who are bad people now the good ones who control. other minister. he's hopeful that mayor mikhail a county has planned to sell local homes for a symbolic euro will improve the situation. kanya an independent official has governed from the for 6 years now. he wants to lend locals fresh optimism. sign the curse to highlight problems. is more important than ever. funny but the entire world. wants the pandemic is over the municipality will hand over the 1st 13 homes to the new owners for just a year matchy who runs the project i'm a kalay county and screens thousands of applications sent from interested buyers in northern italy europe and even the us. unfortunately we cannot enter any of the

homes have been used the policy is still waiting for former owners to return their keys judging by their derelict exteriors and these rundown at least buyers will need to invest large sums to restore the houses lucky and buyers must meet one criterion and no point in a date their house within 3 years according to the architectural standards of this historic town center and. it's a day it's difficult to picture how quaint this area must have been. still convinced that to come from the has a bright future ahead if everyone works together forever nobody but we want to create something beautiful including in the hearts of our people who want to give them hope they'll return to calabria invest money or at least spend their holidays here. for this to become reality calabria must be finally freed from the grip of

the powerful and trying it's a mafia group. otherwise it will be hard to breathe new life into to small italian town. the smell of fresh air has become a rare commodity for many russians especially those living in the suburbs of big cities huge piles of trash are causing a terrible stench in these areas people living close to the alex since the landfills suffer whenever they step outside or even when they open a window with them side is becoming bigger and bigger emitting toxic fumes your yaphet all say of us feared for the health of her children and so she moved away but she and others are keeping up the fight against the growing heaps of trash. the fumes from the landfills start to sting horrendously. your eyes burn your throat hurts and you feel sick. it's as if someone is pouring water down my throat

it makes me cough i can hardly breathe they say everything's alright but to merge and see services have the tech to 25 times over the limit. up with them it's all because of the dump here. but here julia felt like he means about 500 meters from the house she was born in the us is key plainfield near the village a subpoena is one of the dozens all around the mega city of moscow has 32 hectares in the area for about 45 soccer pitches. only a few years ago the pit was some 30 meters deep say local residents now it's a hill rising about 20 meters high and it keeps getting bigger as to the populations health problems. if they hate us is that some days it is they so on barely she couldn't open her apartment windows her children 8 year

old and 7 year old cover slava started feeling ill more often the point came when you here couldn't take it any more she moved away from her home village shop over 7 kilometers to the town of clinton one. that would the little ones always had something wrong with them one day the pediatrician told me their lungs were making rattling noises i didn't have to think about it i started looking for an apartment hearing plane for us later after the movie we went back to the same doctor and oh what i thought what a miracle the noises in their lungs were gone how come very simple we moved away from the land fill. the federal so he of us case was no isolated one waste disposal is one of russia's most pressing issues great peace figures show. so less than 4 percent of waste being processed and only 2 percent going to incineration plants the rest goes straight into dumps ironically the country with

the largest land area on earth can't find enough space for the estimated 70000000 tons of waste its population produces annually moscow's landfills in particular are ticking time bombs many of them fail to meet the official safety standards contaminated soil water and air over and over local residents have poll tested as here in our congress but rarely have they seen in the results. julia fessor he has joined the effort for clean air in her home region she and her fellow activists pooled their funds and bought a gas analyzer that measures radioactivity with chlorine hydrogen sulfide kimono and other politicians. who are both unbuckled will use this data to compile what we call them up of the stands for the whole area and then decide if you can go outside with the kids who are not meeting. their results are alarming their activists

report them to the environment agency regularly in 2017 the state emergency services finally had to react and measure 25 times the maximum allowed for hydrogen sulfide activists took the matter to court but with no success our reporter contacted the landfill managers and city of clinton but received no response. and so the effect is really has to consult her detector before she takes all children outside to see what is there we analyze the air today good news right now it's looking good so we can go visit grandma and shop over. julian fellowes so he is 67 year old mother. still lives in their home village. can you come in have some tea and sausage of a week with. her grandchildren like to come and visit she definitely briefly her house to his perilously close to the landfill but she's not going to move away to

where would i go who could i sell my house to with all that stench out there they're not exactly lining up although you are and how could i live in the city i only get a pension of about 190 euros and i'd have to pay 130 euros to rent a one room apartment. they visit with grandma for a couple of hours you know if that is how he shows her kids her old property quickly before the wind turns and the smell is unbearable again just to have something done about it have been for nothing. but that's the wood so i don't know how long we can keep on fighting this system were too few and we're starting to feel helpless and desperate almost seems to mccord it's. the mountain of garbage keeps growing and there are even plans to expand the land to fill with brags that it has officially happened and the brits have said goodbye to

the european union but that doesn't mean they have left all their problems behind one brags that related issue is that a virus many people in scotland to break away from the u.k. and rejoin the e.u. of course the british government doesn't want to see this happen our reporter met 2 men who uncovered a long forgotten monument that symbolizes scotland's past and maybe its future. like most begins keith and david are tending to the upkeep of the world's largest 3 dimensional map of scotland keith discovered the overgrown concrete map over 25 years ago 1st he wasn't quite sure what he stumbled across but he taught he recognised the shape of a scottish peninsula. minutes later i had walked north discovered ben roland walked across rather more climbed over ben nevis and arrived at the north coast of scotland at the white house peninsula realising that this was an astonishing

