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successful radio drama series continues to love all of us odes are available online to get more so you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to crime fighters tune in now. playing this week on the world stories. the united states hostility toward jews. gonna tomato growers struggle to get by. but our 1st stop is china ever since the coronavirus burst onto the scene many of china's megalopolises seem like ghost towns even the capital beijing. areas saw it in the dry winters of beijing the gate to the forbidden city covered in snow. a

few people have come out to take in this spectacle but getting inside is out of the question just like almost all public facilities beijing's most famous historic site remains closed i think it's good that the government took these measures we support them we depreciate even struck to measure is. business activity has largely come to a halt across much of the capital this is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops not shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today i'm the only one. every day human interaction has become suspicious this shop asked its customers to stay outside and communicate their needs from the outside. some pharmacies take the same approach everyone is wearing. because the younger it's

a national emergency we stand together when a standing together should not be taken literally residential complexes keep strangers out in this compound visitors have to register with their id the guards look for the place of birth who are overweight people can't get any even if they live here they'll be quarantined. people from who by a province where the virus originated are to be isolated in this hotel discrimination against them is now rampant. at the entrance to the subway system a mandatory temperature inside the same site as everywhere in the city blocks of space. trains are running as usual it's the passengers who are. beijing has we ported less than $300.00 cases so far but fear here has spread much faster than the virus ever could.

anti semitism is gaining traction around the world in the united. states attacks on jews are on the rise especially hard hit are of course the box communities like the one in for a place. this is a tense time for the city g.'s of crown heights a neighborhood in new york spirals brooklyn. new community has become the target of an increased number of attacks in recent months. now there's more police on the streets protecting synagogues and other jewish institutions. firestone and his friends are students at a local yeshiva a jewish religious school anti semitism is always been an issue in this ethnically diverse neighborhood but the recent string of attacks has hit uncomfortably close to home. the tax was on someone threw

a chair at someone else some were screaming kill jews there's different attacks that have a song that pointed a gun out so in that pick out i have friends i got punched right a little center of crown heights where everyone walks. they say they're not afraid but the attacks have made them more wary they want to walk by herself specially at night. just yet thing obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks on the family the added added a caution added a feeling that you know you have to be careful often orthodox jews become targets of anti semitic hate crimes because they're jewish and it's is plainly visible. but it's not only the orthodox community that's feeling uneasy and all feldman is jewish too and as with many of new york's jews you can't really tell from his looks born in israel he's been in the u.s.

since the age of 3 now lives in manhattan hugh to me says the mood in the community has changed since the attacks people are talking about getting armed and carrying guns mace weapons learning self-defense worry wasn't even a subject for. roughly one in 8 new york city residents is jews for centuries new york has been a refuge for jesus from all over the world the sources of these recent that he said attacks here in the united states are multiple they're not all coming from white supremacists or white nationalists they're also coming from street attacks york. by young african-americans they're coming from black hebrews what seems to be constant is a sense that there's a copycat phenomenon now it's become sort of more involved. to go after jews who are right that the fireball on the streets. back in town heights grayness

friends say they won't back down they trust that your faith is stronger than the hatred of their attackers. tomatoes could be gone as red gold the country soil is for a time but many of ghana's tomato factories are standing idle and evermore farmers are giving up their lands. benedicta afraid is a tomato farmer into boddam and ghana central farming region. she grows tomatoes on about i think tariff land but even then the harvests are good she's barely getting by. will they be asshole because we've had to buy water every day for about one and a half months that'll continue until the rainy season starts we have lots of problems that's why it's so hard to survive in ghana the moment you may. because

all of the domestic tomato processing plants have stopped production then india and other farmers are only able to sell to the so-called market queen's dealers who resell the tomatoes and other cities there's an oversupply in the high season and so the prices drop to almost nothing. and next 2 weeks ago we sold these crates for twice as much. if there's no demand like today and we farmers more or less just give the crates away. we sell them at any price. i might be honest we have. chronic financial difficulties led benedict as husband to go to europe where he works as a farm laborer in italy he's able to send money home every month to provide for his family and pay his children's tuition. many gun hands and other africans have ended up in southern italy the tomatoes that grow here are canned and mainly sold abroad

including to ghana the men work for low wages few of them are working legally with permits criminal middlemen take advantage of the situation. they're going to get if it's not you know for these crates you get 3 euros 50 or 4 for such a huge crate. or to come from coca-cola you know. even if they work hard for morning until night the men receive at most 20 to 30 euros a day. who are no one in africa would believe that we work here. abandoned houses huts and tents in the middle of fields where there is no water no plumbing no power or heating the farmhands live here and many have done so for several years no real life to help all from the. they only have cell phone contact with the relatives benedicta hasn't seen her

husband for a long time. even so she's glad he went to europe. almost immediately thanks to the money we have a roof over our heads and can continue to build our house bit by bit if he were here it would be very hard for us i'm happy that people leave and seek greener pastures. the tomato farmer frequently sees young men carrying backpacks she knows that the next group of gun hands are on their way north. to. the garment industry puts out more c o 2 than aviation and mercantile shipping together so environmentalists are touting swap meets and secondhand markets. beautiful commute knows the ok side of fast fashion all too well and doesn't want

to be a part of a tell me more she's a textiles expert at environmental organization greenpeace and how simple so new item of clothing for 10 years. she buy 2nd hand or exchanges close with other things what parties everyone brings a few garments and takes a few home for themselves. you can ignite here i can take something on a whim without harming the environment because the closer for deeper morning if i don't want to tell me more i take it to the next polity it stays in circulation and doesn't use that resources have been wasted. discarded quotes don't usually end up as a party die they end up somewhere like this east west is a large textiles recycling company a neighbor a maha than 70 tons of clothing arrive here every day. east west tries to sell us. much of it is possible especially abroad what. used clothing can

be shredded insult to industry as cleaning materials or insulation but the rest is garbage. and that proportion is growing rapidly. just like this once and then for too long to leave your we've noticed the tendency over the last 20 is the amount of clothing coming in has continued to grow in the last 6 years it went up by about a 3rd at the same time quality has fallen in a very noticeable way. that means cheaper fabrics more synthetic fibers and even clothing that's glued rather than citing. some garments made entirely out of plastic. the industry is demanding fast and cheap production. not truly who wouldn't cut through someone's probably count kill a tip that it won't be worn for more than a year or 2 anyway the consumer will want something new by then. so that's probably

how they approach making the garments the. second time and has been around for a long time but in the past he often had to rummage around in stocks of clothing to find something suitable. barely thinks that's changing online platforms and specialist 2nd homes stores are on the rise i don't stop because i missed out it's all that needs to be suitable for every day shopping the alternatives to consumerism need to be easy if i have a days for an interview and i want something different i need to be able to get it without buying something new. despite not buying new clothes for 10 years the all of all commit says she never feels like she has to go without.

i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist one day. everyone is talking about official intelligence and we are to. good computers and algorithms one day surpass him in creativity. art on the edge. or talk to global media for. arch 21 of. the next couple years little idea. down on a trip to the market which can be deadly but the farmers installing holders have no choice cocoa oil or gold on the gun as economy could be flourishing but the people here see no signs of costs crumbling bridges or an overcrowded posts ago somehow i'm down where's must get to market and daily life remains a struggle. even 45 minutes on d w. stories from people who've heard information of.

the means they want to express. on facebook and twitter updates in touch. claims. i am not very creative yet but i would love to be considered an artist one day i don't think that sophia is that intelligent at the moment why on earth should be construct a robot that looks like a human being a eyes but the problem the issue is making sure that we we're family a messy affair. everybody's talking about artificial intelligence.