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a site cloned one region got off relatively lightly we find out why. the 1st we go to the u.s. where coal miners are suffering from a devastating disease their appeals for support of falling on deaf ears. whether cold minerals all metals for millenia we humans have insisted on dredging our planet's resources the global mining industry earns around $615000000000.00 euros each year nearly the equivalent of the g.d.p. of switzerland the world's 20th largest economy yet few jobs there is dangerous as mining. around $12000.00 miners worldwide lose their lives every year and those are just the official figures. what would that number be if illegal mines were taken into account mine workers often breathe in toxic particles all.

poisonous gases many suffer damage to their lungs. in the eastern part of the us state of kentucky coal mining has long been a mainstay and here too it has a terrible impact on people's house. it's about 10 meters from the car to the house but for danny the short distance is torture. even a few steps leave him short of breath. for almost 20 years he worked in the coal mines of kentucky breaking up rock underground and breathing in coal dust. in dust mask barely protected him at some point his lungs will fail completely his daughter molly knows that that will be the end of him. just now. you know danny says he felt he had no choice if he hadn't agreed to work under

those conditions he would have been out of a job. right now his lungs are functioning at less than 50 percent. from 43 to 43 if i had to even go get the phone you know we didn't have you know i would just go down a few steps away but you know within feel. danny has been diagnosed with black lung disease at 45 he's no longer able to work with his income gone his family is close to financial ruin it's a fate shared by thousands of people in the area. in eastern kentucky coal mining has long been a mainstay of the economy in the past especially it was difficult to find any other work one former miner jimmy moore tells us most of the coal companies cut corners when it comes to installing ventilation he says they ignore regulations governing

the levels of coal dust in mind he too has black lung. years if there were in week of week after. and or no is the big fear we can blow it. goes into learns and i've heard my. condition. it's not safe i'm not going to work there. around a 3rd of all miners in kentucky will eventually be diagnosed with black lung in the past no one knew the exact numbers until brandon crumb started collecting the data in his clinic alone the radiologist has registered several 1000 cases since 2014 he says it's an epidemic to which are far attorneys have turned a blind eye for years. so this is actually a normal x.

ray here and you can see that here is the ribs and dark area in between is the. stage 3 is the worst sample profusion yes this is where the long is been replaced by a significant issue with the inflow information associated with a black lung disease. unfortunately we're seeing all this disease in very young individuals made in their thirty's forty's but there seems to be some trends which including the longer work hours you are seeing more cases of progress have massive fibrosis or complicated disease than we ever have been in and states dr krumm sounded the alarm and kentucky reacted but not as expected a new state law says radiologists may no longer diagnose black lung disease now only poll monologist are allowed to assess diagnostic x. rays and there are only a handful of lung specialist in the whole state is furious. political

is probably found in too much black lung disease on their state workers' comp claims and they want to meet a stop or even. the new law is likely to reduce the number of patients who receive a diagnosis and it will make it harder for them to get compensation on insurance claims or the federal benefits they would be entitled to. linda adams husband died of black lung 5 years ago the diagnosis was never in doubt but their insurance company is refusing to pay their claim playing for time before the courts and he said it's not. so. tommy's that no matter what you do don't give up on by climate that's why you want it done because he had all this other evidence and with all this other evidence. and then but autopsy report come back and i said the doctor looked at it and made a start it was crazy this. here this guy that used to live in this next try to rip

he has. this girl brother. proposed a lot more day i was 52 years old when he. and her grandfather also. miners' families are fighting on multiple fronts against. an incurable disease and intransigent insurance companies and now many here feel the government has abandoned them to. a federal fund that was set up over 40 years ago to provide benefits for miners suffering from black lung disease has seen its budget slashed. that's because the fund is financed through a tax paid by the coal companies last year president trump that tax. 2016 voters in this region came out to vote for trump in droves because he promised to create new jobs and to make the coal industry great again the only way to bring

back was to give the coal companies a good enough reason till they could come in and make money at it but they're making money after young people are going to have. that. and it's just not rot. people feel betrayed by the coal mines the insurance companies the state and federal government. and all the while the epidemic continues. if you're sick especially if you're old you need someone to care for you in many affluent countries care homes are increasingly filling that role that these need to be staffed germany alone has a shortage of nearly 400000 care workers low pay puts many young people off now the problem has reached china and there the long running $1.00 child policy

shares in the blame. when you are miss preparing her lunch the 67 year old has lived alone in her beijing apartment since her husband died earlier this year our only child has also passed away john's daughter lost her life in a car accident 15 years ago. i don't know what her home i feel so helpless and the communist party used to say that each family was only allowed one child. and that the state would take care of us when we got old. and out and now that we are old and they're just not keeping their promise that they need will be stay back. she doesn't want to think about what will happen in a few years when she can no longer take care of herself many aging chinese face an uncertain future more than 240000000 people aged over 60 live in the republic of china some projections say that by 2051 in 3 chinese will be old aged. the

