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he paid no income taxes whatsoever in 10 of previous 15 years that's because he reported losing more money than he made according to the times. he's also reported to be personally responsible for learns and other debts totaling more than $420000000.00 they a damaging claims for a man who derives some of his support from blue collar workers through his self promotion image as a successful businessman the president denies the details in the new york times reports in the 1st 2 i paid a lot of state income taxes to the state churches a lot and i paid a lot of money at stake. in the reveal is going to come down but if the weather is truly if i'm being they are doing the assessment we've been negotiating for a long time so it gets like in there is. right there when you're under
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audit you're going do it you don't do that so we were under audit but the story was a total fake but his opponents have already begun to hit back. trump has long avoided making his tax returns public and he's the only u.s. president since the 1970 s. to do something as the november election looms virgin's may demand more answers about the president's financial responsibilities now let's bring in a bit of the guy from all us reports it's a piece of what exactly does this article about donald trump's tax return tell us right so the new york times attained. tax return data extending back more than 2 decades to both shows drums own tax records but also those of his more than 100 organizations that are linked to his business it essentially showed that he has lost more money than he's made that he really to some extent has been gaming the tax system with massive write offs such as you know spending more than $70000.00 on
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his hairstylist and all of that taken together allowed him to pay close to no income taxes in $10.00 the previous 15 years. and 20162017 while he was president he paid just $750.00 that is more than $11000.00 less than the average tax income pair in the u.s. joe biden and his wife the democratic challenger paid more than 3700000 in 122700 so quite a difference there it also showed that trump really is facing a cash crunch forced business is that within the next 4 years we have we're looking at more than 300 millions worth of loans coming due all the which has person guaranteed so this really puts you know lenders in the position where they may have to foreclose on a sitting president. is this a bombshell it sounds like it but is this really a bombshell is it not well it certainly flies squarely in the face of this brand
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that trump has spent all these years building for him celebrate as assessed successful businessman as a as a very skilled dealmaker. also confirms a lot of the rumors in the reporting that we actually happened see for the past couple years that he may not as many assets as foreign wealthy as he claimed and this is a guy who after all filed for bankruptcy more than 6 times it also may help explain why trump has been very reluctant to divest himself from his personal business is why he's also really encouraged the use of his personal properties including his health and golf courses he's built a government hundreds of thousands of dollars for the use of those products including the secret service for protecting from while he was out playing golf. it doesn't smell doesn't smell right does it what impact if any do you think this will have on the elections yeah again you know these allegations really do go to the heart of his appeal where specially if you look at some of the key swing states in
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the rust belt wisconsin pennsylvania michigan a lot of these places you know that have been struggling financially for years were looking to trump hoping that because of his business actually mean that he would be able to revive their economies. you know democrats we've seen already kind of give us a taste of their line of attack we haven't had here you know showing you know trump as someone who is self serving who is really only out to enrich himself and who can't really relate to working class people there's one set of rules for trump and his administration. but not for everyone else and you know also really undermines trump promise is someone who you know wanted to drain the swamp people and yeah and you know democrats right here you know the campaign selling stickers state i pay more taxes than donald trump you know this is coming at a time when a lot of americans really are struggling financially because of the pandemic and
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you know some on the fence may wonder you know why does a president have to pay for you know less in taxes than i do. but actually kind of hinted at there i think with your question as you know we've. seen these attacks on from before they have not stuck his supporters been solid in so you know even in 2016 during the debates he said you know i don't pay taxes because i'm smart a lot of people bought that argument then and i won't be surprised if a lot of people continue to point it and say you know yes mark it was a dark thank you very much for. time to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world high winds and low humidity have sparked a new wave of wildfires in northern california fires spread across large areas of grassy hillsides and forests in the wine producing napa valley hospital and several hundreds of homes had to be evacuated as massive smoke clouds developed german chancellor angela merkel has confirmed she visited russian opposition leader alexander valley while he was recovering in a berlin hospital the 44 year old was discharged last week of the nearly
