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they seek refuge abroad but what will become of course who stay behind. displaced this week on t w. this week gun world stories. families fight for their lives in venezuela. a police officer criticizes his own ranks you know i'm gone. but we begin in germany 30 years ago citizens stormed the headquarters of the hated does the secret police in east berlin a contemporary witness reports. he was their vote going

temp lean a former east german civil rights campaigner 30 years ago he and other demonstrators pushed their way into east germany stars the headquarters it's still the resting place of thousands of files on citizens who were spied on itself is all yes i said so you know what we want this peaceful disarmament our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no place you know. was open the gate the storming of no man in street was a key moment after stasi buildings and other cities had already been occupied in the preceding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters. staff the workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. their

come from all of them. but the fight to save the files was far from one that took a hunger strike extreme effort on our part to convince west german elites politicians and those who want to keep a lid on this for various reasons. after all nobody knew exactly how sensitive the information that east germany state security had collected was in the end the files were made accessible to the public temp lien applied to see his own. it was certainly a unique experience i was part of the 1st group that got to see their files in 1930 . 9 us in opposition figure it was highly unlikely that a very comprehensive file a whited me it was very thorough but there was also one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a pup a try to follow for 2 years template himself was an unofficial stasi informant he

ultimately quit and got involved with civil rights groups later he was arrested and kicked out of east germany after the fall of the berlin wall he returned and took part in the negotiations to dissolve the stasi but he still struggling to cope with what happened to this day the stasi files will be transferred to the national archives from 2021 as long as they remain easily accessible to ordinary people templin has no problem with that. millions of fled venezuela due to the country's economic crisis those who have remained are facing hard times and many families are fighting to survive. nullity how to and has 7 children live in a slum on venezuela's care if he coached the children do not go to school now that

cannot afford to pay the bus fare to get them there she has barely enough money to survive. my husband went to peru because of the crisis. he wanted to help us from there. honestly if he hadn't left we would have starved here. that we were only simply would have starved . that is that he went to one of them a look at the industrial city of mary kay reveals why locals are starving the factories here as everywhere in venezuela i read a standstill only 2000 of the original $12000.00 still operate venezuela produces hardly anything itself anymore including food the giant cattle farms are empty. when as well as our own products have been replaced with food imports highly subsidized by the state. the system worked well as long as petroleum prices were high but as soon as they fell they were food shortages so simply had more money

printed to keep the system going the resulting hyperinflation was the final blow to venezuela's economy mela lives with the consequences every day the children really get enough to wait and you don't even know they beg me for food that they understand when i tell them that i have nothing to give them a little so sometimes they cry it's not easy when your child begs you for food. and you can't give them anything. it's very very difficult. but. highly damaging system of state terror it keeps the regime in power the. paramilitary gangs on to by the government intimidate the people through arbitrary rule and tara the president has also made the military comply. with installed military people in all key industry positions they have no idea how

to run an oil industry the. petroleum production has broken down because of this mismanagement it is now at the same level as it was in 1945 american chinese and russian political and security interests clash directly in venezuela without russia's help the madeira regime would have already collapsed. venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well if things would feel beautiful to me if i had the chance i take my children and leave me just like that me to go out with it. if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. for months street protests of rock tom tom and the brutal police response has

received every criticism the hong kong police officer told the w. the criticism is largely justified. when david chan joint to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name base was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on a university campus hong kong police had calmed a massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats to the fact. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about one prong is criticizing

and often could sing at the police many officers are on edge they've been accused of indiscriminate arrests beating up subdued protesters and threatening to shoot tear gas into apartments. videos of alleged police brutality yes circulating online . bystanders who get into arguments with officers risk getting pepper sprayed a clear violation of the rules as david. i'm just frustrated because some offices really just like the protesters and honestly they really want to beat them up but i think this isn't the right mentality we should be impartial as police offices we shouldn't take sides. he says he's currently doing as much as 100 hours of overtime every month while he isn't serving at the front line as back up he often has to be at the site of demonstrations david is hiding his identity for fear of being bullied by protesters online and he worries about professional

repercussions. as a member of the hong kong police force i shouldn't be criticizing it in public but as a citizen of hong kong i have to say the senior officers have basically messed it up . the. officials deny the police have done anything wrong the police has been the focus of the demonstrators since june when they 1st violently broke up a protest. since then public anger has steadily grow especially among the young david says most of his friends have turned their back on him in the past 6 months. he says several of his colleagues have quit their jobs but while he's at odds with the current tactics he has no intention to leave. i should be staying in the police force and try to maintain the right mentality and to uphold the values of the police. it's

a tough challenge for david stuck between loyalty and dollars. norwegian ireland and in the arctic circle is the back of beyond the frigid climate isn't ideal for plants but a man from sunny florida did the impossible and started growing fresh produce there . this is not a u.f.o. it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will benjamin vidmar see things growing here we have some days you know with that there in the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees and here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter it's minus $25.00

degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears and fall apart than people of all places benjamin that mark grows food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one for things looks good too and then this far 3. for the 4th one is on the 3 of us it's an experiment together with his colleague benjamin works in what they call their lab the seeds only sprout when the climate is nearly tropical they've planted basil parsley crusts lettuce cucumbers and chili peppers. at 1st good market just wanted to be able to eat fresh vegetables that's how he came up with the idea by 3 o'clock in the afternoon it's pitch black again benjamin has gotten used to this although he's from florida this former ship's cook got stranded on the icy archipelago 10 years ago. benjamin's

gardening business is booming his stock is in high demand and his capacity is limited small bart is about a 1000 kilometers from norway's north cape ordinarily all foods must be flown in which is expensive and not ecologically sound. yes well those are. some. good some good news for you. that's why benjamin vidmar wants to prove that things can be done differently. benjamin fit mark thinks a circular economy can work and he wants to prove it right here in small part.

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