relief model is the brainchild of young thomas chick a polish world war 2 veteran who displayed it in his hotel gardens near people's scotland he created the great polish mark of scotland to express his gratitude and love towards his country 20 team and david's charity finished restoring the relief model to its former glory but great britain was still a member of the european union with scotland and poland part of the same minds keith from england is rather an e.u. skeptic from scotland is rather proud of you so this is where david and i diverged i think it's a super romantic idea that experience has shown to be totally i'm not going to accuse keith of having narrowness of mind or anything like that but i think. so we see all those who were on one aisle and i

think somehow my impression is that the english people are more inshalla than 20162 thirds of scottish voters rejected brags that britain's decision to leave the e.u. has divided the country. more and more scots think scotland would benefit from splitting off from britain. to give it a scotsman think scottish independence is impossible for geological reasons if nothing else and at one stage there would have been a sea between scotland and england when scotland moved on to england england went underneath and then volcanoes came up in the line and so we're sort of stapled if you like to. do england i think is rather difficult to get away from them. as shown just how complicated even the political can be many

scots however are going to target by this growing segment of the population out. and we'll keep you updated on developments from auckland and other parts of europe right here on our show and on our website and you can also find me on twitter thanks for watching.

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china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. this is d w news live from the u.s. . capital is in a security lock sound ahead of joe biden's inauguration as divisions over the impeachment of the outgoing president deepen donald trump supporters accuse the democrats of twisting the knife house speaker nancy pelosi insists no one is above the law not even the president of the united states also coming out south america

struggles with surging coverage 19 numbers colombia enforces a curfew illegal border crossings from venezuela are fueling the increase in cases . and uganda's long term president yoweri museveni seeks a 6th in an election on by violence. but the wind is his main challenger a favorite among young voters. welcome to the program security is being ramped up in washington d.c. a head of the inauguration of president elect joe biden next week the f.b.i. is warning that trump supporters are planning protests across the country to protest the change of power $20000.00 troops of the national guard are being deployed to protect washington allowed president trump meanwhile now faces trial in

the senate after being impeached for an unprecedented 2nd time. in the last 4 years the white house has perhaps never been so quiet this after its top president was impeached a 2nd time. fencing has cut off the 1st residence more significantly to president trump twitcher has cut him off from his supporter. but supporters aren't necessarily turning away even after congressional democrats and 10 members of trump's own republican party sided with democrat house speaker nancy pelosi she called trump a clear and present danger to the country even with under a week to go in his term the eyes are 232 the nays are 197. there is a resolution is adopted without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon that total well that motion to reconsider is

a formality in the decidedly red republican state of texas trump supporters see cause for congress to reconsider namely an impeachment backlash against seems like they're just doing it just to dig tonight deeper and twisted the believe in what they believe and that's that's not going to change because of somebody else's political tactic tactics his presidency is over but his base is going to be stronger i think that as a very divisive thing to do i think it's a very vindictive thing to do that's not going to help to heal this country but speaker pelosi says the impeachment resolution she signed is simply about justice and to have demonstrated that no one is a far from all not even the president of the united states. the next step is a trial in the other chamber of the capitol the senate where the proceedings will likely wait until after trump leaves the white house trump and his supporters are

confident an impeachment backlash will help prevent a conviction in a polarized senate for the needed 2 thirds majority to convict democrats are banking on a call for bipartisan justice. earlier i spoke to d.w. washington correspondent all of us salads i asked him whether the impeachment trial will hang over the upcoming presidency of joe biden. well joe biden preferred not to have a drilling because he wants to move on as quick as possible and focus on what he believes is the most important topic right now and that is fighting the covert 19 pandemic but biden also said it's up to congress to decide and he really wants to get this trial done as quickly as possible so that senate can then move on and focus on new legislature. with regards to covert 19 for instance so the big concern of course now is that donald trump will not just a disappear overnight and will also be overshadowing joe biden's presidency as

something like a shadow president who is sabotaging his presidency and inciting his his followers and supporters against joe biden all of us out of there in washington d.c. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 7 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a strong shallow earthquake on indonesia's to the ways the island the disaster agency says the tremors flats in the hospital leading patients and staff trapped inside a hotel is also among the collapsed buildings. chancellor merkel is pushing for a stricter lockdown in germany machall has told top officials from her party that she wants quick action to stop the spread of worrying new coronavirus variance daily coded 19 deaths reached a record of more than 1200 on thursday in germany and new cases remain high despite restrictions in place since november. a racing pigeon has made an

