tv World Stories Deutsche Welle May 23, 2020 3:15pm-3:30pm CEST
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supposed to prevent flooding but the only delivery going to. come will when live in the future of the 66 major busy sea levels starts june 5th on g.w. . this week on the world stories. great britain health care system in crisis usa help for the homeless. but we begin in called the india market calls are the perfect place for the coronavirus to spread but that hasn't deterred sellers and buyers of the capital bogota. it looks like a scene from a different era
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a bustling. market in the heart of. the capital like the rest of colombia is under strict quarantine. but here it almost seems like business as usual. keeping the market running throughout the lockdown is a big job says manager freddie rojas we must implement go. we've installed 40 sinks and $55.00 jail dispensers these are strategically located throughout the market and we're also enforcing a minimum distance of one meter between people in order to avoid gatherings. every day we sanitize the entire perimeter of the market we also disinfect the parking lot and all the vehicles right on your own in our part of the group each of the $1500.00 people who enter bogota biggest grocery retailer every day have their temperature taken and must wear a face mask at all times in reality not many people seem to care about the social
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distancing guidelines they wear their masks incorrectly or take them off to check out or have a snack. and while colombians are told to leave their homes only when absolutely necessary some shopkeepers are actually seeing more people now than before the restrictions came in. as a real city only the flow of people has definitely increased everybody's stuck at home trying to combine. time seeing 12 and sometimes even 3 people from the same household. i asked my customers whether they'd like me to deliver their groceries to them at home most of them tell me no this is the only way i can get out for a while. because not a moment. i mean has worked at the market for nearly 50 years he has never known anything like this. with his fruit stall suddenly turned into a high risk work environment camillo can't help but feel
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a little fatalistic was removed but i do feel very exposed but here's how i see it if i catch it it's meant to happen i've lived my life. every day he's putting his physical wellbeing on the line to keep his business a life. with takings haft since columbia went into lockdown camillo says he can only keep going for another month. the survival of his fruit shop depends on how the government manages the crisis camilla's health depends on whether his fellow shopkeepers and customers can stick to the rules and adapt to the new normal. the british health care system was already close to its limits before the coronavirus and since the outbreak of the pandemic the situation has worsened they were turned off ventilators for doctors and nurses and there's not even enough protective equipment for them. the northeast gown that protects him from
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corona virus dr assays munaf almost feels guilty every time he went on. he's an emergency doctor so he doesn't have access to past more protective equipment or people. that supplies across the u.k. are very limited and simply aren't enough gowns for every doctor i want to get a kitchen it's a. conscious use it to. the cardboard box of supplies getting last and last and that's every time. we have to bury it you know we're going to harvest are not 3 quarters of all you can talk to say they don't have access to protective clothing visors and masks are also in short supply some doctors are having to buy their own f f p 3 masks from the i y stores and from building that fence. and also having to do things like make their own aprons active rubbish bin bags to try
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to protect their closing whilst they're doing these high risk procedures over 100 medical staff doctors as well as nurses have already died from the virus on social media videos like this are being shared hospital workers paying their last respects to a continent even before the crisis the u.k. was short of over 40000 nurses staff are now on the enormous pressure even very experienced nurses and pushed to the edge and we have a lot of newly qualified staff who only been in the job 6 months or one year and they've really been pushed pushed we do need more starker we need more that meant and that is a result of underfunding of the last decade and patients are suffering to hospitals are having to rush in supplies like oxygen or dialysis fluid for patients with kidney failure. up to more nothing scribe situations where older patients that
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might offend from intensive care has been denied treatment whereas a few months ago people over 65 you would sit if you're basing it mentality but now if you scratch your soul straight just sort of trust other people to to educate people about their 55 i think you should which i deemed. a test of care you did but the i.c.u. people rejected it i think a lot of people it wiped off rushed me. britain's national health service is facing its biggest emergency since its founding. the usa has been most severely hit by the pandemic its homeless are especially vulnerable to catching the virus not only are they without a home they also very rarely have access to health care facilities. breakfast on wheels since the food bank closed its doors for the homeless farly
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decided to bring the food bank to them very rick. is coming up to say you are the brunt of the lunch bag brunch coffee and some warm words for the most vulnerable group of the pandemic. you know but i try to do what i can no water keep my hands they're clean oh david farley is a volunteer for a local church in washington d.c. besides breakfast he brings the latest news about what has turned into a serious threat for the homeless you know number one in the world that i could see . that's of course. as the virus continues to spread in the capital region rob farley tries to convince them to wear face masks but that's one of the lesser problems. care put on your throat we're supposed to say 6 feet apart. you know. for those who go into the shelter i think social distancing is pretty
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tough to do in there and for many folks that stay out on the street sanitation you know where where to use the bathrooms where to wash your hands. with estimates of around $10000.00 living on the streets washington d.c. has one of the biggest homeless communities in the united states. to offer some protection authorities have set up hand washing stations but not everyone has such easy access as this man who lives in a tent across the street. nevertheless no other group is hit as hard as the homeless and that's especially true in some emergency accommodations that have been in the news. while filming inside is not allowed media reports say a lack of social distancing made it easy for the virus to spread. pro bono lawyer amber harding says the homeless have to be taken off the streets you have 30000 vacant hotel rooms in d.c.
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that we could use to place people in until you know things settle down and we also have vacant housing units and we should be really focusing on putting people into long term housing so they are able to protect themselves so we could volunteer rob farley says keeping the homeless safe is the key for the whole community to recover from the pandemic. since the outbreak of the corona virus in china many people with asian brits living in germany have faced prejudice and racism so one such person set up a support group on facebook. it all started in early march victoria noticed something that shifted when she rode public transportation skeptical glances from passengers others who had moved to different
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parts of the train. at 1st i thought i was imagining things then i noticed people would look at my face and then sit somewhere else i followed 3 of them just to make sure they didn't simply get off the train and went to other compartments or sat in the bicycle section of. victoria corriveau who is german her parents moved here long before she was born she's used to experiencing discrimination for being a visible minority but once the 1st cases of coronavirus appeared here such incidents became more frequent other oberlin is widely seen as a tolerant diversity there's an undercurrent of hatred one man even told her she should spray herself with disinfectant. but. i've been keeping a low profile because i'm afraid of more attacks like that one victoria tried to talk to her friends about it but they shied away from the subject she doesn't think they're taking the problem seriously. then through facebook
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she made contact with people across the country who were having the same kind of experience since the pandemic began they have reported almost daily occurrences of hostility just because they look asian hi i says the new pope ofan who is from china also lives in berlin he's filmed incidents of racial abuse he's experienced on the site. a friend told me you should you should totally report it even though i don't have the launch help on the. police but because i want to at least to show people that i have this evidence and i'm not going to being silent was a tool of. the little child. victoria court of who says it's been helpful to compare notes with others in the same boat that prompted her to create a website that helps bring people together and offer support. it's important for
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people to be connected this way in times of social distancing to share your experience so others know what's going on. racism is nothing new in germany and victoria court of new fears it will be around a long time after the pandemic is over but she's determined to make a difference so people like her feel less alone. what's the secret to a perfectly fried potato. would give some national dishes their distinctive character. or their. europe's favorite dishes with their small and big secrets in 0 series lead secrets
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