it was it was a man who over those years had ordering these murders and as you are have already said before that everybody the leadership was afraid to open up the story because so many people were implicated and. did they get one thing out of it the one thing they got out of it is they're terrified of any other kind of revolution and that makes it easier for their strongman to to keep power we thank you for your insights thank you for joining us elizabeth baca thank you. all this week here on t.w. we're looking back to the summer of trying to 15 when i'm president and wife of migrants fled war on poverty in their home countries and headed for your many never made it one image shook the world like. syria talk i'm codes bodies washed ashore in turkey thousands of others homes the same journey and the perilous sea

crossing is still claiming lives. the tragic exodus of the courty family and this beach near the turkish village of. the mother father and their 2 children were trying to reach the greek island of const in a rubber boat but the boat capsized. and his brother and their mother drowned only cordy survived. to be capsized after people stood up. i held my wife. and we had life jackets on trying to keep our children out of the water but it didn't work. i'll never forget when he said to me papa don't be afraid. the image of little islands dead body made headlines around the world the refugees

desperation and their fate now symbolized by a tiny corpse 4 years later we set out to make contact with his father during our research we 1st came across a team accordingly. for more than 20 years. and in which my nephew currently. 1000000. and more and this from their son and they say enough is enough. we need to. be said that her brother. in iraq's kurdish region we were unable to travel to iraq because of the coronavirus pandemic. kurdish television has also covered up. and

has revealed some good news. he has once again become a father he remarried 3 years ago. i was very surprised when the new baby was born i couldn't believe it it was a shock. i didn't know if i should be happy or sad or if i should cry. i have no idea what happened to me. when you lose your own child and our hope it never happens to you. it's a strange feeling if you've already lost a child and then have a new baby. thank god i'm doing better. i'm happy about this new child. for abdomen according to new baby it's a great gift he has named him one. i'll

take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world brazil space agency says they are results experience even of a devastating fire season satellite data shows the places are almost as bad as last year despite projects from president giant ball sinatra to curb the destruction rainforests as one of the most biodiverse regions on earth. the korean peninsula is on high alert as typhoon base hack approaches more than $300.00 flights being canceled in south korea and japan coast guard is searching for a cargo ship that sent out a distress call during the typhoon a wednesday. pope francis has held his 1st face to face audience in 6 months but $500.00 worshippers had temperature checks and wore masks in order to attend be scaled down events at the vatican. for the venice film festival opens today the 1st major film event to roll out the red carpet since the pandemic

started many stars were missing because of travel restrictions but that there were still some big names in attendance like a blush at. the actresses a present at this year's jury tilda swinton arrived head of the opening ceremony. 26. as is rarely been seen with only a handful of 2 ists but the city's annual film festival opens today for its $77.00 sedition along with precautionary measures so show these dancing mandatory mask wearing and temperature taking to global pandemic and international travel restrictions are so mean that fewer hollywood stars will be in attendance d.c. at a festival has done better in terms of gender parity with 8 out of 18 films in competition directed by women to many reached a competition category with jeff on high and says and tomorrow diane tyo wrote

a drama about political radicalization the born this trend and democrat to show concerts yallop on the start didn't turn into these are going to desire to have direction disgrace to be dashed and on campus is going to caucus most in here. like. another competition film to look out for will be wife of us pi from direct tokyo she caressed our a story of love in wartime japan during the 1940 s. . out of competition nathan crossman's documentary about comment activities creator turned back to premiere thursday. in new york and i think.

