tv World Stories Deutsche Welle December 21, 2019 9:15pm-9:31pm CET
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well the final match day of the calendar year is well underway with saturday's games all over so that say going to hell things have on ravelled so far well i'm glad and did schoolis find left it late to be false flag lights they came from behind to defeat outspoken and down vote if i had been shot from freiburg to share the points points lost to 10 month leverkusen and on friday hoffenheim stunned dortmund on sunday just little faced frankfurt travel to possible in europe say i'm home free so you see the. first group. children of us as we are with will be. in support of. what's a big what they were brought over. to believe.
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i'm not laughing at them well i guess sometimes i am but they sound off in which for that reason germans digs deep into the german culture looking at the stereotype quiet but if you think the future of the country got out on time. yes you did see it take for this drama down you know it's all about. you know i'm rachel joins me from the germans on t.w. post. this week on world stories. south africa from taxi driver to opera singer india swimming champion without arms we begin in russia here results where climate
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change is making things. water. and that affects the health of both man and beast a trip to the american insular explains why. daybreak in the tundra. time for breakfast. we are on the hour now peninsula near the pool our circle this is where so beer is indigenous people known as the nets live. here nature 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 bama frost surfacing and becoming active even anthrax bacteria spores. 3 years ago it infected entire interiors for the 1st time in 75 years anthrax broke
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out their van the rentier infected some said birds animals and humans live side by side of 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 and they'll be protected against anthrax. but experts warn that there is no 100 percent guarantee 1st because some shepherds have refused to devise a need for their hearts there weren't more of their herd will perish due to the vaccination then due to anthrax. during the last demick many of the infected animals had to be burnt many but not. human activity is to blame both for the rapid rise of temperatures in the russian arctic and of the thawing of
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the permafrost. gas production on your model was one cause of the 2016 anthrax tragedy. and gas production lead to the greenhouse effect in the arctic but in the. back among their endian ahmed's these theories don't mean anything. nobody here is afraid of anthrax and there are me included randi and meat i mean they're all freshly cooked but the shirts also don't deny climate change. is it even. your night i don't believe in anthrax why should i it's much worse that our rivers and lakes dry up every summer but in middle. of the 13 years ago or officials 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's determined to win a gold medal in swimming for india in the 2024 summer paralympics d.w. caught up with him in delhi. the water is after all cut here in dorry's happy place. swimming has helped the young boy overcome big obstacles and made him an inspiration for many in his native india. at the age of 7 abdul qadeer lost both of his arms after an accident but he refused to let his life be ruled by it. so i got out of his car 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 in all sorts of ways he does as homework using its feet 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. for the hard sell over the missing i lost my arms when i was in 2nd grade i had an infection 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. it's more than just a day dream abdul qadeer is already
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a 3 time national swimming champion and she'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 cardia is hoping to soon join an elite swimming institute and trying to qualify for the 2024 some a 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 is
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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 him spohn 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. on your part you know the glitter might be dripping off the walls but we've been coming here for 10 years now it's a berlin tradition i mean to put someone in maybe admit to this and of course it were one big family over the years you get to know each other everyone comes here and we love it that's 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 was put in the back of an you have to cross the border at st if you
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got a day pass and in the evening at midnight you had 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 monkee 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 comes in so what comes before today you can't even imagine that they built a wall through the middle of the city 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 and keys are 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 drama 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. benzine is just 27 years old the top of south africa already knows he shot to fame when a passenger filmed him singing opera in his taxi and the video went viral.
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he. let's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought maybe it can just cultural to facebook maybe 100 or 2 on the deal was one of them or just said 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 i like kids. menzies phone is constantly when he gets requests for interviews from all over the world invitations to perform and give or dishes to men's wear shop even offered him if we taxi to for his next event.
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menzi is currently rehearsing for an upcoming performance the piano player is menzies former teacher something the mechanic is known menzi since primary school and see himself at no formal music training he's mostly self-taught the next day lindsay is off to cape town he's been invited to take part in the competition for professional opera singers and he's feeling optimistic. to be my 1st time visiting the competition and i don't believe in that and so excited about this to the team just 2 months can talk. it's like it was important to. come a final run through in the dressing room and. then
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it's all the stuff. come the. things come. out of the. loves thank you trials of applause for menzies but unfortunately it's not enough to secure a 1st prize. in durban it's back to taxi driving for the time. menzies determines to its boxes to rio he says luck is still on his side every chance he has is as good as.
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the artist. oscar winning director carlin and. her films go straight to viewers' heart because she shows to. find joy come and sing on society the true children. spotlight on down the number. any interviews. africa. greece's transit climate protection students from 20 countries involved in a scientific expedition to chad to collect samples from to devise the same time in the guts of the standards of the project will help them to spread environmental awareness about. what he wants to share that there's
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