you know i have a story too and you know that's my story right now and i'm telling it for the time i'm telling it like it's a story not like it's my memory sure stories of course of course i'm sure but you know david tells me i'm probably 50 percent of. part of the reason we're wrong is that we can absorb and remember the astonishing richness of every life moment. so we fill in the gaps unconsciously and create a narrative story that makes sense for now. but that can make us defective at discerning truth from fiction say scientists who deliberately create false memories. dr julia shaw is a psychologist at university college london in england. she is also the author of

an intriguing book the memory illusion. every time you remember something you activate that memory network in the brain you're actually able to change it slightly so next time you recall it you're only recalling the last time you recall it and over time those changes can compound and you can end up very far from the original version of your memories and you might believe it wholeheartedly full toughens and while it's not true. elizabeth phelps is kali neuroscientist joseph made a video illustrating phelps's idea that are forever changing memory is for ever reliable. let's say a war hero going on a 100 city tour describing all the great things that happened during the battle and the story gets more and more heroic as you go from city one to city 100 so by the

end it sounds so good to leave it. to. us broadcaster brian williams and hillary clinton both falsely recalled being under gunfire in conflict with foreign countries. where they deliberately exaggerating or just misremembering their own stories. the fact remains that memories as they are retold realistically experienced they are changed it's almost like a play to get a broken telephone so it's you know every time that you're retelling that story you're saying it over some detail is changed and the longer the time goes on the more changes you have our recollection of something that happened from 20 years ago is very different from what actually happened 20 years ago. the big question is what happens inside our brains to make us so confident when we're so wrong. is stored all over the brain most day to day memory is captured in the hippocampus

a small seahorse shaped organ in the brain busy. meanwhile very emotional or threatening events are also imprinted on the. there's a personal recollection for you or for event of your life hippocampus is always involved but it's something that's highly emotional so for instance like the terrorist attack of $911.00. you know the image below will also become active helping the hippocampus store the memory lets remember the central details of this a little bit better so that's the explosion not who you're with if you were ironing in the dorm room or in the kitchen. but the film says the emotional intensity of that central memory may fool our brains into thinking our company memories are just as real we don't forget the important event itself we know that 911 happened we knew there was a terrorist attack and our memories for that actually are quite strong and the what

i think is happening is that the high confidence and vividness we have for that single event leads over to memories for details surrounding the events in some way . but that's just a normal part of memory right this probably happens to all different types of memory not just flashbulb memories as we get older our confidence in our recollections gets higher better accuracy goes lower so we are more confidence but our memories are false. the fact that we can remember so wrong while convinced we are right led some researchers to pose an extraordinary question can false memories be created deliberately. neuroscientist steve ramirez and you did a much heralded experiment at mit that was right out of a science fiction film. but the stars were mice. the 2 scientists started by creating a fear memory by giving a mouse mild foot show. in a box like chamber while identifying the individual brain cells in the hippocampus

involved in making this memory. then the scientists genetically engineer these brain cells to respond to posters of laser light. now they could switch that fear memory on and off. this is a brain scan thousands of times the size of the mouse's hippocampus. so there's the branches that were active everything that's going green here was active in the animal was making this particular fair memory. next they put the mouse in a different box where nothing bad had happened to it after a while they shot light into the mouse his brain to switch on the fear memory from the 1st box. but out of the $1000000.00 question is does the animal behave as though it's recalling a fear memory even though it's in a safe environment. how could they tell when

a mouse experiences fear it often freezes in place. but we're not scared it will run around exploring its environment. so how would the mouse behave. so as you can see the animal isn't scared from the get go of this particular environment and then it's running around and we shoot late into the brain and reactivate the brain cells that we think process a fair memory the animal immediately goes into this freezing behavior it's things still so this is evidence that we were able to successfully fall this animal into recalling a memory artificially. months later the scientists tried a daring 2nd experiment racing a real memory by creating a false one. this time they put the mouse in a harmless chamber and identified the brain cells of this safe memory. then they put it in another chamber and gave it slight foot shocks. but at the same time they