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a month of treatment in germany from exposure to the soviet develops nerve agents not to talk in august. french president tomorrow mark owen said he remains committed to saving lebanon from collapse michael said he was ashamed of lebanon's political leadership and its failure to serve the people he blamed the militant group hezbollah for attempts to preserve the status quo. if this will come out of confirmed coronavirus cases in india as now exceeded 6000000 people but almost 100000 deaths from covert 19 reported india has the 2nd highest number of cases worldwide after the united states about 80000 new infections are recorded each day the world's highest daily rise despite this the government is unlikely to reimpose the lockdown after harsh restrictions battered economy and wrecked the livelihoods of millions of people. all that are used in emissions as well joins us now from
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delhi the figures we've just heard how dramatic are they really given the size of india and its population. well you know how do we have to factor in the fact that the other looking at mass is actually just well so has a very high population density if you're going to have a number of uses and the question that's on the population india i mean many far behind many other countries just see higher keys another statistic that looks and feel of india is a little mortality rate and this may perhaps explain why in the indian done wonders but as the people so like the lifting of restrictions because of the massive economic impact as what the government and the people in uniform can pull back in the long run but i must bring the tension back to that mortality despite the fact that it's northern to what average it is it didn't need again because of the massive population that india has in over 2000 people i d.-d. this is this uptick still. but how are people coping with of you measure that the
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financial hardships brought on by this pandemics. well it's definitely been begun to get hot and the mindset and by this point of jack was the beginning of the lockdown that we saw in much unequal we saw dramatic images of migrants walking biking hundreds of kilometers these migrants and almost in back in the cities and back at work factories are gearing up offices and shops so i was just starting a sense of novelty but long as the study was all along said that the number of going to not a short and damaged economy and then relations of job losses in the sauna sector which is the sickly salaried employees which make up just might resent it when your student luck was the one to set up a non salary try image and employees are still suffering its merit and the government might have lent aid to fund was construction workers the men have not given as much of it at 400 dollars to the people on the sandy. continues.
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there's a what do people make of the government's handling of that. but i had well opposition parties in parliament house and to say that the government mishandled and that many people are seem to still be going along with what friend list and into more of the tasman sea which state which points out isn't mensa popularity in the the lockdown that it was only possible because of his and his insistence that people must continue to be seen to be getting heated however it can be nor that in guessing its worst have reportedly g.d.p. contraction over the last 2 months those impacted by the event being mr government and perhaps look at this as a mishandling the crisis and there are going to elections coming up later the c.r. bends sure it's the brand of france where these support actually translates to
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words. in a daily thank you to. and while we're on the subject here are some of the latest coronavirus developments around the world german chancellor angela merkel warns that daily coronavirus infections here could reach more than $19000.00 if the current trend continues but marco also says the economy must be kept afloat and that schools and childcare centers should remain open officials in grief in greece on sunday announced the 1st coronavirus death in a migrant camp the victim was a 61 year old father of 2 from afghanistan he had been living in the mother custer camp near athens officials have placed the camp in quarantine new zealand's prime minister just. said travel between her country and some australian states may be possible by christmas. in the coming hours the global death toll from cope with 19 is expected to officially exceed $1000000.00 many parts of the world are seeing a resurgence of infections such as man hours brazil's largest city in the amazon
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research as the man hours could be one of the world's 1st places to chief herd immunity but the numbers say otherwise for. in may the corona virus ripped through the amazon region's biggest city leaving a backlog of bodies in its wake in mouse cemetery workers could not dig graves fast enough. but then the 1st wave of the coronavirus subsided and in june death rates dropped unexpectedly. a sense of normality returned to the city brazilian medical research has speculated that so many people within the community had caught the virus there were a few left to become infected they thought my mouse had reach so-called herd immunity. but this month covert 19 has been making a comeback authorities shut beaches and closed balls and the mayor resigned gree
