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on hate speech prevention and sustainable production. all of the soaps are available online and of course you can share and discuss songs because facebook page and other social media platforms. times writers know. nicole pietz in germany to learn german american eagle. why not learn with him d w z e learning course because vic. assuring me is a thinking animal a mandate is to. balance and harmony not to create. that a millions of different species which inhabit the planet for that and many of them
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are going extinct because of auditing how do we make sure the. inhabitable not only for us but for every living organisms that's what we talk about in the whole welcome to india i'm someone that i. let's start in the northeast indian state of assam at the start of the 20th century there were only $201.00 horn drive remaining in the world the largest royal species they could be found all over the northern part of the indian sub continent in the last 100 years conservation efforts have brought the numbers up to 3700 contributing to this effort is an organization which is using vinyl done. and is raising a venice about the while notable species. this material has a very special structure and each sheet its own unique composition its use to make
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lampshades notepads and even clocks for a global clientele. the paper manufactured by the woman in the small workshop in assam is chiefly comprised of rhino and elephant droppings a notion that may have some turning their nose up but this done is actually ideal for making paper as entrepeneur explains from a people making point of view these are the 2 i'm the most with dung is the most fibrous they eat long grasses they have what these animals have a big digestive process so when they're fatigued for 5 hours available to us to just boy and basically get the fiber the pulp can all go on like a lot of other animals where they would they existed there would be not enough 5 available which is why we work with the fiber of these animals besides the fact that they're symbolically and functionally good from a people point of view in better too. and there's no shortage of dung in these parts the woodlands of the state of assam are home to around 2400 rhinos and at
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least twice that number of elephants fertile territory for an innovative concept. recycling by left excrement to make paper was in fact an idea born out of necessity . animals and people who live in close proximity here the roads villages and farms are increasing the intro chewing on the habitat of local vite life not to mention the sprawling plantations growing to famous a sonti. many of the animals live in the protected natural parks and when seasonal rainfall causes the river brahmaputra to flood twice a year there's an additional problem. over here it is our village. and just over there less than one kilometer is the bark there are a lot of wild animals living there but i know those elephants digress and water buffalo wintery were birds its banks the animal know they are in danger and end up
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roaming through our village. and vice seeking refuge also look for food rice harvests here i regularity devastated by rhinos and elephants. i grew up. with. me we would always find the animals on the street everywhere taking one bunny home with. during the rainy season they would come and forage for food. and when we woke up they would be out in the field. today to shore come are not out collecting rhino down which ill then dry out before it's made into paper. he's very much an exception however.
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typically the villagers are not in the. collection process because we don't want to start monetizing it because that could again lead the forest resources that are very sensitive issues so we have to leave very carefully but we do collect dung from straying animals on one hand it travels then to us in the fact we have a choice now which is where we meet people. the idea for employing local villagers to turn dung into paper came from the shovel or us father retard cool mining engineer wanted to give something back to nature. and that undertaking has been a boon for local communities creating new livelihoods for most people had no regular jobs among them as model because. they were around at the bottom of what i now plan to save up and buy a tract of. we have to pay a lot of money to hire tractors to till our land and then the thought of there that i want to buy one of our own. the dung
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is combined with natural fibers sourced from farms waste such as jute fruit and cotton. the resulting product is therefore also better for the environment than regular paper. people making use of those meanwhile the most water intensive industries in the world and it's responsible for a lot of what we did in a lot of work goes on around this. we don't you that i know what would be also the water that you use because it has no chemical in it be just use a basic nutrition and it gets back into the. recycling on what. the past year was a tough one for the company as demand plamegate to do the coronavirus pandemic over the next 2 years they're planning to break down production into smaller units to enable their team to work from home. the enterprise has provided
