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. in the light of climate change. for christmas. what's in store for the players players to come for the future cut. costs for the major cities to get insight. culture. this week on world stories. colombia's health care system is on the verge of collapse. hard work pays off for a young russian ballet dancer and we begin in hong kong thousands of protesters have been arrested during the pro-democracy demonstrations many of them are young people like a lesson but her struggle for freedom has given her life new meaning. the new. a
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year in hong kong has begun just like the old year ended with hundreds of thousands of people marching for political reforms the less said choice has been active in the pro-democracy movement since the outset. that it seems that now yeah it's changed my life she believed was the protest movement has let me move forward and become a positive. and see how like i am that if i missed this i wouldn't have another chance to experience all of it. caught that's why it's so important that i'm here. day one that i'm sorry if i present to join you in a little less a wrist a lot by protesting she was already arrested once 3 months ago and still awaits trial prospects were dim further if she's detained again. the protest movement includes all walks of society but the young are the most committed competitive school exams a race for the best universities and
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a tough job market in one of the most expensive cities in the world on calms you face a lot of pressure. l.s.a. 16 she has struggled for years with anxiety and depression that she blames mainly on pressure in school hosts she. has sung the movement procol into my life child like come to korea it made me feel my life is meaningful that while he. since her arrest her anxiety has returned. although she says she hasn't been violent being at the site of clashes was enough for a writing charge she faces 10 years in jail. at the beginning the march stays peaceful but suddenly the mood shifts was heard to tear gas in one try please move slowly i think many protesters leave this scene by the front line us confront the
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police unless it isn't to the level she wants to support the front line protesters she knows what's at stake. nevertheless she decides to take a look but to get out as soon as it gets tends. to be strong enough the record number of people $400.00 all together but unless it is not to much. for months demonstrators are taken to the streets in colombia their demands include major improvements in the health care system the situation has gotten so bad in the capital it's almost impossible for people who are seriously ill to see a doctor. one man well loves working at the hospital he likes to take his time with patients making sure they feel safe and that they understand their conditions and treatments but doing the job with such dedication has become increasingly difficult for many people is working in colombia and health care for
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those who are not the coc what the one out of 4 health care professionals are unhappy here. in philly says. that the one of our system shortcomings is the pay that physicians receive any some of them have to work $2.00 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. but overworked and underpaid doctors and nurses aren't the only ones feeling let down by colombia's health care system even in the capital where there are plenty of hospitals and clinics patients are finding it impossible to get even the most urgent appointments. i call the hospital every day but they don't have time for me because i tell them please i suffer from multiple sclerosis i need special treatment and they never have time. to give you an appointment after one or even 3 months it's horrible healthcare
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service here is awful. such problems are related to structural weaknesses colombia's health care system is dominated by private insurance companies numerous of these intermediaries between patients and doctors have hit the headlines for embezzlement and corruption the president of bogota medical association says it was their greed that caused the system to implode is over says it is like the less services these companies provide the moment they make so the insurance company denies treatments or takes a long time to authorize them allowing the patient's condition to deteriorate would they even refuse to cover therapy altogether yes necessary treatments denied without explanation it almost destroyed this young woman's family her brother had alarming symptoms but his doctors weren't allowed to run the tests they needed to diagnose him time to visit the mrs but it took his insurance companies 7 months to
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authorize the cuts from january until august when they finally got the results they saw he had a brain tumor. and in the end when we found out he had a chair he'd already lost his hearing and suffered irreversible brain damage. marianna is a nurse or self and has been participating in the protests suffering from the health care systems shortcomings as a patient and a professional she urges her fellow colombians to keep fighting for change. i will be. well i'm confident there will be change some day maybe not exactly how we wanted to be that would be perfect but i don't believe that's going to happen but some kind of change no matter how small for the time being it doesn't look like the government will heed people's calls but in the waiting room and on the streets colombians have run out of patients.
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by 2030 an estimated 4000000 people in germany will require long term medical care but there aren't enough doctors nurses and other professionals to deal with this situation medical trainees from vietnam might help ease the shortage. it's monday morning in the neurological ward at the rostock university hospital. and there are 2 apprentices to do and t. quinn on who are helping a patient both of already completed training as nurses in their home country of vietnam nevertheless much is new to them. and asking them. was during my training in vietnam i gave injections are i put in drips. but washing patients are giving them food that was done by other workers. in germany the nurses to perform these tasks
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therefore trainees from vietnam have to complete the full 3 year training program once again. well. michael when i say come on. the student nurses are prepared for the german system as part of the training program in their home country still it's not easy for the 2 women. that got us out of this. it's a very different dialect than the one i've learned. there are many words i don't know and i'm just learning i had a lot of difficulties at the beginning it's just reversed. $300.00 vietnamese trainees have come to germany under the economics ministry scheme to be enemies apprentices are welcome after all they bring a lot of experience with them. but it challenges the
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mentality words like yes and no don't have the same meaning in vietnam as they do in germany. co-workers have adjusted to this after all they are workers from over 40 nations in the clinic. as you have with us here in the nurses station we have on gary ins we have people from bosnia we have macedonians we have one person from syria so it's very very dim colorful here on the nurses' station here. that's. currently the last batch of the program is finishing up the 1st year of training in future clinics will have to arrange the employment of vietnamese workers themselves. and finally we travel to russia which has always produced some of the world's finest ballet dancers we meet one young man who finally made it out of the big stage through talent and discipline and a lot of hard work. in the class schedule it's called dance
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classical dance. ringback but in reality it's work simulants him your know his getting ready for his big performance in the nutcracker in the christmas ballet. he dances every morning for hours. being at ballet dances beautiful but exhausting then after that especially if you come from the country and try to make it here here in the last book an offshoot of the moscow academy of choreography also called the bolshoi school of ballet. you're good it is the 1st time i heard them say pulling your tail i thought what tail and how can i pull it in or turn your knees rotate the thigh it's outboards. that for over a 100 years russia has been known as the place where the stars of classical ballet are trained but the competition is fierce some your needs more than strong legs he
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needs to have a strong character. for over 3 months the 11 year old has been living in a boarding school and the last book he really sees his mother. was. the last book opera house holds his last nutcracker rehearsals. simul is very excited he has a solo. instances i'm scared if this huge stage of reality dances that i don't want to and that was myself to do what i would do this they laugh at me i'm a fright if that. and then his big day comes simulants 1st performance on a real stage. the vladivostok opera house is sold out cmon family is sitting in the audience they came all the way from good to be john to be here.
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in the sense that was my big chance and ballet school they said this was a chance of a lifetime and i was like really. bring it on. meet
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