welcome to global street self-interest. this week we go to lebanon and find out how beirut's art scene is coping after the devastating poll last. in germany a u.s. military airfield has left a toxic legacy what are locals doing about it. but 1st we learn how the coronavirus pandemic is forcing urbanites to say farewell to their beloved city. the 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 over half 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 there to waste. in a few days' time celine come plan will have left new york she came from paris seemingly a lifetime ago saying goodbye to this is she is hard to. make if. face to face i'll be back i just work now i have to have to go by their vehicle. i'm moving certainly here it's like it's. an 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 town here there she was. here and she was amazing you could need to pick or from every different background in any day you could be upheld downtown need to and you know a lot is going to me to a bank to whatever you know that the cross fancied is a set of culture 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 had no word with no open no go to reopen the lake. go by this see and enjoy the nature you know with i mean like what's why do you have to be fucked in a box apartment. and do some calls all the. time square we're missing trista moldova and i'm steve tewkesbury for 2 decades they performed

in some of broadway's biggest production. 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 you know amazon make you care less of trying to think of anything that's hiring as well. trading the bright lights for hospitals arms logistics. broadway's theaters will be closed to large least the end of january and possibly longer. some productions have been entirely counseled. new york's world famous entertainment boulevard seems like a surreal film stashed. desertion and. a 3rd of parsons restaurants have gone and his business. nobody's. it'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 has no terrorist there's no fears that are open and you just need to start to get concerned and anxious about it we all may have moved 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 if we can't afford brands and there is no industry there's really no no reason to stay here there are. 400000 people have left the big apple since march office occupancy has dropped to about 10 percent most large corporations have switched to home office. the real estate market is on the brink of a crash 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 months of financial losses the york's tourism industry was worth 70000000000 dollars last year money that's sorely missed especially by those who chose just to get out of. business honestly right now is 75 votes and they started before dean was very busy when they had a seat on the long side like this i mean how 8000 customers a month before the coronavirus struck now it's a ranch $200.00 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 c.i. robinson is the last employee standing i am getting. a very small amount comparatively to what i would normally appealable new. 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 want 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 addictions but it's only temporary leaving thousands terrified of ending up on the streets 200000 eviction 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 lives. hundreds of thousands sometimes hard risk losing their homes becoming homeless it would be an been unprecedented disaster for the city to city has withstood many shocks but celine copland says this one feels completely different there's just too much coming together at once. you start 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 in the great depression of 1929. and challenge. it's like. how do you survive by traffic to i mean i was sorry like it's just. once again in new york. faces enormous challenges. and once again it may be time to

reinvent itself. was. for many lebanese the beirut 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 sects the maronites several christian groups the truce sunni and shiite muslims between 19751990 these groups were embroiled 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 ally 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 and important 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 people work at. the moment i say standing on the roof of her gallery must. remain in charge in arabic. into old grudges she made her dream come true space for contemporary art. the explosion of our discourse destroy the dreams on the tuesday the gallery was closed and the man i say wasn't a. the unseen. to which she lives her life. so

it's physical damage as i've said up to date and it's going to be repairable but that's not the issue of whether it's someone who has a restaurant but whether someone a library or anyone they want to break it they want to break this idea these dreams that you have they're trying to smash it every time and then you have to. wait if i'm too if you can do in a can i wonder how long can one really say. you know be resilient at this point and do it do and we do. since august 4th the anger in beirut has grown every day in the corridors behind the harbor no consciousness lichtenstein. recent years have seen the emergence of the arts scene with international appeal many saw it as a hopeful renaissance of the old cosmopolitan and liberal now that hope is in. 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 doc was still in her office miraculously she wasn't injured. i think what i've been going through recently i was like i was shot by a sniper in 78 i was 8 years old and i was at the beach since the time i was in so that kind of kid it's our generation the war generation who did not want to forget who want to talk interest and who through these structures artistic initiatives we have been witnessing the number responsibility of the government and of course a civil society that is more and more like acting as if it's placing the state which we have already been doing for the past 30 years. although the civil war

ended in 1918 years to resume in the present time it dominates 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 in the u.s. marine. everything good of the. political system that was created after the war which i call. the system of government and simple. there's no support in the going on but. these are the fields all of these heads of the different shows will sniff it in 6 it's. the only way for them to go for it was to sort of the gods will assume it will leave. the explosion was an accident but it was it was certainly pounds for the truth that the

british tried to cover world peace with. it's not simply a lot of things to do with just one government it's a good. example. of a good life used to work. in a hopeless situation you know when you're out of to despair we're going to have to just go to despair at the new fear that taught us you are beyond this bigger. than yours and could this hope if you will. it can that you could cause this is it that we mention to survive. the so something easy a movie with the help is coming from all over the wall. but just rebuilding from the old foundation that's not enough this time says thing i'm going down. today not that i'm not a kid and he was so today i really need to think about my puter. i'm committed to

the museum i'm committed but the know how long i don't know how long i'm committed to the pen i'm committed to my country depending on how it is going to evolve i mean we are ready we are ready to govern this country. 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 something that soldiers in east germany funding the end of the cold war and german reunification the occupying powers which through 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

