what secrets lie behind. discover new adventures in 360 degree. how to explore the mating world heritage sites. to double your world heritage 360 get kidnapped now. welcome to global st helens. this week we go to lebanon and find out how beirut is not seen as coping after the devastating port blogs. in gemini u.s. military and failed has left a toxic legacy what are locals doing about it. but 1st we learn how the coronavirus pandemic is forcing other nights to say farewell to that beloved 60.

freedom of self-determination and the opportunity to get ahead for centuries cities have promised all of that even today many people are drawn to urban areas for exactly those reasons i have a home off the global population now lives in cities that's more than 4000000000 people and few places have offered greater hopes of success and happiness the new york city now though the pandemic is laying the dreams of many lives than to waste . in a few days' time celine compound will have left new york she came from paris seemingly a lifetime ago saying goodbye to the city is hard to. say if. face. to face i think. i just but

now i. have to go but they're very good. and moving so to me here is that it gets. emotional. she came for love then stayed to build a new life in the city of limitless possibilities setting up a successful public relations company. it's a great sound energy was. here when she was amazing you could need to pick or from every different background in any day you could. tell downtown need to you know not just gallery to whatever you know the clothes fancies a shot of culture it was really really great now she's packing her life into bags and boxes and heading back to paris business has dried up but the bills for granted health care haven't stopped coming. what's more the city that enticed her

seems to have vanished and if you have no restaurant no blood wait no opening no gallery you make. it go by the sea and enjoy the nature you know what i mean make what's why do you have to be fucked in a box of auckland. and do some calls all day in. times square we're missing trista moldova and steve tewkesbury for 2 decades they performed some of broadway's biggest production limits on the kinky boots and phantom of the opera now they're looking for something new. i'm trying to look into industries that are actually hiring right now and perhaps the medical fields out here amazon yes of trying to think of anything that's heartening as well. trading the bright lights for hospitals the logistics. broadway. theaters will be closed to lead least the

end of january and possibly longer. some productions have been entirely counseled. new york's world famous entertainment boulevard now i'm seems like a surreal film staff's. desertion and. a 3rd of bars and restaurants have gone and his business. nobody's coming back so it's scary it's very scary to think of a lot of these buildings you know just having nobody in them and you start to go down that rabbit hole of the somebody in the buildings is going to be nobody there's no terrorist there's no fears that are open and you just need to start to get concerned and actress about it we all have known to the city which we love so much to pursue our dreams and to pursue the entertainment industry but you know what if we can't we can't afford brands and there is no industry there's really no no reason to stay here for. 400000 people have left the big apple since march

office occupancy has dropped to about 10 percent most large corporations house which the home office. the real estate market is on the brink of across the market for luxury apartments has collapsed by 67 percent. the millions of tourists students and commuters who used to float into the city every day have vanished leading to massive financial losses new york's tourism industry was worth 70000000000 dollars last year money that's sorely missed especially by those who've chosen just to get out of. the. business honestly right now is $75.00 boats and it's dark before caught on thing was very busy when they had a seat on the outside like this i mean how the $8000.00 customers a month before the coronavirus struck now it's a ranch to. 100 you have to fire his for stuff and get his son into help now they

only make enough to cover the $7000.00 a month rand next door a clearance sale is under way sierra robinson is the last employee standing i am getting. a very small amount. comparatively to what i would normally be able to. not just survive but to live to not be afraid of where my next meal is coming from to make matters worse the contract on her apartment is now expiring she and her partner contre forward to rent a new place in the absolute worst case i would have to leave. which is the last thing i wanted to do i worked really hard to be here thousands of businesses ruined dreams shattered hundreds of thousands jobless many come to pay their rent anymore there's a moratorium on

a fiction's but it's only temporary even thousands terrified of ending up on the streets 200000 to fiction suits were filed here even before the coronavirus arrived the city already hans 100000 homeless. new york faces potential catastrophe plenty of fiction draws to a close at the end of the year that's according to alan davidson a legal aid society attorney who represents tenants at the moment we have an eviction moratorium but when that eviction moratorium layoffs. hundreds of thousands in town and sarah risk losing their homes becoming homeless it will be years in unprecedented disaster for the city the city has withstood many shocks but celine copland says this one feels completely different there's just too much coming together at once. to start a mum. it's going to take a bit longer you have

