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it can really work in live aid to dozens infants in income successful collaboration on the most sparsely populated continent on earth. you are watching news live from but then up next wild stories reports on the indian swimming champion was no wrongs they forgot you can avoid always get the latest news on our web site that is b w dot com i knew complete mackinnon in berlin my colleague helena humphrey will be here with more news for you at the top of the next hour thanks for your company. what secrets lie behind this wall. discover new adventures in 360. and explore the major world heritage sites. to double your world heritage 360 get clean up no. not all think out of the wild
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but just sometimes i am but i stand up and with the research i have in thanks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes the question but if you think the future of the country but i don't blame. you you don't seem to think that is grandma there. it's cold out there. i'm rachel joins me from the german from d.w. . post. this week on the world stories. south africa from taxi driver to opera singer india a swimming champion without arms we begin in russia here results where. it changes
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making things harder. and that affects the health of both man and beast a trip to the amount peninsula explains why. daybreak in the tundra. time for breakfast. we are on the i'm out peninsula new the pool our circle this is where so beer is indigenous people known as the think nets live. here natural still seems to be in balance but life isn't nearly as idyllic as it looks traces of climate change are never far away it's left its mark on the next population and their reindeer because of the mild temperatures of bacteria that have survived for thousands of years in the bam of frost surfacing and becoming active even anthrax bacteria sparse. 3 years ago it infected can tire interiors for the 1st time in 75 years anthrax
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broke out their van the rentier infected some said birds animals and humans live side by side at the tundra. recently when we'd be lost without reindeer they provide food and clothing our lives are intertwined we must vaccinate the reindeer to make sure their lives are not endangered then they'll be protected against anthrax. but experts warn there is no 100 percent guarantee 1st because some shepherds have refused to divulge sneak through their hearts there weren't more of their heart will perish due to the vaccination then due to anthrax. during the last of the demick many of the infected animals had to be burnt many but not all human activity is to blame both for the rabbits rise of temperatures in the russian arctic and to the thawing of the permafrost.
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with gas production on your mother was one cause of the 2016 anthrax tragedy. and gas production lead to the greenhouse effect in the arctic but in the cold war here go. back and there endian ahmed's diseases theories don't mean anything. nobody here is afraid of anthrax there are me included randian meat either there or freshly cooked but the shirts also don't deny climate change. is it even. newsnight i don't believe in anthrax why should i it's much worse that our rivers and lakes dry out every summer. in the 13 years ago or fishelson here declared a state of emergency things got better. but the next summer heat is just months
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away. abdul qadeer lost both his arms after accidentally touching a high tension electric cable still he was determined to win a gold medal in swimming for india in the 2024 summer paralympics you caught up with him in delhi. the water is after all could hear in dorry's happy place. swimming has helped a young boy overcome big obstacles and made him an inspiration for many in his native india. at the age of 7 up to lost both of his arms after an accident but he refused to let us life be ruled by it. so. when he was 7 years old my son accidentally touched a high voltage electric wire. we took him to a hospital in mumbai and doctors treated him for almost
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a week but they said the infection was spreading fast and that they had to amputate both his arms were saving his life with the priority but he had to lose his arms. since the accident abdul qadeer has adjusted and all sorts of ways he does his homework using as fate and he is a smartphone that way too but it's clear that where he truly excels is in the water . and he set his eyes on a big goal. but some of the odd solo there's a mistake in i lost my arms when i was in 2nd grade i had an infection that spread to both arms when i was in hospital. but i love to swim. or i get bored and i want to win a gold medal for india in the olympics william. boyd. it's more than just a daydream actual career is already
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a 3 time national swimming champion and he's got the medals to prove it but it required hard work and determination from everyone involved. in the beginning we were really at a loss about how to teach him to swim. we didn't know how to support him unlike other kids we couldn't hold him by his shoulders if we could drop him into the water but taking him out was a challenge. but abdul qadeer was determined and nothing could stop an. uphill cardio is hoping to soon join an elite swimming institute and trying to qualify for the 2024 summer paralympics. this autumn saw the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall there are still places where you can find evidence of the city's colorful past spiral house