a state which facing an omnipotent poisoning his environment since $953.00 american fighter jets were taking off the land right. by god. i took the it's also when they are 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 for that but out of. those we had a challenge regularly. by the ground and the water has really risen by then and there it's a very different picture from the water is close enough are not. contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals known as perfume war an ace of compounds or p.f. sees they originated this nearby air base on a 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 adepts of up to 80 meters in the land surrounding the airbase 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 rhythm gives us at all what they poured fuel life and all slain us windsor hole and then set it alight in the. oil and finished on it was burning fiercely with. us and for the long standing wishing agents which we now have in our groundwater. and. that foam contained fluorosis or fact it's a chemical that has 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 banders in 2011 albeit too late to protect the areas water. there's a misfire job doesn't really know much about it was a service without an agressor told to the election it's dropped from the air but i got i thought it was less than $5000.00 away that used to be a paragraph 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 the 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 to doesn't mention by that we know this well and has a levels of it arose so fond and just was in foot and already said all sources are good and airborne compound is roughly 8 and there are certain there as well as with any attempt to mean that it would have entered those little bit bigger chunks spirit i'm. going now into the. 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 groundwater king them up because millions of euros assuming anyone is willing to foot the bill which is a political issue. obviously won't be the decision on years in the last that i knew was that something to have resolved between the new german and american government on sense of. those negotiations to take years and in the meantime the status quo remains. strong at the catholic. vote.

is a professor i want to be closer to. and bob baer of my mentor said the most important in either standish. and you could. put his growing opposition to the american air base going to schneider's not fighting on his own. sitting here and i thought against the americans used to be completely sure how many counts our young men obama kind of misread which i hear injuring our prosperity didn't work so i'm sure that we have that's changed a bit. in 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 day at least would have no problem with the americans leaving town all together. now it's time for global i.d.'s and this week off a pissy head to head fall t.v. is a guy we've had. they found that in the gun that his knighthood was under threat due

to increasing need a little off topic but there was a solution. we returned to see how things have developed. saplings in full bloom. some of the pods are old ready nearly right for. orlando us one who is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. we're. going to miss the cars 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 when they're quite there my. that's really fast for us and. i means we can all enjoy it when i make money earlier. than. if 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. vietnam and. radical action was needed for a bundle of money he said experts and so history it wasn't an easy decision. to walk around america 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 on the 14th. 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. all of this is part of the farm planting cocoa and making here just like in the other way but the timber contractors are clear why didn't give me a little. light. 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. it only takes a couple of taps and of course we are not deaf i guess. and saying that if it's in a go box we identify then we make a report on it then we take 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. well you know to the man 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 what. worried us. you might say it has and i'd be lying. if you could rely on a small amount said you know. about it but what i was doing a plan you have no choice but to live out worrying about really suffering. when a day. d.i.y.

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 look will see things initiative has been established to help out in just farmers in weathering the pandemic. orlando was among those who attended a training session on financial manager out no doubt after. they move in to get their farms it takes about 3 years or more before their farms start foot in. another. but it was to link up the phone i sent to see how. what if. you happened 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. a lot of. argument. to the family and. any solid food. from someone comes from your. work on. a new generation and a good harvest in sight for a land or small new things are looking up. that hill from global 3000 this week thanks for joining us and don't forget to send us your venus you can write sea level 3000 come check us out on facebook d w global id is 20 w. women see you next week.

this is deja vu news live from berlin google with the 2020 nobel peace prize the winner of what's widely considered the world's most prestigious award is due to be revealed in oslo in just a few minutes you will be carrying the announcement live. i'm

brian thomas could have you with us today this week's nobel prize week is about to reach its high point with the announcement of who wins the 2020 nobel peace prize expected in the coming minutes the norwegian a bell. in oslo is choosing among 211 individuals and 107 organizations so what's widely considered the world's most respected award. and to talk about this i'm joined in the studio by did abuse chief international correspondent richard walker nice to see you again richard a lot of organizations a lot of individuals for this very very coveted award yeah that's right i mean we've just had more than 300 nominees so far that sounds like an awful lot but the nomination process is pretty open i mean there are many many people lawmakers another kind of prominent people around the world allowed to make nominations for the prize. and yet i think you know just for the next 10 minutes or so this is

going to be the most watched the doorway will be wouldn't we're getting live pictures your viewers know what's happening here so that is the nobel institute mostly so the nobel peace prize is awarded by the nobel institute in all slow and in a few minutes barrett rice anderson who's the chair of the norwegian nobel committee will walk through that door make the announcement and then also explain why they've made the announcement. and every single year this kind of little cottage industry that springs up in trying to make a prediction of who's going to win it and. the you know the betting companies or even offering betting on the various people and we can maybe just go through some of the some of the individuals potential people. and i think it's quite you seem to think about way they get the prize because sometimes it's individuals and sometimes it's organizations sometimes the prize goes to people or organizations which are very much focused on specific peace process or conflict in

a specific country in the specific job basically yeah and then sometimes it is it is more broad it it's a prize given to try to recognize and bring to the top of the agenda. an important global theme so a trend yeah yeah and i think you know that can maybe help us look through a few of the potential winners that are being talked about like i mean one of the big global themes right of course you're kuroda you're absolutely. with that exactly so the world health organization is one organization that is being tipped as a potential. that would be quite controversial there's been criticism of the world health organization for many of the ways that it's handled the outbreak especially in the way the dates with china which is a major funder of the world health organization whether it was you know kind of too credulous about the information or kind of a controversy. that would be controversial but it's often controversial the

nobody's really. the most political of these nobel prize i don't know their big along the line would be you know when we talk about issues climate change and. yeah it was already kind of hotly tipped last year. and i think she was picked by the ethiopian leader last year but this year she could potentially make it also with the movement that she's the sort of figurehead of and i think that would be an interesting choice because that would be a way for the nobel committee to say while the world is kind of rightly obsessing about coronavirus climate change. exactly i mean climate change as even greater existential threat to humanity. is remains as important as ever.