a trifecta effect you have a similar thing the. standish flu which was a big problem the great depression of 1929. and challenge. it's like. how did you survive that trifecta i mean i was sorry like it's just hell. once again in new york faces enormous challenges. and once again it may be time to reinvent itself. was. so many lebanese the beirut port explosion 2 months ago was the ultimate proof that their government and political class were failing and had been doing so for decades. lebanon is made up of various religious groups and sex the maronites several christian groups the druze sunni and shiite muslims between

19751990 these groups room broyles in a bloody civil war afterwards the warring parties divided the country up between them. since the mid 1980 s. the shiite militant group hezbollah has also gradually extended its power in lebanon today it's considered a state within a state but in their struggle to maintain influence lebanon's regional leaders repeatedly block reforms despite angry public protests. there's something very special that the point there's a very special energy everything facet career everything transits through here. it's the heart of the city for me it's like. the energy of the movement of people working. your mama i say standing on the roof of her gallery last.

name means heart of america. into old grudges she made her dream come true space for contemporary art. the explosion of all this for destroying that dream. and then to stay in the gallery is closed and you mama are sailing wasn't a issue matthew incidents in which she owns her life. the physical damage of that set up today and it's going to be a parable but that's not the issue of whether it's someone who has a restaurant but whether someone a library or to anyone they want to break it they want to break this idea to these dreams that you have they're trying to smash it every time and then you have to. do way to fit into it to get them doing a canary wonder how long can one get is. you know be resilient at this point and do and do and we do. since august 4th anger in beirut has grown every day

in the corridors behind the harbor no consciousness landscape. recent years have seen the emerge on the scene with international appeal many saw it as a hope for a renaissance of the old cosmopolitan and liberal now that hope is in ruins. the magnificent summer song museum was also badly damaged it was only reopened in 2015 after a long renovation as a place of art for everyone entry is free. the last visitors had just left the building while the rector say not only dot was still in her office miraculously she wasn't insured. what i've been going through really i was like i was shot by a sniper and 17 i was 8 years old i was at the beach since the time i was in so that kind of kid its owner. generation the war generation who did not want to

forget who want to talk in person and who through these structures artistic initial things we have been witnessing non-responsibility of government and of course a civil society that is more and more like acting as if it's a place in this state which we have already been doing for the past 30 years. although the civil war ended in 1900 thing is to resume in the present dominate the heart of payment for victory. then came assassinations bombings the economic crash in a state where the government is absent we don't have a government but a mafia that preys on the state says writer and here's. the thing new of the. political system that was created after the war which i call. the system of good and simple. there's no support in the going on but these are the

fields all of these heads of different shows will sniff it in 6. the only way for them to govern was to sit at the promise of a civil war. the explosion was announced and indeed it was it was absolutely. wrong sport the truth that the british tried to cover raucously. it's not simple meal things will destroy the government it's a good thing. good luck to use it to work. in a hopeless situation you know when you're out of the spirit we're going to have to just put it in the spirit of the new fear that it taught us to go. beyond despair. then you can go to this hope if you will. it can be you could call it is it that we mentioned. to survive. the source

something easy to be revealed help is coming from all over the world. but just rebuilding from the old foundation that's not enough this time to say no i'll be down. there 50 i'm not a kid anymore so today i really need to think about my puter. i'm committed to the museum i'm committed but i don't know how long i don't know how long i'm committed to defending i'm committed to my country depending on how it is going to. i mean we are ready we are ready to govern this country have. at the end of the 1980 s. there were almost 800000 foreign soldiers stationed in both parts of germany mainly british french and u.s. troops in west germany soviet soldiers in east germany following the end of the