epic 13000 kilometer journey across the pacific ocean after disappearing from a race in the u.s. and arriving in australia experts suspect the pigeon hitched a ride on a cargo ship that authority has considered the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it. besides burying region of has experienced its longest cold spell for 14 years temperatures have stayed below minus 40 degrees celsius for more than a month and forecasters say it's due to get even colder than the residents because of god due to an unusually mild autumn. coronavirus cases are surging across south america in venezuela which has been in the grips of an economic crisis for years the pandemic is making a bad situation even worse economic hardship caused by a long lockdown is forcing thousands of desperate venezuelans to pack up and leave colombia has closed its border with venezuela to stop the influx and the possible

spread of covert 19 but that hasn't stopped them coming. just the moment when amidst cheering he left the hospital he's colombian and spent 36 days in intensive care there he saw the havoc that covert 19 has caused in the hospitals of kooky. in general the attention of the doctors and nurses was very good. but i also saw that there are a lot of people who are left on their own abandoned if you get there and you are practically left in a disposable. connected to a machine. in an effort to curb the spread of the virus authorities closed the colombian venezuelan border but that has not stopped the flow of people non-governmental organizations estimate that some

100000 people continue to move between the 2 countries every day. they do it along illegal trails like this one where the authorities are too overwhelmed to carry out any health checks. it puts more pressure on city hospitals some of them have reported a 100 percent bed occupancy. rate it's going to bring someone who comes infected and crosses it using these illegal trails ends up being a spreader of the virus to everyone around here. and the number of people he can infect is really impossible to calculate. coronavirus safety measures are barely respected and could many do not maintain social distancing or even wear a mask even without the illegal border crossings if you give me all the just fear that a 2nd wave could soon hit the region that could bring the already alarming death

toll in the border areas sinew highs our correspondent joins me now from the colombian capital. johan how is this influx of migrants affecting the coronavirus situation there. the influence that this flow has in colombia is huge to understand the impact that it has in colombia we have just 2 on the stand that according to non-governmental organizations about 100000 people go around the border between us well i'm colombia every single day 100000 people but the border is closed for the last 7 months so these people are using illegal paths to come into venice full of the problem to into colombia the problem is that in this illegal bats there are no health controls so they migrate through flow is not just a very significant but it goes beyond every law and beyond every bio security

measures. now the migrants are surely worried about the pandemic how desperate is this situation for them to take the risk and cross the border. very desperate that we have to understand that before the pandemic venice while i was already facing big problems poverty insecurity on employment so this pandemic had just the tent this crisis but at the end of the day the main concern of venezuelan migrants is the same the most elemental one finding something to eat in the border we saw a lot of people wearing face masks but other people dance and that is easy to understand how can be a ballet a face mask when they don't have even money to buy food to eat. right when you look at the overall situation in south america how is the crisis there being until.

it's country in latin america has handled the crisis in its own a way there had been not joint policies in the region but what concerns the most right now. is that many countries that had already reopened their economies are now shooting them down again like you why or argentina peru even colombia that is now on their girl few and that is going to face lockdown now we can lock down in a couple of days so everybody here is thinking that a new loan got locked down is going to be very very hard for the economies in their region that's why everyone is waiting for the vaccine. that miracle that could save the region from the collapse. bride did abuse your hunger maoris in bogota many thanks. vote counting is underway in uganda after a hard fought election pitting one of africa's longest serving leaders against

a charismatic young challenger letter and president yoweri miss 70 is seeking a 6th term in office after ruling for nearly 4 decades his main rival the form of pop star bobby wine has inspired a new generation of youthful voices the election campaign was mobbed by widespread violence and an internet blackouts. one by one each vote from this polling station is called out to onlookers supporters cheer for their preferred candidate. it's been quite north dakota clark expected to display close in time i think everything should move for the moon but it got to the polls are now closed in uganda as people settle in for a tense count election day sore excitement in the long lines to vote mixed with the threat of violence with riot police patrolling the streets. the election campaign has seen almost daily violence and crackdowns on opposition supporters but ugandans

remain undeterred. and with love to make you student. it's a clash of generations in one of africa's youngest countries incumbent yarima survey me is one of africa's longest serving leaders the former griller leader has spent 35 years in office in a country where the average age is less than 30. always going to strong. the army is strong. and experienced the dish and i want to. go out and vote thursday's election pits him against opposition frontrunner while on the verge of new compiler with his wife. the former

a reggae artist has managed to channel the frustrations of a generation into a viable challenge against most of a nice ruling national resistance movement. pre-election violence has also taken the lives of dozens of opposition supporters wind recently appeared at one of their funerals. was a lecture on. radio not preparing for the election one. rising for a vote for the premise. that i would like the military of the body of. the ruling and i am blocked access to the internet for the election challenge of bobby wind calling it dictatorial tendencies the in iran promises the elections will be free and fair but with the blackout on communications those looking for change are warry devoted to a lack of accountability and transparency. german magician sick fried fish behind has died aged 81 just days after it was announced he was suffering from terminal

pancreatic cancer he was best known as one half of the world famous las vegas magic acts sacred and roy their shows often featured dozens of watch tigers and lions 6 raids longtime partner roy horn it died last year as a result of complications from co the 90 you're watching the w. news live from berlin bed facility is up next with but e.w. covert 19 special thanks to accompany him but not. the face of against the coronavirus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. term children to come to.

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