switched on the memory of the earlier safe box. so what happened the next day when the mouse is put back in the 1st safe box. freezes in terror falsely believing that's where it was shot. a false fear memory has been implanted turning a safe environment into a frightening one. the idea of being able to manipulate memories as promised for for instance trying to turn off negative memories in p.t.s.d. or maybe trying to turn the volume up on positive emotions. i think that when we create a false memory recreating the links between the areas of the brain that wouldn't normally be there so they would be there if we were to create a false memory in humans. so how do you create false memories in people without shocking them or shooting lasers into their brain. elizabeth loftus has done many famous experiments creating memory mirages in humans. she's planted

memories in people that they hated strawberry ice cream as a child. for that they loved asparagus. who planted a false memory that you know as a child you loved asparagus the 1st time you tried it we got people who imagine this and later on they were more interested in eating asparagus so that actually that that scientific paper became a paper with one of my favorite titles which is asparagus a love story. by exposing subjects to fake advertising she's convinced many that they remember seeing bugs bunny at disneyland when they visited. but bugs is not a disney character and has never been there. they'll often have them go on and tell us that they shook his hand or they touched his tail or they heard him say what's up doc you can get people to become more confident that they actually had an

encounter with a character. that they didn't and couldn't have encountered i don't study forgetting i study in a way the opposite when people remember things that didn't happened false memories can be expressed with a great deal of confidence especially when they're a product of suggestion. following elizabeth loftus is memorable footsteps scientist julia shah published a dramatic 2015 study done it canada's university of british columbia it showed how easy it is to obtain false confessions of committing a crime. started by asking 60 student volunteers to participate in a memory study. but she also privately asked the subjects parents for one emotional incident from their childhood that she could bring up.

in something that's the. sean then brings up a 2nd childhood memory where they committed a minor crime that involved police in their own hometowns with their friends only this memory isn't true for some of the other events but your parents are part crafting are out was 114 years old initiated a physical fight and the birth of your parents sort of happened in colombia and the far. right when it happened i was you pretty i don't. i don't like i don't know why you. are this honestly i so here for this purpose but i've just introduced the 2nd memory the false one but she doesn't know that and then when she of of course naturally can't remember anything given that it didn't happen i then as a helpful researcher offer that we can do this guided imagery technique which helps to retrieve lost memories so picture yourself at the age of 40. in colona.

and it's. try to remember that whether. you're. in the 2nd session shaw continues the memory exercises and some details begin to emerge. oh my community remember a little closer where in our lives cheer up i can maybe remember getting it like a verbal fight with someone. this girl called every. girl i did to. get its ok was that when certain facts strays. by the 3rd interview the subject has filled in most of her supposedly lost memory. kind of vision of it i see myself wearing this. in here i think. too much i think the cops showed up.

for. this. so it ended up being much easier than we were expecting to convince these people who'd never had please contact that they had committed a crime that never happened. overall team convinced 70 percent of our 60 subjects that they had committed criminal or violent acts that never happened. we even had participants reenacting the crimes that never happened showing me how they threw a weapon or how they attacked someone physically it was astonishing. after the 3rd session i'm told participants the truth some had trouble believing the memory was false. it is. actually. saying that he preferred a call certainly there was resistance from some participants to accept that actually this was a false memory rather than

a true memory and that's the thing about false memories is that they feel like real memory they feel real to you you're playing with the original and you're tweaking it and you no longer have access to version want you no longer have access to what you originally coded you only have this new adjusted started least mentally. we don't know for instance if that original memory is permanently embraced or if you just rewrite things on top of that memory but the question now is what's actually happening at that neuronal level what's happening when a memory is being recalled when it's being updated with new information the honest answer is that by asking the question we now reach that age of what we know. don't know generally in the brain false memories and true memories look exactly the same so for all your concern and for all in f.m.r.i. scanner would be concerned that is a memory it's not a memory of something that actually happened but in your brain it is now the same

