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tv   Europe in Concert  Deutsche Welle  December 31, 2020 8:30pm-9:00pm CET

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in the. pride and racism. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of the existence. of the. w. a warm welcome to focus on europe with me liz show today we'll bring you people who are impressed and moved us in 2020 because they are different and wants to be respected that way because they produce something that makes the world go crazy. they stand up for the law even though it's tough they dare to do something even
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though they are still young or they are old and can offer us wisdom. but 1st let's start with the sweet things in life honey it's used across the world to sweeten food and drinks it's also a well known home remedy against symptoms of the common cold like a sore throat or a cup the honey of beekeeper has some quick who is known yawned his home on the turkish black sea coast because it's supposed to have special powers and here's a warning this time he can mess with your head. hassan coup 2 auto's mother suffers from high blood pressure making her an ideal test subject it's time for him to measure it again look hasan juju out of the names to have found just the right medicine for it a spoonful of this honey. he tells his daughter to eat a spoonful to he's convinced this honey boosts the human immune system.
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it's just such a small amount when we were blood pressure a little bit more would have a bigger effect but if you want too much of it you can go into a coma. lot as honey is thought to possess healing properties and more it can also have an intoxicating effect hence the name. turkish for mad honey could do what it takes orders for it from all across turkey and sometimes even from abroad but his bees produce this honey extremely sparingly. just from all of the dark in the center his chest not a loss of money you don't need a light heart or in the eyesight is my honey. this honey has gained a sort of school wide fame partly because of the sherlock holmes movie adaptations are somewhat changes through a stern look here's what's wrong with glass to much for me to see. they could do a lot of family lives in the wild landscape of turkeys black sea coast every day
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they drive up into the mountains to check on their beehives the medicinal or intoxicating effects their honey can have on people can be traced to the flowers of the pontiff or the dendreon it thrives in this area it's flowers and leaves contain substances that can have toxic effects when consumed. if someone eats too much of it they can start to see black and stagger around and. their head and ears get hot and their pulse slows down or. in fact the emergency room of the nearest prevention ha. spittal regularly treats victims of mad honey. good she's good with a pub if you talk to dave a color because some of them start seeing double i can cause heart attacks or even cardiac arrest in that in most cases of delhi pal you just want to the patients for 24 hours and then send them home you know once that poster stabilized fulfill love
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the political jade the video. yet the honey is not prohibited beekeeper his son to to la to naturally into sizes gets beneficial qualities he's willing to climb to the treetops computer that the only place the hives are safe in the region spares around 16 years ago he surprised a bear raiding his hives and almost didn't survive the encounter so it was a beer attacked me right away. we were close to a steep slope and both rolled about 20 meters down into a creek. there we started fighting each other. i tried to keep him at a distance with my hand in his mouth you see here are the scars from. forgot i used to be all you but your beer was quite cool and drunk from the money eventually if you let go of me. local people can
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vouch for the story leave nicknamed. the bear wrestler. back to the bees and the alleged healing effects of the mad honey 10 minutes later want to checks his mother's blood pressure again he finds but it's dropped another percentage point the honey seems to be working but now his daughter isn't feeling well don't worry them. i feel about my head. who can i just want to sleep. the sun already has i ran for tree at the ready to counter the side effects then he finishes up the next time it's all part of the method to his manhood. the call that 19 pandemic was without a doubt the dominating topic of 2020 millions of lives have been massively affected
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by the coronavirus people have lost their jobs their health their loved ones 10 year old lorenzo knows all too well how the virus can change a life instantly he lives in a belgian town that was declared a hot spot back in march and 1 of the 1st people to die from the virus was lorenzo's grandfather his death left a young boy deeply scarred. before corona didn't know loneliness now he does and regaining sleep here. i think i missed something. here. and it's just not right with the 10 year old misses his grandfather luke they were inseparable grandpa was the best you know pretty happy yeah i was happy lorenzo lived with his grandparents for years and they took him everywhere luke was always the one to pick
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lorenzo up at school but when his grandfather got kovi 1000 in march and became the 1st known victim of the virus in their hometown of st truman lorenzo was left confused and angry i've if corona wasn't here and. nothing of this would have happened his grandmother janine is still pained to recall how difficult it was to explain to her renzo luke wasn't coming home from the hospital and i have to say that. he was so. good at what janine had to deal with her own grief her daughters and her grandsons lorenzo was troubled he'd never gotten to say goodbye these were glasses . those are all the names of. people that once again. but then a chance arose for lorenzo to say farewell when his city's mayor decided to create