i will draw. the. line. on its opening day to festival an actress to the swinton with a lifetime achievement award the competition runs for 11 days on september 12th will find out who will take home this year's coveted golden lion. scott drugs for from d w our culture is in a very so welcome scott so how are things different there to other years in these times of pandemic. yes well i'm sure you can see right away one of the main differences i'm wearing a mask of course like everybody else here required one of the safety measures that will you wear masks inside also the most but also outside around the festival area as as a precaution but of course you can just look around here and see if other major

difference from venice film festivals past i mean i'm right here in front of what usually is the red carpet and on a typical opening night this would be packed with film fans 60 waiting and screaming out for 4 of the stars that will be crossing the red carpet but this year for safety they put up a wall to block. fans from crushing and crushing the stars and asking for asking for autographs it's just one of the many security measures that have been put into place this year but it's hard to are to fault the film festival for this i mean without these measures this festival wouldn't even be taking place ok so let's talk about the films that it's opening with an italian film that ties what we know about this. yeah this is a interesting film set in the 1980 s. it's a marital drama about a couple that's been together for some 30 years but the relationship is starting to

fall apart because the husband has started relationship with a younger woman not too unusual story perhaps but what is unusual is that this is the tell you film opening the venice film festival which hasn't happened for 11 years so it's quite a quite a special event for the industry here but i think what's most important is the fact that the director. has said that he specifically wanted to bring the film to venice as a symbol as a as a as a sign to the industry here but also to the industry around the world that we can start seeing movies again the festivals film festivals can start happening again and this whole the whole film industry which has really been on its knees since the start of the coronavirus kind demick maybe can start to get back up again ok so i took a survey of the other highlights from the next few days. yeah well one of the big differences this year is because the hollywood studios and big

streamers like netflix haven't sent their films to venice because they're holding back a lot of movies until theaters in the u.s. really open up again we have a very european film festival compared to many festivals past so that means that the real highlights are the europeans and i really just pick out a couple i mean. the film that's not a company film it's not a competition but is open the the horizontal horizontal horizontal side bar called apples it's a. great movie that is about a pandemic but a very different one in this pandemic causes amnesia and it's really sort of a fairy tale about memory and about how technology has as changed our lives and then there's also a german film screening next week i'm really excited to see called and to more of the entire world which is about the dangers dangers of political extremism which i think you'd agree couldn't really be more topical. inventive thank you.

let me close with some breaking news a big push at the top off a of program day yet german government says it has unequivocal evidence that's a russian opposition leader alexina valley was poisoned with a military nerve agent no v.h.f. will be chock a mist in the valleys being treated in hospital here in bad enough to forming in siberia last month it suspected that someone that deliberately laced his tea with a toxin another shock is the same agent used to poison ivy a british intelligent agent and his daughter in the 20 at 18 so obviously more on that story and when up next here on being a w d w a new sat asia with a bearish bannerjee i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news of the day.

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long shadows it costs to the. beginning with this south korean man conscripted into the japanese army. and forced to choose the. automatic up a man who made life after japan. became suspect. and british welcome to deal. with us 75 years ago today japan officially signed it in world war 2 even though it had announced an end to the fighting 2 weeks before it wasn't until the 2nd of september 1905 that the surrender was officially signed it came however at the cost of some 30000000 lives in asia from

targeted such as in china fighting and occupation. by bitterness japanese forces at its peak japan controlled territory from eastern china to most of southeast asia but with it came suffering in the local populations and death however there were also those who were forced to work for imperial japanese forces such as the protagonist of our next report. for 95 year old lee had gray memories fade slowly during world war 2 the south korean national fought for the japanese army afterwards he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 20 years in prison and his home near tokyo the horrors of the time continue to haunt him and couldn't move i was going to go back to career but i couldn't because there was so much negative sentiment there i just couldn't live there i had no choice but to

settle down in japan and live a difficult life here go. through what rhodes was how to approach the. night hundreds of thousands of koreans we had gray was conscripted by the occupying japanese army he was put to work building what became known as the death railway a strategically important line connecting thailand and then burma he was placed in command of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and according to trial documents earned the nickname the lizard because of his brutality tens of thousands died during construction of the 400 kilometer long line with its bridge over the river kwai most of the victims were asian but many british duchesse trail ians and americans were also killed after the atomic bombings on hiroshima and nagasaki on the 6th the 9th of august 945 japan finally capitulated on the usa because of

