them over on the bridge for most of her life she says seeing the last few pillars disappear didn't bother her it was more of a spectacle but now she has to watch as the house she lived in for nearly 60 years is demolished only pieces of the 1st floor remain the same theme song on there. you can hear it because and the jackhammers whacking away. the sound is terrible. that affects you more than watching it. and i'm rita and her sister meanwhile we're lucky they own a flat in the center of genoa and were able to move there it's smaller than their home near the bridge but they have to leave a lot of their belongings behind anyway they were only permitted to return to their
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old home accompanied by officials a few times it lies directly under the bridge which at that stage was in danger of collapsing. and i'm going to sound us. like grave robbers because there was no sign of life there anymore it's an awful feeling when you don't recognize your own home you know vehicle most in some ways going back was part of the process of letting go. some memories are painful for the 2 sisters but not all of them there were light moments among all the drama. that you will find. funny when one of the firemen the one with the pasta opened a drawer and found some noodles from a good brand and he said you're leaving them here we said tad they're just noodles . and he said i have that they're noodles from money santa they're good for another
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year. you can make some getting but. i said ok ok take them. the courts are currently debating who is responsible for the disaster local authorities or the private company in charge of the motorways the i'll just drop a penny in a case that will probably last 2 years the motorway company is currently refusing requests for interviews in the meantime traffic is rolling again but infrastructure is in bad shape in many places around the country the bridge which is now being used to redirect traffic to church on a rita i mean as old neighborhood has also seen better days volunteers at the committee that campaigns for victims of the disaster or weeks after the bridge collapse i'll just get out of people try to divide those affected. was that. what saved does it was that we all said no. that we showed that we were united and
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that we weren't for sale you know. that gave us power in the goetia nations and it was dangerous for the other side to put the i didn't that it didn't go. for the victim. it was a good lesson to learn that there's power in the unity but they will still never get their old lives back. during the 28 years in which berlin was divided by the wall more than 130 people were killed or died trying to flee to the west. coast with richter also risk his life to excrete from east germany. the best thing about jail hartmut richter says was being let out of his cell once a day to walk around inside a large wire cage as a young man he was held for months in a detention center run by the east german ministry of state security for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape.
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they didn't abuse us physically they called it a corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind to stand through hyper control isolation this information has been the worst 11 months of my life here after a while you start to long to be sentenced. mr never accepted life under the east german regime and tried to flee for the 1st time by train when he was just 18 he was arrested and put behind bars. when building began on the berlin wall on the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters it was the other moment as a young person at some point you have to ask yourself how long am i going to play this raid have how long can i take it or do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nation who is a long as you're still studying you have to ignore all of this crap that in every essay there had to be a commitment to socialism and if you needed good marks you just wrote that rubbish
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down. a short time later richter attempted to escape again he swam across a border river on the edge of berlin and made it to freedom he was in the water for 4 hours before he finally managed to get through a barbed wire fence and onto the shore on the western side on the eastern side he would have been shot. at the governor's office that's why i had a guardian angel that lied i knew there were alarms at the bridge is in the twilight i saw a thin piece of wire stretched from bridge post a bridge post if i touched it he would have gone off and they would have immediately fired shots. also this year before the 1st. dozens of people died in this way along the berlin wall it's still not clear just how many the regime ruthlessly punished anyone who tried to flee. nevertheless wrister continued to help more than 30 people escape by smuggling them
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into west germany in the trunk of his car he was caught again and spent 5 years in prison before being bought out by the western governments he now gives tours in his former prison often for schoolchildren he thinks young people should learn that east germany was a to tell a tarion state. that stealing is held to heart what rich. there overcome the brutality of the stasi the east german secret police now he's able to tell the story as one of those who paid a price for wanting freedom. it's 2014 bolivians national congress passed laws that legalize child labor ever since children as young as 10 have been allowed to work it's estimated that the country know how some 850000 child laborers. was these 4 children are singing to honor the dead. but not because the deceased is a loved one. they're doing it for money.
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at the end they chant our father. to the earth is that it that for god. and kevin this cemetery is their place of employment they're hired to sing for the relatives of the dearly departed. they receive 20 bolivian knows each time worth about 2 and a half years that's a lot of money for children who are growing up without a father. 10 year old kevin longs to buy a football but he has to spend his earnings on medical treatments for his mother who's ill. it's strange working in a cemetery that drowning cats and barking dogs around and garbage everywhere. these children who come every day after school are known as the graveyard kids every 4th child in bolivia has some kind of job that's about 100000 working
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children. starting at 10 every night 15 year old energy buy cigarettes at a kiosk and resells them for any profit he can manage. and he works in a pub district. 5 days a week he makes his way through rundown bars and clubs selling cigarettes for $0.25 each. but he has to keep a watchful eye. of the. whole districts there are lots of criminal gangs and they are the biggest threat for me. not far from andy is christiane all of 10 years old he's collecting garbage because he wants a better life. on premises but i want to buy new shoes. and go to school. like other
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working children here christiane belongs to a bolivian child laborers union 5 years ago it pushed through a demand to allow miners to work legally starting at age 10. youngsters like energy and christiane said they have more rights now and they're hoping for bigger opportunities for. the singing graveyard children say the only way to support their desperately poor families is by working for. the last report takes us to the u.s. home of the woodstock festival on its 50th anniversary the town is cashing in on memories of the legendary musical event on the hippie movement. there are reminders everywhere from peace signs to toys 19 sixties hippie culture is still ever present. but as woodstock become somewhat of
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a theme park. mark hedrick has run a souvenir shop on the town's main street for over 20 years. marketing is a stronghold in any kind of market like this the there was very little marketing done when the concert was done in fact and it to the best my knowledge there was never a shirt sold that now all the marketing stuff came after the fact. but here in the town you know we still like to take advantage of that. the local economy is benefited greatly since the festival took place and it doesn't matter now that it was held over 90 kilometers away in the time of bethel. and we're. just not i think it's just i think it's not just people who are here and. that
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feeling of woodstock like a special place for people like the people that believe in peace and this is the place. back at mark souvenir store business a steady who says tourist numbers are up despite this year's festival being counseled the lure of woodstock remains unfettered we do get visitors. many people claim to have been what star and. maybe they were. i think there was an article a number of years ago. the number of people who claim to have been at woodstock is probably closer to like 5000000 residents 5000. the number who attended doesn't matter it's the legacy the festival holds for young and old alike on this its 50th anniversary.
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what to do with old cardboard boxes. do what a french artist does and build yourself a city. a little because fed shows us how. here's our project in la is an ephemeral protest 5. year old next d.w. . nothing like a breath of sea air to come the song. goes around as an island as the purpose and as germany's longest speech some new 1900 hours of sunshine a near. the charm of a bygone era on the magical downtick sea island of saddam.
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show hello and welcome to another exciting edition of your own acts this time full of festivals.

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