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a welcome source of jobs plus a son of the company's product saves $27.00 trees from being failed to make conventional paper and did the rhinos providing the paper manufacturers with the raw material relations between the villagers and their animal neighbors have also improved. deforestation can be devastating to animals in indonesia with 300000 picked as a forest lost in 29000 they rounded on population as a result has been declining with many left in front and i mean will defend for themselves there's a jungle school trying to help these around the towns to see a life and find their way in the wild but the pandemic has not complicated this work let's see how. humans have to keep their distance from a ring of things to even at lunch time. because both species are at risk of
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contracting the new coronavirus. these are rang a tang's are under lockdown and i've had to stay in their cages for months. this is a general rule if both you can train them to find and introduce the bills get them for is good. so we bring in the forest for them so it's like. right. there for us. so they can learn it's their meals are delivered wrapped in leaves so they have to figure out how to get the food useful practice when they're later released into the wild. cages or disinfected twice a day. hygiene is of crucial importance. the teams who care for the animals rotate
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every 3 weeks before they start work staff have their temperature taken another coronavirus precaution they shot the video for this report themselves we talked to the head of the project by video call. or we're going to. want you. to buy long time d.n.a. is 97 percent identical to that of humans so they're extremely susceptible to all our diseases especially those affecting the risperidone tract. you know that's the main reason why we've imposed such a strict quarantine to make sure there's no transmission of a virus replicating in humans to a population in the wild. it would probably have no immunity atoll to such a virus now it's. the effects could be devastating. duch of ella has been reporting on this project for years through the aim is to
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prepare a rang a tanks for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the bucket to go to little rain forest in central sumatra. many were rescued as orphans often held captive as pets under terrible conditions they had forgotten or had never learned how to move through the tree tops forage for food and build nests their keepers at the jungle school teach them all these skills usually out in the forest itself around it things enjoy piggy back rides many of them don't like to walk much this was before the coronavirus pandemic. so no exercises in the forest for now even though they have so much to learn. probably the most important item on the curriculum a jungle school is learning about fruit trees what they look like and when they bear fruit. in which scenes in or in which years. in
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order to survive every rung aton has to develop a 4 dimensional map in their head covering space and time it takes time to learn. but we've had to suspend the learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iranian towns have to stay in their cages. the lockdown can only be relaxed once the pandemic has been contained this is not good for the animals their fitness deteriorates and they become bored even the not the best preconditions for release and survival in the wild. those that have already been set free currently lead better lives keepers go on patrol to check on them and provide extra food if need be. here to social distancing applies over the past. century 80 percent of the region's rain forests have been cut down to make way for a vast plantations. on our last visit pay to park the stress the importance of
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saving the forest and teaching the irregular and survival skills. the new. if the orangutans are able to survive here and all the other animals in the rainforest animal community will be to the tigers elephants and old the other species that's why it's so important to protect them. the number of covert 1000 cases among humans in indonesia continues to rise. the project has a backup plan if the lockdown goes on for too long. it will release its a ragged things into the wild before they've completed their schooling but will then provide them with longer term support out in the forest. that way will be able to settle and have offspring and their numbers can grow until the threat of extinction here is banished. britain is a country of. landscape gobbles at least that's what some grits might have bought
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water more. long. and he's hoping to convince others 'd that natural involvement can combat biodiversity. these large blacks as they're called are allowed to dig around in the ground almost anywhere on the summer lakes and a station in the east of england acting as a secret weapon of sorts for the state owner and farmer lord sommer leighton. they're very efficient because you can afford to have quite a big. for quite a short time to get thee to century to the ground to a lot open space for new seeds. lord sommer likens the state spans over 20 square kilometers and he calls the mansion home. in jason park provides space for all the animals to roam freely. far from the stereotypical english lawn the state