a nationwide reaction to a victory back press conference president calderon gives a long awaited announcement i then there's your ply april acceptance of the pops than by. aeration i specified the surrender. to the gallows pound box does yours while waiting work on the east coast of the west american millions that i've been waiting. a while. on the 2nd get so 10 men 145 the japanese government formalized it surrender on a u.s. warship. to this day the past weighs heavily on japan. but. like reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse i earnestly hope that the ravages of war will never be repeated sinking 80 . 3rd japan surrender brought to an end perhaps the darkest chapter in its history for both perpetrators and victims the atrocities of the past live on.

so what shadows do there cast on modern japan just kingston is director of asian studies at temple university in tokyo and all sort of the book japan which looks of the challenges the country is facing in its post-war period professor kingston pleasure to have you on the program sitting here in germany one cannot escape the spirit of adornment if i can call it that for germany's role in world war 2 i'm wondering if the same exists in japan for its part in the war. well not really i mean it's something of an unfair comparison i mean germany's an outlier among nations so germany is grass that nettle of its history it's the model tentative all nations suffering in comparison japan you know really they didn't. exuma the unfortunate past since the emperor hirohito

died in 89 and then the early ninety's there was a brief period where they began to exuma that history and the archives you lived their secrets the veterans found their diaries and they wrote about they talked about the taboo subjects such as the comfort women system of sexual slavery forced labor none jane you know at $731.00 but this provoked a sharp backlash from conservatives and they have bank contesting this is tree seriously in broadly thought culture wars since the mid 1990 s. and the prime minister all day who just reside he was one of the leading revisionists who are committed to rewriting japan's work time passed and we have bill a taping that error so this is the mainstream political dominant party you know favor

at this revisionist past of downplaying minimizing and mitigating so this is something that you would not encounter in germany. yet this is happening in a country that does have it must be said a us written pacifist constitution is at least in the books against wall and militarization it to have as you correctly pointed out sions obvious government which wanted to revise the constitution i'm just wondering how conservatives seem to be able to carry on with the negative of excluding what japan's actions why in world war 2. well i think there is a sort of collective perpetrators. right so the thing is most japanese are not voting for politicians because of their stand on history right they vote pocketbook issues the liberal democratic party that has dominated

japanese all that since 1955 is generally as more competent on those issues so these politicians are not running on a you know let's deny the history let's you know propagate revisionist whitewashing of all of our textbooks lesser race comfort women all the textbooks as of now this is not what they're running on but they are the ones who do gain power and they are pushing this white washing that japan's unfortunate shared history with the rest of asia and how does that impact japan's relations with its neighbors in prime amongst them china and south korea of course i'm talking about the occupation of mainland china and the comfort women issue with south korea how does this impact relations with these countries. so obviously the unresolved

grievances of the shared history continued to reverberated 75 years after the end of world war 2 so in china clearly historical and territorial issues divide clearly that chinese would appreciate japan and coming clean a more forthright reckoning on their shared history and as south korea course there are very angry disputes about source labor and about the comfort woman and so the japanese and bassett or what are you setting off the united states couple years ago in a house to the press here his priority was to remove every single comfort woman statue in the united states it was sort of one of those wow moments like really of all the things they are going on a bilateral relationship removing comfort women statues was his priority so this is

a very sensitive issue or japan's right wing and clearly you know right now south korea and japan are having a major dispute over forced labor and compensation and their relationship to spiral downwards over the past year. and also want to talk about but for now from even professor jeff kingston speaking to us from tokyo thank you so much and get. and on the other side of the world in the united states itself japanese and japanese americans face the wrath of the u.s. government more than 100000 of them were rounded up and sent to return camps on orders of president franklin d. roosevelt the order was based on fears of japanese attack or sabotage but it was altered in destroying the lives of many thousands of american citizens and every evening when japan bombed pearl harbor in 1941 he taketh the time around knew immediately that he was going to have a tough time in the us as

