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tv   World Stories  Deutsche Welle  May 3, 2020 4:02am-4:16am CEST

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earlier. this week well stores. tattoos and palette to master violence victims in russia. comic books to combat trauma are in france. but we begin in greece where thousands of refugees are trapped on the country's border with turkey texas president addle on a promise to open borders. but very few are making it that. exhausted and with nowhere to turn to these young pakistani men managed to slip into greece on bashir says the turkish military force them to the border he tells us they have been walking aimlessly for the last 10 hours. to get we're being moved from one side to the other the military is doing that we're stuck in the middle in the beginning we were 20 to 25 people that only us 3 made it the others were arrested they know that if they are caught by the greek police they too will be arrested.
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others didn't even get that far. like these migrants who gathered behind the border fence in turkey in an attempt to cross greek security forces used tear gas against them and allegedly even deadly force. these images from the other side of the border were given to us by the turkish government injured migrants being carried right from the fence. on caresses greek security forces shot live rounds into the crowds killing one and injuring 5 others a claim the greek government has called fake news. people here in the border town of us for a long have felt abandoned by the european union local mayor. is calling for a common and sustainable solution to deal with migration but for the people waiting at the border he has offered up a little hope anybody can vary of the cme. and after that get them it is no
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chance for these millions of refugees to end up in a 0 and increase game for the lava. f. i wish for all the sleeping alibi and their destination orders more dose this thing happening right now it's impossible not only for us or him or not but it's all in europe to receive these large numbers of people it is more bone. on my bone i strongly. doubt on the letter defined as a mo d. them both in miami. and his friends have made it to europe but their final destination germany is still a long way to go i'm on a mission to. walk on we don't have a car no money no money and nothing to drink or just walk with god like. god i am god. as they continue their journey they have no idea if they are going to make it but they know
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they want to get away from this dangerous front here as fast as they can. more than $12000.00 women in russia die each year as a result of domestic violence and hundreds of thousands more injured. a tattoo artist transforms the scars into a sign of a new beginning. this is no ordinary tattoo session it's a rebirth that's what jenny has a heart calls her project she tattoos over women scars left by the abuse and domestic violence their partners have inflicted on them it's a huge problem in russia. you know what should we need the physical scars last forever the women are afraid someone will see them this isn't so much about covering the scars it's about helping women lead normal lives again. and.
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flowers and butterflies instead of stab wounds and slashes victoria has been here many times she was one of the 1st women jenny has a heart helped in her rebirth project she shows us her 1st scar can still be seen of it which are difficult but it is what we have my husband and his friend direct me into the words they were both drunk they stopped me in the throat and under my arm. there are no reliable statistics on the number of women who are beaten abused or killed by their partners in russia. human rights activists estimate that one in every 3 russian women experiences violence at least once in her marriage many stay silent afraid their partners will take revenge and because they think the state won't help them a woman from the outskirts of the central asian city of new foss as abuse survivors
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aren't taken seriously when they go to the police she wants to remain anonymous. what you can my husband was a drug addict when he was high he would attack me with a knife he'd beat me and rip out my hair while this is one of the wounds from his knife. when the rebirth tattoo project 1st started a new fall 4 years ago few people knew what went on behind closed doors or how many women needed help. when 30 women from across the region turned up the 1st week jenny has a heart recognized her calling. us to help them work through their trauma instead of repressing it. into a trunk but of course come new they come here to tell their stories for the last time the memories stay in their hearts you can't tattoo
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a heart what's the saying out of sight out of mind now at least they don't have to look at their scars every day. i hope they won't dwell on the meter. for zahar the pain these women feel monk getting tattooed is all part of the support she hopes it's the last pain they'll ever feel and their lives. on next stop is gone but other places all over the world residents there are feeling the impact of the corona at the chemical got millions are afraid of getting ill and there are also concerns about economic losses because crucial imports from china have been stopped. joseph holding has been trading in lighting and electrical products in akra for more than a decade he imports over 70 percent of his products from china the outbreak of the coronavirus worries obeying his current stock will only last for the next 2 months
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he's afraid it could push prices up affecting consumers we talk about the money to supply the demand is high definitely the money it goes that go there it goes as always consume what the meat and then there's no pride is for it in the pleasures good will of. how do you sort of. consume is products from china used to arrive at ports like this one every month but there hasn't been a delivery here since the outbreak of covert 19 and local importers are blocked from traveling to china to bring in more goods now they fear the worst if the health crisis continues after march there's not even fright in the 1st place. come to know as deliver. to those countries.
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those up. in some bull. so there's a big fuss. in $28000.00 alone trade volumes between ghana and china it's $7300000000.00 imports from china alone accounted for $4800000000.00 that makes gonna china's 7th largest trading partner in africa getting insta penned on chinese products and experts say gonna and other african countries don't have an easy way out of the crisis. everybody. and even if you decided to go to your own. school be much higher in europe and how many businesspeople would be competitive. for now that open can do is hope for the virus to be contained in the coming weeks to keep his business healthy. almost 5 years ago paris was hit
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hard by a terror attack in 1000 concert goers were killed in the theater. survived the massacre and has found an unconventional way to deal with the trauma. returning to the vatican as an act for assistance for cutting the toward it. was inside that she survived one of france's worst terror attacks the massacre at the batter clan was part of a series of assaults across paris in which $131.00 people died so it's really a. labor there but i still get knots in my stomach when i come here but i didn't want to develop a phobia so quite soon afterwards i started coming back to the better. it's like a pilgrimage i'm remembering the dead and reminding myself how lucky i am.
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catherine survived these sort unharmed or so it seemed shortly afterwards she developed what many other victims of terror attacks suffer post-traumatic stress disorder or p.t.s.d. i had auditory hallucinations i imagined hearing sirens. and i blamed myself for being alive as if the others had to die so that i could live on it felt like i was going crazy for her family and friends were struggling to understand what she was going through and cuts clean felt incapable of putting our feelings into words so she found another method to express them. to my channelled all my suffering into my drawings it's a great relief it's like a catharsis i wanted people to understand how i was suffering from this invisible injury this huge millstone stands for all the symptoms of my p.t.s.d. which but she realized her drawings could do more than just help her alone and
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that's why she decided to put them in a book than her therapist my fellow survivors said that my drawings showed exactly what they were going through they took them to their relatives and friends and that helped them reconnect with their loved ones. i think my drawings could also help other survivors of terrorism or people suffering other traumas around the world well for. whom kathleen has since published a 2nd book which includes drawings of more every day ordinary problems that's her way of getting back to some sort of normal life but the attack changed her forever for what. it's like i'm a new katherine now the old me is dead i have no time to lose i want to live life to the fullest my 2nd book is a symbol of my new life i have a lot of goals and i want to develop my art further. and those who don't then
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pledge cutting will also keep returning to the bottom line she says she's determined not to give in to the fear the terrorists have awaken in her. with him her to be done because others with the highest high you know if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on a trip to cuba i would not have put myself and my parents in the danger to the bottom of the theme of the book give us leave the world. once uncle because that one little bit because of my has serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there but that much i'm going to.
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want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for more greats. like vogue. mug or just love was sued for the russians so. i'm still. so many different walks of life. some are pumping. oddly trying to put all of this comes straight from the heart it's cool to see it even when there's no more delusion the marsh book in trucks to come. from the 1st of the logs to their final resting place the russians r t w documentary.