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on twitter and instagram i'm publish an alias for me and the rest of the team take care and see it very soon. what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. world heritage 360 get maps now. the global media for our 3rd online session. the coronavirus crisis has hit local news organizations especially hard. what will
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it take for them to recover. is turbo digitalization in the local journalism a way out of the crisis and. join our online session at the forum. today at 1230 u.t.c. . this week on the world stories. china cracking down on buddhism. nigeria bringing gullit to low income areas but we begin to believe you where especially in that city love parts more and more people are falling victim to coronavirus and hospitals are dangerously close to being overloaded.
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in this car a 68 year old man has died as a result of cope at 19 he never made it to hospital just a few hours earlier a friend and family members had tried to get him help at 5 medical centers but they were denied. it all the hospitals are full we were sent to the hospitals in la porte and in court to whom he stopped breathing when we were underway and that's why we're here the dead man's sister says her goodbyes while the police examine the corpse. and officer hands over that death certificate since the coroner hasn't turned up the officer says people aren't just dying in their cars they're also dying on the street and at home hospitals are at breaking point and it's becoming harder to access treatment thought even while searching for help people often go from one hospital to the other some of them die in their cars our department records deaths that occur in private vehicles and on public
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transportation but a lot of this if you go. bolivia's currently in the community transmission phase santa cruz la paz and cochabamba are the worst affected regions the average age of death is about $75.00 with more men dying than women. rebecca's father died in his home because no hospital in an alto would admit him. we can do is bury him that's all we can do my father is no longer with me. these stories of being shuttled from hospital to hospital are repeated every day during the pandemic and there's no end in sight cemeteries are almost full and funeral parlors have run out of coffins. this man complains that he had to say goodbye to a family member in a particularly painful way. they simply put him in an improvised box. you can't even barter with them about the price saying you're willing to pay for
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better but there is nothing else then no i. family members aren't even allowed to enter cemeteries and they have to say their final goodbyes from a far touching flowers at the perception of cars bringing in the bodies for burial and every day police pick up an average of 70 bodies from the streets 85 percent of them infected with kovac 19. in china the communist party is intensifying its crackdown on religious organizations and communities across the country. even famous buddhist statues are under threat. looming is a devout buddhist view is not his real name he's afraid of repercussions in his hometown see on would this have come under pressure from the government since they started protesting against the destruction of the buddhist sites in the outskirts
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of procedure a 3 phase statue of wind and even the d.t.i. of mercy in chinese buddhism is bound for demolition. suddenly the government fenced the statue off they are doing works inside but they haven't informed society about the reasons for the destruction. this is left us buddhists and those who worship the goddess of guanine inside and outside china quite bewildered. the 3 faced kuan yin and an adjacent monastery would between 2002 when a company donated the giant statue to the buddhist community made of white jaded quickly gained fame. i am trying to take a look at the site the statue is located in a mountainous region about an hour's drive from the city center. we approach the statue where security guards up posted at the roadside stopping and taking pictures
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of the demolition is strictly prohibited the government does not want these images to spread on social media we can only feel them out of the car window. it is unclear how far the demolition has already gone activists have written to the government and complained on social media over the conservation of this that you will just as of the asians as far as malaysia have protested against its demolition to no avail. c.n.n. is an ancient capital of china tourists from all over the world come to see its historic sites including its buddhist heritage but in recent years the government has pushed for a revival of communist ideology even inside dot untempered the world famous buddhist heritage the sign reminds visitors to uphold socialist values the chinese
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government is exercising immense pressure on religions compared to the latter to buddhism is treated even more leniently. the government considers it to be more in line with their norms but i've witnessed that pressure on buddhist temples myself and their activity is increasing. and the pace is picking up as well temples have been forced to cancel religious events monasteries have had some of their buildings demolished experts estimate that the 3 faced border is just one of up to $800.00 statues that have been destroyed city years. since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic working conditions in germany's meat processing industry have become public knowledge. the worst affected victims are often seasonal workers from eastern europe. sebastian is 9 months old 10 years ago his family moved from romania to the ensign and region of
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north west germany. sebastian's found them out he has saved up and bought a house he now works in a vehicle factory and doesn't like to think about the time he spent temping in a german slaughterhouse he needed the money but conditions were hard. not about god you know i work for a reputable company that cares for its employees and doesn't take advantage of them in the slaughterhouse there were so many temporary work agencies that enticed people with the promise of easy money but the job was very hard and the workers were treated badly. look this is the sort of house malleus is talking about it's 2000 employees earn minimum wage and their food and overpriced accommodation is deducted from their pay it's often been described as slave labor.
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no what do you mean slaves no one is forced to work here everyone comes here of their own free will for goodness sake. there's a certain workflow that needs to get done that's. the business model relies on eastern european workers who tend to put up with the pool working conditions and bad pay a christian welfare association advises the workers if they have problems at the slaughterhouse there are numerous troubling reports about the conditions. i've seen people being exploited treated badly and screamed out the coronavirus is forcing a change the german government wants to ban temporary workers in slaughterhouses many romanians now hope for permanent contracts and higher wages i think things will improve i heard from an acquaintance of mine who works for
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a german company that workers there get 1800 euros for working 180 hours a month. the slaughterhouse security eventually saw rafts and stopped any further interviews and abuses in the german meat industry have long been a dirty secret but the coronavirus crisis has brought to light the problems for temp workers in germany slaughterhouses. over half of nigerians live in poverty. this fight for survival shapes every day life. i dedicated ballet teacher helps young girls to escape this lifestyle for. 8 families live in this housing complex today starts early for a day without breakfast but with a choice the 18 year old shares 10 square meters with her mother and her younger
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sister she's trying to help her family by putting her own needs on hold life now is very difficult it is very tough because sometimes i need something because if you don't have enough money i just ask if you assume that tell me stuff that's so. schools are closed due to the pandemic when i meet a small is an elementary teacher she has to stay at home without a salary and is struggling to provide for her 2 daughters. taken good care of the 2 and this is the one for me as well. given the with i don't want to look at gil's outside means. one of the poorer neighborhoods off lagos some girls slide into prostitution to make money and some boys become criminals while the media grew up here she's looking for a different path through. this is the same neighborhood but it feels like
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a different world i guess ready for a class of 12 students trains in this makeshift dance room twice a week one of them is all day. some are as young as 6 danielle a self-taught professional dancer is teaching them for free to keep them off the streets. allow me that was one of his 1st students in 2017 she says it's never too late to stop ballet and when it comes down as i feel i forget about everything behind this does makes me feel happy and makes this expressed my feelings she eats how i feel i dance just forget about the past now. there's stage improvised the streets of. the contrast couldn't be big for some it's
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a welcome distraction others are skeptical. because it didn't just people mention anything about it is in dissent oily dissociated selig's off. no air will be seen where it's not like got plenty to stay doesn't end here after ballet she learns to saw at this shop learning a trade that may finance for studies one day she keeps practicing ballet why is she so willing i don't care what people reaction because they my thing on me allow me to may never dance on the big international stage is a dancing gives her strength something she needs to overcome the difficulties she faces.
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