a japanese american he was torn between the 2 more in countries. that medical care for him has started between japan and the us one an example i was so surprised. i thought that means japanese people like us would be killed in the us all of them right on this. time or became one of the estimated 120000 japanese americans who were forced into internment camps stripped of their properties and rights by the government asked them whether they would serve for the u.s. military and swear unqualified allegiance to the united states many were forced to say yes but tamera and some others protested. there's another 10 got posts and from the back of the ancient there machine guns at us these were american soldiers who had just returned from war and he took the japanese gave him to shoot at us if you want to. seen by the u.s.

government as a troublemaker temora felt alienated from his adopted home he became distrustful of u.s. news and couldn't even believe japan had lost the war it only became real when he returned to live there in 1945 despite the hostility between the 2 countries at that time tamera had always liked america but he says the issue of racial injustice needs to be better addressed or will it with the years you know. i know you're already. sending them the same thing with here. the 99 year old has proved recently the site instead he turns his thoughts to prostitute memories. and friendships for example that were made in times of turmoil. once again and

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life is losing its appeal. to millions of people in asia africa and world centers like new york and tokyo have been escaping the crowds for the countryside. space fresh air. many others have lost jobs and moved back home to their rural families. the mass migration has seen real estate prices soar in outlying suburbs and community the great escape. welcome to the show we're experiencing and historic reversal in the global surge of people digital small towns in the country the allure of the big city a pandemic is changing so much. needs water she can no longer open it. like a few weeks ago she lost her office drop in the city and moved back to her village . to collect water from.

this was i'm hoping to get more on training so that i can connect my way to st pete because everything in the city do it inside the house so there's not a lot of good outside. except going maybe jogging or going to wake. her daughter's remains in the village while their mother spent 80 years in the city working to support them trips home where it wasn't making sense anyway because i had to pay rent home and at the same time i took some money to my kids' home and also with the percent of us looking after my kids so it wasn't lansing at all so i thought i might as well just come back home and be with my kids and do something here. for me and my family now the 38 year old is turning a pastime into a profession and her small house she bakes breads and this fits. she receives up to 7 orders a week and has already made enough to invest in an oven her daughter's cell powered

they are happy to have their mom back. where did you miss most of your scheme to offer advice many of us is on the boat being married having kids didn't get. so many young women that are independent but getting to see women. in their life as it encourages me it helps me go on how to move and it helps me if you can. cultivating fruit for export is just one of the business opportunities she could explore here in the village. cynthia is full of ideas and optimism for her new life in her home village but also here in the rural areas people are feeling the pinch of the coronavirus crisis and the economic consequences of the knock down. cynthia is

determined to persevere in her back. she's already working on her next project. so i went to a certain critical place this small place like i'll be sending. people like us so that people do not have to go to town to get pizza so they can only get it locally with the political money that i'm getting from baking is one thing that i'm trying to save so that i can be able to do that cynthia somebody is happy to let her daughter's move to the city to continue their education but she is certain her own future here in the countryside is. sam brown and leads the risk and foresight group at the center for strategic and international studies have cities there are a little or is this just temporary. in my view it's temporary and the reason is because of course there are a lot of reasons you would not want to be in

a city right now the disease is more transmissible among densely populated populations and it is more transposable indoors both of which define cities and of course through public transit we see higher rates of transmission as well some forms of public transport in any case but i think the long term the growth of cities is just unstoppable or in a cot to me in the labor market now where people need to be clustered for innovation economy for flexibility between jobs for technology bases and so everything is moving in that direction and as soon as we have a vaccine hopefully next year i think really humanity will be in a hurry to sort of get back to where things were before this began on the other hand i do think the idea of working remotely the nature of work itself perhaps the reduction of commercial real estate these are factors that we're moving before hand

