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a shot of the morning the ever accept some money from the new superpower will become tended. to commit the fate of the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal of which go and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world took place china's gateway to europe . starts feb 19th d.w. . this week on world stories. devastating smog in kurdistan. gymnast sound the alarm on abuse in germany. but we begin in china things have returned to normal in will heart from which coronavirus originates and the city is

celebrating its success. it is almost as if nothing had ever happened here life is back to normal in the city where the coronavirus 1st emerged china has brought infection rates down to almost 0 in an exuberant exhibition the communist party celebrates victory in what it calls its war on the epidemic with tributes to soldiers and medics who work themselves weeks or so during the outbreak but 1st and foremost the party celebrates self and the general secretary xi jinping was hailed as the man who led the country to victory. john hi is one of them he is on his way to the municipal government. but isn't this the people's government taking pictures is not allowed. to look like

the country by means of i think they should change their name from the people's government of one hand to the bureaucrats government of mohan. john high normally lives in the southern city of shenzhen but returned home to one hon in january when his father broke his hip the elderly man received free treatment at a military hospital this was where he caught cold it and later died. john high says his father would still be alive if the authorities in one hand had not covered up the early stages of the outbreak he used trying to file a case in court against the government. quite a while. i've been very upset since i came back to 100. years or so i'm sad and angry at the same time we go for that's my current state of mind. or that i can't stand all this propaganda about the achievements in the fight

against covidien of all the people who died the innocent people who left this world have never been paid proper respect. but few people still speak publicly about their grievances many others appear to have put the experience behind them night life is back on the streets especially young people enjoy their newly returned free was one of many places in the words 'd to struggle with a pen dam in the city where it all began isn't even on. international air pollution rankings chinese cities are normally ranked the worst but recently the title has belong to the curtis capital of bishkek. call is selling like hotcakes in the freezing cold winter temperatures in the city

of bishkek average at minus 6 degrees celsius call is an essential good because homes on the outskirts aren't connected to the city's central heating network. made headlines several times in december for being the number one most polluted city in international air quality ratings but people here say the smog is a problem every year in the winter it's just there's a lot of fish character it's like this when you leave the city the sky is clear but . i think this is because of the negligence of the government no one is monitoring the situation and the smog is a direct consequence of that. lies in a valley and smog covers it like a lid kit it is authorities admit they don't know the exact source of the pollution the country's prime minister recently said this mainly coal powered heating plant could be behind up to 20 percent of the emissions he ordered the government to look into switching to gas. for now though air quality sensors in the city show the air

is hazardous to people's health the concentration of cancerous particles is several times higher than the norm and. environmental activists feel authorities are all talk and no action they're protesting against the city's latest planning document they say new buildings are blocking the wind and locking the smog inside the city. the plan is only in the interest of the construction lobby the building companies and big all of dark. and other countries they would have declared an emergency situation by now but here they just pretend nothing's happening. but for now local environmental inspectors are stuck in forcing existing norms today they're checking the quality of the coal used to heat the boiler at this local school even many government institutions are still heated with coal. regular people will

keep eating with coal because it's the most cost effective we can ban the use of coal in the winter people have to live they have to cook. was everyone has access to a gas connection and to an affordable electricity supply there simply won't be smog here anymore. so what we need. but kyrgyzstan's gas provider raised prices this year and the coronavirus has hit the country's cash strapped economy hard so for now the move away from coal and from this layer of smaug fields far off . some young gymnast's in germany have been subjected to intimidation humiliation and painful training from their coaches 2 of them share their stories with d.w. . men yomi

and ruby vandyke learning to love gymnastics all over again for many years their love for the sport had disappeared. aged 10 and primed for big things between this move to an elite training center near cologne but when their performances do it they say they were called fat and lazy by their coach that's slim's the front is the worst thing was when he said he wouldn't come to competitions with us because we were embarrassing him when you're 14 or 15 you need a coach who supports you no matter how badly to the statement one on one occasion during a bar's exercise naomi said she was purposely dropped on her head to teach her a lesson before i had to fight he pushed me 2 or 3 times to go down lower but i knew he wasn't holding me properly that's why i didn't go lower and then i did under pressure but he let go of me and said there you see what if then. they complained to the local gymnastics association but say they weren't taken seriously

or believed and makes a field day with the problem with devastating affects on their development. at the time naomi. and ruby were given 3 options either put up with the coach quit the sport or as they ended up doing move to the olympic training center in penates earlier this month problems there were uncovered by spiegel magazine dozen other gymnasts accused the head coach in kenya. of bullying them and making them train through injury naomi and revie say painkillers and injections were handed out freely without prescriptions and without the knowledge of athletes parents but the twins felt they couldn't speak up because of the baggage they come with. through be that acceptance came with a price and she was forced to ignore her constant back pain with $1.00 coach telling her it was just 3 competition. and she would often tell me i was

imagining the pain in my back but i didn't know the difference between so muscles and real pain that went on for a year and a half and at some point i believed i was imagining it is that you can run up a lot of matters now and i don't know if it wasn't her imagination though ruby having been denied access to her mit scans would eventually need an operation. fraser who's been suspended pending an investigation has called all the allegations baseless and says she never oversteps the mark it was her strong denials that prompted naomi and ruby to tell their story. these days the twins only compete in the national the no longer trimming of international success percent least now they can perform again with a smile on their faces. long commutes to school or a huge problem for many children in south africa. and then geo wants to change that

. is the child who starts the day with a very long walk to school there's no public transport around her children often a rifle late to school or just don't go she goes to include primary school the deputy principal says a number of issues need to be addressed and this problem of late coming as it is often does and that is the issue that we're having and there is that that is called girls walking wonder all through this program of crime nor the crimes of the because there is the problem or. a few kilometers away is the base of an ngo that wants to solve the transportation problem for poor local children not iraq's most i am to muslim gamey and some are part of the team of sweet bike. there are loading 472nd hand bikes recently delivered from switzerland they'll go to kids at various

schools in the area around market 840 kilometers south of to happen so basically when a new container. i feel like a small child who says about opening like a park and. this is a change that complaining to the country doesn't have a feeling that i did when. i was a very good. sweet bike got going last year and has already provided more than $1800.00 bicycles to schools each one 1st has to be assembled and tested at the sweet bike workshop the project depends on donations depending on how much money comes in something and the team buy an import up to several containers full each year the workshop has $5.00 trainee mechanics. is in charge here together they process about 40 bikes a day vocational training as another core element of sweet bikes mission

the aim is to end heart skills and create jobs and new opportunities in bicycle assembly repair and distribution the idea is at the end of the year to equip them we have enough skills so they can either open their own workshop or be placed in a drab which you can see in the field these bikes are for in kulu primary school. progress is slow on the unpaved road. the children are excited about the bikes. especially as a child. for her it had been a long wait. balancing on 2 wheels takes a little practice but to steal a child who is keen to learn and would like nothing more than to cycle to school the very next day.

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