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this week on the world stories. residents are freezing in spanish slums. and working from dizzying heights in turkey but we begin in germany where the media is reporting new covert 19 deaths every day and he when you should have wants to make a grief more public by reminding the country that there are real people behind these numbers. it's the 8 sunday that close john schmidt has come here to send out candles a visual reminder of those who have died from cove at 19. he's not the only one doing this. germany may have done better than other countries at the beginning of the pandemic but the death toll now stands at more than 50000. and that's about it yes during the 1st wave of other countries had these kinds of numbers and i felt like we just accepted it here with a shrug. we thought we needed images to make death something you can see that's why

we started this initiative on top and on there much we need to table because. many people come here to talk about the disturbingly high number of new cases others come because they've lost someone who says i'm from the fog or it's just a question where you can show grief or where can you go to experience this feeling peacefully like in a cemetery and that's how it should be here get on. others want to make a statement to show that the coronavirus is a real danger. and the stakes get the feel of the there are so many people who just deny the whole thing we should all just hold back to keep our distance so that this pandemic ends and not so many people. have to die is a few toward an even which time isn't at another coronavirus memorial in berlin

ingrid johnson is mourning robert maas ari a friend from new york he died of covert at the age of 72 she says he was a man of many talents i am steve and then for none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas and always discomforts i think that this memorial here in this historic square is a beautiful place for him especially because so many wonderful concerts have taken place here for him and he would have loved to experience that. every afternoon a candle in the german president's residence bears witness after easter a statement morial service is planned for the victims. cold and no electricity in some cases the conditions are deplorable in this neighborhood on the outskirts of madrid drug gangs are allegedly topping power

lines and residents feel forgotten by the spanish state. it's bitter cold this morning here in kenya that riyadh on the outskirts of madrid some 4500 residents live here in what may be europe's biggest informal settlement since a power cut in october they've been without electricity many inhabitants of moroccan or roma origin most live in poverty conditions how worst in sectors 5 and 6 of the county area because of the cold many like a family now don't even have water. oh this is how would normally wash our clothes and then we'll have our hands by the fire. we don't have electricity we don't know what are we don't know what to do. authorities blame the power outage on a surge thought to be caused by illegal wiretaps to power cannabis grow operations and sectors 6 most of madrid's illegal narcotics come through here we can film

openly here it's too dangerous but people we speak to confirm they too have no electricity. back in sector 5 a mother who wants to stay anonymous invites us into her house the kids are bundled up and tending classes online but just as long as her phone charge and mobile data lost. when they get upset i try to give them strength i tell them imagine you were sick or he didn't have hands i was trying to give them strength i realise that i don't have any more strength myself. it's a similar story for neighbors one man likely died due to the cold and the baby was hospitalized with hypothermia many are resorting to using propane diesel generators car batteries or stoves. it's expensive and very risky says rahma from the

neighborhood association. she says that at least 40 people here have suffered carbon morningside poisoning. but one in all let us be a light fires and when they notice that the fires dwindle and they throw on more logs on to keep the house warm and because the fire consumes the oxygen this has adverse effects they wake up with headaches or nausea that is their money on the road is the best outcome will meet those several n.g.o.s have condemned the situation here. is how to feed my own back door right here now but like i know that in 2017 the authorities signed a regional agreement and shoring dignified living conditions for the residents of the county are that we are. then through all this i say this this is this is completely end of it in this agreement also cover to providing electricity to the settlement we need the electrical some few families have been offered gas heaters

and the opportunity to relocate the power utility now wants to shut down illegal taps however many here in kenya that reality feel forgotten i think that if authorities were serious about helping would already have tabled clear solutions. landfill sites in russia are a growing health hazard most garbage is simply thrown away on talks in safety levels at the dumping grounds go ignored from really of the people who live close by moving away is just not an option. is this a this is the election skip it it's as big as $45.00 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow residents say just a few years ago with peter was still deep in the ground now it's more of a hill and as if a garbage piles up the locals health problems due to the dump lies just

