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inspire change the people making albums and go africa interesting right. join them as they set out to save the environment learn from one another and work together for a better future for. many cars do you all for tuning in. on t.w. . 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 you know in calm thousands of protesters have been arrested. during the pro-democracy demonstrations many of them are young
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people like a lesson but her struggle for freedom has given her life new meaning. the new year in hong kong has begun just like the old year ended with hundreds of thousands of people marching for political reforms the less a choice has been active in the pro-democracy movement since the outset. that it seems that now yeah it's changed my life shouldn't be a lot of 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 up that's why it's so important that i'm here. day one that you saw even the presidency joining 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
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includes all walks of society but the young are the most committed competitive school exams a race for the best universities and the tough job market in one of the most expensive cities in the world on comes 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. the movement procol aims my life child like come to korea it made me feel my life is meaningful but that he only hate on mine. 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 and one child please move
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slowly by any protesters leave this scene by the front line us confront the police unless it is indeed the level she wants to support the frontline protesters that she knows what's at stake. nevertheless she decides to take a look but to get out as soon as it gets tense. released round up the record number of people 400 all together but the lesson is not to my eye. for months demonstrators have 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 manuel loves working at the hospital he likes to take his time with patients making sure they feel safe and that they understand their
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conditions and treatments but doing the job with such dedication has become increasingly difficult for many people working in colombian health care bills or. the coc wattle one out of 4 health care professionals are unhappy here says he and to efface. that the one of our system shortcomings is the pay that physicians receive calls meaning 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 i tell them please i suffer from multiple sclerosis i need special treatment and
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they never have time. to give you an appointment after one or even 3 months it's horrible healthcare 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 had the headlines for embezzlement and corruption the president of bogota medical association says it was their grief that caused the system to implode. it's 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 where they even refused to cover therapy all together. 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
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diagnose him time to visit the mrs but it took his insurance companies 7 months to authorize the cuts from january until august when they finally got the results i saw he had a brain tumor. and when we found out he had a chair he's already lost his hearing and suffered irreversible brain damage. marianna is a nurse herself 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 a coffee and i'm confident there will be change someday maybe not exactly how we wanted to be that would be perfect i don't believe thoughts going to happen but some kind of change no matter how small for the time being it doesn't look like the
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government will heed people's calls but in the waiting room and on the streets colombians have run out of patients. by 2030 you know 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. so. it's monday morning in the neurological ward of the rostock university hospital . where the 2 apprentices on to do an t. quinn who are helping a patient. both have already completed training as nurses in their home country of vietnam nevertheless much is new to them. and i'm asking them. during my training in vietnam i gave injections or i put in drips. but washing patients or giving them
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food that was done by other workers. in germany the nurses to perform these tasks therefore trainees from vietnam have to complete the full 3 year training program once again. well. so that as you come off. 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 of. this reversed side. $300.00 vietnamese trainees have come to germany under the economics ministry scheme to be enemies apprentices are welcome after all they bring
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a lot of experience with them. but it challenges the 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 there are workers from over 40 nations in the clinic. as we have here in the nurses station we have on gary and 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 because 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 is always produced some of the world's finest ballet dancers we need one young man who finally made it onto the big stage through
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talent and discipline and a lot of hard work. in the class schedule it's called dance classical dance. ringback but in reality it's work simulants in your note is getting ready for his big performance in the not cracker in the christmas ballet. he dances every morning for hours my dad being a ballet dancer is beautiful but exhausting then i know that especially if you come from the country and try to make it here here in front of us the uk an offshoot of the moscow academy of choreography also called the bolshoi school of ballet. the good it is the 1st time i heard them say pulling your tail i thought what tail and how can i pull it in order to turn your knees for a take the thoughts out wards. for over
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a 100 years russia has been known as the place where the stars of classical ballet are trained to put the competition is fierce some your needs more than strong legs he needs to have a strong character. for over 3 months the 11 year old has been living in a boarding school and there was talk he really sees his mother was. in the flood the last look opera house post his last nutcracker rehearsals. simul is very excited he has a solo. instances i'm scared of this huge stage of free a tallit dances i don't want to end that was myself to do what i would do if they laugh at me i'm a fright if that. and then his big day comes simulants 1st performance on
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the artist today we speak to him she came to camp blues a refugee when she was just a kid on today she's a lawyer author and show host successful and full of bright do mind she talks about how canada became her from someone pick me up and help me in the us everybody was great. getting to know him to bring. next. arms exports to troubled spots. what role did the german foreign intelligence service b.m.d. play. tanks in south sudan in myanmar german shipping companies delivered military hardware to sensitive regions. how old was the b m
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