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a memorial in a local park around the theme of the flower forget me not. and i said from the beginning i want. from a little child who lost his grandfather of grandmother the mayor asked lorenzo if he would like to speak at the dedication he declined because life they were gonna laugh at me. well but. i don't know. i was just thinking something. that i said that and. that when i said something about my grandpa i was going to cry was a little fruit. maybe you can do it for grandpa. oh yes i will do it for him so. at the ceremony with his mother nella beside him lorenzo poured
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out his heart and touched everyone else's evil. dear grandpa i miss you very much i am mad about corona mad about what happened the order bastogne always are going to be the best investment and. when you were standing up there and people were listening to hear what you think they were thinking. he's a brave boy. and no longer he realized and angry boy i was happy that i did it that i. wrote all out. and was happy. everyone was. graham. and in the spring this corner of the park where lorenzo threw out his
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sadness will be filled with little blue flowers each blossom a promise to those who are gone we won't forget you. spain is also struggling with the effects of the pandemic the country's economy has taken a massive hit given that it highly depends on tourism in cities like barcelona and many hotels bars and restaurants remain closed the economic decline also means that more and more people don't have enough money to pay their rent and that's why bailiff's like. tina's are working around the clock his job of carrying out evictions can be both emotionally taxing and dangerous really he's a bearer of bad news. we have a court warrant will you open up. some martinez works in barcelona's last be talent
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area his job is to even people the coronavirus pandemic is a busy time for him more and more people slip into poverty and can no longer pay their rent we have a court ruling you have to leave today. why were we told. lee fine here now you must have been given plenty of notice if you go for my father's i know. the owner of the apartment wants them out and he has the law on his side. i want the apartments back. for my son. can live here. the locks are changed to straight away courts are cracking down especially on behalf of private owners when apartments belong to banks or companies decisions can take longer. the landlord has the final say if he's willing to give them another 2 days then that's what happens if he wants them out today they're out it's up to
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him. as you go through. this department was owned by a bank would be one thing. but the owner is someone who worked for decades to buy property it's different. i have no sympathy for them. spain's housing problem is nothing new high rents low incomes during the financial crisis several years ago many people couldn't pay their mortgages and many homes were repulsed by banks now the pandemic has ushered in the next crisis. people who were struggling before are now at rock bottom they had precarious work contracts and now they've lost their jobs so they stop paying their rent. the chronic housing crisis is on full display at his next appointment the building
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belongs to a bank it's now being occupied illegally calls for assistance. when i need police backup illegal occupants aren't opening the door. we've been threatened with knives someone turned on the gas to try and cause an explosion or are you know it can get dangerous that's when we call in the police officer. parco knows a lot of the police officers well. how's it going the bad guy again. the police go in ahead to check the situation. one of the squatters is still there he's sick the others have fled to. the front of living like this of course the father the mother lost everything.
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i'm on the side of justice. there's always someone who gets the short end of a stick a lot but that's the way it is after all a judge has made a ruling that's the way the law is i don't have a guilty conscience or more than. this squad who won't leave so he's taken away. a lot of misery in his job which makes him even more aware of how lucky he is the 52 year old lives with his partner in their own apartment and he is mortgage free. a few streets away he's called on 2 of the day young woman from the dominican republic who gave birth just 2 weeks ago. when mom i'm not doing well where am i supposed to take my child. and a group of activists are here to support her all parco can do is try to get her more time everything depends on the landlord the woman's last hope is
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a phone conversation with him. you know the welfare system doesn't function right now. the only way to get another apartment would be. barbecue office if you. want more degrees to let the woman stay another 6 weeks but after that she has to go situations like these. even after 12 years in the job. there have been many occasions when i've had to grit my teeth and get on with it if it were up to me i'd cave in on humanitarian grounds. but when you've been told you're being evicted 4 times and you haven't looked for a new home at some point you have to draw a line. pago has been called to 8 at the actions today in his district alone he knows that number will keep rising the longer the pandemic
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continues. living your life the way you want so that's saturday if stuffy of dream and his home country russia he faces hate on a daily basis members of the l g b t q community or risk being rebel e or physically attacked in public the perpetrators and not held to account i'm a phobia is widespread in the russian society but these risks don't stop said a gay from following his past and of being a drag queen on high heels and dazzling makeup he is living life to the fullest. just so. giving everyone was out of these leases saying if i give to where the name is miami or miami drag queen i was in miami. thank.
