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places. cities will sink into the city. of tire stretches of land will be abandoned. on the water striders. massive waters are supposed to prevent flooding but the only delay the inevitable. come up in the future 66 meters rising sea levels starts june 5th on g.w. the 1st. place. this week on the world stories a was in racist attacks against africans in china okolona induced a boom in gun sales in the usa but we begin in syria despite the current ceasefire

in live residents of the war torn city are now in the throes of the colona and the aid organizations are warning of an impending catastrophe. what's it like to live in it live in constant fear of assad's approaching forces in constant fear the aerial bombardments will resume. for weeks now 26 year old students are hazaar to our has been sending us our impressions images from the last rebel held city in syria where the coronavirus is on everyone's lips of us and i must take it seriously but it's difficult when i go outside i try to wear a mask and gloves i worry that my family or i will get infected i'm not any the ceasefire has been holding an adlib for weeks now the city is coming back to life and the streets and markets a bustling but just as people savor the sweet taste of freedom the threat of the coronavirus is looming. in other countries but the coronavirus people are cooling

the town here in nobody is taking the danger seriously everyone's going shopping nobody is taking any precautions. in the refugee camps around the corona virus seems a distant threat to hundreds of thousands of people live here and die a conditions essential health measures such as keeping a safe distance or washing hands are impossible in many of the camps health workers are trying to raise the alarm however they can really require you will have to understand help dangerous the situation is we as doctors have extremely limited means at our disposal to tackle this pandemic. dr catto is an anesthesiologist and general manager at one of the few hospitals still operating in adelaide province he's trying to prepare the clinic even though it only has 2 intensive care beds and a single ventilator there are only 95 ventilators for the whole region with

a population of more than 3000000 dr says it could get worse than an italy. they're probably right soon will have to make some really terrible decisions here the who should get a chance to live and who should be let die. because we have no people in there no gloves and above all no ventilators in the. clinic stuff posted this photo on facebook will stay here for you you stay at home for us but the appeal has fallen on deaf ears to has stopped wearing a mask when she leaves the house she says she can't stand being stared at and laughed at any more and more tough times are ahead. racist attacks against africans are increasing in china they're being blamed for the recent increase in corona infections there as

a result many africans want one thing to return to their home countries. evicted beaten and forgotten these are social media videos of scenes in china's into us a high fuel that many africans are facing bitterest newtok a kenyan teacher moved to china 4 years ago seeking a better future instead she's broke a locked up in an apartment in shandong province everest is because it marched we have not been working so my jory to you guys who are teachers here really facing each other because right now is no money to pay for rangers no money for. a recent rise in corby 1000 inventions have led to the fore because attacks against foreigners in china where african seem to have been hit the hardest are the chinese government or is about a 2nd wave of the deadly virus. there are many undocumented african immigrants

living in china who are blamed for the rise in factions mostly with very little evidence these violent incidents of now sparked a diplomatic row between africa and china. i completely drained my mind my poor case to a mexican that what i was doing hours calling my mom back home to send me some something that i may be able to buy myself food and right now it has gone to an extent that i commit to be able to ask her any more back in kenya beatrice family war is about. all i ask myself and these people human enough we have the chinese people here and they're treated well why are they doing this to our children and when she told me when she slept out on the floor.

i just asked the government to help them. i just heard they're going to send a plane but how are they going to pay for it so that if the enemy. but it's a cry for help that may go unnoticed my mom is very worried about me and all why she wants me is back safe. in our canyon sway we all we know nothing so long island. could buy many africans in china lives have been tanned upside down and not desperate to be reunited with their families. and now to the usa due to the corona pandemic many americans are dashing to gun shops and shooting ranges business is booming many there see guns as a form of protection during the crisis.

magazine loaded release and fire. mason fon has been shooting firearms since he was a child but since the cold with 19 pandemic the son of vietnamese immigrants has been beefing up his skills. he says there's a general feeling of insecurity among americans. with the uncertainty of what's going on on the pandemic there could be anything that could happen such as riots such as people going crazy you know. there's also also always racism in the fall so having a gun help protect self and also my family. shooting ranges and gun shops in the state of virginia are considered essential business and were allowed to remain open during the shutdown. the clark brothers range has twice as many customers as usual

owner steve clarke says gun sales at the decades old family business have never been so high. there's just some people who said i'm not sure how to deal with this if i have a firearm i can deal with this if somebody tries to take something of mine i can defend myself. hardly anyone here wears a face mask social distancing doesn't seem to be important but some have come to reflect on what drives americans to guns these days. my explanation is we americans in the country have gone berserk we think this coronaviruses the next apocalypse and it's just in people are scared for some. unknown reason i know that i think that's a simple as that. was fear for some is business for others there's

a one hour wait time and extra paperwork to get into this gun shop in the city of arlington the store was completely sold out in the early stages of the shutdown shop owner sean poulan says he is still struggling to keep up with the clients appetite for firearms. mace and fun has not bought any new weapons since the virus hits for him training at the shooting range is a great excuse to leave the house while he's working from home. in america no more than ever guns are an essential business. our last journey leads us to belgium where jazz pianist seymour pronounced moves his music helped him when he had to hide from the nazis during world war 2 during the corona crisis the passionate jazz pianist is now playing for his native us.

a bit of jazz music drawing people out of their homes. a rather unusual picture in times of covered 1009. 120 because it makes me happy to bring a bit of happiness and hope to the people and to cheer them up we don't cougars. the monger navasky says jazz is his life music helped him to overcome the trauma he experienced as a jew in belgium during the 2nd world war. she knew the mofo as a child i lived through the persecution of the nazis barbarism. they killed my mother and my sister in the gas chambers of auschwitz birkenau.

my father died in despair just after the war this is in july 945. 1 when i was 11 the nazi secret police the gestapo they took me and threw me in prison measure think gas shoot. the nazis put chernoff ski and his mother on a deportation train more than 1500 people crammed in cattle cars destination auschwitz concentration camps. but he was lucky 3 belgian resistance fighters stopped the train his mother told him to flee and he ran into the night she didn't jump because she didn't want to threaten his escape he says. in new york . every night i dreamt i was being chased by the gestapo. 2 or 3 times i changed families for security reasons. whenever

i arrived somewhere i went to the attic 1st to see how i could escape over the roofs if they came to get me. the victim here she after the war returned to brussels and made good on his dream of studying law. at 23 i was a doctor of law and a lawyer i'm still a lawyer today because i'm far too young to stop i did. not ski says he has been confined twice in his life once during the war and now due to cope with 19 very different experiences but it was always jazz music that helped him to cope.

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