tv Kulturzeit Deutsche Welle November 10, 2020 11:30pm-12:01am CET
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good drinking water shortage i meant. what happens if you're gonna stream of black coal oil thomas' starts december 4th w. . welcome to global 3000. full speed ahead why a huge rail project has people in mexico's yucatan peninsula worried. fresh eggs online how china's farmers are going digital to survive the coronavirus pandemic. but 1st helping those who need it most volunteers are helping albanian women to
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escape bitter poverty. worldwide women are more affected by poverty than men they're generally expected to look after the family when they can work they earn far less can save less and their jobs are more insecure. in times of crisis women are generally hardest hit the united nations says that more than 70 percent of domestic workers lost their jobs in the 1st few months of the pandemic the vast majority women. according to a u.n. study by 2021 around 435000000 women and girls will be living in extreme poverty 47000000 more than today and the situation isn't likely to improve by 2030. these n.g.'s on their way to a woman who lives in rural albania with her children in fear of their lives a group of 7 follow. tears has been sent here by a foundation called
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a different weekend the organization has 12000 volunteers in all. the woman calls herself scored she doesn't want us to use her real name she and her children were repeatedly beaten by her husband and he was eventually sentenced to 18 months in prison but is being released in a few days. oh the value was threatened me saying that when he got out he'd find me wherever i was and kill me me and the children. well i said kill me but i beg you to spare the children i have to protect them they good kids they deserve a better life. sure it isn't used to people listening to her she talks for hours telling the young volunteers about her life the poverty and hardship she endures. the n.g.o.s currently setting
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up the 1st women's shelter in albania it's still under construction but squirter and her children are going to be brought to safety. into runa the capital of albania 26 year old lawyer r. bar high degree is on his way to the foundation's main offices he's used to explaining the project's unusual name. a different developed very organically. when i was still a student i wanted to help poor people. during a vacation i spent a weekend volunteering with or. it was a public holiday and everyone was celebrating except the poor so i packed a few with food and toys and went to the poorest parts of tehran. the weekend i spent there was different. he holds a meeting with a different weekend volunteers every morning the team discusses the day's tasks
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it's a highly efficient operation. next door move on and here's a fielding phone calls a call is just coming from a widow called it vanna the family of her late husband have thrown her and her 3 daughters out and now they're living in a cow shed. with no heating no fridge and nothing to eat their case is given top priority 2 hours later the volunteers visit it van up bringing clothes food and also hope her husband died of epilepsy in march her in-laws wasted no time throwing her and the children out of the house and they're now living here trying to get by on the equivalent of about 20 euros a month in welfare benefits. these photographs are all she has to remind her of her husband and somewhat happier times although the family was
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always bitterly poor. so i never had a birthday party like other kids. i'm turning 14 soon but we won't celebrate this time either our mother has no money so much i've never blown out candles on a birthday cake. so both. the cow shed is barely habitable at night rats and snakes crawl through the holes in the walls emily is so scared she can't sleep there's no electricity and no fridge so the little food they have spoils quickly just in this area here of course you know we have done 35 houses through them out and i really hope the next house before this family very some when i say swan i mean.
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20. tens of thousands of donations from all over the world have allowed the foundation to help some 50000 families in albania sometimes their circumstances have been improved only temporarily but some of them have been able to escape poverty for good or that the happiest hopefully it vanna's luck has now changed thanks to donations the foundation has found a new home for her and her daughters they've also found it vanna a job a school around the corner for fiorello and swale and their little sister emily will go back to daycare and to be able to sleep at night again. by the way they are . escaping poverty and leaving a self-determined life something that should be accessible to women around the world on our facebook channel d.w. women you'll find stories about women tackling problems and taking a stand d.w.