a few. 100 meters from the village of novel shop of all. of us hometown the mother of 2 says that some days the smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids jaroslava and went off them sick video saver finally had enough she and her children moved to clean as city several kilometers away. the little ones were constantly sick one day their pediatrician told me their children have rattling sounds in their lungs i didn't think about it for very long before starting to look for an apartment for us here and cleon later after we moved we went to the same doctor surprise surprise the lung rattling had disappeared how did that happen simple we moved away. the few dosia families fate is no isolated incident. removal is one of

russia's most pressing concerns only 6 percent of the country's garbage is either processed or incinerate that is the rest is simply dumped environmentalist's of warner's east landfill sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb rarely conforming to safety standards if they pull you to the soil the ground water and the air. readings taken by the state civil protection agency show the area surrounding next inskip it is also contaminated 3 years ago authorities found that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times of the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence you see of us mother is another of those affected the 67 year old's house is dangerously close to the dump but unlike her daughter she

says she can't move. where. would i go who would i sell my home to with that horrible smell outside who cares about someone like me and how would i even get by in the city my pension is 190 euro but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for a one room apartment. meanwhile the mountain of rubbish keep scrolling and if there are plans to expand to the. dream job is cleaning the 1st signs of. skyscrapers. she is also the 1st woman to work in this male dominated job in turkey she hopes to encourage others to break free from gender roles. with bucket and cleaning products in hand the crew has to balance along the edge of the rooftop attached to a thin wire they slowly move forwards. this red rope is where.

gets to work now every move is a matter of life and death are met is laid under the safety rope so that the edge of the roof doesn't cut into it her life hangs on this thread. now the real work can begin. we are 130 metres up it's a wonderful feeling i really feel free i'm not dependent on anything apart from my rope. knowsley uses mountaineering techniques she learnt during her training it was hard both physically and mentally but she believed in herself against all odds. going through the training pointless you'll never be able to do that job even my friend said that. 5 years ago mostly you almost

worked inside a highrise like this at the reception desk for the window she always admired the cleaners as they scaled down the facade then she asked they have shelley who's now her boss if he would hire a woman on his so far all male team. proved that women can do this too. it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman what's important is if you're able to do this risky work or not. today. is the only woman working in this previously all male domain. she doesn't have time to admire the view of istanbul below the skyline of the city of 18000000 live it's 161 skyscrapers has been totally transformed in the last 20 years. for cleaning up here in wind and weather muskets has

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. it is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier but with a marine. the akademi to africa to yield to falls in paris is a balance of knowledge regarding old plants for us. between the old agronomy publications we find something special. in nutrition or composition table for fruits and vegetables it is 60 years old. it lists the fisherman and mineral content of each and every variety. and indeed over the last 60 years many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some of the any traditional value. so how did this happen. to.

be a miss davis american biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject. i am here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of the traditional big lines in foods this davis works at the university of almost in texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950 and 999. i think that most of these declines are caused by increases in year old when you. there's less nutrients per week to pull out a very cultural scientists may not know about how big these effects are this is

kind of an embarrassing of their they're always wanting to increase you if modern breeding was causing increases in flavor and increases in nutrients i think they would talk about it more. it is one of the fruits that has lost a lot of nutrients looking back it is clear that this has to do with the varieties as well as to see. families all over the world choose based seeds from brushes like this. to supply cultural groups such as syngenta b.s.f. and down. up a stone size shape color and you. appreciate one if one is important here it means 1st generation.

the breeding of hybrids works responding. take the plant to the dry see it does for example has lush but too pale to. process with another his roots of beautifully red but much too small. from this cross-pollination a hybrid is create a plant that contains genes from both the pale tomato and the small red one. from as early as the 920 s. scientists around the world have been using this technology. they main goal to produce and indestructible tomatoes. we know about crash tests will come. but $4.00 to $10.00 days. only with the help of genetic engineering was this possible. 994 the flavors

saver to mars i was launched in the usa. one of the problems was that older to most of the riots he spoil quickly. began looking for the eternal tomato. paste that led them to israel. for more than 70 years families here have managed to grow fruit and vegetables in the middle of the desk. at the hebrew university of jerusalem we meet one of the creation is of the almost emotional 2 months have. been of it's. the 79 year old professor emeritus

