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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  August 18, 2020 2:30pm-3:01pm CEST

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i see a show or i see a shot i feel sure. but how with the world sat with the biggest composer of all time i can't even begin to imagine a world class horn player single willis on a musical journey of discovery. on the world without beethoven starts september 16th on w. . my your cars be a mile the party goes on just like before no mosques no districts. in the german and british party areas of the island the police have had to intervene in the images caused outrage in spain over the some days of the $900.00
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people per day died of coke at 19 others may have forgotten this but not the spanish. my. lad. 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 brush. with you but now i no longer recognise madrid is the locals on their balconies feel the saying. is that i was being locked in for almost 50 days it's so i'm hyperactive and i don't know how to do nothing as yet 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 family the residual doesn't seem bad or yes yes if you start to miss the buzz the vibrancy of the city i joe i miss it terribly it's the mess. at the start of the lockdown the night i was in the bush was a district of prosperity dad loving the decorated this street. they went out on
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their balconies and ate every evening at least the others are out there to. pay so get. gameboard. bingo is starting out i. was. 757 shy. guys gave me was here it was i have said that i see yes yes yes yes yes. yes and today it's conscious birthday from number 10. i. was. my 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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as the us. the so 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 before that maybe the ones in that house but the others our paths would never of crossed unfortunately feel. i hope that we stay friends afterwards is this never this just great that we get along so well it's no matter of me it's a miracle for me when i'm trying the others out. of the. visiting the neighbors interest peerage and is a ray of hope for us the 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 cooled makeshift mortuaries because there was no room elsewhere. for the military disinfecting old people's
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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 michelle and i fear. the management tells us that it would only alarm the older people if they saw us wearing masks goggles and head nets for special on muscat is on the after of course it alarms the elderly. but what happened next was much much us that are different
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others were troubled which 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 was almost full time and just $840.00 euros gross and of 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. their hands like a chemical make up 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 after. i 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 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 the family. of it 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 plaquemines 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. will come 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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antonia getting out was the much a ark 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. we weren't allowed to decide anything on a suit 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 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 enjoying the lockdown we had north west to galicia in a monster of a higher up we needed one to speak only one passenger per road is allowed. there are signs of the state of the nation see and road chinks in freeway the only people allowed to pass a one soon 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 so i know how many people. 33 rows of seats 3 people in front of. the. mamma did know. it's only cheney who passed through pin you'll a village in the middle of a huge forest the whole village is shootin to trade a 1000 inhabitants 9 come from builders one of the factories belongs to jose luis
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gonzalez and his son. 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 so you have a window on the lid so you can see the deceased one last time maybe early. middle interior is question and lined with shadow. or a museum or just i will give you the now we have another model. here the window is no longer needed and for the lining we used biodegradable paper you're the average ok you know wakes are a lot of them out i but a seized have to be cremated and immediately. these passions go straight to the crematorium. and about the. charter and
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some struggles against competition from china a few years on to take his prefer to buy their coffins cheap from asia. but once they became it 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 the 3 employees who've always worked here over gaza our standards are those 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 deeper government 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 other
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arrange to meet up with some old acquaintances. a married couple i know from an earlier film. course in most so-so and celia balsa did their best to stay active join the lockdown. while he we discovered his grown up sons old sports equipment. i'm not allowed into the flash city 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 it's 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 there having a joke that 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 thomas 2 months there were only allowed to go out for grocery shopping. in the mean time it's spring and if we see it's a little unusual. you have to move out of jobs way all the time. and jose hasn't quite got the hang of the mask. here when i am not. now but wonder why no. you. get 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. posse is annoyed at their own rules everywhere. ovi army field never knew i could 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. to caminos to james way goes right to the heart of police 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 what it was and for our business it means a year of losses total yes this pilgrimage is not happening this year as. well one of the. profound martins and his girlfriend al decided narrow
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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 mary kay if 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 and ref ala not giving up their dream of sin jane's way yet they've come too far for that. because of you that this here is our life my parents' life and ours say 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 miles all at least you guys have come to visit us we'll see.
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2 months have passed it's only july we fly into the canary islands to lands over to . holidaymakers have been allowed back into spain since just a few days you're not many around to share in the beaches would like cause. it 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 metres distance to the next bathers go 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 it would've been so bad if it so it's not so unpleasant to show his little face how ok we've already said we're bound to remember this very
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different 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 lunch at all to every year now at the start of the summer season just a handful of hotels roatan. now got the army 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 how do you know who you are are pretty surreal nothing or rather stare at the work of your 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 in. hand 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 on the whole she doesn't feel very
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comfortable. the canaries are trying 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 all suffocate. her 50 earlier muster apartment . along with the beach guests nature is also come to lands a rotter. every year the volcanic calendar 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 rate mountain at the heart of the island looks totally on spoilt 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. more young mother 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 micro doubling the code. without hurting us or please 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 domingo is observing how fast nature is reclaiming its space the
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birds fascinated. in particular. could drive this usually race through this train and in the village next door there's always building were going on but the animals came back in the break imposed by the coronavirus. 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 too much splash on the net of spain.
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ties is one of the most active inhabitants of the island for years he's fought for also to be recognised 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 produce virus free. product yet we always say the island has protected us and i never saw the 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 this was then the people also believe that the salty water doesn't tax and kills the virus not that a reader would not. get. in his 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 fishermen from land serrata until around 2030 years ago they had hardly any outside contact the bigger ones that are sort of just built huts with no water or light. a record have 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 a conservation area for the birds 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 coronavirus 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 grass etc but he had the island all to ourselves. here if he proved out and to be honest we really enjoyed it where you know maneuvering 3 rivers. in madrid to the new normal has arrived in the worst hit by the fires people are allowed to move around freely again but masks the magic chain almost everywhere. that. many businesses have not survived the last 3 months
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according to a u. commission is. amidst the economy will shrink by almost 11 percent and there's a new word callister 100 chiefs in madrid alone around 100000 people cannot manage without food donations. was her gift. and is an hour much harder 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 quest that it's really nice 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 a full. hour came here from venezuela a few years ago here in spain she was earning a little over a 1000 euros
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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 through load their own 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 my clients low earners or those working illegally. shop and they're going to know when to go into these people don't even have a bank account has got bars or enough where they come from latin america refugees from venezuela for example in another 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 feed is enough for 2 weeks and she can return as often as she needs to buy the console has promised her that. it was up. to being go climbed in the district of prosperity 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 roland clara a strange time. but yet it is what we have risk patients and the family and they want to finally be able to see our little one to give him a hug so we are all a little more careful with our contacts so they. 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 i've only ever seen you from the balcony is that how i didn't know you close up the circle much size am. the masks can be taken off 18 and drinking in the social distancing tends to be forgotten was. the question out of news to tell each other with 3 months to catch up on an odious summation they can get through time or date or buses go. we have squatters around the back they're growing grass honestly i'm happy that my daughter wants to go and buy some from the back to see it because they met a lot of them in our building basement grass the whole day and they're going to stairway that i'm. no. i got that 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. in the meantime smaller coronavirus outbreaks of flared up again and. i basically i say god do you think there will be a real knowledge here again not just this new normal you know you can't quite shake off this fear that. he was there is one good thing about the coronavirus the neighbors from prosperity and say in normal circumstances they would never have become friends now the remains. even if madrid still needs a long time to recover it may never be the size. of. the lot. of us that was going to let us go a bit slow getting on it was good enough that it was only. been about
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