tv Close up Deutsche Welle August 18, 2020 12:30am-1:01am CEST
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well joel riches were stolen from africa and carted off to europe by colonialists. each artifact has blood on it from the wounds that have yet to heal. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. show and soul store september 7th on g.w. . thank. my your cars be a mile the party goes on just like before no mosques no you can distance. in the german and british party areas beyond the police have had to intervene in the images cause outrage in spain oh some days of the $900.00 people per day died
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of coke at 19 others may have forgotten most but not the scottish. my. car. buyer. it's noon on one of the last days of april in downtown madrid everything goes quiet every day at 12 o'clock people remember the victims from fires pandemic on this day the ministry of health registers almost 24000 deaths so far. when we started filming for this report spain was in total lockdown one of the
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strictest in the world. as a journalist i'm allowed to move around freely in the city where i've lived for 3 years a city i know is noisy fast and brash. with you but now i no longer recognise madrid is the locals on their balconies feel the sign . is that it has been locked in for almost 50 days yet so. i'm hyperactive and i don't know how to do nothing as you know that man that one of the most when our son grows up we'll tell him how it was to be stuck at home for months without seeing the families of the losing it you know it doesn't seem bad i mean yes yes if you start to miss the buzz vibrancy of the city i miss it terribly there is the innocence. at the start of the lockdown the neighbors in the district of prosperity dat laughing need to cratered this strange
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. they went out on their balconies and ate every evening of the links that others are out there too. i saw the soup to go game board. being early start how i. was. 7575 he was it was yes we run over here it was a house a very nice yes yes yes yes i. mean and today its conscious birthday from number 10. was. i. was. almost every jane there's a little surprise for somebody the neighbors say it offers comfort. and also in our culture everyone is close we always need to touch and to see each other every day
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this is the us he knows i'm so grateful to you all that you receive all this is what i'm sure that normally we would never have met half of all these people before that maybe the ones in that house but the others our paths would never of cross to i'm one of the some of you. i hope that we stay friends afterwards it's the sentiment is just great that we get along so well if it's not me it's a miracle for me when i'm trying the others out the. wasn't in the way does interest being a dad is a ray of hope for us. for weeks all we've been editing in our studio is pictures of catastrophe. images from a hospital on the brink of collapse with seriously ill patients lying in the corridor was. ice rinks serving as cool to make shift mortuaries because there
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was no room elsewhere. for the military disinfecting old people's homes in some of them soldiers find dead bodies that had been lying in their beds for days no one wanted to touch them for fear of contagion. that is an honest little source is a geriatric nurse in a suburb of madrid she'd rather not say how many people died in her home only that it was too many she suspects that staff brought the virus in in the beginning they didn't even have personal protective equipment. in question was it i don't know if it is the management tells us that it was only alarm the old people if they saw us wearing masks struggles in 10 minutes persisted my mask that is of course it alarms the elderly a lot of my it but what happened next was much much worse that are different others
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were total rich appeared. the more anna tells me the more i hope that someone like her will be able to look after me if i need it in later years. she works almost full time and earns just $840.00 euros gross and it talks very fondly about the old people that when 2 or 3 of them suddenly started dying per day she had panic attacks at night and went back to work in the morning filled with fear. yet another one had died and her colleagues couldn't even hold their hand. it had to make a bit of a skit arianna a lot of colleagues say that they can't even cry about it yet because we're not sure that they just carry their fears around with them about the time she got out why we puff and when i suddenly remember what one of these elderly people said or did. yes we talk about it a lot. see a lot of which were going at. all these people had to die
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alone anna says we couldn't be with them and neither could their families. david lopez lost his grandmother in early april she told him she had a bit of a cold 2 days later she was dead she loved to plaquemine says she was my best friend he knows nothing about her last few hours only that there was no ventilator for the 96 year old the hospital wouldn't let anyone have access to her. we talked about it in the family and it really harrowing for us. you have someone you love and you don't know how they died the most how it and whether she missed her family. whether she could have done with all the dying warmth. someone by her side out of the moment but it wasn't a loud enough said antonia getting out was the military
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arc of the family a passionate football fan her grandchildren went to the stadium with her. in normal times there would have been awake for her and a funeral with all the family in the end due to the risk of infection only 3 relatives were allowed to her burial david was one of them. but we weren't allowed to decide anything unless the funeral was so sterile that summers 3 people who had to keep their distance from one another to some of them out afterwards all you can do is to write the others a what at message about how it was at such and such a time they pushed the coffin into the flames we couldn't stand together etc for me it was one awful experience after another it's been going.