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that the brazilian government is not sending a clear message. to the government must take this seriously and tell the truth to say what is happening and what is not for 2 reasons if it says there is no problem then we won't get any help secondly if they say there is no problem then that encourages people to ignore our decree as. would probably be right when president. has played down the danger of the virus frequently appearing in public without a mosque and he's encouraging people to go back to work and return to normal life. back in my mouse police break up the polity a 30 day ban on parties came into effect last week along with a reduction in shopping hours regional governments and brazil hope that with targeted closures and nightlife restrictions graveyards like these will still have
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plenty of space for a little longer. a decade decades old conflict has boiled over into new fighting as are many and azerbaijan come front each other over the disputed region of the gonna care about them both sides have been using heavy artillery and have reported casualties egypt chooses the other off starting with fights in the areas it's nationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic armenians since a war in the early 1990 s. killing tens of thousands of people russia germany germany and the united states all called for an immediate cease fire. young wants to go to war on sunday he signed up as a volunteer in the armenian capital yerevan yes yes yes yes i'm 66 years old and ready to fight for my father lives. he like many has been left shocked by the
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weekend's clashes. the army and ministry of defense says these videos show an azerbaijani london vision of the nagorno-karabakh. 3 enemy tanks and 2 helicopters were destroyed. our media has declared a state of war and the troops. light not of the outbreak of a widespread war in the south caucuses that we can now see could have unpredictable consequences it could spread beyond the region and in danger enter national security and stability if they're shut of it in line they're taking up arms in the regional capital stepanek here mostly a media is left here the media has controlled the region for decades but under international law it belongs to azerbaijan. azerbaijani officials have imposed martial law and curfews the government in baquba blames its neighbor for
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the new escalation. it's no secret that the 1st shot was also carried out by the armenian military in many stone arch. turkey has promised to back either by john there were joint military exercises in july which had to nav enemy. knowledge to touch one to destroy the armenians and armenia that's clear yes the story amenia is hoping for russian support by moscow and the e.u. have called for an end to the fighting when our joint correspondent and. yuri this is a long running conflict between armenia and azerbaijan what sparked the fighting this time. well it's not clear what exactly caused this is collation right now in the past few weeks however this conflict has has flared up again as you said both sides blamed each other off attacking villages in the border area and there
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are many theories why now some experts as you know how about that right now the international community pays attention to another country to bella ruse and to another conflict there which could motivate both science armenia and azerbaijan to use this moment of distraction to prove to create facts on the ground. know we are seeing a lot of heavy weapons on both sides which presumably means that this news collation isn't a spontaneous activity but rather and well prepared military operation so what is it then about this this conflicts over undergone occur makes it so difficult to resolve well this conflict goes back to the times of the soviet union where ban boundaries between terrorists was drawn completely arbitrarily there was a big soviet state for 70 years and borders didn't matter dozens of territories in the caucasus warm merged or separate that the randomly including nagorno-karabakh
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after the soviet union collapsed both independent states armenia and azerbaijan have started a dispute about of this enclave and since 99 tis not going to go to bach is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but lost the governed by the armenian majority actually it's in the independent state with its own political system but azerbaijan has been repeatedly threatening to take back the region by force armenia has the backing of russia also by john has strong links to turkey what role of these 2 playing in this confrontation. well i think both russia and turkey play a very important role here both countries have good relations there are actually allies in the middle east particularly in syria but they could be no suddenly on different sides and that could be dangerous russia delivers a weapon stormin you have displayed its troops on the border to armenia but russia could also be very useful as a mediator because it has good relations with azerbaijan as well as both countries