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is a dance hall that survived 2 world wars and the division of germany. couples have danced through berlin history under this roof here in clear hills palm house swing night is just as popular now as it was 100 years ago. berlin might have lost some of its charm but you can rediscover it right here. part you know the glitter might be dripping off the. wall's but we've been coming here for 10 years now it's a berlin tradition in secret so one invited me to this and of course when one big family over the years you get to know each other everyone comes here and we love it sure ziggy marquardt has been coming here regularly for 6 decades he lives in the west half of the city in the ball houses in the east even after the wall went up in 1961 he continued visiting the club despite border controls. that will study the doctor then you have to cross the border of strangers you've got
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a day pass and in the evening at midnight you have to be back again. today the dance club in the middle of berlin also boasts a restaurant and is popular with locals and tourists alike. author mavi and keizo research the history of clear his ball house for years and interviewed many eyewitnesses who danced here when the g.d.r. still existed and berlin was divided into east and west. my cousin so what comes before today you can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the cities and so on but this is a place where east and west germany met up and became close because music and dance and alcohol all that brings people together. in her book mommy and he's a tells the story. in 1913 club the brewer opened the ball house together with her husband to
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entertain berliners from all walks of life clear since survive 2 world wars and the division of germany and hardly changed. clare his ball house takes its visitors back in time to a bygone berlin dance still unites people here as it always has a clear hints. taxi driver men's human grandma from durban has always enjoyed singing arias on the road a passenger recorded him and put the video online it went viral and now the south african cabbie is us star. lindsay roma is just 27 years old the top of south africa already knows he is shot to fame when the passenger films him singing opera in his taxi and the video went viral on the.
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force to be. heard. it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought it can just go. to facebook maybe hundreds or 2 of the deal was one of them or just saying no can you bring that guy to come and perform in my wedding or something like that just just a small things and small world but i like it. menzies phone is constantly ringing he gets requests for interviews from all over the world invitations to perform and give auditions and men's wear shop even offered him a free taxi to for his next event.
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menzi is currently rehearsing for an upcoming performance the piano player is menzies for my teacher some below my canyon is known menzies since primary school and see himself at no formal music training he's mostly self-taught the next day when z. is off to cape town he's been invited to take part in a competition for professional opera singers. but he's feeling optimistic. because of the last mishandling. of the season. i know many been there and so excited about this to the whole team just bugs can talk. see it's like it was important to. just yeah. he was a final run through in the dressing room and. then
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it's the stuff thank you. for the one thing come. out of the. loves thank you drowns of applause for menzi but unfortunately it's not enough to secure a 1st price back in durban it's back to taxi driving for the time. menzies determines to advances to rear he says luck is still on his side every chance he has just as good.
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eating. into conflict with tim sebastian. junger's recent celebrations for his 70th anniversary was quite the public relations charm trade was supposed to be my guest this week here in london is convicted gao how does he justify china's comes a lot of human. the rights abuses and the continuing pressure on hong kong complex over the. next couple of. st. lucia edition comes in. the topic this time our high cost of living room a life for some families. a point in a cycle but the nonwhite people you have it could be any company
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because that money spike was not implicated. in 60 minutes on g.w. . literature invites us to see people in particular. i like to see some as the kids find the strength. to. travel. to the books on you to. make china habits what you read about the mites most of people all the training all the training is always reminds me of the golden tradition proves it is not all lost and although very much at stake in hong kong china is recent celebrations for its 70th anniversary weren't quite the public relations triumph it was supposed to be not worth continuing protests in hong kong and fresh revelations about human rights
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abuses in machine jack reacher markets this week here in london is victor gao the chinese doctor does.

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