in this thing most of all from. our we all vulnerable to these memory illusions or some of us more vulnerable than others do some outstanding people have perfect memories total recall. when it was your 1st dance social talking well 1st dance all that being since very much me may 15th 2015 the 1st dance was our home are 23rd 2015 both those took place on friday. tyler and chad who can bottom are identical twins but they have one major difference tyler has 8 sam highly superior autobiographical memory. this means he can remember distant events and dates in his own life like most of us recall yesterday. tyler in chatter being quizzed by

university of california irvine research or not he'd go far to see how their memories compare they're both top a students would have been on august 16th 2014 or i'm guessing some would have been was soccer in those my 1st soccer term. no. on this it seems 2014 it was a saturday and we went and we adopted our current count that we have a sentiment as right as for the number that's correct when did you watch the women's n.b.a. game at staples center 1724 teen thursday july 19th was when we went to the ronald reagan museum. and then that night we went back to bradley winter divine for dinner with tyler has an obsession with garbage trucks which he films and shares on you

tube he remembers all their numbers thousands of them. was happening on july 26th 2030 all. i remember that day because the cycles just running really late in the driver's going really fast remember that the numbers on ios trucks yar waste was 2662. trash was 2658 and every cycle was 27872718 we spent many hours combing through tyler's vast site to check if his truck numbers were right when did you fly to ohio in the summer of 20150 i was. no july 29th and i saw a lot of garbage trucks i don't normally see out in california and what was the number of the truck any 2938.

dollars 81161. and stuff it dumped from the back of the truck to some. neurologist james mcgaugh has found about 80 people in the world with h. sam so far. the renowned scientist says most have one thing in common obsessive traits like tyler's passion for garbage trucks. some of the men will not wear shoes that have shoelaces because she laces touched the ground on their germs on the ground if they drop their keys their house keys they have to wash them before they use them we see this as a central feature of the ability but we don't know what to make of it it is just there and there are some big there's a big fat clues there that we have to use and figure out how to use i don't even know how i do it and i mean i had a people ask me i give them the answer like wall and mike yeah you know i do that

either information gets brought to me very seldomly do they say give me a minute no frank about it and they don't do what we do when asked a question like that we look at the ceiling i don't know why we do that but somebody ask a tough question and we always look at the ceiling as though we're going to go help in some way to. find a response but they don't they don't need the help so we're hoping that we can do some really sophisticated imaging today very very interesting opportunity what's going on in the brain one that is not going on and the other. 'd colleague neurobiologist michael yassa is examining the 2 brothers with the latest m.r.i. technology to see how their brains compare. so this one also gives us

a lot of information about parts of the brain that are really important some memory called the campus the special scan the senses that are the brain. 'd studies indicate that certain brain pathways seem stronger in adults 8 stem subjects' than other people the hippocampus is a. region there is some one in march. in the adults that we've looked at it was interesting but there's also changes in the connection the connections between the temporal lobe and the frontal lobe. seems to be at least 20 extent and large. and it's one that is almost uniquely human and highly evolved that seems to be different. chad's dental braces interfere with his special. tyler scan indicates that his brain pathways are not larger than those of the general population at least at this age. but yes that is eager to do more scans once chats braces are off to see if they can spot other differences between the

brothers brains when they're actually recalling the past. maybe there's a genetic variant maybe there's environmental changes maybe there's a ceiling to events in their lives that precipitated this ability maybe maybe maybe we still have no idea. whatever's behind these super memories even h. samurais are susceptible to having false memories implanted. in experiments elizabeth loftus gently suggested to each them subjects that there was news footage of the $911.00 crash of united $93.00 in pennsylvania but no actual footage exists. like subjects with normal memories about one in 58 sam participants remembered seeing this footage when asked to try and recall it later. it just seemed like something was falling out of. i was just you know kind of stunned by watching the plane you know go down. ph

