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many locals are starting to question if it makes sense to hold the games at all on . a large number have already returned the tickets to $1000.00 has brought a new level of uncertainty and one that will decide if the games will come to pass at all. you're watching t w news of the next world stories travels to kenya or rising water levels forcing people to leave their homes from terry martin thanks for watching. say what's good what makes the devil he just jumped. on batting away from. i'm not even out towards my own good and everyone was late a holes in everything. are you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it under. children 2 continents. one giant problem and you will nearly get in no mood to see appreciate you.
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being denied even a needle the change in the late if you're gonna get it. how will climate change affect us and our children. e.w. dot com slash water. this week on world stories linkable gloria drives out residents in kenya. in 1000 increases poverty in spain but we begin in the canary islands increasing numbers of refugees from africa are using ground and island that belongs to spain to reach europe officials are overwhelmed for. in here journalists can go no
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farther some 2000 african migrants are being housed in this camp in the part of moore gonna get on 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 everyone sleeps on the floor some intensely 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 at the middle belt 2300 people in the camp and then numbers that are growing every day in the only. the crossing is 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
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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 undernet far. down the road by journalists are not welcome here eva g w new was just told to leave in mid 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 canary islands. and. spain's government refuses to relocate the migrants to the mainland critics say
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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 aren't suffering from droughts but rather from too much water the rising levels of make. are forcing people to relocate. like bulgaria so saw in from rising water levels that the shoreline changes every day. we see this early on in our trip when the access road unexpectedly becomes part of the leak. we find. who's just arrived to open have been restaurant
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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 got 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 lake baringo 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 things he leads us to one of many flooded schools in the area so even in the years i've seen all decaying buildings. but our last story is the most significant for folks
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i grew up here my foster interiors of life i spent a year this was my playground it's quite sad to see it drop going to ruins i don't know what i'm what i'm lucky it's scientists are warning that freshwater lake baringo and salt water like bulgaria could merge the cross contamination would destroy the balance in the ecosystem. to understand what is happening to the lakes we had 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 is really prominent around the baringo basin up in the hills on the side so all of that erosion has been washed off routinely. back in bulgaria
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a strong bridge. that's showing up for the challenge that is visibly worried and soon how worst fears are realized the water level has gone up again this could be her last day on this land. and many countries are relying on drastic measures and lockdowns to fight the corona pandemic but it's costing many people in spain their incompetence the number of people they're relying on aid is on the rise. seemingly endless queues for food in madrid's working class district off by your cash some people have been regulus at this food bank at a church for years but others are near. the been damaged has brought them here. 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
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europe's worst coronavirus outbreaks of spain's economy has been left shattered people know incomes migrants and casual workers have suffered the most media work as a had reza for the past 17 years that was until the pandemic as she her husband and their 5 children have hit rock bottom up almost as no not made of money before but we always had food there never in our lives did we imagine we'd end up like this. movie i wasn't. life of payments that she has had to wait too long for the money to come through. is that a lot for me i should think about the families who 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 says it will extend the furlough scheme it has rolled out a basic income program but the process of getting benefits is highly bureaucratic
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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. they have i confess that on some days during the economic i thought i'd not make it home because the stop i was going at a speed of a person who had aged 40 years before. but that doesn't stop him. one fool truly contains food supplies for a month including treats that families cannot now afford. oh that's only when my children see the cocoa or truck and it's a very happy that i have to put up with that because i can only buy the essentials
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good or not enough that are. the pandemic has hit 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. i fancy all the pills the dying wishes of the terminally ill. he and his team take them to places they want to see one last time. real. company him on one of his make a wish trips. with frank fans low and his assistants are ready whenever a terminally ill person in northern germany would like to go for a ride it turns are free of charge the stuff volunteers he has his own specially fitted ambulances their mission is to fill a dying person's last wish so the annoying one has been a hospice for several weeks the 55 year old has turned cancer. the doctors say her
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tube 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. if you think past the happiest time in your life someplace then 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 a week he's 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
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. every bump was painful for the patient. sylvia with the church here when she was a little girl today the memory is somehow 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 has glad he came along the trip continues on a ferry across the vanes the river. for sylvia it's another childhood memory. she wants to see its mighty waters one more time. from friends low reserved a special place for her with a view look there's a lighthouse in the background a short walls of the veins are follows in the middle of the waterway the ferries
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captain circles the boat a few times especially for some of you know him and she wants to take another look at her grandparents owned neighborhood watch her thoughts on the coming days pretty relaxed i think you know i was back here again and that's really beautiful for turn lasts for hours then it's time to go back to the hospice frank venza though hasn't counted how many last wishes he's fulfilled he says as passengers shouldn't be reduced to statistics. then it's time to say. farewell to the passenger. and like every time it's goodbye for good.
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