tv World Stories Deutsche Welle December 14, 2020 7:15am-7:30am CET
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make up your column on plate don't let me play. player. play this week on world stories. russian funeral homes at capacity. german clinics search for volunteers but may begin and sadat on the african country is a haven for thousands of refugees fleeing war torn ethiopia the fight over the tea grave region has torn families apart and half of those seeking safety are children
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. asked. to sing songs he learned growing up and he misses playing with his friends and especially with his older brother this. you know. i miss them all and i want to go back home because i want to play with my brothers i miss my friends and my brothers. it's been 3 weeks since last saw his family his mother had brought him to his teacher's doorstep when the bombs started falling on the hometown and home era she said she had to search for her 2 older sons a safe way yasser recalls without a 2nd thought she took him and ran. we jumped over dead bodies our neighbors were dead but we couldn't bury them so we just kept running. and europe saw a lot of things a 7 year old shouldn't see says i see for us all she's close friend of his mother has known him for years he trusts her. many other children who flatly die when not
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so lucky the u.n. estimates almost half the 40000 refugees from the region actually it's not clear how many of them arrived in sudan on their own but the health ministry is currently registering all these as especially vulnerable. we face multiple problems 1st an important one we have to find out whether the family came to sudan or not if the family was killed we need to explain that to the child after that we look for a solution or. a safe way yesa hopes that she will never have to explain that to a europe she believes his parents live but with no phone and no communication blackout and to cry she can't reach anyone in their hometown. if god lets me live long enough and if there's peace i'll take the boy back to his mother now i'm a refugee but i will do what ever i can for this boy he's like my own son. life at
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the campus heart up in s.f. was still wearing the same clothes as when they left home often they have to try 3 or 4 comes to get water but still sometimes a safe or manages to get a rope something special. i love her because she takes care of me she buys me their squits fruits and candies i really love you. according to official statistics $40000.00 people in russia have died from the corona virus so far the situation is especially dire in a city south of the euro mountains and the workload in funeral homes there has doubled and become more dangerous. with a steady stream of corona virus dead speed is of the essence at the morgue every morning the team from the funeral agency. comes here to collect new victims of the pandemic 29 year old tour kinsey k f has been working in the funeral business for
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12 years but he says he's never had to bury this many bodies. but one time there was a huge line of hearses standing in line outside the morgue it was only then that people started to understand the death really come. call the relatives to identify the body of. this movie in the city of is only for people who died of corona virus or had contact with an infected person the bodies have to be sealed in plastic the coffins closed. many russians feel bad dead should be treated with more respect for explains. but relatives are often more tense than usual because their dead are handed over to them in plastic body bags. they aren't allowed to open the bags so i tell them that right away some people cry and demand that we open the bags. and i have to explain that they could get infected
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themselves this virus is no joke. it's been if it. has been in the business for 7 years today he's in charge of the team of undertake has he says since the 2nd wave of corona virus there have been at least twice as many deaths in the city of funeral agencies have had a tough time keeping up. we have work a lot more work over a 1000000 people live in the capital of the republic of. government statistics say that only around 90 people in the region have died of the corona virus since the pandemic began but the official numbers also show that during that time over $4000.00 more people died the nost year corona virus infections are spiking across russia but. the situation is under control. the undertaker. today you and his team are in tearing
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a 92 year old woman she didn't die of the coronavirus that means her relatives can say their final farewell with an open casket which is the tradition in russia. usually funerals a big family affair as in russia but the pandemic has changed that people are often worried about getting infected and stay away. so far no one in your east team has he can only hope it will stay that way. people say if it's decided up there think she'll get run over by a street car you won't drown fate is fate if the coronavirus is my fate it will pass me by. her with a very good. the next day the team prepares for 4 more funerals and his colleagues hardly have time to worry about their own health at the moment
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they're just too busy. the number of corona infections is rising in germany as well which can be seen in the intensive care units medical personnel are already at their limit and hospitals are searching for volunteers. germany's parliament as a result of uganda has been working here for 18 years but she has another job too. when the corona pandemic hit germany she volunteered to work part time as an intensive care nurse and berlin's shockey to hospital. just finished a 9 hour shift taking care of covert patients now she's come back into the office to finish off some work for her full time job. commitment i can't stay at home with a clear conscience if my colleagues are slaving away in the i.c.u.
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i have the training and can help so i help there's no question about it. i'm german hospitals are in dire need of help intensive care units are stretched thin. chief of the sharkey to one of europe's largest research hospitals she has put her finger on the problem germany's health care system is facing. we have enough ventilators enough beds enough masks and gowns and gloves but we're worried that all the beds can't be used because we don't have enough personnel. for it to deal with this the shanty have launched a campaign to rehire former health care workers like susan of you've got she trained to be a nurse over 25 years ago but decided to move into
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a different profession in this all hands on deck situation it's people like her that are needed now. in the i.c.u. use are running at full capacity if one person is taking care of 3 or 4 covert patients that's rough you have very little time after work i leave the hospital with a sad feeling because i couldn't give the patients the attention that they deserve . despite rising carona numbers germany's health care system has not crashed yet. but hospitals were already understaffed and the workload was too high before the pandemic despite all the problems susanna has rediscovered her passion for nursing care she couldn't even imagine quitting her job in the in the stock but for that she says hospital working conditions would need to improve.
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our last journey takes us to finland the scandinavian country has done well during the pandemic at the beginning of november the finns had the lowest invention rate in the e.u. instead of strict rules the government relied on its citizens to act responsibly until now. how has finland managed to keep the coronavirus said bay during this 2nd wave it's not due to harsh restrictions on citizens because there aren't any masks or recommended but not required in most places all stores are open. restaurants and bars are 2 orders for alcohol and at 11 pm. is director of the national coronavirus strategy he explains it relies on a sense of personal responsibility near recommendations wouldn't work everywhere but here they do parents are quite obedient in the sense that they are suggested to
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try to maintain. avoid a lot of gatherings of a lot of parties many people intend to work with the way it is suggested says many finns are working from home and surveys show in person social contacts have been cut by 2 thirds but the number of new cases has started to rise so now the government has ordered students over 12 to wear masks in school and limited the size of social gatherings in the helsinki area to 20 people it also extended until at least mid december a ban on all non-essential travel into the country finish officials say in the summer half of new coronavirus infections came from abroad that's dropped to 6 percent now that tourists aren't allowed in the european union is pressing governments to restore open borders as soon as possible one government proposal is the travel restrictions could be eased by making it mandatory to be tested on a rival team on. it is deputy mayor of where the airport is located and he's
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responsible for security there he says his city doesn't have enough medical professionals to carry this out commune communicated to the government that if you lift restrictions and if you make the law that forces our staff. to move over to the airport the situation is so that we cannot treat our finnish paper anymore so well that like difficult decisions lie ahead for finland as it tries to figure out how to continue blocking the virus but not visitors. place. blame. the for.
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