tv DW News Deutsche Welle December 30, 2019 4:15pm-4:30pm CET
4:15 pm
changing weather patterns and siemens moving into the reptiles natural habitat the animal was secured with nets. conservation. much of it. surely moves from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions. is as easy as i want with say debbie that comes to join us on facebook. for god. in the. climate change. some still. want to use today the future of. dot com megacities. click sure.
4:16 pm
this is the news a shot with a special edition of our show today we look at something ordinary people who faced extraordinary circumstances and still came shining through beginning with uncle. the 82 year old defender of democracy. any harm come to the youngsters facing off against police then. the song despair of his parents the pain of his cancer diagnosis and the father. looking for. camping dreams take flight i retired engineer in india shows kids from humble backgrounds the sky's the limit when it comes to the future and. the car rappers taking aim at the strong arm of the military and back country we look at why their video. vital like.
4:17 pm
i'm british energy welcome to a special edition of the. web you're looking at stories of people and their fortitude in extraordinary soccer situations streets have resembled battle zones for the better part of 6 months protests by mainly young people have involved confrontations with police in the city's narrow streets. standing shoulder to shoulder with the protestors is unclear wong the senior citizen whose aim in his words is to protect the children. a.t.t. you could match his stamina but uncle wally is driven by their own sense of responsibility . for this removes a kind of intelligence one site and petrol on the other. he doesn't shy away.
4:18 pm
instead he desk is towards the front line from morning until night we can't do we can't protect those he says the fighting for the home he's lived in. have enjoyed years of democracy in hong kong but we're living in a new era the world has changed dramatically in the last few months. they got it out but you can watch enjoy it or not but i got why are so many young people being assaulted by the police. but that means already the police should be protecting people that hold on monday's are going to be noticed until one is a member of the community group protect the children lead by constable each turn they put themselves between the police and protest it's guiding the young people they aim to shield the way i think. but as every passing week worries move by the day the stakes get a little bit high and. i
4:19 pm
don't fear death not when the children are out here fighting for democracy and risking their own lives it's the responsibility of elderly people like me to come out and protect them and if i fear death i wouldn't be 0 as tempers boil a the uncool one pushes for calm but weeks of unrest have taken their toll on both sides i don't like every one of. them of a haunted i thought of what if as a passionate pro-democracy advocate uncle one please with police not to hurt protesters. if they're arrested and charged with pricing they face up to 10 years in prison i don't think i'm going to get done since i was little caught hard but so yeah the children just want to fight for democracy freedom and human rights the core values of hong kong and to prevent hong kong from becoming just another chinese city if we can help the young people to when the movement i will be very
4:20 pm
happy that i will be able to die without regrets oh oh go on go you. were found by you oh involve all right guys ok wong says he'll keep returning to the streets as long as the protests continue. one man and his walking stick now an icon of the movement. cancer rates in china are rising at alarming rates the disease is now the country's most common cause of death it's an epidemic that china's health care system is ill equipped to cope with many families find themselves saddled with a hefty financial burden that can force some cancer patients to take desperate steps such as in this story by out of order. a missing person poster is all has to keep his hopes alive his son disappeared 6 months ago tang
4:21 pm
keeps a log of the cities where he's already hung up other posters. are not feeling well this pressure is too much i sleep badly and i can hardly eat. gone why is tang only son he shows us some photos from happier days the young man was studying to become a pharmacist but then came the stomach cancer diagnosis gone why fear the cost of treatment would drive his parents to ruin don't look for me you won't find me was what he wrote in his farewell note. he couldn't stand the pressure we're poor he thought we couldn't handle the financial burden he couldn't bear the situation he put us in he was too young you know.
4:22 pm
last year his son completed his studies he just wanted to stores possessions at his parents' house until he could find work then came the diagnosis it was devastating news because while almost all chinese are covered by health insurance it often pays only a fraction of the total costs. per cent of people the reason why people go into poverty and again sometimes it's direct but sometimes. the tangs are farmers. over the last few decades they've managed to save about $3000.00 euros . that was their only savings for old age they've placed all their expectations and hopes on their only son. gone why was little the most important thing for us was that he did his best at school so that he could get out of here in the mean time
4:23 pm
the tangs have used up their entire savings searching for their son tang to lose wife has gone into town to look for work tang stays at home and waits every day he sends text messages to his son's phone number most of them can't be delivered. but this one went through. tang thinks his son is still out there somewhere sometimes he invites his neighbors over to play cards tang doesn't join in but the company distracts him from his worries for a little while. in india after the nearly 100000000 children who live in poverty air travel is a distant dream but one by one the tide flight engineer has made it his mission to give them a toast to flight even if there's no takeoff involved. it's
4:24 pm
a day these children will remember all their lives for many it's their 1st time aboard an aircraft. but this plane won't be taking off. a flight to nowhere is an airline with a difference going up with all the other worth it offers passengers an environmentally friendly taste of flying because this plane is never leaving the ground. well i don't know how the other passengers are treated to a full in flight experience. but if they receive boarding cards. safety briefings even refreshments are served on board it's an eye opening experience. i have seen planes in the sky i used to think they were really small but now i know they're actually huge. i now want to fly to london. the beautiful things to see. some lucky passengers even get to visit the cockpit. the man behind the project is behind her chant copter
4:25 pm
a retired aircraft engineer by les sold his land and bought the decommissioned airbus a 300 back in 2003 for 600000 rupees that's about $7000.00 euros a real bargain he charges people according to what they can afford as little as a few euro cents or even nothing at all for the very poor. i belong to a small village. and i never expected i'll be coming in you know in their lane and the people from my village going to see that after they were not able to see that so that was actually a basic idea and basically look at motivation that i work for the sake of the poor people. not far away a busy main road that runs parallel to the runway of delhi's international airport it's the perfect spot in the evening to watch planes land. even though air travel puts a lot of climate warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere the age old dream of
4:26 pm
flying remains a desire for the poor migrant workers here. it's my dream to someday take a plane and fly to my village in bihar but that's only if i manage to scrape together enough money for a take it. back on the flight to nowhere 6 person just simulate an evacuation to finish the experience. rarely has an emergency situation seems like so much fun. now ahead of elections in thailand in march this year a rap song just enough with its fiery lyrics the song accuse the van military government of being a dictatorship and encouraged people to think more critically of what was happening in thailand the song was written by a collective calling themselves rap against dictatorship downhearted caught up with them in bangkok here's an excerpt from his interview with a group. me or in english what my country has criticised the
4:27 pm
military government and the lack of freedom. we think that anyone can use the phrase what my country's gone the title of the song to speak out about whatever's on their mind what they think is the matter with our country and we hope that people will start being more critical when it comes to politics. the lyrics don't contain anything that insults anyone personally and that's why i never thought the song would draw attention from the authorities but when the police started talking about it that's really when it became so popular all of a sudden. and you can see and hear for yourself why this song
4:28 pm
became so popular where you are now with what my country has a bias rap against that day to share. come on. the muslim let me cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut the one that just slipped cut cut cut cut cut cut. cut cut cut cut. cut cut. cut cut cut cut cut cut cut i'm obviously looking to meet some of the to get the to. the bottom up to the plate to the bottom up to the muslims.
4:29 pm
the blueprint for every living thing on this planet to mine nucleus accumbens. brilliant natural because it's the most effective way to see vast amounts of data scientists in syria now want to use this code for technology they're developing artificial d.n.a. to see digital information tomorrow today next on the d w. e take personally i do it with all of the wonderful people and stories that make the game so special to. true sam's. club. because more than football on line.
4:30 pm
33 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
