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to dancing and playing music it's traditional for revelers to dress up as nuns and priests the party is based on the legend of a nun who escaped her convent to join the car. as the latest from data volume using this hour stay tuned for world stories i'm marion edelstein thanks for watching. this for me. is free.
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beethoven is for. is for the best. beethoven 202250th anniversary year. this week on well story. turkey we go exiles from china try to preserve their culture colombia souvenirs from a drug lord. and we begin in berlin a syrian man who seeking asylum is extremely worried about his family back home to live in it live province serious army backed by russian fighter jets is trying to recapture the region. deep checks the news from syria on social media all the time
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where did the latest bomb fall who or what was hit why he is in safety here in germany the rest of his family are in mortal danger and it lip. he is desperately worried. for whenever i meet or drink i think of my children do they have anything to eat they ill do they have a warm blanket or. his sons mohammad and 9 and 10 years old he had to leave them with their grandparents and if he thought it too dangerous to flee with them if the internet is working he calls them several times a day oh hello how moody how are you what's going on. it's cold then bombing and the plane crashed we were where we were at the. very narrow village get us out of here. come and get us.
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i want to but i can't we need to get passports for you but a lot of other things i can bring you over here. we're going to die the planes are bombing us the army is very close. the only adult member of the family says show his face. everybody is heading north camping in the olive groves sleeping in the open unprotected even though it's bitterly cold the united nations estimates that more than 700000 people from it a province have fled their homes many are heading towards turkey but they're not being allowed in the refugee camps are overcrowded it's freezing and there's a lack of drinking water and food. but there's no sign of that and the fighting continues. back home would do anything he could to rescue his children from danger
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but he can't all he can do is follow events from berlin. nobody notices people see me and think i'm doing fine but inside i die a 1000 deaths every day and my heart goes out to my children and to all the other children. china is now holding an estimated $1000000.00 of its muslim legal population in detention camps beijing says that we goes pose a threat to national security but human rights groups have condemned the detentions . istanbul these men now we get muslims from china back home they could be imprisoned for the simple act of praying like quickly come to realize that each one of them has
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a story of loss. we asked them to raise their hands if they have family members who've been imprisoned in china's province where most weekends live. across to enjoying dozens of camps holding up to a 1000000 week is let's take a closer look at one of them this is a reaction cation camp next to a prison. we identified watchtowers and high walls. there are countless camps like this one the chinese government claims they are fallen tree vocational training centers designed to fight weed it stream isn't. but we received a document which shows that china's targeting week is based on their identity and religion it lists hundreds of detainees and the reasons for their detention are.
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caused by both the weaker academic up to we are you perceived it from a source and took a huge risk sharing it with us. january 8 i did see the phone call like it's messenger call and. he said that stop doing this and the b. can reach you where were you are yes it's the dress but someone should take the danger someone should speak up someone someone should tell the world what's going on. 5 in the document doesn't have any stamp or signature we showed it to several experts who agreed that it is almost certainly an official
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text. in this neighborhood in istanbul where many weekends live we met one woman whose sister some mentioned on the list. but since that talk to news some family members had been imprisoned but it shocked her when she found out that her younger sister was listed in the document calling back we had a ball there i was really sad for days i couldn't sleep. i was really shocked. and sad about her arrest. ok i don't call them. china says it's fighting extremism but talk he says her younger sister wasn't religious her only crime she had too many children along all of them i heard that the conditions in prison are unimaginably bad they don't even have enough food to eat oh.
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yes. she doesn't know her relatives have been released like countless are the weavers they have been cool top in china's all encompassing anti terrorism drive. the colombian human rights group is trying to stop the sale of pablo escobar souvenir as. members of its meddling drug cartel murdered thousands of civilians escobar was killed in a shootout with police in 1903. had no escobar is everywhere in the streets and shops a photo he grins at passers by from t. shirts key chains and even oil paintings pop culture has turned the founder of the many young drug cartel into an icon an icon who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people to console over this trend is horribly painful he tells me that
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30 years ago his father died in a terror attack orchestrated by the notorious drug lord. and i think nowadays the people who sell these talks of products are solely motivated by the desire to make money in order to sell by contributions the hype around this figure of a crime boss who inflicted a lot of pain on this country which are in this place from 976-2993 escobar ruled over a kingdom of horror fueled by assassinations kidnappings and terror attacks still some of the very colombians who once lived in fear of him now seek to profit from his legacy gonzales and geo columbia columbia remembers is trying to show the grim reality behind the idolization with its latest project oddly enough it's an online store selling narco merchandise or at least that's what it looks like at 1st glance
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. the way it works is that if you try to buy one of the products offered on the website you'll encounter the story of a victim of narco terrorism in colombia a direct victim of public record. and i bet you know long i'm magdaléna gomez and i'm the wife of not. deceased and one of pablo escobar is a tax. he said i would like to tell my husband that the life project we created together i try to do in the name of our love. and of our life project in a strong morning in a sort of predict. we love you forever. gonzalo and his co-founder daveed aren't alone in their fight against the trivialization of escobar is dark legacy. and the alliance for peace
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unimaginable 3 decades ago 27 years after pablo escobar his death colombia still hasn't been able to dismantle the powerful drug industry he built banning the products that glorify narco culture should be a far easier task. in hong kong have been no pro-democracy demonstrations since the corona outbreak people are worried about becoming infected but hong kong's pro-democracy movement is still alive and well. the faith mosque and emblem of hong kong lurch from one crisis to another was an icon of the pro-democracy demonstrations now it offers protection against a new coronavirus with the street protests now largely at an end hong kong's focus has shifted. where images of violent street battles once covered these walls now is the battle against the virus that dominates with one common thread underpinning
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both distrust of the government and its chief executive carrie lee one prominent voice than a month younger is hong kong's vast community of pro-democracy activists. during the protests campaign is simon loud common qualm use the space to make props for the demonstrations. when the virus hits they swapped helmets by hand sanitizer using the network to source the donations and ingredients filling in they say where authorities have failed. their equality go to strip it down because this government will upset all hong kong people not just our political beliefs but also all people in the community normally they're supportive of their stop wishing but now you can see they are quiet but they are very angry at the simon in common altruism goes hand with political pragmatism they believe that as the virus spread so well
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into government sentiments and it that they hope to harness to push for democratic change off guard was to come back as a strong movement is why i've every confidence it's because of free of all the system people's work all the stuff from all walks of life why respect come why so all the figures. and for ya. of course up the system. to activists like simon has always been clear that would not be for someone with street protests alone the pro-democracy campaigns proven it can and does and it's actions like this that could become the new face of the movement. of the government's handling of the virus which discontent across the political spectrum. player. playing. cards lawyer.
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culture. hair. superman. superfood stylish dialogue call on the job. lifestyle during. the 77 percent this time from uganda we are going to be discussing a different car the topics the gender piracy on lock their roles i'm seeing these men didn't expect much from them and women being true to choose ok but if it comes to quickly i think some people may have trouble adapting to these changes do you think uganda will ever be egalitarian that is the 1st. time 60 minutes on w. w's crime fighters are back together with africa's most it says home radio
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