tv World Stories Deutsche Welle October 13, 2019 4:02am-4:16am CEST
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this week on world stories. germany 30 years after the end of east germany's russia the stalingrad statue gets a facelift we begin in greece where more than 10000 refugees including a large number of children are still housed to camp morea on the island of lesbos the conditions of the camp are horrific. this tent outside greece's largest refugee camp is home to 4 people. for iman who fled syria has been living here for close to a month the morea camp is 4 times over its capacity so thousands are forced to live in the surrounding all the world. over a cup of tea i'm on tells us what life in the camp is like crowded dirty and dangerous and every day every day that's normal no fighting if your father there
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are fighting inside. yeah. but there we go here. we don't want to we don't want to problem with anyone. but problems in moria hard to avoid a fire broke out at the end of september in the camp and at least one person died residents rioted in anger as the firefighters put up the flame and they broke into administrative offices. since that incident i am on says trash has accumulated in heaps he believes the garbage collectors are too afraid now to come to the area. its children who suffer most from the dire conditions they live in. the aid organization doctors without borders runs a mobile clinic next to the camp today they will see about 100 children a normal caseload. the most common ailments are fevers lice skin conditions but
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psychological trauma is on the rise. the organization says many children in morea camp have inflicted harm in themselves and have even attempted suicide. this is daily life inside a refugee camp packed with more than 10000 people a result of the resurgence in sea crossings to lesbos. a situation that worries younus master ghana's he is the mayor of moria the small town right next to the camp. like many people living here he feels lesbos is being left to fend for itself if it up and i think she may go to europe should show more solidarity and support crease with this problem greece alone isn't capable of dealing with this large number of refugees the e.u. member states have to help take in people and at the same time increase the pressure on turkey to stick to their side of the agreement if it was the issue of one year but if you're going to. go back in the camp i'm on says he doesn't want to
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be a burden on anyone all he wants is a safe place to live. and he hopes to find this place before winter. next we traveled to germany in october 1909 communist east germany's days were numbered every monday thousands of people marched demanding freedom and democracy. we talked to some people who were eyewitnesses to history. on october 9th 1909 kathleen hatton was in a stasi prison in light sick in east germany she was just 20 years old on this day you could feel that the guards were very nervous and you could hear sounds later in the day close to the even ing and what relate to crude few but maybe what we have heard. where the sound of 70000 people
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walking. among the crowd marching for freedom and democracy was that 18 year old opposition activist catherine moll of. german reunification just didn't cross my mind at the time my motivation was things can't go on like this a strings are this country has no future we have no freedom of expression no free elections i wanted to reform the country i wanted democracy in the g.d.r. it. for months premie things had been held at leipsic said nicholas church on september 4th catherine hutton how an unfilled bana it called for an open country with free people the protest was captured on film by western media. it was important to us that our own people in our country could see it and they could see
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oh wow there is something that has started in my city and it's not as g.d.r. media tells its like they are criminals and they want to destroy our country know their girls they could be my friend they could be my daughter she was imprisoned soon after for riotous assembly but by october 9th knowledge of the growing protests had spread guns like the cloud. it was clear throughout life what was at stake. vance for post at our own town full of soldiers and police on call snipers were on the roofs and downtown life in the hospitals blood reserves were being stocked up think i was and been put. in but the protesters marched peacefully around the city of light sick in the following weeks the demonstrations continue to grow and within a month the berlin wall had fallen i think
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a group always stay with me that i have been growing up in a dictatorship for that. i will always value the freedom my how but i would like people remember that. the ma chrissy. isn't living so we have to be a part of it. and then there's no one outstanding it for us i would really like people to remember that. in the russian city of volgograd it is a huge memorial the city catered to the heroes of the battle of stalingrad the motherland calls is being restored in time for celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the soviet victory in that battle. a call to arms against hitler army a cry of victory of a nazi germany. the motherland cold towering at $85.00 meet us
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commemorates world war 2. the monument has aged quite a bit since 1967 winter weather have taken their toll and since chunks of concrete have fallen off in some places this data you could have been positive visitors. extensive for innovation work began 3 years ago. this project is unique so all the work here is unique to the statue was female so we treat her like a real person. but the more. she's a woman who's suffering from various illnesses that we are healing after 50 years. like anyone her age she needs a range of doctors who can help her in different ways just somebody i mean when you believe what visit us can see this that you skeleton the gigantic structure is
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supported by almost a 100 steel cables that the way it can withstand strong winds and the cables also have to be replaced. of a memorial. formerly known grat. it was here that one of the bloodiest battles ended in 1943. with 100000 bet. the battle of stardom grokked a victory for the soviets marked the turning point in the battle to vote to. let. this isn't just any construction site of see if it's a symbolic place for russia. working here is
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a big honor for all of us and it requires a very specific approach. that's why we're busy around the clock. over there. is a model and calls still covered by scaffolding but had to be unveiled in time for the 75th anniversary of the soviet union's allied victory of a nazi germany. in nigeria more than 10000000 children do not attend school many of them are orphans and lead lives of desperate poverty on the street but sure you only only has found a way to get kids into the classroom using music and dance. when 11 year old dami discovered dance she discovered happiness.
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when i found some small little fuel pools multifold will fulfill one special absence just for a while and it's like the other kids in the dream qatar's dance group demi wants to leave the on the she treats after have father died when she was just 7 demi had to do whatever she could to assist how mom and younger siblings. 2 years later she met had danced in choctaw and forced tamada she only only who has a similar story up to now i was going to take 10 on 13 left from a got a financial setback and then couldn't go to school rather than a struggle sometimes when the muslim was able to balls about all the old rules and they seemed so more local all funny on the fortunes of to be a better person and i didn't get anyone to do that. it's may seem like just
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a drop in the bucket but one challenge at a time. is getting kids back in school to 27 year old has helped several off find and home less cubes to primary and secondary school only only currently has 9 kids living with the all call hot mama. to any child that doesn't perform well in school and is disqualified from dancing but he can still leave in the house only on his work has been recognized on several occasions and had downs videos have gained popularity they have even caught the eye of international stars but the one that remains dia to her heart she says was when american musician beyond sea she had have video on instagram.
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