tv World Stories Deutsche Welle June 7, 2020 9:15am-9:31am CEST
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when chewing out once again getting a taste of what the new norm is now like post lockdown something seem to be back to where they were before coronavirus brought everything to a halt opinion is divided some think the authorities are being too cautious other say not careful enough it's a test of social cohesion. i think people are very responsible a lot where they could be carrying the virus and are very careful around others. but not everyone in this playground chest this confidence older people in particular are still worried. service in my will mean i only need to come out at the weekend to see that people are partying everywhere 20 or 30 took at us the young just want to go for it. that's a couple of us in this neighborhood takes
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a more casual approach something the pandemic is over all of us believe that never really was a crisis so no one's saying that out loud it can be confusing. deciding this in shaft assistive it's difficult for people to know how close to each other they can get it specially when they're not sinking about it all day something they're experts and some just go with their own instincts that's why it's gotten i was on the on $100.00. many more tonight and vani monk. it's good to take a break but many missed their friends. on the front line up until. the berlin us and learning to live with the pen damage each in their own way. our own soul or in the faces of
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treat the old boy boy as i see it through which triggered hurdles to show her close to it jules suree were they in order to rule. since the beginning of the pandemic nurses and doctors in colombia have faced increasing hostility and explosion due to fears that they could spread the virus. liz is a nurse and. wearing her uniform fills her with pride especially in these trying times but in recent weeks she has repeatedly suffered discriminatory behavior after being identified as hospital staff. see that data i recently had to transfer some money we got and the place i went to didn't want to let me in.
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the lady at the front desk told me she couldn't serve me because i was clearly a health care worker. and could be infected. humiliated. and hurt with the situation we're not out to harm anybody. since the pandemic reached colombia numerous doctors and nurses have reported social stigmatise ation buses that won't stop for them supermarkets that won't let them do their shopping one nurse was reportedly beaten on the street and accused of spreading the virus. is a doctor in the city of cali he was evicted after residents in his building demanded he leave fearing he would bring colbert into their homes. told me that people were very scared the tenants threatened to leave if i did in that case they
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would refuse to pay the cancellation fee saying me moving in has been their choice and that it had put their lives in danger. so the landlady told me that she was sorry but i had to leave because she had to protect other tenants with. cases like those of christiane and liz are fortunately quite rare but even isolated incidents put added pressure on those already carrying society's biggest burden as hurtful as this rejection might be the good outweighs the bad unexpected expressions of solidarity and gratitude are what keeps liz going. i took a taxi the other day and when i was about to get out the driver didn't want to take my money i was wearing my uniform he told me you don't owe me anything thanks for what you're doing for our society for. us. and to those
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who are still fearful of her and her colleagues she has a clear message board please don't discriminate against his please don't abuses don't attack is because if we are gone who will come out and help you when your need to move back in got out or. in spain millions are facing a threat to their livelihoods. many lost their jobs from one day to the next and are now forced to rely on donations. 2 months ago old man who had it on the it as wouldn't have believed it if you told him he would be in this position in mid march the father of 3 was still a substitute teacher then his life went into freefall 1st he lost his job then his wife lost hers then the family had to use the last of their savings now he has to get food from the red cross without this charity his family wouldn't be able to get
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by. jensen doing. all of a sudden i stood there and went through a range of emotions 1st fear then helplessness then desperation then. when it started i tried to fight my emotions but then i had to let go and except for telling me i'm going through. the fin the small child office to poland in southern spain there are about 980 families who depend on food handouts the fact that you see no lights here is because the local charity has a telephone appointment system says social work. they do this to reduce the danger of infection but also so those in need don't have to suffer the embarrassment of being seen there. of us on the. middle class families have been hit for 2 months they've had no income. but they still have it costs rent mortgage and of course daily expenses on top of that.
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i mean. that's. at least not to have mirrors doesn't have to worry about paying rent right now his family is staying at his parents in law's apartment but they have already used up their entire savings around $800.00 euros when the crisis began he and his wife joined a community called to help the needy they bought 2000 masks and gloves to give to charity now they still have hundreds of in hindsight he thinks this might have been a mistake but back then they thought they could count on receiving emergency help from the government they are entitled to a few months of disaster relief funds but up until now they have not seen one cent . from in the attic because you know you're ruining entire families. were it not for charities and the incredible helpfulness of the normal people. that at some point we didn't know anything to eat but an awful lot of money and yes how do you
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want to limit. they feel lucky they can give their children a hot meal every day doing the ingredients given to them by the red cross their kids have long accepted the fact that right now they can't get any new toys or even have these are all mine well and in want is to work again. homeless people in africa have little protection from cultured 19 we visit the kenyan capital nairobi to find out what life is like for those on the street. every day at around 1 pm at least 14 men and boys gather here in kenya capital nairobi one of them a homeless including 1000 year old cryonic here and they're all here for lunch to leave a daily by a nonprofit working in the city called homeless of nairobi. despite the coded 1000
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outbreak most of them have no masks and when lunch is over they huddle for some banter before leaving in different directions in this reality social distancing and staying home and not realistic options. to model does not exist doesn't exist or doesn't exist so call read blah blah blah all those things a little bit it's there and even if it comes on heats one of them and they die. the kids are used to people dying. death was the catalyst to brian's life on the streets he never met his father and when his mother died he left home on the back of a cargo truck which brought him to the city since then this has been his life walking greeting and wishing. i ask him how if a told a covert 1900. 85. minute tell me don't
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come near me. are you concerned about the virus. but we just press on that. brian is one out of an estimated 20000 people living on the streets in kenya. but each night the country's curfew comes into effect. the homeless seem to disappear thanks they retreat into these dark corners hidden from police officers m.p.'s we meet a mother with her 6 month old baby when you see we were doing god is the only one keeping us alive she says because even if we are afraid of the virus it's not like we can stay indoors only as a libra nuber brian considers himself lucky to have a roof over his head the organization that provides lunch has rented 2 rooms in the slum for the boys. brian sleeps in this corner and the army as he calls his group
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of friends from the streets take whatever space is left. my shop on the left is good it's better than on the streets i was little from when i was out there nothing to cover myself but here is something. it's no wonder that the next morning when we meet brian he's having a cocktail of blue and jet fuel for breakfast the blue keeps the hunger. and the jet fuel keeps reality at bay. and so another day begins as the last one ended walking greeting. wishing. played .
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