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a few days later still showing the lockdown we had northwest to go. in most of the higher up we needed when they speak only one passenger per road is allowed. there are signs of the state of emergency and road chinks in freeway the only people allowed to pass a once you can prove they have to work. but as they are so if they like it it's one of them and we're filming for german television how many people that is 33 rows of seats 3 people from north. america and no. on the journey we pass through opinion or a village in the middle of a huge forest the whole village lives in the team to trade a 1000 inhabitants 9 cars from builders one of the factories belongs to host
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a luis gonzalez and his son. for the fall. in recent business. but now they can hardly keep up with production. fears there are those who should be clear some of these cotton suppose for the crisis. you have a window on the lid so you can see the deceased one last time maybe early march mentally interior is question and and lined with sat up. old armies of motors that will give you the now we have another model. here the window is no longer needed and for the mining we used biodegradable paper you're the lavish you know wakes are a lot of them out i but a seized have to be cremated and immediately. these pardons go straight to the crematorium oh my god. father and
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son struggled against competition from china. and to take his preferred to buy their coffins cheap from asia. but once they bought him it broke out hardly any imports came into the country and instead of producing $200.00 is suddenly producing $400.00 coffins per month the family business is managing with a 3 employees who've always worked here over because it was under one of theirs that we've been working overtime to meet the demand. and we've adapted the production to more basic models partly for speed. because we couldn't have managed it with the old models over again with the you've got one of the true. tender personalised details and special requests were possible before at the moment it's not in keeping with the times. an hour's drive away other
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arrange to meet up with some old acquaintances. a married couple i know from an earlier film. because they must so still and celia balsa did their best to stay active join the lockdown. joga while he we discovered his grown up sons old sports equipment. now that. i'm not allowed into the flat syria used to be a nurse and knows all about the dangers of infection but not everyone takes the rules so seriously they've been observing this from their window and then just recently sometimes you see the same dog outside the whole morning and then again in the afternoon and it's always someone different taking him for a walk they're having a joke that they are. the next morning horse in ca are allowed to take this 1st walk for now spaniards are
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allowed to go out for one hour per day almost 2 months there were only allowed to go out for grocery shopping. in the mean time it's spring and if anything is a little unusual. you have to move out of joggers way all the time. and jose hasn't quite got the hang of the mask. here when i am not. now but what do i know. you. do to try to pick up a good pace but they can't really go further than round in a circle they're only allowed to make a kilometer away from their flat. is annoyed their own rules everywhere. are rearming future memory and i can only talk to my children and grandchildren by
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video at the moment that's how it is right now. there are minor and i'd love to see them to cuddle them so much cooler literature. the caminos to james' way goes right to the heart and. from april to november hundreds of thousands of pilgrims crowd through these narrow streets. now early may only be peak season but the hostels have written it off. but i don't know if it was one for our business it means a year of losses total yet the pilgrimage is not happening this year. where a lot of the. rafale martins and his girlfriend al decided nero
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wanted to take over this small hostel and 2 others from parents they worked on the guest rooms all winter spending $25000.00 euros on the renovation now they have revenues 0 they need a plan b. . you know i could go back to the construction site and could go back to work as an occupational therapist i think then we can live for a while from our all jobs in that. 5 hour but and ref ala not giving up their dream of st james way yet they've come too far for that. you know most of you have this here is our life my parents life and alice so we're not throwing in the tally yet though it's so sad we're the only ones who can see how pretty it is here right now well so at least you guys have come to visit us i. see .
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2 months have passed it's early july we fly into the canary islands to lands of otter. holidaymakers have been allowed back into spain since just a few days you're not many around this sharing the beaches with locals. this isn't cold but it's a dream you there's no one else here as you see if you like and you can have 20 meters distance to the next bathers ago it's never been this nice here before give me the money it's on the hook if you ask other holidaymakers how would you have imagined this last year with a few less people it would have been so bad so it's not so unpleasant the little face how ok we've already said we're bound to remember this very different holiday
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in years to come up with that idea it's a special moment so where did it go more in the face. normally one of the half 1000000 to his come to lunch at all to every year now at the start of the summer season just a handful of hotels are open. now got a car coming and a century ago cleans hotel rooms and has been unemployed since mid march in the car when now allowed to sit next to one another do you know who you are what serial nuffield other steer the work of the town is totally dead we live from tourism. here and now everything is closed without the coronavirus the place would normally be packed right now. then other hand there. and it prefers not to shows the hotel where she works it'll be open again in early august and she has to be ready for work she isn't more into any trouble on the whole she doesn't feel very comfortable
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. the canaries a try to attract visitors with a low number of coronavirus cases but the question is whether the visitors might bring the virus to the island the i don't see how they are to go do you think i can run around like this the whole time with the work is hard enough as it is then 8 hours a day in this thing you can forget it suffocates. for 50 are your most of our going . along with the beach guests nature tourists also come to lands a rotter. every year the volcanic island to tracks tens of thousands of hikers cyclists or extreme athletes. to mingle concepcion is a biologist is not opposed to reason but he thinks it will denatured good to have
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a break from its keen visit is. the red mountain at the heart of the island looks totally unspoiled usually there are around $200.00 people per day climbing up here and it's strewn with trails now just a few lines of visible. movie under some other yellow the wind shifts the fine material and repairs the cracks will not it won't heal it completely predicts that there are a lot more tracks left in the mountain before the coronavirus than there are now would you might know doubling the code. without hurting us at least film that what it was how fast it happens just to people and they've already left a new trail behind that. for the 1st time domingo is observing how fast nature is reclaiming its space the birds
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fascinated. in particular. could drive is usually race 3 constrain and in the village next door there is always building work going on but the animals came back in the break imposed by the coronavirus. somewhere you know you mean it was with these traces have to be from today or the wind would have swept them away because that is unusual that you see traces of desert birds so near to human settlements hardly 100 meters away. from the answer to this affair. a tiny island with just under $700.00 inhabitants holidaymakers line to drop in for a short trip for a long time like last year also was just too much splash on the net or spain.