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women gives a voice to the women of our world. venice is normally swamped by tourists some 30000000 of them every year in a city with just 50000 residents. is a money spinner. but in many places it has become a curse. back in 1950 there were just 25000000 international tourists compared to 1460000000 in 2019. yet around the world there are more grand projects in the making designed to pull in ever more tourists not always to the delight of local people. the jungle means everything to cloudy or lopez it's the only place he feels truly happy we met the tour guide an animal welfare activist in his element one of the most species rich rain forests on earth the mother nature always has wonderful surprises
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in store for us. right now i'm waiting for the bats to come out. it's the daily dance of the vampires millions of bats leave their underground caves here every night this remarkable place is known as the back volcano and claudio lopez is always thrilled to watch but these days he's also worried. about but that the new train route will pass very close to these caves and the resulting vibrations could cause them to collapse. that could happen when the train passes through here. the new railway is called train maya it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in modern mexican history work has barely begun but promotional films produced by the government are already showing would lies ahead 1500 kilometers of
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tracks will crisscross the yucatan peninsula the project will cost billions and will be partly financed by pride. it investors there will be new settlements next to engine mind cities and a rail connection for nearly $3000000.00 tourists a year. the goal is to support a region that has been forgotten for the last 5 decades. at the same time it's a region with resources that can benefit the rest of the country. profits for some but anger for others like guadalupe caceres who lives in company. a town located along the old train tracks which are to be extended for the train my house is said to be demolished. significantly just my home means a lot to me my life my history this is where i lived with my parents this is where i raised my children. in this area alone there are hundreds of families who will be
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forced to resettle in early june that mexico's president andres manuel lopez obrador traveled to the region to announce the official start of the tracks construction critics say took advantage of the coronavirus crisis to push through processes in the controversial train project and yet there are also many people along the train my a route who support the project the train line could set a lot in motion especially after the pandemic putting on a real connection like this would have great economic advantages there would be more visitors and therefore more jobs it would make it easier for people to get here by train from cannes koon and other tourist centers. that are now travelers to the yucatan region have to rely on cars the further you travel in lead and away from the coast the more isolated and green it gets here there are eagles spider monkeys jaguars and other endangered species the new railway line also threatens
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their habitat in the jungle town of cio we met up with cloudy old lopez again the government's infrastructure plans are a big issue in the village soon the population will increase 10 fold from what it is now. the problem is that everything will grow without control. prices will rise and as in other parts of mexico organized crime will take over. me. so who benefits from the development and suppose that progress in the land of the maya the legacy of history is omnipresent cloudier lopez takes us to meet an important representative of the indigenous population. but in the name trend maya is a disgrace. we the maya people are the ones who bear this proud name but nobody has spoken to us. this is not true we are in contact with all groups and there will be further consultations because of the pandemic contact
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might have been reduced a little but again if anyone benefits from the train it's the indigenous people. when yes. but once again many indigenous people feel their concerns have not been taken into account the last stop on our journey is the good or turquoise paradise which is also under threat. biologist melina. regularly takes water samples here with alarming results. back and that has such vivid colors but if the pollution continues like this this could get dangerous and very quickly i mean for a long time this place was an insider's tip but now the visitors have arrived and with them the hotel's garbage and sewage the lack of sewage treatment plants and the shortage of water have become a huge problem and as of 2023 the train my is expected to bring thousands more
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tourists every day. who can't afford mass tourism even now we can hardly protect our ecosystems unit but they hit our nickel system the railway is coming to yucatan that much is clear but there's still time to check the . nose and change its course. shuttered shops and food markets covert 19 is a huge headache for retailers and farmers. e-commerce is stepping into the breach industry turnover is due to grow by over 25 percent this year to more than 2 trillion euros. in 2023 point 5000000000 people are expected to shop online almost half the world's population. the biggest market is china. these days of poverty are over. shane was able to pay for
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a brand new tesla with the money he made in just 2 months the farmer's son sells docking it's. one factor contributing to his success is that he is in constant communication with his customers. mind streaming via the video sharing app tick-tock or dahlia as it's known in china. this is a very good sales platform it's much better than the traditional routes with agents and middlemen who all want to cut. so you have got to get. cured and salt and steamed are a chinese specialty they're a much loved snack for whoosh unction business is booming output has quadrupled. and now processed 200000 eggs a day. and that's the number we're able to show each day oh yes
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development here was a family. who lives in the far south of china in a small fishing village where everyone knows everyone else. for generations now the young have earned their living by fishing before switching to breeding ducks and later in life. streaming idea didn't go down well at 1st. one told me and the people here find live streaming shameless they don't understand what you're doing when you run around talking into his cell phone all day they look down on me because they didn't understand what i was doing. a couple. but his idea has paid off is entertaining and he knows how to build trust last month the village cooperative made as much profit as they used to and 6 months. 250 kilometers away line streaming courses especially for
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farmers along with del yen and j.d. dot com the chinese equivalent of amazon are involved in the project young up and coming farmers are getting lessons in direct marketing there are special studios where they can practice mr song as sweet potatoes to sell trained lifestream ers are helping him talking into a camera for hours on end doesn't come naturally to him. he goes along with the influencers help me to create the right mood. to fund at the beginning i was really nervous but gradually things got easier i think it's easy as a mom i'm on the home the farmer now sells more than half his produce on line j.b. takes a commission of one percent of turnover but the platform also organizes the transport . a little bit eugenides logistics infrastructure works for us
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if someone orders online j.d. organizes everything that saves us a lot of work and there's the old in one tool. during the coronavirus pandemic organizing transportation became a problem one that couldn't be resolved by individual farmers tons of produce was left stranded across the country. for mr song and his cooperative the streaming project came at just the right time the rather retiring farmer has now got used to being accompanied by a smartphone camera when he's in the greenhouse. we'll see about how to using during the coronavirus crisis in february and march people weren't allowed to go to the market or to stores so they looked around online and discovered they could get fruit and vegetables delivered to their homes even fresher than in the supermarket usual bittorrent. since the start of the pandemic online sales linked to live streaming have skyrocketed this farmers'
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co-operative used to employ 70 people now it's almost 300. they would earn less in the city than they do here and it's practical it's close to home people can look after their grandparents and their children they no longer have to go to the city to work. without a little. back at washing shins ducking factory. this feeling confident about his future before he discovered lyme straining he had always thought he would have to leave his village to find work in a big city. we could communicate with the world over this platform. yes we can share our cuisine and culture and history with the world that's very exciting for us. without you don't know. who would have thought that line streaming duck eggs could attract so many followers and bring so
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much business success. in this week's global ideas we'll take a look at a particularly successful conservation project. africa's majestic wildlife is often the target of poachers making the work of wildlife preserves especially important. our reporter went to kenya where he met some of the people whose project has made it onto the international union for conservation of nature's green list. the wildlife conservancy in central kenya is a paradise for animals and animal lovers the 250 square kilometers are home to thousands of giraffes elephants lions rhinos and many other species. used to be part of a cattle ranch owned by a british farmer in the 1980 s.
