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tv   Focus on Europe  Deutsche Welle  October 15, 2020 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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serious displaced to fix traumatic humanitarian crises around the world. for good thing we don't have time to think i didn't go to university to kill people who. can't. deal with their cars their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become a. stable. place to start talking 16 on g.w. . hello and welcome to the program was show and it's nice to have you with us it was the 1st country to impose a nationwide lockdown and now italy him is bracing for a 2nd wave as 1000 cases in europe climb just months ago the northern city of
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baghdad was in full blown crisis mode as the virus swept through the region of the dead had to be transported away by the army italy's hospitals and health workers were completely overwhelmed by the high number of patients. the country remains on high alert strict measures were imposed in the north and were also adopted in other regions including a bear got more and milan it's a prize most italians are willing to pay to prevent a repeat of the past for many men like nick green that trauma is still fresh. for them and greenie has seen a lot and 108 years she survived the spanish flu 2 world wars and now covert 19 when the 1st wave of the pandemic hit man she lost many of her friends and the care home she lives in. because i lived through so much in my life and i'm
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still here it looks like god is forgotten about me. fatima greeny feels lucky here in northern italy and wants to help others lombardi was badly hit by the pandemic in spring but the virus claimed thousands of lives in care homes for the elderly in particular. 33000 died of covert 19 in italy and almost half of them here in the north hospitals were overwhelmed the situation was dramatic the gutty recalls. she's a volunteer with the italian white cross and something is she worked 12 hours straight i was there to give him her food but i ask of him to come with me along so this was one of the. strange experience very different from before because during the normal behavior that we
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take the patients. and their relative or a caregiver. or on their own were asked to go to the or speak that for many help came too late the company 87 section of the city cemetery houses the graves of 128 on claimed covert 19 victims buried in a hurry when the contagion risk was high either the relatives couldn't be found or couldn't organize funerals because they were ill or corn tinning it may now be made a permanent monument commemorating the victims of covert 19 we leave. every from arctic experience like a tsunami something that in the moment arrives change it completely everything so from that moment that we change our beer we are our approach to the life now in autumn it's still mandatory to wear a mask inside of buildings and also from 6 in the evening to 6 in the morning on
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credit streets italy is doing everything it can to avoid a 2nd lockdown for weeks and spring people weren't allowed to leave their homes the strict approach explains why italy has managed to avert a 2nd wave says maria rita just mando she runs the covert 19 lab at the luigi sacco university hospital in milan italians learned a valuable lessons from the high death rates in march and april just mando would like to see more cross border cooperation. i think it's an important. thing to think out today. that you have this same a protocol of therapy the same. exchange of experiences the same require counting not just that they look at. the back to just you know your piano strategy to face
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a divider just not believes that the key is rapid response the italian government has introduced covert 19 tests and schools to provide rapid results but teo in a sister victoria welcome such measures the last thing they want is another lockdown and a return to home schooling. that. i hope that we consume take off from musk's. not have to keep her distance from one another all the time and that isn't that it really. from our vets not an option. for them and their greenie tells people they must wear masks and. don't make the same mistakes. i wonder when this thing will end. you know i am old and i will die soon.
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but i am deeply worried about everyone else. in the meantime she prays and hopes for the best for them as determination under duress has made her a wrong model to many qualities needed now more than ever. while most of europe is concerned with containing a 2nd wave off the coronavirus others are focusing their energy on expanding their power like viktor orban he is the strongman of hungary in his nationalist fans has put him at odds with many leaders and now carbon wants to bring cultural institutions in line with his conservative agenda new legislation has given the government increased power over theaters and universities honey sortie studies at the renowned university of theater and film arts in budapest and she and her fellow students are fighting to keep our beds nationalist policies out of their institution. students have been demonstrating in front of the theater and film
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university in budapest for weeks now. they've blockaded the entrance in protest against the government which has imposed a new foundation and board of trustees on their establishment threatening its independence as well as that of other universities and cultural institutions. we demand the resignation of the new management. people act against a repressive party together. for. sure he is one of the protest leaders she's been acting as a go between for many of the academics who resigned in protest they are all under enormous pressure she says whatley. government has waged a real war against our will on. our professors and students are constantly being
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slandered as of the end. of the drama tours allows no poor for instance he had been nominated director but the new board fired him like most of the lecturers at the university he. as in favor of the protests. elect for. the most important aspect of the suppose it government reforms is that the senate which represents the students and economics will have no influence on the decisions of the politicians board of trustees. of the so it will all be for. the populist authoritarian government has waged what it calls a culture war it is decided that young people should receive a patriotic education it is not interested in academic freedom. never lose the matriarch education does not turn children in terms your subjects. just
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want them to understand what their ancestors created to be able to pass this on. it's not easy to convey the idea that it is a good thing to be a patriot. but people manage. the university's new foundation has not yet contacted pani sorty and the other protesting students. which is the conservative theater director to livedin yon ski was appointed to head the board of trustees he recently told a t.v. station close to the ruling party that the protesters were being manipulated from abroad. i think that might the shadows. as these are shocking forces that. there's an army operating online he's an international army really should be received information from abroad and some of my view her colleagues have told me the protests are being organized by certain circles cers it's very painful.