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produce and deliver on oil and gas to europe as for turkey turkish president adlon said yesterday in case of war he is going to be on the side of azerbaijan clearly which makes azerbaijani president aliyev appear more self-confident however experts warn that this is collation could destabilize the whole caucasus region you are versatile in moscow thank you your tens of thousands of pollutions are gathered in minsk for 7th weekend to call for example to shanghai to step down the demonstrations have been taking place since the disputed presidential election in august because opponents and much of the international community say it was rigged because they couldn't eyes electoral fraud and was inaugurated on wednesday in an unannounced ceremony. it's. still no end to the stalemate but these massive protests that just won't stop either the demonstrators
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are determined to oust alexander lukashenko who last week swore himself in for a 6th term in office on sunday they mocked the man they believe is clinging to the throne. my tummy feel like god. here and. pierre and that's why he made this secret bracelet peace not friday again the. opposition leaders had planted to kind of scalia dubbed sunday's protest the people's inauguration protestors came bearing her portrait they believe she not look at shank 010 goes disputed presidential election. ok and today we're celebrating i don't always live executive lives but you know the ration of our presidents have stepped on that's the most difficult. 50 days of
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protest but there's no sign the question goes government is about to go and it is still trying to push the people off the streets. in gomel and other cities peaceful protesters again faced a violent police response according to officials police detained at least 200 people. thousands have been arrested in the last 7 weeks and many of those detained have applauded torture and abuse in custody prompting international condemnation. so everybody is looking around other coming out and i say everybody has the school been worried that maybe they will call but there are so many of us. despite a huge government crackdown these demonstrations haven't. in crash but they have so far failed to push look at shankar out leaving della reese in crisis at an
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impasse. so paul is now they said no one could stop by and munich looks like the defending champions finally found their match in an unlikely opponent hoffenheim as the 1st team to end the bavarians unbeaten streak that dates back to december last year and often i didn't just beat them by i got sucked. i weary by and stepped on to the pitch and hoffenheim unbeaten in 2020 but the hosts appeared to have a plan prepared to smash that winning streak. and it took just 16 minutes for the goals to start oftentimes our mean big check cheech powered a header home to put them in front. less than 10 minutes later and byron were left stunned again this time the honors went to mr park. but the visitors even though they were clearly i paced battled back and joshua
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kimmage made it to one with this cracker going into the hof time break. tough and time took advantage of a flat munich with a relentless attack in the 2nd half the last bit to set up andre crumb r.h. to make it 3. i. was. the final blow to byron was in extra time when crime rates scored once again this time from the penalty spot and confirmed munich's 1st defeat since december last year. for one the final score and tough and time go top of the ball in this league table. and sunday's late bronze they go much fry book and both spoke and the whole draw is by both teams having plenty of chances to score a winner is peters and got the ball rolling for 5 book after 11 minutes of perfectly placed call out from a 4 and a dozen was that at home. or from
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a set piece. fired in a free kick a few minutes before half time is short deflected off to defend his leg. so bought into the us. the last couple of months have been tough for the fashion industry with almost no live shows for designers to present their new designs but one famous italian label is now celebrating a catwalk comeback while the few handpicked guests at valentino's shown in milan had to wear a mosque throughout the event the models were free to display the brand summer collection for 2021 without hiding their faces so marked the end of this year's milan fashion week. you're watching the news here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you as president donald trump passed described as fake news claim that he's benefited from years of tax avoidance
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the new york times reports says trump's business empire claims heavy losses and paid hardly any federal income tax so. that's it for me in the news stream up next is global 3000 the global as globalization program sage and for that global step today for visiting us online a state of utah a common. option called for stories on correspondents on instagram and twitter. on galveston's fortune.
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mexico is producing school lessons in a t.v. studio. because everyone has a t.v. . cameras make education accessible to the poor in times of the pandemic. more disagreement even more social inequality in mexico.