continues to develop perfect typewrite plants this is a breeding greenhouse so it's plant is different and i say was this planted look stronger than this one for instance and definitely more than this one we look for these differences in order to develop something which is better than the existing material. the research and his team work at the university but on behalf of private companies they work as currently funded by the french seed produce it in the world. it's owned by them i cannot i cannot give it to anybody else this is exclusive to the concept of them you are the only one to get into these greenup's that beside you no one can get. one day 2 men are creating a tomato for southern europe used to be one of the more i know looking to have

a winning eye but it's in the bond market whichever side is a round 3 on the ground. it to moscow as big as a grapefruit and it should grow horizontally kloster we took the floor to my. usual is a class that has some dimensions of fruit growing every possible direction. people like to go able to record a fish bone kloster some breaking point of view if you have 3 dimensional it's very difficult to park in a box when you have a 2 dimensional you can put one on top of the other and it's much easier. for the design of hybrid to single variety plants across the flower of one is pollinated with the pollen of the other is the way stuff pulled. open. this is what recall of the fish and. that's when you know what it is.

it just. moves the process. over. to. you can see you know dust. any days and we come with the full length and we make it for the nation. how many crossing you make for the house for one of the ends. to make a commission. 400. $400.00 like that for me every year. sometimes coming on a phone to sarah here so we can go to a good shop. this is how simon of benefits and his team after thousands of cross-pollination is created be eternal in the late 1970 s. their invention revolutionize. it's the world market. where you begin to work on the long shelf life because because of this waste of 40 percent of the year that.

before this mutation. the limit was to 3 days full days at the most when we export at the mothers to europe and the export of the lot of the woman who we used to flight by openings because if it has to go by boat from israel to most saves the mother would be motion nobody nobody would touch it. to extend the shelf life the scientist uses a mutation he discovered by chance the purpose of this tomato is to disseminate the seed for the next generation so the moment the seeds are ripe. it will fall off the bush bump into the ground. explode and all this juice will will run all over the mother plant as possible. we don't want to. trade for human. and here we have

a mutation. the solution. for the new hybrids be israeli researches crossed plants of a classic to mars have a right in his fruits ross after 3 days with mutated plants whose genes prevent the fruit from ripening. the result hybrid that decomposes much more slowly after harvesting. we're going to do a simple experiment on the right a perfect flawlessly beautiful hybrid fruit. and on the left a traditional farm mr martin. it is anything but perfect with yellow spotted skin and small float. now we just have to wait. after 3 days both to mars has

a still fun and presentable. after one week the farm is to monitor is unsellable the black spots indicates a deterioration. and the hybrid. traipsed even after 2 weeks the stem has come loose but that's not a fun. only after $25.00 days is the hybrid tomato deemed not fit to be solved as it developed movies fast and loose skin. the normal tomato now looks like this. on the supermarket shelf only the hybrid is able to be displayed for 3 weeks. eternal youth has its price. you can taste of n. . paste.

the genes for. going to be sure. curry were very. negative traits. for instance flavor that based deteriorates and i weigh out less than a trace but i don't know because we know it's never measured it only late in the ninety's and early 2000 we started looking into the quality traits i offered a project like that too many should companies i even gave it a name i called it a case with me. and they said it would be much healthier the model we don't have it in supermarkets is the industry. the industry the seed produces. the israeli company his spirit is one of the heavyweights in the seed market is there

a instant millionaires with the eternal tomorrow. in 2003 his era was close out by the multinational limit congress with an annual turnover of several 1000000000 years. following the acquisition of his era limo girl became one of the largest sea pretty uses in the world. in the middle of the negev desert the company is experimenting with new hybrid growing she says. your own she rests is the product manager responsible for the worldwide marketing of tomato seeds yellow rose and felt is the press office and this is for you and there you go to. the court for some information. in. all 120 has 0 varieties all grown in this greenhouse.