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owner's allowing nature to completely reclaim on one 5th of his property. his father also run a farm but of the conventional sort where it would have been unthinkable for cows and pigs to wander right up to the doorstep always been very keen on. and and and so wanting to do things better than my dad particularly found it very frustrating he had a sort of almost a victorian hangover of tightness. and so we we clashed a bit on that. lord summer leighton's pigs are slaughtered but at the same time they also help conserve nature by lending greater biodiversity to the forest the fern species had run rampant there for centuries and the pigs can help keep it in check. and in order to. you know stimulate the soil to suit the the seabed the thralls see that underneath here we need to disrupt brocken. assoon as they've completed their task the pigs have to leave the
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forest again if you just have pigs you'll only have this and that so there's also a different guy so you you know one has a control so we were all doing is it's a great time but in that sense it's farming so we're going to try and keep the balance right between different species trying to get the perfect sort of mosaic of habitats to get the most biodiverse environment. lord summer laden and those who share his convictions try to win over their neighbors most nearby farmers are skeptical. that resist change at best times particularly traditional farmers and rewelding assassin nothing new in that perspective it's always a little sad you know i mean so. yeah there's a lot there's a lot of people breaking on it but hopefully will win when they play. more summer leyton doesn't agree that only wealthy landowners can afford to conserve nature and sees him self as a pioneer venturing down new paths but he's convinced everyone will need to rethink
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things and has already found 200 associates thank you to few farmers the neighborhood initiatives as well as the nearby warren school for children with disabilities such as autism. the brits were incredibly good. news but that tends to mean tidying stuff up and managing everything to. be a great example of this or that whether this is a school playing field or whether it's a public park that's kind of. typical management you know for 50 years and this is you know it's a new form of management. this garden meant to stimulate the senses is largely left to nature. summer laden says finding a bond with nature is an experience not as many people as possible should benefit from and he wishes to transform the over 100 square kilometers of neighboring
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marshland into a nature park attracting eco tourists. space. and . kind of walking up and down this river valley but still with cattle and with. farming systems but that have to be gentle. but 1st he has to persuade his neighbors because pigs roaming free on the property really use too much for most farmers. i was along just in back to buy what they can be instrumental in how we live our lives to insects for example are essential in our food production in fact the un's food and agriculture association estimates that up before 71000000000 euros worth of global food production relies directly pollinators like bees how can we protect them in here much information in india beekeepers are experimenting with ideas for why their population. episode are not
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indicative the indian honeybee they are at home in the mountains of the indian subcontinent once there were many species of bees in the nothern state of a matter of reddish beekeepers even get bees in traditional hives on the walls of their homes there. are still keeps his bees this way it's a practice he learnt from his father. holly was one of the typical characters tape of the so-called march in the march quarter just every household had the heights to harvest honey but their own you. will leave as one of the few people who breeds bees according to the old tradition he was the bee hives much like his ancestors but instead off in the walls of the house the bees now live in the garden. the materials that uses to build the
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highways are from the region using local products makes the hives board affordable and by mentally friendly their appearance is reminiscent of the traditional him actually. cottages. in the past i only used to be used to produce honey i was satisfied with whatever little money i earn from it when i started taking courses i learned about the significant role of the claim pollination especially here in the margin courses like the ones can leave commodity ended are offered in conjunction with the governmental programs in an effort to aid be preservation this is important because these are a source of income for beekeepers. my hands are saying from here marshall you know we're city says honeybees are endangered especially in this region.