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miguel times is one of the most active inhabitants of the island for years his 4th also to be recognized in its own right since 2018 it's now officially the 8th inhabited canary island and now a little famous because the island has so far remained to grow new virus free. product yet we always say the island has protected us. february we were going to celebrate our new status as the 8th canary island with a big event which would have brought large crowds of people here very much but we had to cancel it because the kalima the sand winds from africa were so strong in greece was then the people also believe that the salty water doesn't tax and kills the virus not they really do not. get. any shop miguel also sells
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a little of the island's history his family is why. of the 4 or 5 who came to 140 years ago fisherman from land serrata until around 2030 years ago they had hardly any outside contact. you want that also just built huts with no water or light. character and said they had an incredible will to survive here although the island really has its limits. they wanted this place to become their home. but not it also is not even 30 kilometers large it's a bias fear is if a conservation area in the sea. the island has been spared a huge onslaught of visitors. although almost everyone
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lives from too isn't the full spray of the corona virus was pleasant almost like it was back in the day when miguel is still a little boy. and it's a message of freedom and thought in the months of the lockdown there was nobody on the island only as crossfire set us but we had the island all to ourselves. here if the brutality and to be honest we really enjoyed it where you know anything could even better. in madrid to the new normal he's arrived in the worst hit by the fires people are allowed to move around freely again that masks the mandatory almost everywhere. that. many businesses have not survived the last 3 months
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according to a u. commission is. the economy will shrink by almost 11 percent and there's a new word cornerstone for 100 years in madrid alone around 100000 people cannot manage without food donations. was worth just. and this room a charter has had no work for 2 months. i. when the lock down came her boss sent her home nash has asked the priest of her parish for help for the 1st time in her life. to quest that it's really not easy for me others are a much greater need than me but i reckon i can go there because i'm a single parent and i'm also taking care of my mother mummy mummy got all. our came here from venezuela a few years ago here in spain she was earning
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a little over a 1000 euros a month it was enough to live on but not to put anything aside. our had to queue up for 2 or 3 hours everyone here has the same issues they've been furloughed or on social security or have bills to pay. as a councillor has been distributing food to the needy for years but now there are twice as many people as usual most of them are migrants low earners or those working illegally. shock and they're going to know when they got into these people don't even have a bank account has got by as an effort they come from latin america refugees from venezuela for example at the end no they don't have papers they have nothing good to someone just came to me and i gave them a 100 euros so we can at least find a place to sleep next week of there's really nothing there's nothing matters nothing. sirrah. no kisses no hugs the corona warning sounds pretty harsh but the people are so friendly here that i'm
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not ashamed anymore says our this food is enough for 2 weeks and she can return as often as she needs to buy the console has promised her that. it doesn't have. to be in go climb in the district of prosperity dad has now stopped and the neighbors prefer to meet among themselves today they've invited me to a picnic in the comic the group is not quite complete roland clara a strange home. but we got to build what we have risk patients in the family and they want to finally be able to see our little one to give them a hug so we are all a little more careful with our contacts so they. can. get us. they've decided that they want to
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meet her more often that way. you know how he and i didn't even know how tall my neighbors are taller or shorter than me he was only ever seen you from the balcony he's that's how i didn't know you close up a 2nd much space am. the masks can be taken off 18 and drinking in the social distancing tends to be forgotten was. the question lot of news to tell each other with 3 months to catch up on an already a summation they can get rid of them well today there's no way we have scott is round the back they're growing grass on a slate i'm about to get my daughter wants to go and buy some from the back to see if it was a not a lot in our building they smoke grass the whole day and on the stairway that i'm. no. i was and they asked me how we managed to keep the infection rates so
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low in germany the shock is deep that spain was hit so badly. in the meantime smaller coronavirus outbreaks of flared up again and. i basically i say you got it do you think there will be a real mammalogy again not just this new normal you know you can't quite shake off this fear that. we have. there is one good thing about the coronavirus the neighbors from prosperity and say in normal circumstances they would never have become friends now that will remain so. even if madrid still needs a long time to recover it may never be the same again it's. been a. lot. about the goodness knows. if it was. not. been
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