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on the planets that i read annular solar eclipse cost the shadow of africa right across to why asia bringing a dramatic ring of fire to the skies and have a eclipse as occur when the moon passes between the earth of the sun but not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure the sun's light this year's eclipse coincided with the northern hemisphere is longest day of the here. you're watching news and your up to date i'll be back with more headlines at the top of the hour thanks for watching. beethoven is for me. it's for. children is for. me. and beethoven is for. beethoven is for bringing. me to even 2020 years of
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the 50th anniversary here on d w. what secrets lie behind the wall. discover new adventures in the 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. p.w. world heritage 360 getting up now. this week on world stories. italy once again open to tourists ukraine surrogate mothers babies are waiting for their parents but we begin in india since lockdown restrictions have been eased the number of corona virus infections has
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risen sharply hospitals are strained to beyond capacity temporary morgues are reaching their limits and the situation is bound to worsen apart from pockets of containment centers the deed to day lives of people in india seem to be returning to normal as logged on restrictions east but the flights hardly reflect the real situation india is fighting a tough battle with coronavirus and for the capital city delhi which has a big surge in the number of covered 1000 cases the fight just caught up with a number of infections spiralling there's great concern about the health care systems capacity to pull. things family is one of many who lost a loved one in the pandemic. his father in law saying who was asked a magic death to positive for the virus after hours of waiting in line at the hospital where the test was done became unresponsive to their cause and the family
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struggled for days to get proper guidance on these wife i'm a freak even took to twitter to share their ordeal. numbers are private hospitals didn't respond. to the hospital because we're not having enough space some hospitals clearly said no we don't we don't have beds the hospital with a government hospital which was. the only option available to the plane on that day morning the doctor initially refused to take him in. this has been done in a different hospital. and as we were trying to. get inside the car by the time received medical attention his condition worsened and he . government under scrutiny especially since records indicate that there are enough hospital beds available to
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treat patients. some experts say the problem is not entirely due to the infrastructure. we have michael even tease we had the right we're going to. make this should be working in. human resources great scared off you know there's a lot of panic in the doctors not coming forward with access to government hospitals becoming increasingly difficult delis private hospitals charging exorbitant amounts of money which makes the treatment. the government says it just new strategies to deal with the rising number of cases but the steps taken so far seem to be falling short and for many it will be too early. crane being
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a surrogate mother is both legal and lucrative but. the country's borders were closed and many parents have had trouble picking up their babies like this. one month and 3 days late but at least they're together. and your elders have traveled more than 10000 kilometers by car through continent in lockdown to finally meet their daughter. she still has to get used to us she doesn't know who we are. their daughter spent her 1st month with a carer in an apartment her parents only able to see her on a screen. you know the so sad we were crying just seeing her pictures and unable to do anything for her you just feel so helpless all you can do is wait . as their daughter's birth came and went and with no end to lockdown in sight all people are and your elders could do was scour the ukrainian press with the help of
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a translation up on the lookout for some sign of hope neither the spanish government nor the ukrainian embassy could or would help when they read that ukraine's human rights on but when it promised to help parents into the country and just jumped in their car to drive the 3600 kilometers from their home in madrid to kiev. first trip was a live in the dark we didn't know what we'd encounter at the borders on route they received a long hoped for permission to enter ukraine yeah i cried when we received this i didn't think a piece of paper could make this happy. but it wasn't enough. this week was not a chance and were just 500 kilometers from kiev then they told us no we just couldn't take it anymore they were missing just one document enough for them to be turned back at the ukrainian border returning home to madrid with the only option without their baby a week later they were back at the ukrainian frontier after 7000 kilometer round
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trip to madrid and back this time with the right documents and they were finally allowed into the country other parents have been less fortunate separated from their children by even greater distances and still unable to enter ukraine how many babies are still without their parents no one can say with any confidence. we've lost months of our daughter's life. that's super important and. it was actually a month of 3 days to leave it felt like a year spanish must sound strange to her she doesn't want to sleep she just wants to listen to us. in spain as in many other european countries surrogacy is a legal gray zone now the legal illegal immigrant of ours locked down which is the 1st of many obstacles on that path. to south africa has been locked down since the end of march with devastating economic
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consequences for the poorest people the government did announce a but has been slow to deliver again bosses are using this as an opportunity to burnish their reputations. many charities in the cape town feed the hungry what sets this one apart as the fact that it's organized by a former gang leader. leon mio used to head the mongols one of the most feared gangs in this city. i know now most of the people don't have financial worries start from here. that's why. the slogan on his t. shirt says the harder you fall a stronger you rise it could describe myers own life he was behind bars for 18 years for crimes including a marred conviction this area the cape flats has a reputation for organized crime and drug trafficking cape town she's an average of
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8 murders every day but lockdown has led to a drop in gang warfare according to a local pastor. there's a resigned and a mother of 4 says leon meyer has become a symbol of hope in the area since the last time she used their payments halfway through the month unemployment is rife here. because you don't. people like that. was the alpha and he put it that way. i think you can. get support that anything that only tell you about put it. down tell you. it's up to you to support the community to do it. but criminologist dawn pena has convinced gang members have an ulterior motive for helping out their community. gangs in my experience seldom do anything for anybody
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else they it's all about themselves it's all about what they can gain so you know my 1st question would be if they distributing food parcels why you know what are they getting out of it and. you know they they might want to look good in their communities but they might be using that there's a lot out so you know how do you get out and distribute your drugs back on the keep flights leon meyer admits that breaking with the past is easier said than done. but things is never going to go away i'm going to be get something you know to things it will always be there will always be gangsters in the way we stay on in the way we look they put us all together i used to consider yourself against the firm. i'm against i'm a born against among all i was doing against him. because the only way out for. and through this. in the meantime the desert resign man is headed home with jenna
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she says she doesn't judge others a priority is making sure her children don't go to bed hungry. venice was strangely empty during the coronavirus lockdown it was a rare opportunity for this normally brimming lagoon city to recuperate but now visitors are starting to return. venice is legendary waterways without the masses a rare commodity here gondoliers are slowly returning to the city's canals but so far only a few visitors have indulged themselves. usually packed with tourists at this time of the year piazza san marcos seems almost deserted after the coronavirus crisis brought the city to a near standstill venice is gradually opening up to visitors again. but not
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everyone is looking forward to the return of the masses jane demo still sees this as an opportunity for a much needed change she has been advocating for a more sustainable form of tourism one that doesn't put the future of the city at risk the problem with venice is that it's in an extremely fragile delicate system and and you can't just do anything you like to venice it needs to be. treated carefully otherwise there won't be any venice left in the future and we need to be responsible about. the legacy of venice and think about what venice has given to us other people have a right to get that too she tells us venice has a unique way of life that is threatening to disappear jane the most who wants to use to engage with the city again spending more time in restaurants and museums and
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not rushing through in a few hours. while many agree venice needs to change the way it handles its visitors the city's tourism counsellor wants to further assess the situation before applying any drastic measures. this is not the museum. we've put together. you know some campaign there are a city in the world i don't think so many many people speak about the. tourists now there are 50 millions 30000000 around song that's not true i want to count i will know how many people. every day and i know with travel restrictions now being lifted all over europe the nations should not take too long to decide what kind of future they see for their city. player
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