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cultural riches were brutally stolen from africa and carted off to europe by colonialists. each artifact has blood on it from the mines that have yet to heal. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stolen and sold for september 7th on g.w. . thank my your cause be a mile the party goes on just like before you know mosques know you can just exist . in the german and british party areas of the island the police have had to intervene the images cause outrage in spain oh some days of the $900.00 people per
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day died of coke at 19 others may have forgotten but not special. 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 of the 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. a little bit. but now i no longer recognise madrid is the locals on their balconies feel the saying. is that i've been locked intro most 50 days it's so. i'm hyperactive and i don't know how to do nothing as you know that now that i know it is a must when our son grows up we'll tell him how it was to be stuck at home for months without seeing the families of those a little doesn't seem bad i mean yes yes if you start to miss the buzz vibrancy of the city i'm sure i miss it terribly as the misses. at the start of the lockdown the neighbors in the district of prosperity dad loving the kicker rated is strange
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. they went out on their balconies and ate every evening of links that others are out there too. i saw was a soup to go game board. thing there was starting out there. was. 7575 he was yes it was overheated was i have said that and i say yes yes yes yes yes i. mean yes and today it's conscious birthday from number 10. was. i. was i i i. almost every change this 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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as the us even knows i'm so grateful to you all the evidence you receive all this is what i'm sure that normally we would never have met half of all these people. that maybe the ones in that house but the others our paths would never have crossed and one of the some of the deal. i hope that we stay friends afterwards is this number it's just great that we get along so well that so many it's a miracle for me when i'm truly the others. i was visiting the neighbors interest period dad is a ray of hope for us. the weeks old we've been it is you know 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 analyst little source is a geriatric nurse in a suburb of madrid was 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 and i don't know if it. is the management tells us that it would only alarm the old people if they saw us wearing masks struggles in 10 minutes persisted by muscat is on the africa of course it alarms the elderly a lot of my year but what happened next was much much worse that are different than
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theirs were total retard they are. 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 an answer just a $10.00 to $40.00 euros groups and it talks very fondly about the old people 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 my way puffin 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 we've been here. all these people had to die
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alone and i 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 play david 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's really harrowing for us. you have someone you love and you don't know how they died the most how and whether she missed her family. whether she could have done with all the warmth. they'll get someone by her side out of the moment but it wasn't allowed.
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and tony i'm guessing it was the military arc of the family a passionate football fan her grandchildren went to the stadium with her. in normal times they would have been away from her and a funeral with all the family in the end due to the risk of infection only 3 relatives were allowed to have burial david was one of them. but we weren't allowed to decide anything on the scene the funeral was so sterile 3 people who had to keep their distance from one another and it's a mystery not afterwards all you can do is to write the others a what's app 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.
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a few days later still showing the lockdown we had northwest to get. him instead of the higher up we needed one to 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 in to truth they have to work. but as they are so most they like it is one of them we are filming for german television so i learned how many people that is 33 rows of seats 3 people from north. by margaret no. only journey we pass through a village in the middle of a huge forest the whole village is showing the team to trade a 1000 inhabitants 9 come from buildings one of the factories belongs to host
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a luis gonzalez and his son. for the. in recent business. but now they can hardly keep up with production. fears there are those who should be clear some of these caught parents before the crisis. you have a window on the lid so you can see the deceased one last time maybe earlier. madly interior is question and lined with satta. or dummies or more just that will give you the now we have another model. and here the window is no longer needed and for the lining we used biodegradable paper you're the lavish you know waits are allowed to come out i cut a seized have to be cremated immediately. these parkins go straight to the crematoria. catherine
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sun struggled against competition from china. and to take his prefer to buy their coffins cheap from asia. but once they were to make broke out hardly any imports came into the country and instead of producing $200.00 at this suddenly producing $400.00 coffins per month the family business is managing it with 3 employees who've always worked here over because it was under fire service 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 will remain with the go if people are got one of the true heroes who. tend to personalise details and special requests where possible before at the moment it's not in keeping with the times. an hour's drive away
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other arrange to meet up with some old acquaintances. a married couple i know from an earlier film. course in mosul and celia balsa did their best to stay active join the lockdown. joga while he we discovered his grown up sons all sports equipment. so. i'm not allowed into the flat silly used to be a nurse and knows all about the dangers of infection but not everyone takes the rule so seriously they've been observing this from their window and then just received 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 the minute they are. the next morning wholesale and celia are allowed to take this 1st walk for now
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spaniards are 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 we see is a little unusual. you have to move out of juggles 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 move a kilometer away from their flat. is annoyed their own rules everywhere. over here are many fewer american i can only talk to my children and grandchildren
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by video at the moment that's how it is right now. manner of i'd love to see them to cuddle them so much of 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 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 this pilgrimage is not happening this year. where a lot of. their failed martins and his girlfriend al decided narrow
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wanted to take over this small hostel and 2 others from our 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 me 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. part fouled up and ref ala not giving up their dream of st james' way yet they've come too far for that. because of you that this here is our life my parents' life and alice say we're not throwing in the tally yet it's so sad we're the only ones who can see how pretty it is here right now miles though at least you guys have come to visit us. see.
