tv World Stories Deutsche Welle February 9, 2020 12:15pm-12:31pm CET
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and. i'm just a reminder of that top story we're following for you all far he's in china say the death toll from the corona virus has now passed the icon 100 mark that means the disease has now killed more people than the deadly sales outbreak nearly 2 decades ago. you know watching daily news from the n.t. up next well stories mates activists who setting up and used clothes clothing exchanges to help save the climate are we back to the wall at the top of the pot thanks for. coming. in the art of climate change. africa's most urgent. what's in store for the time i. want to use to look for the future and the c.w. to construct a megacity to the multimedia in such close culture. is
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a master of the art of confrontation this is growth of measuring the firm come back because it means you're going to see ya it's like the undisputed champion of toast political talk the officers are trying to try to keep the focus so far everybody understands that they said you enter the conflict zone and join jim sebastian as he holds the powerful to account this is a fix for your whichever way you like to spin the conflict zone on the dole you're . going to. 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 corona fire. it's burst onto the scene many of
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china's megalopolises seem like ghost towns even the capital beijing. a rare sight 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'd appreciate even struck to measure his. 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
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communicate their needs from the outside. some pharmacies take this same approach everyone is wary. because the younger it's a national emergency we stand together. 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 spain's. trains are running as usual it's the passengers who are like. beijing has reported less than $300.00 cases so far. but fear here has spread much faster
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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 forced to docks 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 spiraled brooklyn. you 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. soon his friends and students at a local yeshiva a jewish religious school anti semitism is always been an issue in this ethnically
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diverse neighborhood but the recent string of attacks has hit uncomfortably close to home. actress on someone threw a chair at someone else or screaming kill jews there's different attacks that have been selling that pointed a gun out so in that pic i have from they got punched by the middle center of crown heights where everyone walks. they say they're not afraid but the attacks have made them more weary they want to walk by herself specially at night. just yeah i think obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks on the family the added added caution added that feeling that you know you have to be more careful often orthodox jews become targets of anti semitic hate crimes because they're doing this is plainly visible. but it's not only the orthodox community that's feeling uneasy l.
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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 yellers in manhattan here to me says the mood in the community has changed since the attacks. people are talking about getting armed and carrying guns makes weapons learning self-defense worry wasn't even a subject for. roughly one in 8 new york city residents is jewish for centuries new york has been a refuge for jesus from all over the world the sources of these recent that the semitic 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
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who are identifiable on the streets. back in town hates the rain his friends say they won't back down they trust that your faith is stronger than the he treated there it tempers. tomatoes could be gone as red gold the country soil is for tom but many of ghana's tomato factories are standing idle and evermore farmers are giving up their lands. benedicta a free fire 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 asked we've had to buy water every day for about one and
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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 in the moment. 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 queens dealers who resell the tomatoes in other cities there's an oversupply in the high season and so the prices drop to almost nothing but they still need. 2 weeks ago we sold these crates for twice as much. if there's no demand like today and we farm has more or less just give the crates away we sell them at any price right on monday and it's only a. little quantock 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
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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. there and get it but for these crates you get 3 euros 50 or 4 for such a huge crate you. want to cut like a koan 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 not really still alive to have all from the. oh oh.
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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 thanks to the money we have a roof over our heads and can continue to build i have spent by that if he were here it should be very hard for us i'm happy that people leave and seek. the tomato farmer frequently sees young men carrying backpacks she knows that the next group of gun ians are on their way north. to. the garment industry puts out more c o 2 than anything and mercantile shipping together so environmentalists are touting
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swap meets and secondhand markets. if you want to hold the mood 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 to environmental organization greenpeace and hasn't bought a new item of clothing for 10 years. she buy 2nd hand or exchanges close with others a clothing swap parties everyone brings a few garments and takes a few home for themselves. the kind of nightmare 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 resource as understood. discards acquired stone easily end up as a party they end up somewhere like this east west is a large textiles recycling company never a maha than 70 tons of clothing arrive here every day. east west
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tries to sell us. much of it is possible especially abroad. used clothing can be shredded and sold to industry as cleaning materials or insulation but the rest is garbage. and that proportion is growing rapidly. just like this once and 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 most synthetic fibers and even clothing that's glue trough them citing. some garments made entirely out of plastic. the industry is demanding fast and cheap production. not truly cut through someone's probably count kill
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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. bearly thinks that's changing online platforms and specialist 2nd homes stores are on the rise. and most of the top end used 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 plates for 10 years the all of all give me says she never feels like she has to go without.
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