tv World Stories Deutsche Welle September 29, 2019 4:02am-4:16am CEST
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this time on world stories. threats to freedom of the press in kashmir. why kenya's masai are keeping peace. but we start off in peru where the top she company has received a hefty fine for illegal logging it's a victory for the environment and for farmers who refused to sell the firm their land. it takes roberto vasquez 45 minutes to reach his land on the way he passes the entrance to the time she plantation. he doesn't know what the firm is up to here it supposedly grows cocoa but not on this land. it used to be home to 70 farms neighbors on all sides but repaired of us is now alone since the others sold their plants. and they were men they thought that this
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place used to be our paradise we had all yucca bananas are piled up holes he just needed to go up the mountain to catch a wild boar or a deer here or in a possum at night you know everything used to be close by that's what we live on now not even a rat lives here anymore because the company has destroyed the animals and try habitat. the other was on. the farm land often stayed in families for generations providing food throughout the year prepared to fast because has planted mix crops to harmonize with the natural environment ensuring the plant enjoys decades of fertility. tom she offered him $5000.00 solmonese or about $1500.00 for his 20 hector a parcel. 100-5000 sol is a good thing that will last a week and then watch there are people who've sold the land and don't know where to
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find work now they're looking at what their neighbor has in his garden so they can steal his crops but of course that i am not an aerial view shows the crops being cultivated on the time she plantation there surrounded by tall trees that block the view from ground level over exploitation is destroying the ecosystem throughout the amazon an hour away by boat around the town of yukito the signs of deforestation are everywhere tropical wood is transported down the nanny river a tributary of the amazon ancient trees in the area have been wiped out sometimes the logging is legal often it's not the environmental consequences are catastrophic . here in the amazon there is a exploitation of wood on a moles. or. a noble goal not to such a degree that it's just senseless. roberto vasquez wants to
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keep fighting for his land and his environment he wants his grandchildren to have a piece of land that they can farm here in time she and peruse amazon. on august 5th the indian government stripped kashmir of its autonomy that increased tensions with neighboring pakistan which also lays claim to the disputed region ever since journalists have been hindered from doing their work in kashmir. a newsroom without internet phone lines all more connections this is in 2019. spock bantry a reporter for national newspaper. the computers at work simply to write stories on . to get his work to the people as headquarters in another city he has to save it
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on a pen drive and take it to a media facilitation centered on by the government. the center has one internet connection and 5 computers for hundreds of local national and international journalists. it's also where he can catch up with other reporters on what they are hearing but these aren't the only good news he and his colleagues in kashmir face and it's very difficult to get off. saudi and what do we really beautiful and you can say there have been so many journalists have been someone about the officials why did you grab from this information this sort of against a threat and of course and also. that although occasionally briefing like today when reporters are invited to hear from army and police official that's the focus of the briefing however is not on the situation in the media. it is on pakistan and its alleged efforts at infiltration. officials insist that the past month
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has been the most peaceful and kashmir and shutting down communications has been a legitimate means to achieve that we have not. because. it is. one of the many but the the. best of this is a lot. but it isn't just trouble makers for the government as what it about dogs on the media are evident when security forces don't count as aware reporters cannot argue. baba claims that many. unofficial channels are amplified because address the bins do not trust local papers on national television news. they believe those journalists are following the official line from the hindu nationalist government and refusing to portray the hardships on the ground. good news we don't get any news the indian media reports feeds news this is schools are
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open and shops are open and traffic is moving but look around you you are in the heart of she's not good but shops are closed schools are closed people are distressed. new ones i watched a story fic we can't trust the media anymore we can't trust what they're saying. and it is grateful that his editors do not dictate what he can and cannot write but he why he is that all journalists do not have that freedom. they don't even go to that rule is not a single comment on the street and what has happened to the people not a single government their discourse of some of those approaches the local press is really the pressure in. the right to speak freely want simply be distorted when the phone started ringing again. 18 years after the outbreak of the 2nd world war they are holdin archives in
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central germany is a valuable resource on those persecuted by the nazi regime often it's the victims children who want to learn more about their parents and ensure that their suffering is not forgotten. is the son of a prisoner of war he drove for 2 days home friends to get it was his wife to visit the hours and. a few months ago a team of investigators there informed him that they had found some of his father's possessions. antonio the spaniard who joined a french resistance touring world war 2. denounces imprisoned him in. concentration camps. this is a very emotional moment for. he he was arrested in cups. in france i think after his boss denounced him he was a resistor during the war he was involved in the resistance. just.
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shoppers seize his father's possessions for the 1st time. a ring with a pen oh watch and a russian card. what did you feel when you held his object in your hands. well i felt he had played by had prepared myself a little bit for. i felt how young my father once was. and he used to say in my life i took more blows than a drum ever could. do archive to hold fire is on some 17000000 victims of the nazis. in many cases all
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that remains are you note cards of each individual their arrest to transport to a concentration camp everything nazis felt was worth recording. written proof of this is to mattick horror 8 decades after world war 2 began i was sent to hope to hand back personal belongings to the families of the nazis victims. sayed upon receiving his father's personal effects we need to forgive but who will never forget dealing with the past is no easy task but especially here in germany it is a duty of remembrance. the messiah people in east africa are mainly herd cattle and live a nomadic existence but increasingly drought is leading them to change their way of life in kenya more and more my son are just starting to become beekeepers.
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lloyd the forest is a great place for wild bees to leave there no food or pesticides and very few people. the members of my site people who do live in the area traditionally collect wild honey in the forest it's a boreas and dangerous activity but last year about a corner and 14 other men went into the beekeeping business setting up turn her loose in the forest they don't take up much space and they are environmentally friendly. and you have to get money and. give it to and these folks there who are looking. for life. like no greater number of their young men around. their kids were to school and getting him money. through this.
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and. it has become very hard to make a living the traditional way and some in a magic pastoralist some outside men still have as many as a 1000 head of cattle. but nowadays they are the exception more and more are looking for other ways to make a living. a major reason is frequent periods of drought that means dried out pasture land and less for the cattle to eat and drink another reason is that the land where they graze their heads is trinkets it also has to be shared with wild animals. a couple of 100 kilometers to the north east in their o.b. is african beekeepers 10 years only commercial company devoted to the development of the beekeeping and honey industry most of the 20 employees make cards for said to be keepers this morning out of town and so far produced annoyed is not sent to
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nairobi it is sold in nearby villages but if production is carried out and if movie keeping projects i stopped just the future of the industry in kenya made proved to be straight. from the adventures of the famous naturalist and explorer. to celebrate alexander from the wilds $250.00 they were remarking on the voyage of discovery. expedition him but. where is home. when your family scattered across. the globe.
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listened to. the journey back to the roots get a minimum monthly. charge family from somalia live around the world to them one of them needed urgent assistance. and family starts october and on t.w. . the fall of the berlin wall began long before november 989. we visit the heroes of eastern europe we talk to those who began the struggle for freedom and those who showed personal courage. the vision of the fall of the wall didn't surprise me this is the 1st what does it take to change the course of history. raising the iron curtain starts september 30th on t w.
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