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when poaching was decimating the black rhino population the family turned the land into a sanctuary today around 170 black rhino the live in the conservancy. they're protected by 123 rangers a pack of specially trained dogs and a high tech surveillance system most of the rangers are locals. 100 percent of a ring just walking. from the neighboring community is very very important because you know they're also it to send a message to a community that they have they want to share because you know people in the community level it so it's very important to work with people of the law cause the people who. are on a bus. but they were conservancy says that working closely with local communities is an effective strategy in the fight against poachers. community is playing a critical role in terms of conservation with putting them in board you're not
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tweeting in terms of cost of vision. or pushing it's been a step by the communities and it's been assisted even by a dentist that is what you have seen before and it's just because of their money and that's why now we're focusing in terms of putting a lot of programs outside the community so we can really win their community to get a lot of information and at least they can be i found e.s.l. for us if the local people notice anything suspicious they reported to the ranger purity one more you she grew up here and knows almost everybody in the area they said no we are 5 female who are just at the moment i was the last to be right was employed in 20 tells this concept messy means everything to me because my mom we have a micro-grid bring us the now so my mom is not is one of the benefit of that micro-credit right now i have a son who is in from 2 plates now he's getting funds from education but sadly.
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the little wildlife conservancy invests about 7 percent of its earnings in programs benefiting local communities such as bursaries for $450.00 school growers and irrigation schemes for local farms one of lay was top priorities is empowering women. pauline karumba who owns a small farm but for many years lacked financial resources but in 2017 a labor conservancy program helped her secure a micro credit. card. immense and yes a good lay one has really helped me because it gave me a loan it was $10000.00 shillings about $100.00 on i'm making it and when i did a lot with the money dog i bought c.d.'s to plant and i also bought 2 pigs so there's been lots of progress that i am moving forward. i have gained so much
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there are many benefits for example they bring in trainers who teach us about many issues that have to do with health and how we can help ourselves as women. $1800.00 women have so far received microcredit there are also classes on business the environment and practical skills purity and lawrence of work for the conservancy is women's empowerment program. previously women. so that they have come to. meet. we link up with maybe specially expecting across expect to be less so but is from a benefit to the best in the lead to take in funding and producing for.
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the programmes have helped improve the standard of living in neighboring communities. working closely with the local government the conservancy supports for clinics and runs one of its own local people receive free medical care including medicine and vaccines and medical services for pregnant women and new mothers. setting up these clinics was to provide much needed primary healthcare services to communities that leaves are on the consultancy monthly. 800 people. there's a dire shortage of medical care in kenya's rural areas so locals welcome the clinics. it would be a big problem if this clinic didn't exist many people would have died the nearest hospital is in the next town which is quite far it's good that there is
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a clinic here. the efforts made by the labor wildlife conservancy not only to protect wild animals but also to support local communities have found international recognition since 2014 it's been included in the prestigious i.u.c.n. green list of protected areas. the seal of approval is a huge boost to the project. it helps us in terms of our marketing strategies it helps helps us in terms of well fund raising i do to help what helps us so that there can be a model for others to emulate for others to come on line from us what we have been yeah it's not for lower it's for the king and his stage it's for the global head it is for the community heritage. the labor wildlife conservancy shows that protecting wildlife is compatible with the needs of local communities with the right
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be tough it is for me to be. useful to be told this 1st. hand beethoven is for. beethoven is for covering one. beethoven 2020. 5th anniversary here on d w. every day counts for us and for our planet. google ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation place to make see the screen. how can we protect habitats. we can make a difference. good morning to you as the environmental series in global 3000 on t.w. and. good. players
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