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discovered. going to. subscribe to. documentary to. play on this edition of world stories. northern iraq recovering from war. madagascar fatalities from measles but we start out in bangladesh where over a 1000000 will hinge are living in refugee camps they're not allowed to work so they live in abject poverty making the women easy prey for the sex trade.
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in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh life for women and children this particular. believe difficult. this woman fled for me and ma with her 3 children and husband after their village was burnt down 2 years ago. my husband left me and my children after we came here and it was difficult for me to make ends meet . i didn't have any other option or want. any other option that is then to work as a prostitute now when she gets the cool she travels to the neighboring towns outside of their fiji camps. on a. there's no other job i can do i can't do anything else if i remarried my new husband will take care of me but not my children. it's impossible to say how many
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reading the refugees end up in the sex trade here many as young as 14 according to local n.g.o.s thousands of women are trafficked across bangladesh and even abroad lured by false promises of jobs and marriage. we wanted to gauge how widespread the problem really is in the tourist town of cox bizarre roughly 40 kilometers from the camps we got in touch with a pimp who posted to have several rainbow women on call. hello. show you some girls and if you like them you can take them if not you can leave. oh ok see you in an hour. a bit later a reporter meets the manager at prearranged point and gets into an auto rickshaw with him while we follow behind a reporter secretly filming the entire encounter. the
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1st stop is a hotel which serves as a brothel to begin with. the manager seems suspicious and denies having any prostitutes then he shows us pictures of a few women on his phone none of them seem to be wrecking. around 10 pm the pimp sends a rectangle woman to our hotel she's too scared to talk to us when we reveal we're journalists because she's worried the hotel might tell the pimps but she confirms she is a 23 year old wrecking a refugee she says she is a victim of her circumstances. back at the camp the sex worker we met earlier tells us they are not allowed to work and there have been several police raids on hotels doubling as brothels she herself was recently released from jail. the us and the now if i can't find any other way to make money i'll have to
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go back to this work if i do i might get arrested again. but she's likely to take that risk again because for now she doesn't have a choice. and faced with such a bleak future breaking to women remain easy prey for the pimps and shafiq. iraq's armed struggle against a terrorist group yes hit the country's economy hard including the autonomy of kurdistan region in the north a recovery is gradually taking hold but stability is still a long way off. this construction site just come alive again at last real estate developer notch martin morehead in russia had invested millions of dollars in this group of high rise apartment blocks on the edge of the northern iraqi city of sort of money and then the islamic states reign of terror began
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before i came we wanted to sell the apartments for $2000.00 a square meter and we had lots of inquiries in the terrible battle against i.a.s. began and prices fell from $2000.00 down to 0 now islamic states been beaten were selling for a $1000.00 a square meter much of that from some buyers are returning now that the economy in iraq's kurdish region is recovering much money in russia has furnished a showcase apartment to win over potential customers. that's the working space and back there of the cookers and you can go straight out to the fresh air. we call lovely that is. view of sulaymaniyah you can sit back on the balcony and enjoy a view row cross a city. superman is one of the largest cities in iraq's kurdish region. didn't manage to reach it but in the war against the
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terrorists the economy was paralyzed but there's been peace since 2017 and no investor confidence has returned as well all revenues are generating investment but to catch up with the pre-war boom times more is needed says the government's finance committee chief banker. we have to bring in foreign banks to put up loans for agriculture and the manufacturing sector. yes we've had good results with loans for small projects. but to really get the economy growing international banks the iraqi central bank and kurdish banks all have to supply all sectors with credit as you already know and big. business is already going well at the city's biggest car market and here a car has to be impressive to sell. after all the disruption the kurds
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now have their eyes on the future but with tensions in the region rising again their optimism is also clouded by fear of yet another armed conflict. south to madagascar our. children in europe catch the measles only because their parents don't want them to be vaccinated on this tropical island many parents can't afford it the result is an at the demick which has cost over a $1000.00 lives. not too long ago laughter filled this fisherman's family home in madagascar but now the family is trying to cope with their grief. they lost 3 children in january due to a measles infection they couldn't afford to vaccinate them. and it was all goes we'll but we didn't expect that they might die if they didn't get vaccinated that the fact that they were not vaccinated will kill them. madagascar
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is struggling to contain its worst outbreak of measles in decades amid a desperate shortage of vaccines the highly contagious illness increases susceptibility to other diseases and can cause blindness brain swelling and death so far over 1200 people have died in the epidemic most of them children. and madagascar is not alone worldwide many countries are reporting an unprecedented rise of measles many of these cases could have been easily prevented with vaccination but like madagascar are some countries simply don't have access to the vaccines they need. and in high income countries where they are available some people opt to not vaccinate themselves and their children. they wrongly believe that vaccines are harmful. the so-called anti vax movement
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fears that vaccines are unsafe ineffective and produce serious side effects saying that they can even cause autism scientists say there is no evidence for any of that . yet the misinformation is gaining momentum on social media now health professionals and governments are looking for solutions including making vaccinations mandatory and imposing fines on parents who refuse in madagascar over 7000000 children have been vaccinated in an emergency response parents here are happy that vaccinations are available again. many know what losing a child to measles feels like and hope they never have to endure such grief ever again. to this day therapists exist who claim they can cure homosexuality there in germany
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to the health minister plans to prohibit the so-called conversion therapy as they could have serious consequences as it did with mike. it happened i think i 1st became aware that something was different during kindergarten but of course i didn't know what it meant mike is just one of thousands of people in germany who have undergone a controversial therapy in an attempt to repress a human sexuality christianity shaped mike's life from an early age but as puberty hit he began to have sexual experiences with men. this published issue it was a nice time in life but then the conflict started to grow because at the same time i felt at home in christian circles where it was made very clear god doesn't want that you should lead another life. how can you stand before god this is a mortal sin. and other similar comments came from all sides.
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after voluntarily seeking out so-called conversion therapy might committed himself to ending all contact with homosexual friends and partners for a decade he was abstinent the loneliness brought him to the brink of suicide unemployment i reached the point where i couldn't go on anymore. but it was also because of my faith that i was too much of a coward to do it. because then i went had been granted eternal life today i can laugh about it how stupid that it was but i was actually the reason that kept me from ending my life. not practitioners in germany of the so-called homosexual conversion therapy currently face no consequences but german health minister is preparing to take drastic action is a. conversion therapy in germany sexuality is not a disease and does not require treatment. she finishes in vista uganda i think it's important for example to put a ban in place especially for young people which makes it clear that doctors and
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therapists are not allowed to carry out this so-called conversion therapy and then the be a lot less of this nonsense. than. 20 years on since his so-called therapy mike can now look forward to his wedding putting the past behind him. i'm not bitter towards anyone because neither the christian circles where i learned and heard everything nor the therapist. someone from my former parish actually reached out to me and said hats off to him and he was sorry for what happened so i can see something is happening changes on the way . this is fast and.
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party like the various bits of tobar says world wide. the world's 2nd largest october fest is held in chained down china. it's meant to look just like a fairy. tale the beer tents and trappings aren't quite right. this party takes place in the summer and the music just isn't the same. journey through topics from germany's provisional capital in bonn to its current capital in berlin. today i want to like you to join me on a tour of 70 years of history together while discover what i'm sure ralph has to do with the country's constitution and visit the places and locations that tell the story. post-war germany. seeing 60 minutes on d w. i'm
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sure that of us are. in support. of all. the debris but. more of those stunts coming up in just a moment welcome to your max and if you're wondering why i'm dressed like a stereotypical bavarian it's that time of the year again in germany is why.

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