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2 months have passed it's early july we fly into the canary islands to lend support to. follow day makers have been allowed back into spain since just a few days you're not many around to share in the beaches would like cause. this isn't cold but it's a dream of 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 given the moment it's on the if you ask other holidaymakers how would you have imagined this last year with a few less people that it would have been so bad so it's not so unpleasant of its little face how ok we've already said we're bound to remember this very different
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holiday in years to come up with that idea it's a special moment see where you go more in the face. normally one and a half 1000000 to scum to lancelot to every year now at the start of the summer season just a handful of hotels are open. now got the army and a century ago cleans hotel rooms and has been unemployed since mid march in a car when now allowed to sit next to one another do you know who you are about serial now feel rather tired of the work of a 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 the whole gang other hand. 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 doesn't want any trouble
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on the whole she doesn't feel very comfortable. 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 i 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 all suffocate. her 50 earlier muster apartment. along with the beach guests nature is also come to lands a rotter. every year the volcanic island attracts 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 visitors. to rig mountain at the heart of the island looks totally unspoiled usually there around $200.00 people per day climbing up here and it's strewn with trails now just a few lines of visible. more. 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 that's how fast it happens just to people and they've already left a new trail behind that. for the 1st time to mingle is observing how fast nature is reclaiming its space the
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birds fascination. in particular. could drive this usually race through constrain and in the village next door there's always building work going on but the animals came back in the break imposed by the coronavirus. somewhere you know you mean it was these traces have to be from today or the wind would have swept them away that is unusual but you see traces of desert birds so near to human settlements hardly 100 meters away. from land serato there's a fair. a tiny island with just under $700.00 inhabitants holidaymakers like to drop in for a short trip for a long time glassy also was just a white spot on the night of spain.
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miguel times is one of the most active inhabitants of the island for years he's fought for also to be recognized in its own right since 2018 it's now officially the 8th inhabitant canary island and now a little famous because the island has so far remained to produce 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 it 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. want. 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 lands around until around 2030 years ago they had hardly any outside contact the bigger want that is to just have a built huts with no water or light. main character has 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 that's also it is not even 30 kilometers large it's a bias fear reserve a conservation area in the city. 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 coronavirus was pleasant almost like it was back in the day when miguel was 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 grassy or saddest but he had the island all to ourselves. to hear it deep brutality and to be honest we really enjoyed it where you know whenever you could even end up. in the trade to the new normal has arrived in the sea worst hit by the fires people are allowed to move around freely again but masks a mandatory almost everywhere. that. many businesses have not survived the last 3 months according to
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a you commission is. diminished the economy will shrink by almost 11 percent and there's a new word callister 100 years in madrid alone around 100000 people cannot manage without food donations. the record year for. and this is our my charger has had no work for 2 months. i. when the lock down came her boss sent her home gnashes asked the priest of her parish for help for the 1st time in her life. to quit that but 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 in the modem 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 us 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. 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 where to go to and these people don't even have a bank account has got part of an effort they come from latin america refugees from venezuela for example they don't have papers they have nothing to get 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 there's nothing. syrup. 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 climbed in the district of frustrated dad has now stopped and the neighbors profession meet among themselves today they've invited me to a picnic in the car the group is not quite complete role and clara a strange time. but we got a lot we have risk patients in the family and they want to finally be able to see our little one to give him a hug and also we are all a little more careful with our contacts so when i. can. get it out. they've decided that they want to
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meet him more often that way. you know how he and i didn't even know how tall my neighbors are taller or shorter than me you don't really have a senior from the balcony he's that's how i didn't know you close up the sycamore so yes i am. the masks can be taken off 18 and drinking in the social distancing tends to be forgotten i think. the question out of news to tell each other with 3 months to catch up on an odious summation they can get through time world a process don't. we have squatters around the back they're growing grass honestly i'm happy that my daughter wants to go and buy some from them to see it was a mess and not in our building basement grass the whole day and we're going to stairway that i'm. so i got up and they asked me how we managed to keep the infection rates so low in germany the
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shock is deep that spain was hit so badly. that 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 knowledge she again not just this new normal you know you can't quite shake off this fear that only. we. will give 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. that. russia but what i know is that there is a does not. have. been. a lot
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