stamps objects. could remember seeing footage of this crash that they could not have seen in fact these individuals were justice and sceptical to developing false memories in these experiments as a control group if they can be susceptible there may be no group that is really amusing from having these kinds of memory errors false memories happen to everyone even memories that are vivid and detailed and that you hold with 100 percent conviction can be false. now that means that every memory potentially is an illusion and that all your memories at least a little bit are false. so the big mystery is why would evolution encourage the survival of humans with such mistaken and malleable memories. could there be some advantage to this.

can we change our memories for the better. you don't need a neuroscientist to create false memories in a lab says elizabeth loftus. because we do it ourselves all the time. so there are studies that show that people remember they they got grades that were better than they actually were that they gave more to charity than they really did that they had kids that walked and talked in an earlier age and they really did we distort our memories in ways that maybe make us feel a little better about ourselves. sometimes you would like the sadness is maybe to receive and not have them be at the forefront of your mind. this can be a problem for many people with a sam those who study them say they're often haunted by vivid memories you may

remember the loss of a loved one. you know so it was an intense emotion and we cried but when you remember it it has 10 or 15 years old as you feel about it but it's not there but for the damage there it's just so emotional experience of 10 years ago just how they have excessively strong memories of all of the bad things that happened to them and i wouldn't want to have. depressed people may remember things more accurately than the rest of us say some scientists they call this condition depressive realism. when we look at depressed people's memories we actually find is that they think about it in some ways actually more realistically because they remember equally the good and the negative and remembering things really well and accurately can be a disadvantage it can lead to you being sad and not having a coherent positive view of your life and where you're going if you remember you

know just tragedies from your life you're going to be depressed if you can reinterpret even bad events as having potentially positive outcomes right and then you can think about them differently that's going to actually help with your emotion emotional wellbeing and and self-esteem. we should all accept our clumsy flimsy faulty memory is because that's what makes us human our past is a fictional story i think what you remember creates and defines who you are. so can you change your life by changing how you remember it for jennifer thompson discovering she had wrongly sent ronald cotton to jail for her rape charge for 2 years. she finally reached out and contacted cotton hoping to apologize and he agreed to meet her at his nearby church. and.

before i really should get my thoughts together he was in the doorway. burst out in sobs and somehow got the words out you know i spend every minute of the rest of my life telling you i'm sorry could you ever find in your heart to forgive me. jennifer. forgive me. i knew she had testified honestly. she had she was just wrong. a lot. and bridges in their home and you know what i mean there. they think about that. jennifer. i just want us to be happy to move on in life and so after that you know she cried . and we ended up in each other's arms day and parking lot and and you know he's become one of my closest friend in the world. thompson and cotton went on to write

a book together about their experience called picking cotton. they also work together to change eyewitness laws and free wrongfully convicted prisoners. instead of becoming bitter cotton chose to make other victims lives a better. one of those people mostly. and it made me want to stand. and hear that within the same situation some of that weight. cotton and thompson worked to change north carolina's law and succeeded in 2008 since then some 20 states have reformed their eyewitness procedures many have begun educating police judges and juries about the science of memory with 4 states passing eyewitness reform since 2017. gary wells says things are better but getting everyone on board is a long shot over half the u.s. still hasn't passed eyewitness reforms based on scientific research. i don't think

there's any doubt that people are still being convicted erroneous lead based on state and i would have sort of cation we have not fully solved this problem so chances are there are several 1000 still in prison based on the state and i would stuff cation oh that's just the tip of the iceberg. that's the 350 or so d.n.a. exonerations those are just in cases where there is biological evidence that could be tested people have been trying to estimate the wrongful convictions that might occur. every year and some estimates go as high as maybe $10000.00. a year in the united states. perhaps we can all learn from ronald cotton and jennifer thompson they've managed to revise their own memories of what they've been through and by doing so they've changed their lives for the better.