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you plenty 7 year old sag a name yes miami the films that scream monkey is a cape town in mustang. it's well he makes his living even if his job catches with a to do in russia. have a 2nd face for face i.d. it doesn't recognize me i did a good job on the makeup today. i don't know she's that kind of woman hello but it's my 2nd personality i mean i would i don't think it's an illness would that mean stay there but isn't yes get on with this because these attacks say on stage at the top the track winfield's competent and you see outside the club he's pretty ways for that to functions i'm good at it i don't want to see that. you just makes me want to vomit. right send him into the
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army not just for one year he ought to serve 3. the qubit one time you could have got your head torn off for that. segway works hard on his act developing the choreography is himself step by step in 2015 he came to moscow from a little village in western russia he felt liberated but only within the safe confines of the club. at best. with my wigs and high heels i don't 5th the image of the russian male. i can't walk down the street as my army but it's not because i don't want to give them a story but because i'm afraid. he's afraid for my life and for my face freeze that . there are good reasons to be afraid in russia it's very dangerous for
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a man to appear in public wearing makeup and women's clothes as seen here in moscow's metro homophobic groups may quickly turn violent and deep bass their victims say gays well aware of the danger and never leave the club in drag even so much as posting about his act on the internet without including an age limit could land him in court on charges of homosexual propaganda in such an environment sag a says it's dangerous to come out as gay even to one's own family. i haven't had any contact with my father for about 10 years once i got drunk and messaged him saying father i'm bisexual i'm not bisexual i'm gay that's how i put it felt to be easier for him i have nothing against girls but i also like boys he's never called me since. my step mother called me from his telephone and said what if
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you don't you know we raised your speed. but sag doesn't intend to stay hidden away forever so in his outfits in secret he has dreams of a grand career and he's invested his creativity. and about $11000.00 euros in fabrics makeup and shoes. which is that me i'd like to be in the media and appearing in movies and shows so people will be scared of us that would like to be able to walk the streets by army and not have people you know things of me like who places in the cemetery there's. such things frighten saguenay but he's not giving miami up he'll carry on as the dazzling drag queen but maybe not in russia. his dreams of a life in another country. for centuries we're human beings have been trying
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to find the secrets to a long and healthy life is it about diet getting enough exercise does it have to do with your genes well the answer may be found on the greek island of a carry out a surprisingly high number of people living there it's a very old age researchers are trying to find out what their secret is and i can tell you one thing i believe it has to do with the breath taking beauty of the island. here in a sea of. nice the idea of a career. its famous for its namesake interest from greek mythology and for the adenike it's been ages. but these days it's mainly renowned for the long gap of its residents and is known as the island of centenarians. demetrius crusie is one of these centenarians actually he's 100 in one. his wife is 93 when cruz he was
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born there weren't any streets left on in korea poverty and hard work influenced his lifestyle and diet but to this day he only sees his doctor for routine check ups what's the secret to his good health the upshot of. the eats a lot of fish. sort of do is after all i was a fisherman myself the girl of the river that meets twice a week at most. you are to go. and i really like to learn towards. maybe daddy gaghan like him like wine doesn't agree with me it gives me a ration of that's why i only drink beer rita is close to a 3rd of a korea's 10000 residents live to be older than 90 finding out why this is has been keeping countless greek and foreign researches busy for years. manny
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cos kalimba here says please let it korea centenarians have attracted international attention however he's also concerns that the elderly could soon be the and only ones left on the island we're going to be giving up if you want to we have to improve our infrastructure so young people stay on a career. like we need to make investments in health care education and transport patients. in a better ports and roads which make british political what you seem a condition our streets are a. minority most of which we're always having to slalom. in. we took one of the islands better roads to speak with someone who should know more about why people in korea live so long. for. the islands resident docs are and yes larry addis suspects that genetics play a role but he also thinks it carians love lives have something to do with it. and
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always would be a case of trying to hoard them here you have all the directors it's for a good sex life a positive attitude as if they were the healthy body and soul of lots of social gatherings because the brief monday of celebrations that was your new i then recently a 92 year old be into my practice and set it up with yes dr spite of my age i can still do everything well. i ask what do you mean by everything all the innocence of yours at the. height when i say everything i mean with everything. one man familiar with this is fun gillis kettle known as the james dean of leah now a 90 years old he's been married twice but he says women just get too jealous that's why he's now living on his own on his farm with his all if we've been. there but his energy is boundless his next project to drain the well on the hill behind his
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house. we have clean air and clean water. that's the main thing you know. 90. sauces still fighting fit and making plans for the future. because. if you've been married twice then you could always trying to alter time. but you can't know especially not on a korea. life on this stunning island in the i.g.n. see is full of passion and greed of stress and strife. and perhaps that is the secret behind the long given t. of a career is serious. i should think of moving there when i retire or at least the visit the island for an extended vacation well with that we've come to the end of today's show thank you so much for watching the team and i would like to wish you all the best for 2021 and of course we'll be back next week with more stories
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from across europe until then.
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blue. man and animal living together and unspoiled nature nelson only rain cofounded national are the only african wildlife conservation center run by the mass pike community but since the coronavirus pandemic they have faced many more challenges than usual or. a problem shipped in their conservation movement to find out all the alternatives go out for a go. 13 on g.w.
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play. this is the new line from the american big global party happening mostly without spectators fireworks light up cities from sydney to hong kong around the world says hello to 2021 coronavirus running rampant to authorities are advising people to stay home and watch the show on t.v. also on the program. the last straw.

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