reason goes back to china's one child policy which stood for over 30 years this led to a disproportionately aging population the law changed in 2016 to allow 2 children per couple. chinese tradition requires children to take in the aging parents and care for them and their own homes but that's becoming less feasible. maoism a privately run care home in the city of tianjin it's a 1st class facility with one carer for every patient. the top floor boasts an artificial garden. and residents can dance with the manager herself but this all comes at a high price as much as $3000.00 euros a month for most chinese pensioners this sum is astronomically high there are

hardly any old people's care facilities in china and the few that exist have trouble finding qualified personnel. china's geriatric care market is developing at a rapid pace but still has huge deficits we need more professional caregivers quickly but the training takes a long time the gap is very large. even though the chinese could benefit from using retirement homes they're reluctant to do so. many prefer the traditional system of home care for the elderly. parents wanted to put my grandparents in a home but they decided against it they might have wonderful living conditions and good care is providing my grandparents with spiritual support at home is more important. if i'm healthy or live at home later on the see whether or not my daughter's too busy we'll cross that bridge when we come to it right now i'm only

61. homes don't do enough for the physical and spiritual wellbeing of the people who live there i wouldn't live in an old people's home with you so much. and has alzheimers but hasn't had to move into a cafe a celebrity because she lives with her husband and receives care or hire him. her family has enough money to afford a carer i young shoe used to work in a care home where she was paid per patient but wages are higher and she has more time to take care of one her job. i like my work a lot and i'm very patient but i know what your money if one her child doesn't want to eat anything i just wait sooner or later she'll eat again it's my job to take good care of her because all she can do with lie in bed. as the population ages the number of people dependent on k.

increases no one knows who will take care of patients with high needs in the future experts estimate the up to 10000000 extra care as what we needed to meet demand in the coming years. i don't think china is ready the number of elderly people is rising rapidly. so the care system can't be expanded quickly enough to keep up. the only thing we can do is learn from countries with good care systems for example the u.s. and japan. that's what the government is trying to do they're reforming nursing care insurance and opening up the market for caregiving to attract international investors but long term plans do not exist. the state pension system is also struggling projections from the chinese academy of social sciences a bleak in just 15 years the state pension fund could dry up pensions are barely

enough to survive on when juwan receives 500 euros a month she's still paying off the bells from the cost of caring for her now deceased husband other chinese seniors rely on receiving care from their only child but $1.00 has to take care of herself. mozambique in march of this year it's almost impossible to tell where the ocean ends and land begins cyclometer i left entire regions under water more than $1000.00 people lost their lives the country is still suffering the effect. our reporter stephanie travelled there with his team 5 months after the event for our global ideas series. he visited the inland national park a wetland region that's helping the coast recover from the storm.

the town of music at the mouth of the pool way river when cycling a diet all through here in march floodwaters from the entire region flowed into the river the poem wave finds flooding the surrounding countryside houses were washed away including that of farmer philippe whose entire harvest was wiped out. for the cycle and kerry might be making good progress but when it hit it literally threw me back to square one i'm now starting from the bottom again point 0. 0.3. things would have been even worse if it weren't for the corn goes and national park this unique wetland landscape lies 140 kilometers up river like a sponge the vegetation and the network of streams and rivers there absorbed huge amounts of water dumped by the cycling. marks down and the

chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly. he says even today 5 months after the site clone the floodwaters are still draining out of the landscape and into the pool way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffeting effect very generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather the extremes of wind and the extremes of water and that's why we need those those big landscapes they also serve as at it's of war. or horse thing by their 1st horse thing systems that are effective for their functioning but this natural paradise is under threat on nearby mt goran goes the residents have cleared huge swathes of forest for farmland forests have a key regulator a function absorbing and releasing water it was clear that if the deforestation continued many of the springs that sustain the wetlands would disappear. so 6 years

ago the park administration came up with an idea instead of subsistence farming residents could help restore the forest by planting coffee along with hardwood trees to provide shade for the crops to thrive project managers see and shows us the plantation with 250000 young coffee plants and hardwood saplings. that. before there were almost no trees left here at all the whole place was totally exposed to the sun and now with the coffee in the trees we have 2 layers of shade the foam. core and goes a coffee is already a success story more than $400.00 farmers are now growing the new crop that's nearly half the families in the region the park administration buys up the harvest at a guaranteed price those who are looking for an additional income can help with the processing of the beans the project is succeeding despite difficult conditions