cold war and german mean if occasion the occupying powers midstream most of their troops. they left behind trash and contaminated soils and drinking. coming late only u.s. troops are still stationed in large numbers in germany back in spangdahlem by residents are fighting back. into schneider feels like his day which facing an omnipotent poising his environment since $953.00 american fighter jets have been taking off and landing right. by god. i took the it's also very moving away from the area is not an option this family's been living here for centuries. they are going to the radar that's why everybody out. we had a challenge regularly. by the ground and the water rivers and by then

and there it's a very different picture from the water is. contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals known as perf war and they should compounds or p.f.c. these they originated this nearby air base on our pollution waterways in the area. the local authorities have 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 a depth of up to 80 meters in the land surrounding the air base and in concentrations that the e.u. considers critical. condition either 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 fuel life and all slain into it and then

set it alight so moved. on. and on it was burning fiercely with. you something along something wishing agents which we now have in our groundwater. and. that phone contained fluoro surfactants a chemical that is all well 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 all be too late to protect the area's water. mr farrell doesn't really know how to get off the surface without an agressor under the illusion it's dropped from the air but i get i thought it was less than $5000.00 away used to be a paragraph there is now this is written august. recess but that nobody seems

willing to take responsibility for. at the airbase our request for an interview were ignored. on the german side to people to talk to 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 look after approaching the regional environmental protection authority who did talk to us. previously how if you can just imagine by we know that's what holland has about us levels of yellow rose to $500.00 and it was in fear that an already said all sources are going to end airborne compound is written off big and there are certain there as well as with any attempt to mean that it would have entered into this little bit bigger chunks of it and was meant if they're going now indeed it. among those details is the fact that there are still places in and around the air base where perfectly were in a ship compounds or seeping into the ground water kingdom up

a cost millions of euros assuming anyone is willing to foot the bill which is the political issue. obviously won't leave me the decision on your claim that the loss isn't yours that's something to be solved because in german from the american government on some of. those negotiations to take years and in the meantime the status quo remains. that. is a reversal of the flow seems so young. and are now better of credit to my mother said the most important either statistical music. and you could. put this growing opposition to the american air base going to schneider's not fighting on his own. issue. see i thought against the americans used to be completely sure how many counts are done many bombers kind of misread would say here injuring our prosperity didn't work i'm sure that's changed a bit of. that residence in environmental activists 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. now it's time for glaber line hence and this leak off a piece of cake had from a t.v. is a guy leaving to change his. in done that his nike head was under threat due to increasing need for hobbyists but there was a solution and we would tend to see how things have developed. saplings in full bloom. some of the pods are old pretty nearly right. orlando's mondo is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. we're. going to miss the car runs very fast and i don't like what we used to plant. it would take the old cocoa seeds for

years to bear fruit but with only 2 years. that's really fast for us and. i means we can all enjoy it we'll make money earlier. and. 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 why this is a part of 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 by some experts and history it wasn't an easy decision.

to walk on. and usually i wasn't sure about what they told me but i thought about it and cut down one of the half acres out of the 14 i actually want to have it's been 2 years now and i'm very happy oh. yeah. 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 what all of this is part of the farm dams and planting cocoa and making here just like in the other way but the timber contractors cleared and i didn't get me i was going. to deal with the problem of illegal felling locals across the district are being trained up 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 deaf i think to fly in and saying that if

it's in a go box we identify then we make a report on it then with thick accent to get i would for the commission to address the problems. 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. community. to the men so they die inside. 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.

so. it's becoming a problem what. are you worried us. if i say it hasn't i'd be lying. or you can rely on a small amounts at the. top of the wires to your car you have no choice but to live out worrying about it really suffering. well in a day. or what it's not. farmers like or a lot of though often have trouble accessing loans because their holdings are too small to use this collateral now look will see things initiative has been established to help out and just farmers in weathering the pandemic. orlando was among those who attended a training session on financial manager out no doubt after this obvious micro they knew when to get their funds about 3 years or more before their farms start footing . but it was to link up the fund i sensed

and 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 fusee to consider quitting his job as a teacher to give farming a go himself. to another friend who meant so much. to the family and some of the food. from someone who comes. new generation and a good harvest in sight for a lot of doors manu things are looking up.

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