enter the complex zone with sarah kelly gordon 2 years ago ethiopian prime minister abi are committed road to power with a wave of hope but now he's waived the military offensive on forces in the northern tier i reached my guest this week from addis ababa exotic of ross ethiopian minister for democratization where is the peaceful future his prime minister promised conflicts. in 30 minutes phone d w. in

the far north. beyond the inhabitable world it's lonely. earth. and breathtakingly beautiful. the arctic. 2 could journey around the north meet profiteers and talk with people experiencing the changing environment. but i'd sure the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating or worse you church depends on what happens here one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern alliance with the arctic circle starts december 21st on d w. losing

down and then a christmas governments across europe time lock down prescriptions and give the end of me a couple of days could turn into code 19 not super spreader events also coming out germany marks a grim anniversary 4 years ago today a truck town through its christmas market and it happened to her then we'll look at how the country reacted and the lessons learned. i'm rebecca ridges welcome to the program more european countries are tightening coronavirus restrictions and worried that the year end holidays could turn into mass cope at 19 super spreader events if millions of people travel and visit friends and family sweden has changed colson is now urging people to wear face masks italy has banned travel between regions and ordered shops and restaurants to

close until january 6th but certainly it was more a question of when not if new measures would be announced with all important christmas holidays days away the the government has ordered a national lockdown. it is not an easy decision it is a painful decision to strengthen the regime of measures necessary for the upcoming holidays and to better protect ourselves and keep in sight the january recovery. much of europe has imposed tough restrictions to curb the onslaught of the virus over the festive period. the austria will introduce its rules one day after christmas eve in sweden who until now had taken a laissez faire approach is recommending masks on public transport officials though

stop short of shutting businesses. count very serious look look down for example would have an effect in the long run because people would not put up with in a chilly memories of the springs deadly 1st wave are still fresh many said they welcome the government's interventions in the state we will be forced to have a different christmas we will make up for it next christmas it's not a tragedy. dave i think a lot done is the right thing we must defeat the virus and respect rules always whatever it takes. for the future which it will be a difficult year and new year's eve as well and i'm placing all my hopes on a better a path any. officials to hope to relax the rules in the new year but with household permitted to keep mixing in the coming days there is no guarantee that the end is near. 0 for more on this i'm joined by journalists a mega from italy same italy one of many countries across europe tightening

restrictions can you give us details about what will be happening there. yes the prime minister made this announcement saying that he had no choice the virus is continuing to circulate in days there is serious concern about of attentional 3rd wave a sudden surge over this festive period so yes the put in place this measures and this includes from christmas eve right up to the 27th as well as from the 31st of the 3rd and then again from the 5th and 6th which is around the a feast of the epiphany those key dates all of it he will be in a so-called red zone in riyadh what that means is bars restaurants and shops that are not essential what all be shut only you can only eat your home for essential activity and you have to carry a cell declaration form to explain what it is you're doing and where you're going and maximum of 2 people from one household can go to another that does not include

children under 14 on those festive days and in between those days it will be an orange still where you will be allowed to move within your town but it across this period there will be no internal regional movement and that curfew still remains in place from 10 b.n. right up till 5 pm so a very strict lockdown indeed but as the prime minister said the idea being to prevent that the wave coming up in january and davao italy has recorded the highest cova death toll in europe with close 268000 fatalities why is that. well it is it is very very distressing figure to see such a massive debt top end that is in large part because of italy's elderly population italy has the 2nd oldest population in the world and the average age of the victims here in italy is 80 years all in so with an older population you're going to have