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because of the. destruction one of the biggest threats to b.s. is the destruction of their habitats the bee flora. in here much of the truth is even more imminent because fruit orchards in this state are often full of insecticides and pesticides we have seen that in our research boards are insecticide press agent commission of the. species of bees that the government conservation programs are focused on are italian we the so-called apis mellifera during the 1960 india imported them in hopes of motivating people to breed bees commercially while indian honeybees produce an average of 7 to 10 kilograms of honey for colony annually mellifera bees produced 3 times as much each year but this is also how honey became an inexpensive industrial goods today beekeepers deceive between 60 to 65 rupees per kilogram of honey that's around $69.00 to
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$75.00 euro cents the prices have also contributed to the decreasing number of small scale beekeepers in him archer could not sing from them issues. wants to change that. an initiative aims to aid in the conservation of native bees which are considered more robust and resilient than italian be they also don't require a large expanse of land. the reasons gardens suffice as habitats for the small colony that are needed to the area as a result indian bees are armed against best and climate change and the news of their positive characteristics is spreading. now people coming up to us and asking us that come in help me with the hive that i used to have in my old house so people are more. people are more responsive to be the end of life. the initiative is involved with various projects including women's groups that expound
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on the work of beekeepers like. manufacturing live bomb and candle provides many women with their 1st opportunity to. their own money sends them out east so everyone benefits from the preservation of in be the beekeeper their wives and of course the bees themselves they all do their part in meditating by what they were $50.00. killing wildlife for profit is coming back to haunt you once many experts believe wildlife trade a key dry world of. all the seasons which are transmitted from animals to humans may have caused the call that line 900 pandemic when does need to move instructions that the benefits wildlife and biodiversity let's take a look. wild animals in cages many of them injured and weak it's filthy increment in the animals or in close contact with humans. the corona virus may have started to spread in an animal market like this is the perfect breeding ground for
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new diseases. markets like this provide an opportunity for pathogens to make the leap from one species to another. in the process the pathogen can develop characteristics that make it easier to spread to a 3rd species in this case to humans. experts have long been warning that the trade in wild animals could be a ticking time bomb more than 2 thirds of infectious diseases that affect humans originating wildlife those include deadly diseases such as the ebola virus sars and hiv aids scientists call such diseases as it were not because they originate an animal's. zoonotic diseases can be dangerous because the pathogen can develop new capabilities in its new host the new host has no immunity so infection can often lead to serious disease and. the current virus pandemic has thrust these wild
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animal markets into the spotlight around the world many are calling for a total pound. the animals are sold not just for food for private households some species assault to make traditional medicines or aphrodesiac others and those pricey delicacies on restaurant menus animal protection activists like these in vietnam say that the only way to reduce the risk of pandemics is to ban the commercial trade in wild animals the would be of the viruses don't really make a distinction. you know. a lot on the higher trade chain they don't make that distinction which whether their trade is legal or illegal whether their training is for bush meat for of thought for medicine or as exotic pets activists agree the desire for an exotic pet is part of the problem there's
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a flourishing illegal online trade in them especially involving reptiles. that wild animals are also sold online illegally they pose the highest risk for transmitting viruses to humans. all of the countries are having well that's right in this very connected world we live in and so now more than any time. more than any other time we need to unite all of the countries need to be united to address while that crime which is the root of and that make china has now temporarily the trade and consumption of wild animals but as long as the worldwide market exists the threat of new viruses will continue. with great power comes great responsibility this famous line borel from pop culture applies to odd relationship with our planet our
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in the spanish border area along side other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on d. w. . why are people forced to hide in trucks. place there are many reasons. and there are many answers. and there are many stories. to. make up your own mind.
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w. made for mines. it's about billions. it's about our work. it's about the foundation of the border the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network and so the conflicts are inevitable the consequences unpredictable the can is book of the 15 the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal to push it and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world basically obama was making china is promising its partners rich profits. but in europe there's are warning you could never accept money from the new superpower it will become dependent on. china's
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gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on. this is the w. news live from berlin a setback in the fight against the pandemic as global destiny of 2000000 u.s. drug maker pfizer cuts back deliveries of its covert 900 vaccine to europe but the company says the reduction was allowed to ramp up production for later in the year also coming up a desperate struggle to save survivors of a powerful earthquake in indonesia dozens are dead many more injured and still trapped behind beneath the rubble as a hospital collapses on the island of celebrities. this might look like in the
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military base but we're actually in the heart of the capital building the soldiers are resting here they're having lunch and they're getting people here for 10 or a tank inauguration day. a ring of steel in and around the u.s. capitol thousands of troops on alert as the f.b.i. warns of pro trump extremists plan to disrupt next week's handover of power. under our belt as welcome to the program deliveries of the coronavirus vaccine developed by german firm a biotech and u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer are going to be delayed in arriving in the nation's pfizer has informed the european commission that it won't be able to fulfill all of its promise deliveries within the coming weeks to 2 works its plant in belgium canada will also face delays supplies of the vaccine to the united states will not
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be affected. i'm joined by g.w. political correspondent julie i'm so delhi the temporary reduction of vaccine deliveries to europe what more do we know so we've heard from the german health ministry that the communication came in from pfizer to the e.u. commission who then forwarded it to all the various. member states and we as we've heard before the reduction is going to take place over the next 3 or 4 weeks so fewer doses of the vaccine are going to be delivered and we don't know the german health ministry said we don't know exactly how much of a reduction this is going to be and the german health ministry also said that for the time being the plan delivery for next monday january 18th in germany will go ahead as planned but a reduction will happen afterwards you have the countries and all the e.u.
