east germany funding the end of the cold war and germany unification the occupying powers it's true most of their troops. they left behind to trash and contaminated soils and drinking more stuff. coming only u.s. troops are still stationed in large numbers in germany spangdahlem by residents fighting back. into schneider feels like a state which facing an omnipotent poisoning his environment since $953.00 american fighter jets have been taking off and landing right. by god. i. took the whistles and they are moving away from the area is not an option this family's been living here for centuries. the radar that's why. we have regularly. by the ground and water rivers and

by then and there it's a very different picture from the water is. contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals known as perfume or an ace of compounds or p.f. sees they originated as nearby air base and are polluting waterways in the area the local authorities of warned locals about the problem. as a precaution we would still advise against using the river water for irrigation purposes. scientific surveys have helped to shed some light onto the matter they detected toxic chemicals adepts of up to 80 meters in the land surrounding the air base and in concentrations that the e.u. considers critical. going to schneider himself used to work for the american forces and saw soldiers performing firefighting drills for airplane crashes. on board and there was a hole in the rhythms of. what they poured few life and all slain us windsor and

then set it alight in the. unfinished open on it was burning fiercely with. us and for the long suffering wishing agents which we now have in our groundwater. and. that foam contained fluoro surf acton's a chemical that his oil and water of talent and resistant to heat it's an effective means of fighting jet fuel fires but it's practically non-biodegradable after decades of using the agent the americans banned as in 2011 albeit too late to protect the areas water. is a misfire doesn't really know much about it was a service without an agressor under the illusion it's drug from the air but i'm delighted that it's less than $5000.00 away used to be a paragraph is that there is now a part of her that she has written a log of. assessment that nobody seems willing to take responsibility for. at the

air base a request for an interview were ignored. on the german side to people to talk to or at the federal real estate agency. but they refused to talk on camera. instead sending us a statement that assigned responsibility to the american military. we had better luck after approaching the regional environmental protection. authority you did talk to us. previously about him just imagine by that we know that's what hans has a levels of hillary so fond in this was in feels like i'm already said all sources are going to end aaron compound is written off it and there are certain that's what was in script on any attempt to mean that it would have any of those little bit bigger chunks of it i must know how to. do that. among those details is the fact that there are still places in and around the air base where per floor in a ship compounds are seeping into the ground water kingdom up cost millions of

euros assuming anyone is willing to foot the bill which is the political issue. of his and he won't be many of the decision on usually not the last as a mule that's something to hide resolved because in german from the american government comes into play. those negotiations could take years and in the meantime the status quo remains. it. is a professor one of the flows. and are now better of. the most important in either astonished if. there is then you could. put this growing opposition to the american air base going to schneider's not fighting on his own. saying i thought against the americans used to be completely sure how many counts are done many kind of misread which i hear injuring our prosperity. that's changed a bit as such if you're in that residence an environmental activist became more

optimistic in the summer when president trump announced plans to withdraw all the fighter jets from spawn dhanam they at least would have no problem with the americans leaving town all together. and now it's time for global i.d.'s and this legal fake this is cocaine found she is a guy we visited the head has found that in the gun that his nightly head was under threat due to being free. but there was a solution. we we tend to see how things have developed. saplings in full bloom. some of the pods are already nearly right. orlando's mondo is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. we're. going to miss the car was very fast and i don't like what we used to. it would take the old cocoa seeds for years

to bear fruit but with only 2 years. that's really fast for us and. you know i means we can all enjoy it we need to make money earlier. that. it wasn't always like this 2 years ago the trees were hit by a disease called swollen shoot virus which left harvests ruined and here's how orlando described the situation back then. why and what if this is a part that put out your word but didn't because of the disease. it's no good for harvest it spoiled young number not by. radical action was needed for a bundle of money problems by some experts and history it wasn't an easy decision.

to walk on american never seems to me i wasn't sure about what they told me but i thought about it and cut down on the hop acres out of the 14 i. want to have it's been 2 years now and i'm very happy. to see you know for a menagerie. but 6 trees weren't his only problem he also had to look on while part of his land was cleared to make way for a path. so were all of this is part of the farm. cocoa anything here just like in the other markets but the timber contractors are clearing up and i didn't get me i was going. to deal with the problem of illegal felling locals across the district are being trained to work as forest monitors. but they use an app to report their findings and it only takes a couple of taps and of course we are not there i think if i am to go and say that

it is in the box we identify then we make a report on it then we think action to get i would for the commission to address the problem. farmers in the be a district know how important their trees are for the climate and keep the soil healthy. trees leads to drier conditions that in turn leaves the trees more vulnerable to past like these ants. is dealing with an infestation but he has a trick. no to the end and so they die and so. simple and effective. but just as things were starting to look up for him and his family the coronavirus struck reason theories about how the disease will impact his business.