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on t.w. . india time norah in raja stein is a special village us much village residents work together to ensure a dignified quality of life with a safe water supply and basic amenities. and they are creating jobs. how room community takes pride in the way of life because india. needed 60 minutes of w. . with him how to be a gun because our viewers were lions how do you know if i had known that the boat would be that small i never would have gone on a trip but i would not have put myself and my parents or
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a danger to the bottom of the dream of the going to give us leave would. love one funky look at that one little body when you and i had serious problems on a personal level and i was unable. to live there with what i'm going to. i want to know their story for my bridge or for example horrible information for margaret's. welcome to global 3000. the shah mountains in north macedonia boasts stunning landscapes but this natural paradise is under threat. in india we visit school children determined to learn jaring the pandemic even
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outdoors in less than ideal conditions. and in mexico education currently means sitting in front of a t.v. we look at the impact of school staying closed for months. education shared learning and the opportunity to engage with their peers barely anything is more important for children but the coronavirus pandemic has turned things upside down frog lopes 1500000000 school kids schools have led to home schooling and online remote learning it's a highly improvised situation. but education generally has long been a pressing global issue 264000000 children worldwide have no access to it at all and the pandemic has made things much worse currently around 463000000 children are not receiving any form of education neither in the classroom nor at home better to
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have a bit of school the none at all that's the motto of the mexican government its current education program centers around something found in the most living room. a kitchen for a classroom and instead of pen and paper a remote control. it's a way of learning that calls for a lot of discipline. read and then it feels weird but i'll do my best. between 4 o'clock in the afternoon and 7 in the evening all middle school students in mexico watch classes on t.v. topics include the big bang and galileo. if. they said galileo went to prison but i don't get why. 11 year old christopher's
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questions will remain an answered the government funded program broadcasts a new class every day infection levels in the country are still high and children may not yet return to the classroom christopher doesn't want to get the virus in case he infects his grandmother. next up is music followed by matthew christopher is glad when his mother comes home from work earlier than usual. if you've got a class that yes but i only understand half of it. hilda is a single mother she's supposed to work the whole day but she wants to be there to help her son get used to this new kind of learning. it was you get that if they don't pay attention in school then they really aren't going to concentrate when they're left on their own with the t.v. in their school books. meanwhile private schools in mexico are focusing on
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online classrooms now for her spanish class isabella is collecting objects and will write a story about them she only gets to see her classmates on a screen but at least she sees them. and say i know my. first i thought it would be terrible but it isn't. it's new. but i'd still prefer actual school. my best to. an english class there's a surprise test in store. she gets to talk to her teachers and her parents are working at home so they're on hand to help too for 10 year old isabella online learning is going well. many in mexico fear that the pandemic will exacerbate the country's problem with social inequality. that is what is a growing imbalance so i'm worried about our country. education is what society
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needs in order to make progress. allow him to know that the mexican government is pinning its hopes on the school broadcasts given that 16000000 households have no internet connection the t.v. classes are the best solution simply allowing millions of children to miss out on school isn't an option experts say. ethically speaking that would be a mistake we would have failed in our educational duty this is no alternative it's not perfect it doesn't reach everyone we must continue to look for better solutions other options. hilda is concerned christopher hasn't taken any notes at all at some point the teachers are supposed to email their students questions about what they've learned the family borrowed and old i pad from friends. never that's going. to be honest i'm not sure that we
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will learn much this way the learning out. instead of returning to the classroom for the new school year mexico school children are watching t.v. it's not ideal but it's better than nothing. things are far from ideal for many school kids in india too and images like these seem like a distant dream right now india has been hard hit by the coronavirus government schools have been closed since the lockdown started affecting almost 250000000 primary and secondary school kids only older peoples are still receiving partial tuition for poor families there's no alternative to analog education but some a determined to make it happen. the scientific groups poonam every morning is typical in today's india the country is one huge construction site society is in flux and india is visibly transformed.