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commission being warned about this or did they all just learned this today what we've heard from the german health ministry is that they saw this communication as a very last minute and unexpected so we see some surprise there the german health ministry also said that they are quite disappointment by this announcement also because pfizer had promised a regular delivery of the vaccines until mid february and they have asked the commission and pfizer to quickly clarify how much of a reduction is is going to we're going to see over the next few weeks so what are the consequences for the vaccination program and is it eventually possible to replace the vaccine with a different sort. so if eiser has said that the plan delivery for the 1st quarter of the year is going to go ahead as planned so there will be
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a temporary reduction now but hopefully there will be then a pick up later in the quarter so that the total number of vaccines can be delivered that could mean a slowdown of the vaccination process over the next few weeks germany has so far vaccinated 960000 people more or less that is far less than the doses of vailable in germany at the moment but the vaccination pace is picking up has picked up over the last week so we might see the process having to slow down to wait for more vaccine doses and germany and other you states might have to look at more than not and hopefully the soon to be approved astra zeneca vaccine to substitute the missing doses from biotech pfizer and. political correspondent kelly thank you julia but with global death of the pandemic about to pass 2000000 governments are coming under ever greater pressure to get infections under control
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despite accelerating vaccination programs the covert 900 death toll shows little sign of easing new and more transmissible variants of the corona virus are being blamed across the world authorities are tightening 2nd and 3rd lock downs mostly without much success. and one of those new variants of the virus has plunged the already stretched health system in the united kingdom into crisis infections and deaths from covert 99 spiralling many hospitals can no longer carry out other lifesaving operations doctors and nurses under enormous pressure did obvious to all the chosen pill has been hearing some of their stories. i never see the same many hundreds is queuing and i've never spent such extended periods of time with people waiting for a space though. over the last week for which there were corporations full now rotavirus. people every region and that has more people in hospital now than they did in the 1st wave in this bank. you know very sweet for not double the number of
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patients with them in london admitting they can rid of a really big hospital every single day whilst having higher numbers of staff from a lot of staff who are off sick or isolating or tested positive themselves i've just finished 10 days of isolation because my wife tested positive she's also a paramedic the person protests we created that we were wearing was for our perspective not quite enough and a number of our friends and colleagues wear the same situation and they've also tested positive over the last few weeks. i think the impact of the new. it is just. more factious 150 percent more infectious where we were at the beginning of the show the same thing we did with the stored suddenly we had the surgeon of those so huge with the proof of the legend that would be as bad and that's we will sit here and spiritualise expose that while for the school to sort
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what surprised the new parent just made it absolutely explode and again you know we waited too long to stem damage but it's still more to come from this wave of the pandemic we expect more quality when. we see fall people being admitted to intensive care units that are now becoming overwhelmed synopses in the southeast and now cancelling was called 28 day cancer staging the people he had the saudis cancel and now having to add knowing that he was carrying and for some of them by the time safe again they might not be operable anymore and that they have lost that wind you know so i mean that to me is a kind of kind of mental torture at. the poles will. be a lot of people that formed a group told one of my friends had been he was just helping someone having a panic attack the other day that people are having nightmares about the really
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hard thing about big stuck a hospital for 5 hours is that over time you that you're there you're hearing your colleagues in the control room hosking for ambulances to be available to get you to other imagine seasons of people that need your help and you can't get that constantly in a situation where they know that not doing the best for the patients that china backs but i just know i don't position to be able to do that and that's something that people are wrestling with quite a loss of is that i mean that you know bit vague they might have better to do some more if they had a rifle idea the day they might have been able to. change the outcome for a particular patient burn shorts having a toll walking down the country i don't think we have a choice we just threw up this. that's what the crew were trying to do. is people feel that way it is hard and it's taking its toll but we know that we're doing the best we can in a 2nd chance and. if we didn't go out there more people would die and would suffer