unfortunately more deaths on top of that certain the religious have said these are the this 2nd wave perhaps the restrictions or the lock down religious could have been put in plays earlier like for instance countries such as ireland to get put in place those measures earlier on in the 2nd we but of course it's he suffered greatly in terms of its economic impact due to the lockdown the 1st time around and so that's why the government held off until that perhaps years and decades of cuts to the health system and as recent investigative report also show that it's a leaf did not update its pandemic response since back in 2006 so it's a variety of reasons as to why we have this very unfortunate number of deaths to decode 19 right same speaking to us from persia italy thank you a 2nd covert 19 vaccine has been authorized for emergency use in the united states

millions of doses of the madonna vaccine are expected to be added to the massive american vaccination program which began this week with health care workers older people in long term care facilities are next in line for the jab the approval comes one week after the u.s. food and drug administration authorized the vaccine developed by violent tech and pfizer. here's a look now at some more of the latest developments in the pandemic german health department's report of 31300 new cases on friday and 702 deaths related to cove it 19 more than 25000 people have now died of the disease in germany in france that toll has passed 60000 president emmanuel mccall is asking people to remain vigilant to he tested positive for the virus india has surged past 10000000 coronavirus cases the 2nd highest in the world although new infection writes appear to have fallen sharply in recent weeks in a straight at the sydney to hobart yacht race has been cancelled for the 1st time

in its history organizers say border restrictions forced by sydney's new corona virus outbreak have made it impossible to stage the rice. this weekend germany marks the 4th anniversary of the terrorist attack at a christmas market in the in and islamist extremists hijacked a 40 ton truck and killed the driver he then rams the vehicle into the crowded market killing another and levon paypal and injuring dozens more a terrorist escaped and was shot dead by italian police 4 days later i knew my mom . early on was unprepared for such an attack and had to learn how best to help those affected in the aftermath. eustis minister is an emergency pastor in the days following the december 26th terror attack he met many of those traumatized by the event he says their grief was made even worse by the disastrous response from official support agencies. does not want those insisted it did not work well at

that point from people understood very clearly that they were on their own fun to a certain extent that's because the berlin agencies and institutions were themselves overwhelmed but you know that's one of i noticed on offer before a phone as a result people waited a long time for financial and psychological help a public memorial service however happened very quickly the day after the attack possibly to suit their what the scenes for the memorial service was meant to be for victims' relatives but many of them had no idea at the time that they were actually the relatives of victims it was far too early. officials understood that there were not structures in place to deal with this kind of event a central liaison now coordinates support for victims and their families who will also get more financial help in the future. because we all know that money can't make up for the terrible pain that people have experienced it can only help with

immediate problems. for the victims of the 2016 attack we've retroactively increase the pain. even triple 0. frank says that the victims of racist and anti-semitic attacks in the cities of how now and how they have had quicker access to support he says the agencies have learned from their mistakes. that was put to the test earlier this month interfere where a driver fatally rammed 5 people. that's the perspective of the victims is what matters are the perspective of the victims' families. every step of the process you have to say slow down don't hurry thinks but many people who are suffering after an attack get immediate. and then you have

to come to an agreement with the victims' families and also the families of the. 4 years after the 2016 berlin attack us this monster still stays in touch with many of the victims he just wishes the changes in victim support had come in time to help them earlier. and taken of some of the other stories making headlines this hour supercycle and yes it has flattened entire villages throughout the pacific island nation of ageing authorities say at least 4 people were killed climate change is made stronger and more frequent but yes at the 3rd maximum strength storm to battle the on and in 5 years. several rockets have been fired at a major u.s. base in afghanistan officials say they hit back from airfield in the country more than power one province no casualties were reported in no one has a media they claimed responsibility for the attack. armenians have marched through the capital gang of them to pay tribute to the thousands of soldiers and civilians

who died in fighting with azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagorno-karabakh prime minister nicole passion and lead the march to a military $77.00 tree as part of a 3 day mourning period. space x. has successfully launched its final mission of 2020 by sending a spy satellite into orbit the company used its falcon 9 reusable rocket to get the job done for the u.s. national reconnaissance office the mission was classified but was broadcast without disclosing the launch position. the pandemic has turned the film world upside down but award season is still approaching and one film is already big as a major oscar contender by rainey's black bottom it shows a day in the life of gatorade brainy one of the earliest professional african-american blues singers and a pioneer of recording is a sneak peek of a film about her life. her normal.

