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arm is bearing down on germany and other parts of europe after already battering the british isles germany's entire long distance rail network is down people across the region are advised to stay indoors. watching g.d.p. news live from berlin that's all from us for now i'm really in the glow croft thank you so much for watching we'll see the top of the. we're all set. to go beyond obvious. that live. as we take on the world. we're all about the stories that matter to you come to what ever it is running now to play a little bit w. made for mines. take it personally you went with
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a little bit wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true fans. because more than football online. play 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 sarita in the dry. i wint is of beijing the gate to the forbidden city covered in
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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 do appreciate even struck to measure is your. 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 and 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
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a national emergency we stand together when i'm 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 routes the passengers were in. beijing has we ported less than $300.00 cases so far but fear here has spread much faster than the virus ever could.
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anti semitism it's 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 with his city jews of crown heights a neighborhood in new york spiraled brooklyn. your 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 were 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 actress on someone threw
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a chair at someone else or screaming kill jews there's different attacks i have a son 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 want to walk by ourselves especially at night. just yet thing obviously because of the increase of the fear in the community because of the recent attacks. for the family the added the added caution added the 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 they all seldon and 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.
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since the age of 3 now lives in manhattan huge 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 jewish for centuries new york has been a refuge for jews from all over the world as the sources of these recent at 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 who are identifiable on the streets. back in crown heights who really needs friends
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they will back down they trust that their faith is stronger than the hatred is there it tempers. tomatoes could be going as red gold the country saw oil as 1st time but many of ghana's tomato factories are standing idle and evermore farmers are giving up their lands. benedicta of free fire is a tomato farmer into badon and ghana central farming region. she grows tomatoes on about i think there of land but even then the harvests are good she's barely getting by. will they be aswell 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 in the moment. because all of the
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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 that's only if it's 2 weeks ago we sold these crates for twice as much. if there's no demand like today and we farmers more less just give the crates away. we sell them at any price. i might be honest. 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 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
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permits criminal middlemen take advantage of the situation. there and going to the theater for these crates you get 3 or 50 or 4 for such a huge crate. where you were 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 families. without. they only have cell phone contact with the relatives
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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 would be very hard for us i'm happy that people leave and seek going up hostages. the tomato farmer frequently sees young men carrying backpacks she knows that the next group of gannon's are on their way north. to. the garment industry puts out more c o 2 than 80 ation and mercantile shipping together so environmentalists are touting swap meets and secondhand markets. if you want to hold the mood knows the ok side of fast fashion all too well and
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doesn't want to be a part of a tell me more she's a textiles expert at 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. to cutting my hair i can take something on a whim without harming the environment because the closer for deeper more and 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 used to. discard it codes don't usually end up as a party they end up somewhere like this east west is a large textiles recycling company never a mahal 70 tons of clothing arrive here every day. east west tries to sell us. much of it is possible especially abroad. east pricing can be
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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 years 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 blue trough them citing. some garments made entirely out of plastic. the industry is demanding fast and cheap production. not truly. through someone's probably account 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
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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 home 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 clothes for 10 years the all of all commit says she never feels like she has to go without.
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