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with exclusive. must see concerning culture to ensure a. place to be for curious minds. do it yourself networkers. so subscribers don't miss out. this week on world stories. planting trees despite opposition in china. saving penguins in south africa. we begin in germany where people of kurdish descent are concerned about the turkish army's invasion of northern syria many of them fear for the lives of their families their. claim. all

week. looks forward to soccer training with his club. like most of the players could you know comes from the kurdish autonomous region and northern syria. he finds it difficult to concentrate on the game on the conflict in his homeland is still going on. we are worried about our families on the team talks about it. it's not just me that others have wrote it's their we support each other. always. came to germany as a refugee from syria in 2012 he now has german citizenship and is studying to be a social worker his parents still live in northern syria. you know is keeping a close eye on the news he said but also angry with the german government.

that germany is providing weapons for this war. and it just tears me apart inside. to talk. english the german government has condemned the turkish offensive and his band new arms exports to turkey but berlin has not canceled existing weapons contracts. and the guns and germany is the world's 3rd largest arms exporter so we're selling weapons to dictators like air to one and we don't really care what happens with these weapons. arms exports are highly controversial in germany the kurds are strictly opposed to weapon sales to turkey and they take to the streets over it like here in berlin the demonstrators are demanding economic sanctions against ankara and a stop to the fighting in northern syria. the west has left the kurds to fend for themselves the kurds and are on their own. we're trying to apply

a bit of political pressure including on the german government on the. cantina wants to demonstrate that the turkish attacks against the kurds in northern syria are not forgotten. that. 72 people died in the grenfell tower fire in london 2 years ago now a special commission has revealed its initial findings regarding the catastrophe. you know the big. grand fell tower in flames use the fire last it all night people jumped out of the windows in a desperate attempt to feed the blaze joe delaney live in films at all he said the firemen couldn't get in because their key didn't fit and they seemed overwhelmed to

get one and it was just chaos because. you could just see that they thought they really this was so they all sort of paul did not want us and some of them went in even without breathing apparatus on you know breathing apparatus some of them didn't have helmet saving you see joe delaney provided his video to the inquiry he says he wants to see the people responsible for the safety lapses brought to account that i was. just getting inside the tower. you know people in handcuffs people in courtrooms people in jail cells. you know people in print where it says what their daughter all because what use is that the inquiry report criticizes the fire brigade for a series of bad decisions on the night of the fire with disastrous consequences but many people blame the local council they say complaints made before the fire were

ignored and that they didn't feel safe. that the threats were neglected totally neglected for decades they had intention to sell it and therefore they were just probably waiting to phase us all out spent minimal money on it and gave it minimal attention because it was of minimal worth to them at the time as well we still occurred in a context of cuts in the context of privatization in the concepts of deregulation and in a context of where residents of social housing would not listen to. local people hope that there will be real change in the future and they want to see faults like those in grunfeld tower remedied in other buildings to avoid a repeat of the disaster. despite intense opposition from local authorities

a high school student in the chinese city of green is fighting climate change by planting trees. whenever she can how you know this it's the flower market in her home city of lead with their pocket money she buys tree seedlings planted in the surrounding areas. it's her contribution to the world wide writings for future protests how we joined the movement 4 months ago china's 1st climate strife. planting trees is something that's easy to do and something. that's possible to promote in china or taiwan possibly inspired by young people around the world how you started demonstrating in front of the local government offices she was soon as courted away by the police to have serious trouble if she continued.

over the holiday to keep going but i've taken a lot of courage so i'm hesitant about that i don't consider myself especially brave. turning a back on activism was also out of the question now several times a week she's out planting trees and posting about her divinities on social media groups to convince more young chinese to join the movement. university student danis with her today for the 2nd time the chinese government has made improving the environment one of its key goals but it keeps a tight lid on discussion how we became concerned about the environment after reading an article about plastic waste in the ocean. for a home until i started really worrying that such a big problem wasn't getting enough attention and nobody would take action. i was terrified every time i thought about it sometimes every 10 minutes i couldn't concentrate on anything anymore. closer to china's rapid development has

taken a huge toll on the environment the country is now the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases air quality is one of people's top concerns eco activism is rare in china's repressive political system. the 16 year old student has now been striking for 4 months the parents are worried about a future but she has no intention to give in to their pleas to stop skipping classes you are showing you the climate crisis is the biggest crisis ever for the existence of mankind. everybody should do everything they can to prevent it. bowing don't show it. how he has asked the relative to let a plant the trees on his property in china's densely populated countryside it is not easy to find uncultivated land the only fama says he understands and supports the young activists. they used to start getting cold in september but now it

summer's a lot toba november look at how woman still is. for the. flowers says he has planted 200 trees in the past 6 weeks but even more important to her to raise awareness among china's you. to date it's the farmer's son she explains what climate change is and he can join with young people around the world to stop it. penguins are a major tourist attraction in south africa. but due to overfishing they were at risk of extinction. conservationists are trying to save the endangered birds. one last chance to relax together before things start to get uncomfortable. an appointment with dr roberts is not something these penguins seem to be looking

forward to so at the moment put are doing is we're just taking on the penguins and making sure that they're all ready for release so we each one has his own thing we thought this is medical records this one he had always will say he was 70 percent oiled and he was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife in their nature will habitats. but these birds might not be here in the long term. they are in danger of extinction it's quite possible that one can go extinct in the future and we've had a dramatic declines in the numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 breeding as so we have less than 20000 as that

scare and you know. at least penguins 1st have to spend time in a small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the wild in this. in simon's town one of the few remaining colonies they are released. oh. it went really well. so quickly they didn't get confused the crowd was very polite and not too noisy so that didn't scare the penguins and they were they went straight out in the direction they should have gone. already we can see them i think there's one head sticking out over there so now the threats that they face of the same as all the other wild penguins people need to think about the impacts of what they're doing how they can affect the penguins but all the sea life and other wildlife that is in danger of human interaction. still the message seems to

have got through to the hundreds of people in the crowd over here we have a lot of folks who are trying to save the oceans and. get back in but there's a lot more we can do is you must do more to protect them because you see what is happening and see this is not only seen as it used to be there is less problem than in the worst case scenario the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prevent that from happening.

on the 77 percent of the talk about issues that. africa's population is rapidly growing. is causing a lot of. us the core issue. i wonder what do you think. next on d w. chicago crime wave. there's been an explosion of violence in america's 3rd largest city. in some parts of town dr james are fighting over territory and the innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire. many local residents say it's time to stop the bloodshed. chicago. including 5 minutes.

after the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th on d w. a low and a warm welcome to a brand new edition of the 77 percent shell but expose what much as for off because young majority i'm your host wendy camorra thanks for joining me today. in today's program we'll be looking at the population growth in nigeria and salaries for tech needed the money to take those 3 debates to conduct. more than big will be jumping on a saw.