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as a result of not having. people working on the front line. a powerful earthquake in indonesia has killed at least 42 people and injured hundreds more the quake struck late at night on the island of so damaging many buildings in and around the district capital mahmood you authorities fear more victims are trucked to the rubble and the warning about strong aftershocks could trigger a tsunami. in the rubble rescue is left for victims and survivors the poor weather hampering this at. the hardest hit city as the new queue up to devastation following a 6.2 magnitude quake just after midnight the search for survivors is still under way. and one of the. good being got to the bottom are the search and rescue agencies he has deployed 4 groups who have been sent to several locations in memory
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to safety. at the moment we are still the evacuating the victims. a survivor is pulled from the rubble of what's left of the local hospital as many as half the buildings in the mood to city have either collapsed or are partially damaged and there are fears that more damage is still to come. do you know because the epicenter is near the beach there's a possibility of underwater landslides. that's why there's still so nonny potential is the next aftershocks at the center is on the beach or near the coast. in the lull. so now many fearing the aftershocks are choosing to stay on high ground wondering
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if they'll have hearns to go back to. therms take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the un refugee agency says the number of people fleeing violence in the central african republic has doubled in just a week to nearly 60000 the government has been battling rebel groups seeking to overturn the result of last month's presidential elections due to claims of fraud. ugandan opposition leader bobby wine says the military has quote taken control of his home earlier he claimed victory in the country's presidential election and alleged he has proof of frauds during voting early results put president yoweri museveni at 65 percent while wind trails with 27 final results are expected on saturday. u.s. president elect joe biden has outlined a $1.00 trillion dollars coronavirus an economic recovery plan that includes more
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than $400000000000.00 to combat the pandemic directly by the goal is to speed up the delivery of vaccines and provide financial help to households struggling with the pandemics prolonged economic fallout for a ring of steel has been erected to protect washington d.c. as america prepares for next week's handover of power from the outgoing trump administration to the new team under president elect joe biden more than 20000 troops are standing by the f.b.i. is warning that x. extremists are planning violent protests in all 50 state capitols the w.'s carolina chmod as this special report from washington where residents have mixed feelings about the unprecedented security operation. you shall not pass that seems to be the message all around the capitol soldiers from the national guard have fled at this. first came the fence then the
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barricades were expecting our own 20000 soldiers from the national guard in washington d.c. on an operation they sam have already lined up behind me this city has never seen something like that and people they are scared of the city is a completely. on inauguration day one dangerous too dangerous scary you're supposed to be proud of you know civilization or markers. we've come through this is that right there's a creek that they've done since wednesday is definitely needed and i do feel better about it but i think that the brightest still there at the current is shaky i just want to make sure that this time that they're actually doing their job to protect the city as opposed to you know they are prepared like lester. behind the fence it's all hands on deck. and soldiers from 11 states have arrived in washington d.c.
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they are organizing their equipment checking their weapons and getting ready in case violence returns to the city. they still don't know for how long they will stay deployed here. but the ones who spoke to us said they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also a logistical challenge. for now they're waiting this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capitol building the soldiers are resting here the having lunch and they're getting prepared for generally trying to in operation days. nobody knows what awaits them. the holds still bears signs of last week's riots. but not. for.
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