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the nation program officially gets underway today in europe here in germany a 101 year old care home resident was the 1st to be immunised a day earlier than planned but hungry and slovakia also beginning to vaccinate on saturday. if you're watching state of any news world stories the week in report is out after a short break so stay tuned for that i'll be back with more news headlines at the top of the hour until then as always our web site www dot com i'm rebecca richness in berlin thanks very much for joining us. and you you may know yes there is really good news here and how the last 2 years german chancellor will bring you an angle out machall as you've never have before a surprise to so with what is possible who is magical really what moves and what holds up who talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics
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alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaping her legacy joining us from eccles la stops. in the heart of climate change. for. what's in store. for the future in the. contest for to make a series to get insight. into. this week on world stories. linkable gloria drives out residents in kenya. 1000 increases poverty in spain but meet again in the canary islands increasing numbers. refugees from africa are using ground cannot be on an island that belongs
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to spain to reach europe officials are overwhelmed from here journalists can go no farther some 2000 african migrants are being housed in this camp in the part of. the 5 times as many as was expected to aid groups have spoken of squalid conditions but it's impossible for the w. news to find out. jay my son tom now works for the island's refugee council his colleagues have been inside the camp. but another minute slim everyone sleeps on the floor some intensity and some knowledge in the openness of those who have been criticizing this from day one but we didn't think it would get this bad in the middle of 2300 people in the camp and then numbers that are growing every day in the way at. the crossing is
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dangerous but the coronavirus pandemic has cut off about migration routes. the government has started to housing new arrivals in hotels near the camp human rights activists say they are not getting a fair shot at the asylum system. these migrants from san diego fear that they will soon be deported. so don't believe the border that far but. no doubt by journalists are not welcome here either g.w. new assist told to leave in that conversation may know is angry at the spanish government but also feels abandoned by the european union. i don't know has that i'm disappointed with spain and with europe this is shameful a lot of politicians and representatives have come here recently but we have no clue what the government's strategy is to deal with the migration crisis on the
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canary islands but there will be money buying it. spain's government refuses to relocate the migrants to the mainland critics say this has turned the island into a prison. the spanish government has now started to procure further accommodation for the migrants many fear that this housing will fill up before long. in can watch the residents are suffering from droughts but rather from too much water the rising levels of make progress are forcing people to relocate. like bulgaria so swollen from rising water levels that the shoreline changes every day. we see this early on in our trip when the access road unexpectedly becomes
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part of the lake. nearby we find. who's just arrived to open her bond restaurant but there's been a dramatic change. this is what this water just came in with in one day i said came slowly and slowly until it got to this level so without any notice you have to demolish within just a few seconds chela gets has already been forced to move her business once it's inevitable that she will have to move again and she's not the only one the extent of the flooding can be seen clearly from neighboring leclaire ingo the freshwater lake has expanded by 60 percent in the last 7 years this year has been by far the worst. folks our tour guide grew up on the shores of the sleek work has been scarce as most of the hotels are now underwater. he leads us to one of many flooded schools in the area so even in years he's seen all these decaying buildings
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. but our last is the most significant for folks i grew up here my foster interiors of life i spent my playground it's quite sad to see it drop going through and going out on water markets scientists are warning that fresh water lake baringo and salt water liquid gorier could merge the cross contamination would destroy the balance in the ecosystem. to understand what is happening to the lakes we head to the forest home to the rivers that feed the lakes in the rift valley mo forest is recovering from years of deforestation. david weston has been a conservationist for more than 50 years he says the destruction of the catchment areas is just one in a series of linked problems the past where people are now settling down and staying in one place so what that means is every single day you have heavy grazing and that
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is really prominent around the baringo basin up in the hills on the side so all of that a rose has been washed off routinely. back in bulgaria the storm breaks its shores for the ocean got is visibly worried and soon how worst fears are realized the water level has gone up again this could be her last day on the sun and. many countries are relying on drastic measures and lockdowns to fight the corona pandemic but it's costing many people in spain their incomes the number of people they're relying on aid is on the rise. seemingly endless queues for food in madrid's working class district of my gosh some people have been regulus at this food bank at a church for years but others are new. the been damaged has brought them here.
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to give up that people here have been waiting to get minimum state subsidies for ages. and that people who apply for furlough in march and still haven't been paid. by one of europe's worst corona virus outbreak suspends economy has been left chanted people know incomes migrants and casual workers have suffered the most maria worked as a headdress or for the past 17 years that was until the pandemic as she her husband and their 5 children have hit rock bottom above almost as now not made of money before but we always had food never in our lives did we imagine we'd end up like this. movie i was entitle to apply for follow payments but she has had to wait too long for the money to come through. the is that a lot for me i should think about the families we don't have food please don't forget us the system is at a standstill and house situation is very bad i'm one month one month the government
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says it will extend the furloughs scheme it has rolled out a basic income program but the process of getting benefits is highly bureaucratic and lengthy. their warehouse on the outskirts of madrid supplies 70000 killers of food every day that's mainly paid for by government and e.u. aid these schemes have been extended and a recent campaign for donations should ensure that the warehouse doesn't run out of store back at the church father gone santa needs more volunteers to fill the many trolleys and reduce waiting times they go from empty to full within seconds before they get to the waiting hungry. dave i confess that on some days during the economic i thought i'd not make it home because there were but i was working at the speed of a person who had aged 40 years before the age but that doesn't stop him. one fool to. only contains food supplies for a month including treats that families cannot afford. i've got it
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all done and the children see the cocoa are trapped and it's a very happy meal every one of them because i can only buy the essentials not the mustard. the condemning because it's spain's already battered economy hard it's unlikely it will recover quickly enough so people may have to rely on food handouts for some time to come. fencing all of the filth the dying wishes of the terminally ill. he and his team take them to places they want to see one last time. we accompany him on one of his make a wish trips. with frank fans low on his assistants are ready whenever a terminally ill person in northern germany would like to go for write letters or free of charge the stuff volunteers he has his own specially fitted umbrellas as
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their mission is to fulfill a dying person's last wish so that no human has been a hospice for several weeks the 55 year old has turned cancer. the doctors say her choose is an operable because it's too close to the spine. today she'd like to return together with her son and his fiance to the town where she grew up i'm on it even past the happiest time in your life some place that it's just nice to be back there again and to be quiet to just breathe to feel. we'll manage just fine won't we. moments hometown is just half an hour away she was given morphine for the pain a man who trains paramedics for a living vents low tries to fulfill his passengers every wish he and his colleagues had out up to 2 times
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a week has even driven all the way to the north cape. sylvia's chosen the church as their 1st stop. the attendance was rolled the stretcher curfew over the cobbles . every bump is painful for the patient. sylvia with the church here when she was a little girl today the memories so how comforting. how fitting. for many relatives a last journey like this is tougher to bear than it is for the dying person themselves. that 1st sylvia newman song says he feared the emotional stress of the trip. but now he's glad he came along the trip continues on a ferry across the visa river. for sylvia it's another childhood memory. she wants to see it's mostly waters one more time. from france lower reserved
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a special place for her with a view look there's a white house in the background on the short walls of the phaser follows in the middle of the waterway the ferries captain circles the boat a few times especially for some of you know him and she wants to take another look at her grandparents aunts neighborhood watch her thoughts on the coming days pretty relaxed i think you know i was back here again and that's really beautiful the turn lasts for hours then it's time to go back to the hospice frank vince low hasn't counted how many last wishes he's fulfilled he says as passengers shouldn't be reduced to statistics. that it's time to say farewell to the passenger. and like every time it's goodbye for good.
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every time there's a crisis.

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