all to move with gold teeth and body padding actress biology davis embodies the mother of the blues. 7 7 1 of the 1st african-american recording artists back in the 1926 a walk up to you know work to do. it's really empty or without the grooves with the people americans were moving from the roof south to the open in north hoping for a better life including rainy she got a record deal in chicago and became a star. ready to go in 15 minutes we're ready to go madame said ready go and that's where you go well you know. she was not a woman of her time because she was a woman who absolutely unapologetically nuclear war. the real life

my raney was born good truth pritchett an openly bisexual black star she broke the mold like all blues stars though her greatness was fueled by pain of folk blues. they hear come out but they don't know how it got there. then understand it as life where tell. you nothing feel better. you soon because that's the way i understand that life. in the film mob raney faces arrival on stage and in love the quick fingered trying to tell a feat performed by the late chadwick boseman. but the songs are given the most right songs but of pick them off your hands for. those musicians are up against the evils of racism plotline that still rings true today for a lot of our artistry a lot of our imagination a lot of ideas are not seen as good as our white counterparts.

so busy a lot of things that still resonate because they haven't changed they've just evolved. wrangles blackbaud and the story of a strong woman who new songs and song is out now on netflix. and i want i'll be doing tonight you're watching d.w. news live from bernie and sports life is up next with a look at amputate all those who are making history thank you for that that's all for me tell me a lot if i will be up with you next hour until then you can get all the latest news on our website at www dot com some instagram and twitter as well. i'm rebecca returned i now.

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be. thank. you new board the bloomberg is like my home i've been here for 5 years now. i'm doing my apprenticeship here the people are always nice and helpful you just feel at home. in 2015 hommage fled his home country of afghanistan leaving behind his family and the trauma he lived through as a child a little i was 12 and at school when the taliban came and shot everything up. i was badly injured and

a month later i lost my leg. and when i just went back to school my main concern was how can i keep playing football you know that was on my mind with this when i told myself yes you can do it hammad you can. be in this if you want something then you'll find a way and if you don't want something you'll find excuses. when my niece. homage settled in quickly making new friends and fulfilling a dream finally playing football again. several times a month he trains with the club sport find of braunschweig in germany there are just 2 other facilities for amputee football in hoffenheim and into sold off. the sport is played using just one leg and crutches goalkeepers play on 2 legs but use just one arm. just like we're going to hoffenheim one goalkeeper 3 outfield

players will swap are independently ok sport for no. comment has been playing with the club for 2 years. the team is preparing for the 1st official amputee football competition in just a few days the tournament will begin in hoffenheim are over there are that far off . in their training match they were confronted menthols passing running shooting. this complex sport demands a lot from the athletes. i grew up with football is quite came here to the boys and see that they're really motivated and it's lots of fun. also the way it makes me feel going to football and the guys are part of my life that's how i see it.

for many athletes m.p.t. football is a way back to normality. that's the case for 13 year old him. i've been playing football since i was 6 and i really like it because it's a real team sport at some point i went in goal and really enjoyed it and since then i've been playing as a goalkeeper. it wasn't nice when he was in a dark place and not feeling well but he was so happy when we heard about amputee football and he complained goalie again that's his favorite position so i'm really happy and also glad to see him happy. in a she's one of $38.00 active amputee footballers in germany 3 years ago he had an accident during a sailing trip in relation underwent emergency surgery for several hours but