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beneath this overpass on the outskirts of delhi to numb and other local teenagers are meeting for lessons in reading writing and arithmetic most school on a building site the dean is deafening obviously this isn't a suitable place for a classroom but with street schools closed because of the coronavirus pandemic the kids have no other option. but a lizard of a younger bus that's why i come here i come twice a day so i can keep up with my studies we have english in the morning and math and science in the afternoon. it means i can keep up with my classes and hopefully at some point past my exams but i would like to think that. part is a qualified social scientist who's applied for a job with the government and is waiting to hear back in the meantime he volunteers
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as a teacher in this makeshift school. but. these students haven't been able to go to school for 4 or 5 months it's really hard on them they come from poor families their parents are illiterate. day laborers field workers it's hard enough for them to get an education at all and now the pandemic has made it even more difficult. poonam goes home at midday her parents are hard at work on the fields harvesting okra her mother has been up since dawn and expects poonam to help out. what are we there like there i helped out with the harvest yesterday and today i also have to help i don't like working on the fields but my mother says we children have to help then the work is done faster my brother takes the vegetables to the market. but he can i
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have always worked i never went to school it wasn't an option for me and i did that only to the kumar is have 6 children who all need to be looked after and fed until they leave home poonam is 15 and her mother feels it's time she moved out of the costs of keeping our fields going are so high we barely have enough to get by we would have married her off but we can't afford a dowry no one would take her without one. son's can eventually bring in an income but the poor families daughters are simply an added expense and there's no point in giving them an education the poor the family the more deeply entrenched this way of thinking is india has a population of nearly 1400000000 and millions live in poverty only one in 5 households has internet access in many rule areas there isn't even electricity this digital divide contributes to social inequality experts warn that now the global pandemic is further jeopardizing children's educational opportunities. to the
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efforts in dom's of schooling off children into warp drive and areas of the digital means that even those who have walked through the school in the last decade or so they're off the map of learning the infrastructure. penetration for receiving does your dough is not given back to you simply nonexistent if we look at the divide of inequality the most important challenge that we are facing is the lack of technology good devices the smart devices there is a huge gap between the haves and have nots so the children who are now want to having the internet connectivity or the smarm devices they're definitely lacking in this which will environment in india education is a privilege not everyone can afford fortunately for her middle class family can afford it her classes are now online no problem for a student with a reliable internet connection at home
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a private school in india costs the equivalent of around $1000.00 euros a year for most people that's simply an affordable and i think of the government school i feel that i'm still like i'm so privileged to be in a family which control like me with the sources like laptops internet but think of the government school children one not even 2 even attending classes so that's i think so i lack off. the classes held underneath the bridge on the outskirts of delhi are worlds away from online lessons so far no one here has come down with a virus but no one wears masks and the students are huddled together if they keep their distance they wouldn't hear the teacher above the noise so they're taking their chances. if they miss one day they can catch up. but if they miss a whole year of schooling they'll miss the boat completely i'm going to stand
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a chance. all these young people want is a chance to improve their lot in life by getting an education even that modest goal could be denied them that and i don't want to end up like my parents working on the field i want to. learn something and have a better life i want to make something of myself i want to be educated. would like to be a teacher one day and give other young people like yourself better opportunities for that she's willing to go to a makeshift school under an overpass on a construction site. and now for global ideas we head to the balkans. check traveled to north macedonia before the pandemic and enjoyed some local traditions as well as some inspiring they chose. the european greenbelt is
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a nature conservation initiative running along the corridor of the curtain which once divided east and west. its an aim is to protect natural environments around this area environments like the mountains indorsement said. it doesn't take long to set up an outdoor cinema in the village of. by contrast efforts to establish a new national park here in north macedonia have been dragging on for decades. at the foot of the sharp range. is a conservation activist based in the capital scorpio. she and her friends have come here to screen a short film about. she wants to win over the people living here to her cause there are problems to address trash is one of them. quite a few villagers show up for the screening. and her colleagues organized under the
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auspices of the in geo friends of shar where they work. they weren't sure local people would in fact be interested. who is a journalist says conservation does not top the list of our country's priorities but she contends that with enough popular support it should be possible to do more to protect this beautiful mountainous area. after the screening the activists and local people talk about their concerns. as villagers have been struggling for 5 years to prevent the construction of a hydro power plant nearby. they challenge the friends of shah asking why they haven't been helping them they said the n.g.o.s should engage more with the people who actually live here. there are many villages in the region facing similar
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problems. sharply measures 80 kilometers by 30 over the past 2 decades threats to this scene of wilderness have been mounting so now we're going to sort of. you know is the mountain range with the greatest biodiversity in north macedonia and it must be protected to the highest degree of the state and not at the border and that's you're not going back if it is declared a national park it will be accorded the most protection even across national borders is going to be the key feature. sharp lies near what was once the iron curtain of the ribbon of land in some areas nearby have been designated the european green belt by an association of the same name. its mission is to protect the natural landscapes there which have been shielded for decades from major developments such as farming and construction. the association promotes eco tourism renovating mountain huts and building new ones should entice more hikers to come
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and explore. the association also seeks to counter illegal logging which is a serious problem.

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