it's becoming a problem. if i say it wasn't i'd be lying. in a small amounts if you know. what i was doing a car you have no choice but to live out we're really suffering. when a day. or what it's not. farmers like or a lot of dough often have trouble accessing loans because their holdings are too small to use this collateral now local savings initiative has been established to help out in just 3 hours in weathering the pandemic. orlando was among those who attended a training session on financial manager out i mean no doubt after my pro they knew when to get there from about 3 years or more before their from start 14.

but it was to link up the fund i sensed and to see how. what it promised to happen before the food starts. putting. orlando's hoping to use the loan to expand and develop his plantation. he wants to be ready for what happens after the pandemic. the improved prospects said even prompted his son adama who seems to consider quitting his job as a teacher to give farming a go himself. consume a lot of. money. to the family some of the food. from someone comes. the new generation and a good harvest in sight for a land or small new things are looking up.

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this is the w. news a live shot from berlin and appealing for help from europe and germany ellery says opposition leaders fetlock have taken off scale calls for support enforcing the new elections we'll hear what came out of her meetings with the german chancellor angela merkel also coming up on the show her. kurdistan's prime minister resigns as the opposition elaine's claim to power sunday's election results are in old and protesters a storm at the parliament. and the slum in india hailed as

a success story for getting back a coach at 19 to ravi a coach assume months of lockout but at what cost. on the program a legendary guitarist and songwriter eddie van halen has died after a long battle with cancer. he co-founded the band of van halen which became one of the world's top selling bands to eddie van halen and considered one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time. i'm claire richards and welcome to the show began here in berlin where bellerose is exiled opposition leaders fat lot of chicken or has been holding talks with the german political leaders including chancellor angela merkel took an all sky is calling for european help a tough. new elections in belarus following the disputed elections in august since

then the country has been gripped by mass opposition protests and a violent government crackdown now to kind of scale once germany to take a leading role in ending the unrest. this meeting at the german chancellor and berlin is crucial for. she has high expectations of angle americal as she told the head of the talks. with authorities and we think that. in this situation. america has deep sympathy for the protest movement as a former citizen of east germany she's lived through a peaceful revolution which gives her a special understanding of. the whole incident when i see the courage

of these women who take to the streets to call for freedom and to corruption i can only say that i'm amazed i find it truly impressive. thank you. women have persisted turning out despite the ongoing violence of the regime. is continuing her own fight from exile us to do we see her comrade maria kolesnikov was put in prison for her own convictions. the protesters want alexander lukashenko who has been in power for 26 years to step down they claim the recent elections that saw him. were rigged. germany and the e.u. agree they've imposed sanctions on look at those inner circle but not against the dictator himself to know scale has called for the sanctions to be extended to look

at you and others many german lawmakers agree including in the green party. leader we need to make it clear that we stand in solidarity with protesters we must offer individual humanitarian aid to people who are under threat and of those who seek help from us because they are tortured or beaten by the regime. on monday. thanks to brother lucien community in berlin she likens her country to east germany in 1909 saying hers is a nation that wants to tear down its walls where at long last people want to make their own decisions about their lives. and the to be a political correspondent simon young has been following those talks we asked him what sort of supports the atlanta to the north scale hopes to get from the german government i think that the opposition are asking as well for practical support support for civil society organizations for independent media groups which have both been suffering and finding it difficult to operate during

this crisis so that's one thing more widely of course there is that call for europe and other friendly nations to become involved supporting dialogue between the look of shameka regime and the opposition that's a cold that's been repeated again. and there's a political crisis in another former soviet republic kurdistan's the prime minister has resigned following days of protests in the capital bishkek there are reports that the parliament immediately elected his replacement from the opposition only for him to be forced to flee as angry protesters stormed the hotel where the emergency session was being held as comes amid increasing unrest following sunday's parliamentary elections here you can see protests are. forcing their way into government buildings and destroying images of progress russia presidential. backoff official results from the vote handed big gains to the president and to

establishment parties those results have since been in novels. with both the government and the opposition claiming power we spoke to central asia researcher collingwood to ask her who is in control the last that we heard publicly from president kim there was early in the morning on monday in kyrgyzstan that he released a video so people do not exactly know where his where yes at the moment the opposition. meeting council claims that they are in control but i think ultimately the power does lie with parliament that it's the 6th parliament the last parliament that was in power that is elected a new speaker is elected a new prime minister and this interim government is going to be the one to make the call on holding new elections and ultimately the decision on whether to impeach the president here because it is very carefully set up its executive branch to have balance between the president and parliament but always the parliament has more