doctors were unable to save his right hand. you don't fully realize it at the time at the beginning when he was stuck in this really dark place but nothing was working when he couldn't really couldn't write because he's right handed and just simple things like using a playstation didn't work out how was he supposed to do it. one of the 1st questions was whether he could continue playing as a keeper those are things where you just don't know the answers. but. there were none of us me. by chance free to be anchor heard about amputee football it was a stroke of luck for their son him. now he can finally play in goal again and is thriving. it's loads of fun it's a bit different but it's nice and also good to see that it works also that the other

keepers are like me and i'm not the only one with a disadvantage. i . have at the start i was slightly daunted but then i just imagined it was like regular football i kept on training and playing i was really excited when i heard the news that i'm 1st choice for brown strike me and. i'm very proud of that. it's game time the 1st official amputee football competition kicks off 1st to play a top teams decide off and hoffenheim. studies the opposition so really each match consists of 29 minute harv's the braunschweig squads nerves the jangling dissolute often hoffenheim and very skilled. and all of the historic event is also watched by klaus bender he coaches the national team as well as the hoffenheim squad it.

didn't matter because the decisive difference from my point of view is the movement of the crutches and i have the right position rather crutches blocking my movement non-disabled players don't have that issue how many people complain about conditionals my players can vote all day about their missing limbs it won't grow back. it's game time for handspike ahead of their 1st competitive match the coach sets the tone. for me personally it's more important not to can see them for us to score if we lose the ball the matter where on the pitch we have to move back. once we're there we can catch our breath then. we are yeah i'm really happy but also a bit nervous. of our really good hoffenheim to it most of their players are in the national team didn't also receive this you know i'm excited to see what

will happen. early on the team from braunschweig hold their own in their 1st competitive match. and hinchliffe pulls off some saves. but hoffenheim a more experienced and simply the better side on the day. was. what the rules are simple each team can have one player wearing a pretty sis all others play with crutches. offered me my old actively playing the ball with crutches counts as a handball. the goalkeeper may not leave the penalty area home on. hamilton he can get a win in their matches against hoffenheim and distilled off. i was there

and yet there's still happy to be there for germany's 1st amputee football tournament. it was loads of fun and you can be a little angry or sad but i already feel great again now. with. all. of. the book but. back in lunenburg the 1st round of matches is over and hammett is on his way to work. 2 years ago he began training as an orthopedic technician. how many builds prostheses and also sees. now he's about to take his final and pretty ship exam on sunday. and afghanistan there aren't as many opportunities here not as many good prosthesis. it was my dream to one day get a prosthesis good enough for me to play football or other sports but he's going to

go with the guns and while a sport that's why i'm learning this profession i hope to help other people at some point we can burn off in under mention our fighting. for good will. the always been 1st i want to complete my apprenticeship and then work as a normal tradesmen for a few years but it's also my goal to get my master crossman certificate at some point and maybe even start a small company in vans winding klein affair mobile in the. how meant to set his hopes high also for the national teen. language should we speak in french english or just the language of football. spend is also aiming high he wants to develop this fledgling sport and raise standards to a professional level in germany. some countries have professional

structures in place especially turkey but also poland in england are examples of countries where this sport is fairly professionalized you and your are where you see ourselves as pioneers but there is a structure forming an interest we can build on next month next year the european championships are in krakow poland and we aim to finish 2 spots higher than we did last time. i hope we can continue to find players in germany who are enthusiastic about the prospects of amputee football. but in terms of amputee football germany is still a developing nation turkey are the reigning european champions. the german national teams next big goal is here a 2021 in poland. that's how many focus too he's part of the provisional squad.

unfortunately or minus anonymizer i actually wanted to play for my national team but sadly we don't have it but i also call this place home and i've lived here for 5 years and i want to stay. when you have a goal you give everything and it's my aim to play of the euros with the national teams. you know i hope i can make it. in december the competition is brought to hold you to the coronavirus pandemic team sports can only be played to a limited to use their free time to stay fit. through. times a coronavirus pandemic who can still do something to stand how many didn't see much . we were able to play to match days we learned a lot because it was the 1st time we played with multiple teams. to mia there

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