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making things harder. and that affects the health of both man and beast a trip to the peninsula explains why. daybreak in the tundra. time for breakfast. we are on the arm out peninsula near the pool our circle this is where serbia is indigenous people known as the think 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 they're already here 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 spores. 3 years ago it infected entire
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interiors for the 1st time in 75 years anthrax broke out their van the rentier infected some said birds animals and humans live side by side of the tundra. usually 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 to their hearts there weren't more of their heart will perish due to the vaccination then due to anthrax. during the last demick many of the infected animals had to be burnt ready 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. of gas production on your model was one cause of the 2016 anthrax tragedy you saw oil coal and gas production lead to the greenhouse effect to me arctic. beck among their endian nomads diseases theories don't mean anything. nobody here is afraid of anthrax and there are me included randian meat either there or freshly cooked but the shirts also don't deny climate change. is it even the other. night 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 declarative a state of emergency things got better. but the next time i 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 is 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 abdul qadeer 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 cut a year 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 est 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. to lower 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. big move or look. it's more than just a daydream 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. what is happening 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 him. uphill candia 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 fall 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 hills paul 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 it on and maybe move to design a course where one big family over the years you get to know each other everyone comes here and we love it that's true 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
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strangers you 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 madeon 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 and my come to see 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 he's a tells the story. in 1913 club the brewer opened the ball house together with her husband to entertain berliners from all walks of life clear since survive 2 world wars and the
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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 goma 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 a star. frenzy when gold was just 27 years old but half 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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wall street. he. heard. it's just get to my emotions so much because i didn't realize it will go the spot i thought maybe it can just go cool to facebook maybe a 100 or 2 on 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 it's a whole world i like it just. means he's phone is constantly ringing 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 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 former teacher bello mccann is known menzies since primary school and see himself at no formal music training is 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 and he's feeling optimistic. to be my 1st time visiting the competition down by the window i'm so excited about this to the team just 2 months can talk. it's like to see him come to. that yet. come a final run through in the dressing room and. then
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it's all the stuff. come the follow the one thing the float. come off the. love thank you trials of applause for menzi but unfortunately it's not enough to secure a 1st prize. back in durban it's back to taxi driving for the time. menzies determines to its boxes career he says luck is still on his side every chance he has is as good as the feeling.
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listen. this right here this is our time we have done with being. finished with being abused i do and we will not keep quiet for a 2nd longer we are building a new walled with new rule one that will be better for everyone. howie with every march and every word every time we run we played ball we stand up with every action we each day we will gain the power and influence that truly makes us equal. this is our fight until girls are free to be who they want to be to live i'm long over they want we will do what ever it takes this is how girls get equal are you with us.
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this is g.w. news live from berlin a saudi court sentences 5 men to death over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi 3 others were given prison terms in connection with the killing of the washington post journalist in the saudi consulate in istanbul last year. also coming up turkey warns of a looming crisis as tens of thousands of syrians flee attacks in england profits turkey's president says any influx of refugees would have consequences for europe.
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