control than the president so in the coming hours even though. i think parliament is going to wield power over the president any more than him over that organ of power. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world the global chemical weapons watchdog o.p.c. w. has confirmed the presence of a novice chalk a type of nerve agent in samples taken from alexei navalny the russian opposition leader has now given his 1st video interview since his poisoning in which he said he believed he was attacked because russian authorities see him as a threat head of elections. at least 14 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an explosion in the town of northwestern syria witnesses say a large truck bomb went off in a crowded area near a bus station the blast also damaged several buildings. the european court of

justice has struck down changes to hungary's higher education laws the court called the rules of quote incompatible with e.u. law critics said they targeted a good of past university funded by george soros the u.s. philanthropist is a vocal critic of prime minister viktor orban right wing government. well the film a slumdog millionaire made it world famous india's largest slum of dharavi located in the heart of mumbai at the start of the corona virus pandemic authorities worried a crowded living conditions but make stopping the spread of covert 19 impossible but the ravi managed to flatten the curve and through an intense public health campaign it containing covert it came with a price shuttered businesses and lost jobs and threatened to spell disaster for people already living on the edge. about a 1000000 people live in this crawling tyro the norm what it's multicultural and entrepreneurial spirit. with its large migrant working class population not only

was expected to see a massive probably 1000 outbreak earlier this year. instead it effectively contain the spread of the widest drawing global attention. to control of the forward situation here the authority of the arctic the measures like aggressive death thing and cleaning all the night in the regular event that can and quarantine tend to defining containment and a hard will get flagged down. the shut down of all work back in march due to the nationwide lockdown keeps the heart of the heart that causes small businesses and look shops that had been trading that keen to a standstill. mommas up good has lived entirely for 30 years working as an artisan doing very thread work on fabric. after months of sitting idle or had just assumed work in his workshop. or by live

earlier i used to get orders from clients. but now i have to go out and look for them. and i still don't get much work there's been a lot of loss i have to pay the room road and the electricity bill. he says he has never seen a slowdown like this. 6 months with economic activity limping back to life most people like up there are still struggling to a living. example of all but one of all work has been severely affected the economy was already in bad shape now because of coronavirus people have lost whatever savings they had moving. authorities in mumbai bracing themselves as cairo he has begun to see infections rising again as restrictions are eased and migrant workers are done. we have to do with.

their member. more than see we hope of. being them. their regular house is returning to the streets to the changing situation still require a major overhaul in part of the total nothing team in strategy. is a good thing things will pick up a bit one says craftsman back to their villages. but he is still expecting it to be hard to make a good living for quite some time to come. with a legendary guitarist and songwriter eddie van halen has died after a long battle with cancer. together with his brother alex in 1972 he formed the band that later became van halen 10 years after their family had emigrated to the u.s. from the netherlands when it became one of the world's a top selling bands with songs like john and even helen is considered one of the

gray. mr rockets hardest of all time 65 years. on for more on the late legend i'm joined now in the studio by reporter simon of bone simon what do we know about the circumstances of his death well what we know is what his son wolf posted to social media that he suffered he'd been through in on long and arduous battle with cancer we know that he had throat cancer and had been seeking treatment in germany for about the past 5 years but he didn't really tell anybody kept to term self so his death still comes as a shock to to to many in the music world he had even been suggesting that he was planning to tour next year. 2020 just keeps getting worse and worse attendee to this is what will he be remembered for if you think well for being out of virtue of the guitar of course and for being

a success story as as we heard he came from the netherlands. essentially in poverty but they brought a piano with him on the boat and his father was a musician and clarinetist and he even played on one of them socially and. he and his brother 1st and he learned to play the drums and alex learned to play the guitar and then they switched when they saw that each other the other had had some strengths that they didn't have and that's how it all began when he had quite a music career didn't he i understand he even played for michael jackson that's right well van halen was. revived hard rock in the late seventy's at a time when disco was was ascendant on the charts they brought it back in a way that was fun and you know that it wasn't serious and the group areas like some of the like led zeppelin may have been and some of the heavy rock of the early

seventy's and their 1st album was recorded relatively quickly they left mistakes on the in place that they recorded sold more than 10000000 copies so far and and it went from the 1984 album also called 984 also sold 10000000 albums all of the others are 1000000 sellers. and so he's playing his tapping style which we saw in that video was groundbreaking have apparently he used to play with his back to the audience so people wouldn't be able to copy and find out how he did it now their most famous song of course was jump their only u.s. number one and. the we can see it on screen right now that video that you can see the band recorded it and themselves as a way of thumbing their nose at m.t.v. it cost him $600.00 to do. paul simon bond i'm sure he will be remembered i thank you for your reporting on that. well you are watching a v.w.

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