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in his own man in a different way entirely. while his later films never reach the same cult status piece of fondest korea spanned decades including t.v. series and films and he was embraced by a younger generation of hollywood directors like steven soderbergh who directed funder in the film the line me. but he will always be remembered for an easy ride out. here watching news live from berlin don't forget you can always get more news on our website at state of the dot com. the world is doing more soon. morse code just reviews a lot of cross of. the global 3000 talks with team of british researchers who take
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a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good plan but it's much much better than it was a dot. com is the world really getting better. a global $3000.00 special reports. starts aug 19th on digital. this week a world stories. bolivia completely legal child labor. what stock crushing you know that's hippie past where we start off and it's a just over a year ago. the marandi bridge ingenue
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a collapsed killing 43 people 600 more were left homeless now those affected are fighting for compensation. not read the 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 the degas and the jackhammers whacking away. the sound is terrible. that affects she one of them watching a. little bit. and i'm rita and her sister me mum were 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 had to leave
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a lot of their belongings behind anyway they were only permitted to return to their 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 call myself an ass. like grave robbers because there was no sign of life there anymore and it's an awful feeling when you don't recognize your own home you know the girl most in some ways going back was part of the process of letting go. so memories are painful for the 2 sisters but not all of them there were like moments among all the drama. wolf i thought of this 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 but they're noodles from mali sunnah we start they're good for
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another year. you can make so i get a bit. 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 tallia 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 of the committee that campaigns for victims of the disaster near weeks after the bridge collapse i'll just throw out of try to divide those affected. was that. what saved us was that we all said no. we showed that we were united and that we
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weren't for sale and you know. that gave us power in negotiations and it was dangerous for the other side to put it i think that it didn't. for the victims it was a good lesson to learn that there is power in 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 who were killed or died trying to flee to the worst. possible to also risk his life to excrete from east germany. the best thing about jail hartman 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 van by the east german ministry of state security for trying to flee the country and for aiding others in their attempts to escape. your music.
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and so they didn't abuse us physically they called it corrosion it was a method they used to try and grind just down through hyper control isolation this information that's been the worst 11 months of my life here after a while if you start too 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 in the 1st of august 1961 he knew he had to escape he saw how brutally the regime was cracking down on dissenters. 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 and where do i want to cooperate with them to find myself a little nation who is a long as you're still studying you had to get 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 night i knew there were alarms at the bridge 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. of order 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 stillness held heart would reach their 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. and 2014 bolivia's national congress pass laws that legalize child labor ever since children as young as 10 have been allowed to work it's estimated that the country no has some 850000 child laborers. nagging these 4 children are singing to honor the dead but not because the deceased is a loved one. they're doing it for money. at
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the end they chant our father. back 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 euro's that's a lot of money for children who are growing up without a father. with his. 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 grounding cats and barking dogs around and garbage everywhere is that. these children who come every day after school are known as the graveyard kids. every 4th child in the libya has some kind of job that's about
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100000 working children. starting at 10 every night 15 year old and usually 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 a rundown bars and clubs selling cigarettes for $0.25 each. but he has to keep a watchful eye. of the. districts there are lots of criminal gangs and veiled the biggest threat for me. not far from envy is christiane all of 10 years old he's collecting garbage because he wants a better life. from premise if 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 say they have more rights now and they're hoping for bigger opportunities for instance in. the singing graveyard children say the only way to support their desperately poor families is by working. at 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 times' 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 to the best my knowledge there was never shirts. and now 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. i think it's just i think it's obvious people were hearing. that feeling of
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woodstock a special place for people like the people that believe in peace on earth 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 and many people claim to have been woodstock 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 500000. the number who attended doesn't matter it's the legacy the festival holds for young and old alike and it's its 50th anniversary real.
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ensure the conflicts are fronting the powerful. my guest this week here in birmingham news for qatari foreign ministry spokesperson memoir on. the last 2 years the gulf states of coffee has been blockaded by a quarter chance of our states which of jews it's of supporting terrorism she has always denied the charges for. her conflicts of. g.w. . good shape i don't have time for this now i have to work we never really have enough time stress is not good for you it's not good for your health sure but how can we escape a hamster wheel. and other time management help us lead healthier
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lives. in 60 minutes w. . earth a home for saving global india's tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global ideas be embodied in series of global 3000 on d w and online. and i'm here with thoughts so you're dealing with something that you know what i said are facts you want to quote there isn't enough a war in this city i mean it's a problem for the entire world because you don't think for the last 2 years the gulf state of qatar has been blockaded by a core set of arab states which accuse it of supporting terrorism my guess this week here is.

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