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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  November 18, 2019 11:45am-12:00pm CET

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it's another busy day for bill and lot on the. talks meetings roundtables scored in aiding mobilizations on the fly all before 3 pm that's when her campus is evacuated for security reasons every day the protests have turned life upside down but a lot on the doesn't mind for her the revolt was long overdue. one more took them more to court the earth at the end will come for a long time people were afraid to protest because they couldn't foresee how badly they'd be repressed or what they could lose. but among my generation that fear is a lot smaller and we're willing to overcome that fear to achieve our goals profound changes to the system. reform. with the century long tradition of spearheading social uprisings student associations are a force to be reckoned with. gathered with national union representatives bilin exposes the students 3 fundamental demands a constitutional referendum
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a revitalization of the public education system and the immediate end to human rights violations at the hands of the country's riot police law enforcement agents are being accused of excessive use of force rape torture and even manslaughter in the context of the protests if they don't for the better the police surely have protocols but i believe they dehumanised the protesters to the point that they're just the subjects of looters that need to be executed. but binmen refuses to be intimidated she's determined to keep protesting no matter how tired no matter how scared showing up in the street to her is what she owes to those who have lost their lives seeking a better future for chile. i did a great fool to be living this moment in history. but i'm also frightened sad and nostalgic. thinking about the fact that people have died for this that what what is
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it ok yes we should always remember them because they were part of a movement that's going to change chile. in a way it already has yellow. and all those fighting alongside her know what they're asking for a lot but driven by a newfound sense of community and a desire to change the course of history they don't seem likely to settle for anything less. women in india often face sexual violence and discrimination. one of the consequences is that a disproportionate number of women there commit suicide. sheetal bun finds cooking therapeutic. her life hasn't been easy. after putting up with years of sexual abuse as a child she taught tried to commit suicide as
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a teenager the scars never really healed and she tried to self harm many years later. studies have shown that attitudes towards female sexuality in india put sexual abuse survivors at greater risk of committing suicide. and then one woman's what in this is ip unfortunately that lives and is completely did i have to buy the sort of think you should not just to be that is best stored upon by these so-called you know keepers of of the modern you know state and standards of the society you're either a goddess. on your tomato or your record. there is no in-between. she tallis not alone out of every 4 young women who die in india each year 3 a teenagers have committed suicide. and jolly chap priya is
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a leading psychiatry assistant a specialist in female psychiatric issues she says many social problems lead to women wanting to end their lives. there is sexual abuse that goes unnoticed at the workplace you've been not you know that is still feeling which is so vivid get depressed as a result of which it is depression that also hormonal problems which cause depression in women which go unnoticed tends to deal ignorance in our society and thanks to the stigma border going to a mental health professional. but abuse is not the only difficulty indian women face entrenched cultural norms in a country that is changing rapidly after the pressure you expected who a lot of things began to be in-laws you'd expect her to go because when you're expected to go to children. and. when usually
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never takes any of it either in the beginning when you're home so that's the fed up of being you know enough to feed us. back in her apartment she challenged busy with work she says friends and farah p.f. helped her to pull through she is one of the lucky ones. thousands of jews living in northern ethiopia. many of them hope to one day emigrate to israel but for ethiopians that's not easy. peasey you can children pray with the torah a part of the hebrew bible they are some of the g.o.p.'s last remaining jews about 4000 jewish ethiopians who call themselves better israel left here in gondor a small city in the north. the school teaches children about their jewish faith but
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also prepares them for a possible move to israel i listen to me that my if they learn hebrew an affair learn about their religion it'll help create neutralism and integrate within the society there and support one another. better as well members want israel to give them their views or to emigrate but some of gondor have been waiting more than 20 years. under israeli law jews are allowed to move to the country but the israeli government doesn't view the better israel of gondor as jewish under strict religious law that's because the government says they are descendants of ethiopian jews who were forcibly converted to christianity in the distant past and many of them actually converted or their parents converted to christianity for various reasons and now they are in the wish to return to be part of the jewish people they are not considered as jews so that the already leave as jews but
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officially that not yet converted so the noted jews i see nothing else have a sense this is discrimination. some say we're not jewish and there are no more jews here they say we're lying that we're just pretending so we can go there they think will make the religion impure but the only one to know the truth is the god that created us many of the better community has family living in israel the israeli government has been gradually allowing you to europeans remaining jews to emigrate under family reunification. but it's not clear when people will be allowed to go eating sometime in the split for more than a decade working as i can to move to gunderson who starred with her husband and children after some one bird style their crops her life is tough but she's grateful her daughter can attend the town's hebrew school. with knowledge about her religion she will marry someone who has the same fate and follow the religious
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practice and. i hope she will one day live with her family and her people and i really hope that for my children elderly. despite the struggle and wait hope is higher among jews that one day they will be allowed to leave they just don't work. it's one of the darkest chapters in the history of east germany parents deemed disloyal to the state whose children were taken away from them. we met a woman in let me go who found her daughter decades later. 'd when evers of minutes feels despair she takes a walk in the forest during the past 35 years she's felt this way off the. top gave birth to 2 daughters in the former east germany in the 1980 s. but her joy was short lived a few years earlier she had tried to flee east germany but was caught and convicted
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reason enough for the youth welfare office to come to her house and take the children away. and in the 1st moment i stood there paralyzed then i ran out the door after them and yelled where are you taking my daughter give me back my child the officer turned around pointed a finger at me and said if you don't quite down now i will call the police and you will have to go to jail. they have given me 3 years' probation so if i did anything i would go to prison i just stood there and asked myself whether i should protest or stay silent. and have people leashed. subnets have initially gave up but after the burden wall came down she started gathering evidence. just one year ago her younger daughter
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suddenly made contact so we had stopped was unable to cope. it's as it were not this i guess the 1st phone car i will never forget that i think of the neighbors heard everything but i didn't care. for and then on we talked on the phone every day and it kept growing from there than after more than 30 years of separation mother and daughter finally met. i have a yesterday i thought my heart would burst. before i couldn't handle the situation
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i was hugged and cuddles and i didn't know how to respond suddenly this person was standing there too i was related i think i only realized that part nature on the protection of her latest theories you did you immediately recognize her yeah you don't get your child's. i guess that's good. now as of you know it's up can take walks in the forest with the youngest daughter and she has plans she will finally be able to need her grandchildren and to make up for decades off from last time. playing .
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such. claim. playing soccer to boost self esteem drama trains girls in each of those folks here they develop the self confidence they'll meet in the male dominated the gyptian society. little street. through the middle of the duck's.
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eco india. gifts for the gods that are harmful for the environment the sacred flowers of the poisoning indian water supply such. a company in mumbai is trying to change that it collects waves to use it to. color textiles. in 90 minutes on d. w. . and now going to be affectionate leisure but as affectionately as you can. bloody near putin in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 a documentary was filmed for russian television but director vitali munson captured much more than it took him to turn the camera back on the moment cardigans the film
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this is news coming to you live from berlin the highly charged standoff in hong kong with police and protesters dissolves into chaos after a night of violence demonstrators leave the university under lockdown police use force to arrest those trying to escape we'll go to our correspondent on the ground for an update also coming up.

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