and have been excel aerated by the pandemic i've been reading a lot of people feel safe in the country or safer the place they grew up. i've also been reading that a lot of broke remote communities and and country towns that all all it takes is one infected person to enter and the disease can spread like wildfire i mean this is whole concept of safety have you defined that. yeah so i think the disease obviously moved faster between cities initially they were connected by air corridors there were more people and before we really knew how to take the necessary measures against the virus or we didn't do so effectively you saw a lot of transmission and city so they were the 1st place the pandemic hit but for instance the united states we now see much higher rates of transmission in rural areas. and we're beginning to see in rural areas around the world pretty fragile health systems that are rapidly overwhelmed when the virus shows up there so it's

a bit of a false sense of security really people are not safe anywhere right now from the virus if they're not taking the sort of distancing and mask wearing and other other measures. and so in many ways you're probably better off in a city right now if you're following those precautions but obviously people are returning home also for economic reasons they may have lost their jobs they may not be pay rent so it's really it's a it's a difficult time it's an insecure time no matter where you are and of course the pandemic is an ovum but but what about the next one because we're told a next one will hit at some stage will cities be better prepared. you would hope so this should be a wake up call i mean in many ways the 2 cities that were hardest hit by this were was on china new york city and new york and neither really appeared to be prepared for what happened in cities around the world likewise you know it's

a very uneven response seattle in the united states on the other hand where there's been a lot of thinking about disease preparedness seem to be much better equipped there was a lot more remote work early part of it for cities is going to be to decide you know can you sort of shut things down rapidly particularly air air transport appears to have played a really big role in the initial spread here and so having a plan for that next pandemic keeping an epidemic from becoming a pandemic is critical here and really the biggest lesson learned i think was that everything moved too slow and there was a sense that something that was overseas couldn't just so rapidly as a plane flight arrive in your own city so there's a lot of work to be done by cities and so much disbelief a lot of people believing it wouldn't hit them or affect them well what about the world's biggest city in developing countries. yeah so i think that's

a particular challenge because when we say cities it's a big war but there's a lot of difference between cities that are rich cities and poor cities increasingly there are these hyper dense cities that are developing and in africa and in south asia. and in parts of china as well and you know that this is going to put really big strains on the cities were already people are eating out life on the margins and you know i think what we don't see a lot when we talk about migration is that a lot of migration inside of developing countries happens from the countryside to these big cities within countries before people leave the country so there's a lot of development work to be done as well and trying to figure out how to make those cities safer and safer from pandemics climate change a lot of things that we're going to be experiencing that greater rates over the next decade and beyond sam brown thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. and you'll turn to ask the questions is out science correspondent derek

williams. my wife has cancer and different on college just sort of told her different things about her risk levels if she catches covered 19 so is she more at risk from the disease. i'm not a physician so i can't answer this question directly for a specific patient but but what i can do is try to bring you up to speed on what researchers have been finding out about the connections between cancer and covert 19 for many months now trustworthy sources like the world health organization and national health authorities have listed cancer as a co-morbidity with clear time is 2 more severe covert 19 outcomes but as a new study involving over

a 1000 patients in britain points out cancer is of course not really a single disease but actually a wide range of them which is why the researchers said that blanket statements like cancer is a risk factor are really reasonable or informative so what they did was split up cancer patients who taught code at 19 and by their particular cancer subtypes to see if some of those patients were hit harder by the disease than others and and they found something interesting sars cove to susceptibility they say was worse in people who had cancers that affects the blood or lymph system like leukemia or lymphoma which backs up earlier smaller scale chinese and european studies that came to similar conclusions so the evidence seems to be growing that while cancers in general puts you at more risk when. compared to the

general population some types like these it's a logical cancers why clee put you at more risk than others. and before we go let's see if i can do you up with this last story the new york state fairs annual butter sculpture a lifesize exhibit called nourishing al future is made entirely out of bada one panel shows parents serving their kids food any other side shows kids home schooled with a teacher's face on a laptop. of a stuff. i'm hungry i bet it was all in the against.

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