tv World Stories Deutsche Welle January 19, 2020 12:15pm-12:31pm CET
12:15 pm
score not goals man can be glad he's got his number 11 to rely on. you are watching the news a live from berlin up next world stories look at how angry east germans storm the stupid police headquarters 30 years ago i'm michael okun from all of us here thanks for watching we will have more news in 45 minutes. look closely. carefully to. those soon. to be
12:16 pm
12:17 pm
east berlin a contemporary witness reports. he was there votes going templi name 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 software's oh yes i said so now what we want this peaceful disarmament of our actual takeover of the whole thing will happen a lot faster there's no 0.0 was opened 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 proceeding months several 1000 people now poured into the berlin headquarters.
12:18 pm
stassi workers tried to destroy files up until the very last minute but the activists were able to rescue most of those files. 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 wanted 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 templin 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 1900 . 90 us in opposition figure it was highly likely that a very comprehensive file of white of me it was very thorough but there was also
12:19 pm
one from the 1st half of the 1970s that was classified as a puppet try to follow. for 2 years templin himself was an unofficial style's the 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's 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 fact. 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.
12:20 pm
and her 7 children live in a slum on venezuela's caribbean coast 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. where you know that he wanted to help us from there is that. honestly if he hadn't left we would have starved here. that know me simply would have starved. that atlanta went on one of them a look at the industrial city of mary kay reveals why locals are starving the factories here as everywhere in venezuela ever at a standstill only 2000 of the original 12000 still operate venezuela produces hardly anything itself anymore including food the giant cattle farms are empty. been as well as our own products have been replaced with food imports highly
12:21 pm
subsidized by the state. the system worked well as long as petroleum prices were high but as soon as they fell there 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 nella lives with the consequences every day the children rarely get enough to wait it any less they thank me for food but they understand when i tell them that i have nothing to give them a little sometimes they cry it's not easy when your child banks you for food. and you can't give them anything. it's very very difficult. but. highly damaging system of state tara keeps the regime in power the. paramilitary gangs on by the government intimidate the people through arbitrary rule and tara
12:22 pm
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 was. well if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance i take my children and lean on me just like that me to. if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive.
12:23 pm
thank you. for months street protests have rocked tom kong and the brutal police response has received heavy criticism the hong kong police officer told b.w. the criticism is largely justified. when david chan joint the 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 they say was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on the university campus hong kong police had to calm the massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats that affect morale. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting
12:24 pm
both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about on calmness criticising and often could sing at the police many offices 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 officers 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
12:25 pm
he often has to be at the side of demonstrations david is hiding his identity for fear of being bullied by protestors 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 denied 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
12:26 pm
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 dealt. the norwegian arlen specter in the arctic circle as 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 the during 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
12:27 pm
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 did mark rose food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one i think looks good too and then this 13 stuart the 4th one is on the favors 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 basle parsley crusts lettuce cucumbers and chili peppers. at 1st 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
12:28 pm
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. this oh no sir. so. there are some grounds for it and. 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 and small part.
12:29 pm
of. his secret tool. doily. and his art. no matter of perspective. the kinetic images have said you cut them out and we experience them as noise and duality of his creations 1st hand. your robotics next d.w. . what secrets lie behind this one. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites the w world heritage $360.00 the collapse now. the charlie crist
12:30 pm
29 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on
![](http://athena.archive.org/0.gif?kind=track_js&track_js_case=control&cache_bust=1487808635)