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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  August 19, 2020 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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downloads here's the code. to be able to. have varied courses put into active exercises that are laying about that d.w. dot com slash dollars landed on facebook in the uk store. and german for free but the devil you. play. thanks for your cause be a mile the party goes on just like before you know mosques no districts thanks in the german and british party areas beyond the police have had to intervene the images caused outrage in spain oh oh some days of the 900 people per day died of coke at 19 others may have forgotten most but not the spanish.
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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 strictest in the world. as a journalist i'm allowed to move around freely in the city where i've lived for 3
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years a city i know is noisy fast and brash. with it. but now i no longer recognise madrid is the locals on their balconies feel the saying. is that as being locked in for almost 50 days it's 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 middle 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 miss the misses. at the start of the lockdown the neighbors in the district of prosperity dad lovingly take aerated to st. they went out on their balconies and ate every evening of the lives that others are out there today. i
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saw the soup to go game board. being ellis does how i. was. 75 the 75 he was it was yesterday i was here it was a hell 7 days yes yes yes yes was very. nice and today its conscious birthday from number 10. was. i. think i. almost every change 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 in the us even the so i'm so grateful to you all the evidence you receive all this
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is what i'm sure that normally we would never have met half of all these people know what it may be the ones in that house but the others our paths would never have crossed or i'm one of the some of the feel. i hope that we stay friends afterwards is the sign of a it's 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 me right 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 corridors. i streets serving as cooled makeshift mortuaries because there 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
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for days no one wanted to touch them for fear of contagion. that is an honest little post 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 stuff brought the virus in in the beginning they didn't even have personal protective equipment. in question as to how on earth if. the management tells us that it would only alarm the old people if they saw us wearing masks struggles in 10 minutes professional on muscat is on the africa of course it alarms the elderly a lot of my youth but what happened next was much much us that are different than theirs were total rich or poor. the more and 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
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almost full time in atlanta just $840.00 euros gross 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. their hands like a can make of it obviously 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 alone and i says we couldn't be with them and neither could their families.
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but they'd lopez lost his grandmother in early april she told him she had a bit of a cold 2 days later she was did she love to plaquemine says she was my best friend who 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 that'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 the moment but it wasn't allowed. and it was the military arc of the family a passionate football fan her grandchildren went to the stadium with her. in normal
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times there would have been a way for her and a funeral with all the family in the end 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 a suit the funeral was so sterile 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 seen you know and 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. a few days later still join the lock down we had northwest to go. in a monster of a higher caught up we needed one they speak only one passenger per road is allowed
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. there are signs of the state of emergency 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 most they like it is one of them we are filming to german television how many people today 33 rows of seats 3 people from us. by margaret no. 2. on the journey we pass through spin your a village in the middle of a huge forest the whole village lives in the team to trade a 1000 inhabitants 9 come from buildings one of the factories belongs to host a luis gonzalez and his son. for the. in recent
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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 be early watch me and the interior is question and lined with shadow. over me as a motorist 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 are the lavish you know wakes are allowed to come out i go to see staff to be cremated and immediately . these pardons go straight to the crematorium oh about that. catherine son struggled against competition from china for years and to take his prefer to buy their coffins cheap from asia. but once they have been to me broke
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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 gaza our standards are theirs but 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. tender personalized details and special requests were possible before at the moment it's not in keeping with the times. an hour's drive away i've arranged 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
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active showing the lockdown. she joga while he we discovered his grown up sons old sports equipment. 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 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 at the moment they are. the next morning horses are allowed to take this 1st walk for now spaniards are allowed to go out for one hour per day for most 2 months there were only allowed to go out for grocery shopping in the mean time it's spring and interesting is
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a little unusual. you have to move out of joggers way all the time. and who say hasn't quite got the hang of the mask. yet i want to know now what do i know. i. do to try to pick up a good pace but they can't really go further than ground in a circle they're only allowed to make a columbus or away from their flat. is annoyed their own rules everywhere. over the army field i'm having and i can only talk to my children and grandchildren 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 cooler literature.
