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this week on world stories. a new home in germany vietnamese and against floating cow stalls in rotterdam. and we begin in hong kong where pro-democracy demonstrations continue. to find out how the protests are affecting relations between ethnic chinese and the city's south asian community. jim shadley at the southern tip of the culling peninsula is one of the cars but favorite places in the area as one of the hot spots for hong kong's ethnic minorities about 250001 chinese citizens live in the city most of them from britain's former colonies in south asia. at the center of the community the chongqing mansions
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a 5 block concrete jungle from the 1960 s. although quite far from his home because comes here quite often for basically there are many allow for riches i mean a building here for just like snacks and festive cooked meat and lots of 1 things available in here not quite in the elements in society but 2 weeks ago rumors suddenly spread that the protesters were planning to attack the trunking mentions the protest leader had been badly beaten the attackers were said to be south asians most probably hired cars seeing as how to shop with a 25 years that sunday the whole chunk you mentioned the 1st time in my 25 years living in a hong kong i see that you can mention florist nothing of the like happening but when the police water cannon house the nearby mosque that day it's prayed die on the entrance of the building although the police later apologized and the protesters saw it as
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a deliberate attack on the city's south asian population most families had moved here during british rule as the city moved away from its colonial past they have gotten little attention suddenly that all changed a week after the paint incident the protesters were back at the drinking mansion this time folks remained open. to everyone to vote and to tell me to mention the god stuff you vote they also it's our. they are our home contests. suddenly this south asian community was the focal point of the protests. because but holds himself or 3rd generation pakistani hong kong or has also taken part in some of the protests by most elderly prefer to stay out of politics he says more and more young south asian hong kong those have joined the movement drawing attention from the protesters and the media to that moment on the media's coverage of issues. many south issues are home because begin to realize that they have to speak out if you.
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have the speaking on hold the protests have shaken many certainties in hong kong they should ship with its minorities seems to be one of them. for more than 30 years east germany encouraged people can be atlanta moved there to help deal with a labor shortage after german unification many vietnamese were sent home but some others were allowed to stay. home told her always dreamed of owning her own restaurant in 1976 the 62 year old came to the former east germany from vietnam. my white flower dress represented germany because it was given to me by german aid workers. so when i got the job training offer i immediately said yes i had no idea
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what i was getting myself into. it was an equal. release she liked life in the former east vietnamese people were considered to be very industrious but after her job training to had to return to vietnam that had been destroyed by war. then in 1987 she was offered the opportunity to return to eastern germany in a small town as a contract worker but the attitude towards foreigners had changed in love n.v.i. and call for war become and. so or. whenever we went shopping the cashiers look down at us as though we had just walked out of the jungle or the role us or. so were cut out this is the building that home to 2 used to work in. former garment factory she quickly realized that people
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like her were only there to make up for the lack of skilled workers in east germany they were encouraged not to have contact with east germans. then in 1989 the war failed germans were overjoyed but it was a precarious time for contract workers. over the following years the government tried to depart the former contract workers one talked to was allowed to stay because she was married to a german. but she ran into opposition including her doctor he had been in charge of contract workers in her small town. he asked me what are you still doing here i answered i live here he replied but we don't mode you anymore there is no east germany anymore and. hatred of foreigners exploded in 1902 with aggressive gang violence right wing radicals set apartment
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buildings on fire and burned cars that belong to vietnamese contract workers. we haven't just been miles among we saw the attacks on t.v. my husband cried. and i told him these are hard times for us i might have to leave the country. but home to intrastate today she feels more at home here but racism has again been on the rise in germany and it's beginning to scare her. not only. of course i hope that the people i like will remain in the majority so that we won't be in danger kind of that germany has become her home but home torture still has her vietnamese passport just in case. now we move to the west african country of senegal where the government is using
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education and family planning programs to try to cut the birthrate we'll talk to one of the people who's taking these programs into local communities. every day my goodness our girls door to door visiting families in her darker neighborhood she is a buddy in gore a district god most are empty and she wants to see change in her community. in the privacy of their homes she talks to women about sex and contraception. he pulled. not every woman is able to go to the clinic and choose a contraceptive method. she knew husband to agree and sometimes also how mother in law having mediators at the grassroots level makes a big difference say so if you build your truly a midwife there on the v.a. health center 10 years ago the government launched this outreach program to make
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family planning a priority they hope to decrease maternal and new a natural death according to the world bank the 1st city rate dropped below 5 children per woman in 2016 it was the 1st time in senegal's history the birth rate is no at 4.7 lower than other countries in the region such as new share or nigeria . i think it's because of all the awareness campaigns the media the funding's also women now realize the benefits of spacing out pregnancies for their babies their husbands and for themselves. did they have said. this was our 3 comes here very clearly to get the pill she doesn't want any more children as she wants to make sure her kids get the best education possible.
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with family planning i have peace of mind now i can do whatever i want without thinking of getting pregnant. women in senegal around 95 percent of the population is muslim society here is conservative file is part of a growing young generation of religious leaders who promote family planning file has trained more than 2500 him arms across the country he insists that the koran advocates breastfeeding and spacing out pregnancies but it was when you read had the author of the words of the professor you can clearly see that he was against pregnancy because he said he had terrible consequences for the newborns and for the mother. progress has been made but there's still a long way to go health workers hope that more women and girls will soon have full control of the decisions concerning their bodies.
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now we travel to the netherlands where the coastline is threatened by rising sea levels in the port city of rotterdam they've come up with a novel way to house livestock away from the threatened hands 34 calories have moved into their new home a floating barge what makes cows happy enough feed and. fresh air so the shed has everything they need even if it's a float that's why the feed for the $34.00 strong herd has to be carried along a narrow gangway. but other than that the shed has everything a land based unit would have. the difference is that this one rises and falls with the tide up to 2 meters a day the cows don't seem to mind. around to all tell us also get transported by sea or by by ship so i don't think they get seasick but.
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i think they look happy if they get enough food and i think they will be having. space is at a premium in rotterdam harbor there's lots of construction down at the waterfront it started with apartments and now they've added the cow shit. i think this far into part of the hop ellington sensation we call this the sands are me adding some farming to the sixty's and that will make cities more livable again but if you're looking for a traditional countryside barn you're in the wrong place this one is high tech floating solar cells supplied with electricity the cows are milked by robots. and another robot collects them a newer. part of that goes to fertilize green areas in rotterdam's inner city.
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you're close to the waste circle so waste of produce here and then it gets feedback at $2.00 to $6.00 s. a higher product. and soon counties won't be the only ones adopting to an aquatic life style chicken factories and greenhouses will also soon be taking to the water . and only the adventurers of the famous naturalist and explorer. 2 soon will bring to the public some new from whom boats from 250 if they were really working on the for the job discovery. next. addition he boys. play.
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