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fido. and i'm the crazy figure isn't going to as we've heard all about these international ground forces before to supposedly a talking hungry but the one you know it's that they managed to get rid of human rights on chairs with these conspiracy theories but they always play the same cards talking about i have no where to score those biased but that. the government's cultural war is not only against universities many theatre troops that used to receive state funding have been forced to close down trough so an experimental theatre company in budapest is fighting for survival but the director is putting up resistance. you have to forget these independent theatre companies are a thorn in the side of those in power. they're trying to get rid of us but it's not easy for them. we can work with very little money to survive. they won't be able to
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break the students so easily this is going to be a long conflict. more over the theaters and universities have support from the public thousands of budapest residents took part in a human chain that went from the university to parliament in september 4 in theatres are also showing support germany's renowned berliner ensemble recently cancelled its hungary tour in solidarity. for sufferer. in greek mythology plutus is the god of wealth who when he was blind gave riches out to everybody without judgement when his sight was restored he could see who was more deserving and the next person in our story couldn't be more deserving of the help that has come her way recently i natalee is the single mother of 4 who was living on the streets of greece a country that is billions of dollars in debt and where unemployment and poverty
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are rampant but there is hope for annan now thanks to the generosity of not a god but a kind spirit. tameness. caris and some you all have been waiting and hoping so long for what's in this box the 2 oldest have both had to sleep on the living room sofa the children don't have a room. now of a c.l.s. from greece aid has brought them a bunk bed they can hardly wait to see it so they pitch in to help put it together i just couldn't believe the bed would ever come but now it's here i'm so happy and this is so great. i tell mrs mother takes advantage of the kids to struction to concentrate on fixing lunch she's a widow her husband died 4 years ago of a heart attack you can self employed left only debts behind it wasn't long before
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she and her 4 children were out of the street. an older woman rented her this little house for $50.00 a month. the house had no heating it had mice and other vermin like cockroaches running around the houses down then water comes in. in conditions like these it's really hard to raise 4 children that. has a job cleaning a doctor's office for now it's her only source of income. but she dreams of learning a profession much as for herself but to be able to provide better for her children . i often cry at night when i'm alone and nobody can see me and i don't want the children to see me even though they do understand everything they live in the same conditions i do but i have to be strong to get by there's no other way i'm a mother and have responsibility. for things our twins are left their 2
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kids are 8 and 5. they've had to learn to shoulder some of the responsibility early on and help their mother where they can. already got big plans for the future but i do our homework we have good grades and are learning a lot. about to become a doctor and help people. now age 36 and ahead of margins her life very differently. she gets child benefits from the greek state but no welfare energy bills like this one can push her to the brink of despair. evene schrumpf drops by unannounced is the austrian founder of the donor financed greece for 8 years now has been making sure the purse to get what they need. everyone has long known and his house was unfit to live in and that above all she wanted to work.
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now he's come up with good news. thank you very much for everything or nothing and so i think if you if it helps you everything is ok everyone has found a new house for the family greece or you will pay the $300.00 euros rent for it plus and has been accepted for training as a nurse you know it. goes i'm. ready for the 1st time in such a long while i have the feeling someone's taking care of me. that's the someone supporting me. i've got something i can lean on. i no longer feel so hopeless about everything in my life yet it's like a new beginning that my some of the good i have got enough you for soup and all human boy we try to give young people who are very capable were intelligent educated a chance at the future with scholarships and to people in need so they can get
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a job and eventually stand on their own 2 feet. under seize intervene it was her rescue her. to live together like they visit a store that subsidized but the local authority and control her shopping cheaper. hundreds of greeks come here because they can't afford to shop anywhere else. and that part of this it's very hard to buy things like clothes for myself and my children. get one of those i come here to buy groceries just so i can scrape by. and then i. got a paper here to everyone is very welcome audie cornish leon the store manager appreciates his efforts we come every month we don't forget you're there you know in progress i guess and for all the work that you do because it's very important
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that there are people like you and they may need it because they know their friends that you make is this. the dance it's really so hard to see people in europe going hungry and not knowing how they're going to make it through the crisis. and they don't know how they're going to get their children through it became a good thing in store for you and i can relax at last she can look forward to making a better life for her children with job prospects and rent paid by greece 8 everyone should have someone like every someone who helps when nothing else will. less work and fair pay sounds like an offer that's hard to refuse especially for truck drivers who are to least spend weeks away from their families transporting goods on tide deadlines it's an industry that employs around 60000 romanians they were to lease 10 hours in traffic jams and weekends and parking lots the e.u.