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the camino some chains 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 not for our business it means a year of losses total yet this pilgrimage is not happening this year it will be well below the. profile martins and his girlfriend al decided nero 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
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they have revenues 0 they need a plan b. if you're married 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 that. packed our bags and ref ala not giving up their dream of st james' way yet we've come too far for that. because of you that this here is our life my parents' life and ours 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. see.
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2 months have passed it's early july we fly into the canary islands to lots of water. holiday makers have been allowed back into spain since just a few days you're not many around this sharing the beaches with locals. in the system and cold but it's a dream 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 hook 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 that one if that's so it's not so unpleasant of the sort of face how ok we've already said we're bound to remember this very different holiday in years to come. up with that idea it's a special moment see so where did it go more in the face.
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normally one of the half 1000000 to scum to lands or 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 the car when now allowed to sit next to one another you know not think so real nothing rather stare at the work and 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. 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 on the whole she doesn't feel very comfortable. the canaries are trying to attract visitors with a low number of coronavirus cases but the question is whether the visitors might
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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 suffocates. for 50 earlier muster apartment. along with the beach guests nature tourists 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 do nature good to have a break from its keen visit is. to rig mountain at the heart of the island looks
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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 are visible. more younger some other it the wind shifts the fine material and repairs the cracks will not it won't heal it completely but it's that there are a lot more tracks left in the mountain before the coronavirus than there are now would you might probably. code. it without hurting us at least film that is 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 fascination. in particular. could drive this usually race through just train and in the village next door there's always building were going on but the animals
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came back in the break imposed by the coronavirus. oh you mean it was one of these traces have to be from today or the wind would have swept them away that is unusual that 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 line to drop in for a short trip for a long time like last year also was just a moment spot on the matter spain. let. me go times is one of the most active inhabitants of the island for years he's
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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 grow new virus free. product yet we always say the island has protected us but i knew there'd be a wary 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 english 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 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
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any outside contact. your want their research just so they built huts with no water or light. rain or it could 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 if a conservation area it's in the sea. the island has been spared a huge onslaught of visitors. although almost everyone lives from too isn't the full spray of the coronavirus was pleasant almost like it was back in the day when mikhail was still a little boy. and it's
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a message of freedom and thought in the months of the lockdown there was nobody on the island only as crossfire set us free had the island all to ourselves. hear it deep rooted out and to be honest we really enjoyed it with you know maneuvering to even better. in madrid to the new normal has arrived in the season 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 a u. commission is. the economy will shrink by almost 11 percent and there's a new word cornerstone for. use in madrid alone around 100000 people
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cannot manage without food donations. was very. good. and. that our machado 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 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 let me modem got all. our came here from venezuela a few years ago here in spain she was earning 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
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for 2 or 3 hours everyone here has the same issues they've been furloughed or on social security or have bills to pay. thousands are low 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 to go to and these people don't even have a bank account let's go by the referee 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 in it nothing . sirrah. no kisses no hugs the corona warning sounds pretty harsh but the people are so friendly here that i'm not ashamed anymore says our this feed is enough for 2 weeks and she can return as
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often as she needs to by the console has promised her that. if it was up. to being 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 are staying at home. if i get there is what we have risk patients in 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 meet up 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
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he's that's how i didn't know you close up a 2nd much space. was. the masks can be taken off eating 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 audience summation they can get through time well day 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 was a mess a lot in our building basement grass the whole day and we're going to stairway that i'm. no. i was there they asked me how we managed to keep the infection rates so low in germany the shock was deep that spain was hit so badly. in the meantime smaller coronavirus outbreaks of flared up again and give it. to our case because i
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say you got it do you think there will be a real knowledge here again not just this new normal you know if 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. but i'm not. about that but what i'm going to get it does not. have. been a. good laugh. about that of.
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