mozambique's civil war officially ended in 1992 but there have been flare ups at times between government troops and rebel forces. we had some. 2015 and had to stop work because of the conflict but now everything's quieter and we can get on with our work. that we're seeing that it is possible to produce coffee on mt. the community has embraced the idea that producing coffee replanting trees taking care of the forest and helping the environment. and the coffee beans are taken to the town of core and goes for roasting and packing while with their local men drops in to visit the center he's hopeful that the coffee will not only protect the environment but also help to promote reconciliation. fighters loyal to the rebel group renamo the long

hold up in the hills and force some farmers to join their ranks as a result there are townspeople who are wary of the farmers. fire for this project is a good thing it creates ties between mccarthy grows on the mountain and the processing plant here in town and we're not affected by any conflict because the coffee farmers haven't been involved in the fighting this project improves relations between people in town and people up in the hills which people say sunshine of you owe much to the biggest since the start of the project farmers have planted more than 140 hector's of coffee and $50000.00 hardwood trees all the trees are native to mozambique the plan is to add another $150.00 hectors next year if deforestation can be halted or reversed the wetlands of corn goes a national park will be preserved forests protect the park which in turn helps to

protect people living in coastal areas as climate change continues well functioning ecosystems will become more important than ever. philippe has experienced many sightlines before but he's noticed a change in recent years. seems to be getting worse year by year one. cycle in floods we had last year reached the porch of my house. this year reached my windows things are getting worse. but after all philippe has no plans to give up he's building a new house where his old one once stood will replace the mud walls with stones once he has the money maybe nature will spare him next time if not he's hoping the national park will protect him from the worst.

and now from south east africa to central america guatemala has long been employed in a kind of civil war between enemy drug gangs the country has one of the highest murder rates in the world often even the police appear helpless to do anything. but what about ordinary citizens many hope to leave dreaming of a future in the u.s. or europe others opt to stay determined to lead a decent life amidst the violence. johnny alexander says if you work on the street you have to be a good judge of people not all are nice and you have to be able to deal with that. johnny is a star of freestyle soccer and he earns a living doing it. he almost a dollar that's good. he sometimes makes $12.00 a day. he's 21 and lives from hand to mouth as do many people in guatemala.

half the population live in poverty work is hard to come by but many jobs pay poorly. johnny earns more than the minimum wage free styling on the streets for donations. he's often wondered if it might make sense to leave. studying here is too expensive i want to take europe by storm i think they'd respect my skills there of course everybody here dreams of going to the united states but i don't know that's very hard now. johnny has an important reason to stay his mother died in january and since then he's looked after his 2 younger brothers they live together in a small rented room there are lots of drug dealers in the neighborhood. they may not have a father or a mother but they do have a brother who can be an example to them so they become good people. it's not so

easy to be a good person here poverty can lead to crime and violence. there are areas on the outskirts of what i'm on a city where not even the police like to go. on however will not be deterred. you wouldn't want to be here after 5 pm it's too dangerous that's when the gangs come out and get down to business. and her team of volunteers talk to people in fight them to take part in activities such as soccer she's courageous people get killed around here all the time. about 10 homicides are committed in guatemala every day. we meet some kids it's only afternoon but they're already high. and we encounter a gang member who tells us what happens when people are out of their heads.

you want money to get high. you don't care if it's somebody who works hard or if they're poor you just want to hold a knife to their throat and take their money. the gangs have lookouts monitoring their territory. another gangster boasts about his extortion racket. if they don't want to pay we shoot them i say you don't want to pay ok fine i turn around leave and the others attack you. and that's that. the neighborhood is also full of trash. team of planning a cleanup campaign. it looks as if only private initiatives want to help. the failure of state institutions is one reason so many guatemalans want to seek a better life abroad most head north towards the united states after performing on

the street all day johnny goes to school evening classes hosted by a nonprofit foundation it's a chance to learn something that might help him find a good job. on the way he meets his 2 younger brothers. they also come here to earn a bit of money with freestyle soccer they bear the scars to prove it. the road gets so hot it burns you. johnny is among the best in freestyle soccer. his brothers look up to him and hope to follow in his footsteps. i love you brother. john is doing a 3 month course in project management that includes brand development pricing labor cost strategy he was accepted into the program on the basis not so much of his grades as on his character because he's honest and clever but i didn't study hard at school and missed out on many opportunities so now i have to catch up on.

the foundation has connections to companies where students might one day get a job that could help keep young people from seeking their fortunes elsewhere like johnny who doesn't really want to leave. that's all from us this time we're back next week and we'd love to hear from me drop us a line global 3000 it d.w. dot com or check us out on facebook d.w. women see using.

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