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wants to put an end to these working conditions but as truck drivers like me and are finding out it's a road that's paved with many blind spots. on the road today end day out stephan dami in from romania has been a truck driver for 6 years crisscrossing through france germany spain a long way from home it's well paid he says but not easy for the born on the beaches some after a year i want to go back to when you know. my daughter was only little. but now i realize that this is one job. stefan isn't attached north of bucharest getting ready for his next trip he's getting his 40 ton truck a onceover he can't afford to break down in 3 days he's delivering an order to
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a client in france. his wife and daughter bring him clothes kitchen equipment and food for the journey. he's been doing this job for years but it's still hard to say goodbye. stefan's a little worried use a new mobility package was recently rolled out across europe and he's not sure how it will affect him modify a lot of people who told me they've been working nonstop for 5 months it's to look. that's not how truck driving works. there are around 60000 romanian truck drivers working in western europe many spend their breaks in weekend sleeping in parking lots new legislation says the employer must pay for a hotel for drivers week in breaks and they're supposed to go back home every 3 or
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4 weeks the rules are intended to ensure fair competition within the single market and prevent exploitation of eastern european truck drivers in particular. as usual there's a long tail back at the border to hungary romania is not part of the xing an area so whenever he leaves home and heads back to western europe he has to wait hours if not days to cross the border. steffen dami and won't make it over to hungary tonight he prepares his bed for the night. he's concerned about the future and what will happen if he can only work for one month at a time which. if i were shorter hours i will obviously earn much less money. than what you probably have so i'm still
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wondering whether all this makes sense within the given that if you know she had almost a fortune but money for the family. i can't see the purpose of this anymore but it was on the. romanian truck drivers have been able to earn 3 or 4 times the average salary in their home country but this will probably change. we need to increase the slope of the grovers we need to pass the cost of the or mandatory hold tolls to the clients so he says that many transport companies will survive with the extra costs those which can afford it are already looking for alternatives abroad. we've already started to move apart before where ration from rumania or western country his firm already has a branch in northern spain. stephan dami and crosses the border the next morning. a romanian official checks his papers while the hungary and officials pay
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a bit more attention to what he's transporting. finally he's back on the road again. for good and think such a life. i don't plan on leaving. just adjust to the new rules. as the as long as i hope that the situation will improve somehow and the strivers. benefit from the improvement of the ferry what should govern what about. 24 hours and 900 kilometers later stephanie stops to make sure he has a clear view for the next stage of the journey. next stop is sienna. and he's hoping that he'll be on the road for some time to come.
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friday's for future has grown from a one person strike to a movement of millions of young people around the world hired for action against the climate crisis but their progress has been curbed by the pandemic and for sure dispensing rules well that's not stopping a group of teenagers in the bill in germany's north they are digging deep to make sure their message is heard there's no vaccine against the climate crisis. it was another hot dry summer in germany. some places experienced water shortages young people living in the flat north east plains see the effects of climate change and are doing something about it. 3 planting trees in defiance of the heat and drought ridden one of them would move now is the german state with the
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most lakes and when you've lived here for years and love these lakes more than anything it's sad to see them dry up that there's suddenly only a bit left holding. 3 years in a row of below average rainfall means low water levels and rock hard soil. it's been i mean the 1st generation that will be hit really hard by climate change all of them the young adults are now seeing that it's really starting to happen later affects. us on. lucy bruno and the others intend to keep climate change on the agenda even when everyone's talking about the coronavirus pandemic people in rural areas have been watching the environment change more and more and they're worried that climate change is here and it's manmade and although not in the way they tell us it is. in that there is a researcher many. murders
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a forest there is for it to do at that moment that we just look at our region i was forced to get her vote come out in the. fields and cropland are growing ever larger as hedges bush twins all the wind sweeps across on hindered blowing away and drying out the soil this has to stop say the young conservationists they hope others will see the tree planting campaign on social media and follow their example they put videos of every turn of the shovel online with commentary and have a dozen of them that's why so many teenagers are inspired to join the project it's using their language and their channels to raise climate awareness you're doing both kinds of trees and making videos. and they're appealing to a global audience i mean germany set a good example and get out there and achieve a lot maybe we'll be able to inspire people in other countries to do the same and
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often have now 3 or 4 more loads then i think the trees will have enough another bomb dogs can look watering cans shovels and cameras that's all they need for the world to hear 3rd message. well that said from the day thanks for watching and by. the fall.
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into the conflict zone to. a deep breach avoided america is heading for its election my guest this week from washington is colonel cuccinelli reactor number 2 of the department of homeland security which caused uproar also reports of the sages used excessive force during recent protests because the dollar can use to
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. keep the peace conflict so for. 30 minutes to go for have fun in. the cup. little city of north korea is reinventing itself but only a few people can enjoy the benefits. and insidious reward system coerces people into loyalty towards the regime and. those who don't make it into the fun metropolis live in poverty. have fun in pyongyang. in 75 minutes on w. . o. . ur who. was of the morning. i
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cannot sleep because you know war isn't manas. in this war smaller. than these low earth worlds. there's no use in the love of a good for the wicked. doesn't your workers remember her girlhood. parents knew. her couldn't sleep with. her currents.
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this is news coming to you live from berlin germany raises the alarm as the country records its highest number of coppa cases since the start of the pandemic the news comes just hours after chancellor merkel and regional leaders agreed to new restrictions to contain the spread of the virus machall says she's concerned the measures may not be sufficient. also coming up thailand's government.

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