are going to show you for example the tomatoes if we call it. this is a very famous say tomato in 2 key today it's a green part of the tomatoes it's like a mustache you know there is a specialty in forest mist that's yes yes so you see very very nice color very from tomato is coming from being a long shelf life family also and you mean that it has a long shelf life of genes genes inside what is the percentage of all you direct t.v. but has. i didn't calculate what i assume today around 5050. long shelf life has a problem for the long shelf life in the in the for for a long time we saw that it was influence to reduce the taste of the tomato and now we are going back and try to increase the test again of the tomato year on she russ

wants to prove to us that durable tomatoes can also be delicious. taste. ok. like. we said that it was said that not all the tomato need to have good days because if you had only one and a salt you don't need these. i thank you i don't know what is the method to make this is ok yeah ok yeah. there is a worse but if i didn't love it then for what they want this is ok what we're looking more and more is it to have a good color and a good firmness and a good taste and the nutrients in tomato are still it's a small player in the market for cooking and it is hybrid breeding the main reason

for the loss of nutrients in tomatoes. then front leg of. one of the last traditional seed pieces in front slips that. john luke does not produce hybrid to martez. he creates what he calls oh pariah. this is how we have tamed the seeds. the kind of seeds stay on the bottom and the skin floats to the tongue has to look to you to. everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves. through to the farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds and they were very careful when producing them weeks or something you ate the tomatoes yourself but the seeds were always the most important thing that's most today no farmer produces them anymore but. the big companies do that. a dying

tradition yes almost an orthodoxy i teach. for. in this greenhouse cultivates only the old found writings. 100 percent make. effective also it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it is that to make the most of the space i squeeze the tomatoes in close together only working with soil and without chemicals from what you do you. i don't use any 3rd party products at all in this greenhouse so i grow about 20 different varieties of tomatoes from earth what do they all have

in common no hybrids no cross-pollination by you to cosmo. but do these old contain more nutrients than modern hybrids we decided to analyze then but. these tomatoes. and here is a similar looking hybrid from the supermarkets. we sent both off on the same day to a stately poetry to evaluate the ingredients. 3 weeks later said the results are available. in the case of the hybrid tomato all 5 values that can pead much lower. the hybrid contains 63 percent less calcium 29 percent less magnesium and 72 percent less bitumen c.

. the hybrid contains less than half of the antioxidant. and less than half the homes promoting secondary plant compounds of poly females then the farm is 2 months and. is consistent with the idea there is a relationship between terrorist and nutrient content and this was from bush berry professor clearly at the university of florida and he made the observation in this paper that many of the flavor components of tomatoes are derived from human nutrients when you eat or tomato that has a good flavor that means that it probably also had good amounts of the nutrients that were used to make that flavor it's a consequence of bridges. breeders so work for you they're also working for other economic troops in the

process making. cards or changing the chemistry. the parent company of his era is a global player in the suit business. in paris the journalist believes leasing meets the vice president for international affairs whose if you are part of the management of a globally operating seed producer have you ever analyzed the nutrient content of your tomatoes that. depends on the growing conditions not on the variety. so this problem is not a concern of yours so i didn't say that the nutritional quality of our product is a very important issue for us the value of. the ice. is where we met professor rabinovich you know do you know him of course. you know he

invented the tomato that lasts for 3 weeks. yes you know as a speaker he explained to us that the longevity gene blocks the ripening process of the fruit and affects the development of the nutrients. i stand by what i've told you i think the tomato growers have the greatest influence on the anatomy of the tomatoes and the responsibility of dealing with this is there is as they have the most significant impact. if one hybrids have another huge advantage for seed supply as they see it's can only be used. if you plant seeds from the fruit of a hybrid tomato the mixture of genes becomes a game of chance the next jenner. ration reproduce a tiny small ball rapidly vomiting fruit this is why farm is have to buy new tomato

seeds every year and. a profitable market for produces like his era in israel. and the small seeds are incredibly expensive how much is one kilo of seats so this kind of to make sure this kind of tomato today can reach 400000 euros what 4 kilogram lawsuits what 400000 euros. or more yes you can buy a house was this i've heard that the need to see more capital gain of the sea just the margin of our margins. we can get into my adult life because it's expensive expensive seats as a result of demands so yeah it's a good business for us if it's not we want to hear both 100000 heroes for one kilo of these here larry cherry tomatoes i see normal tomatoes cost around 60000 here is

peculiar more even than gold although you purchased the seeds georgia today in 22 different countries have been all over the world and like which kind of country like like israel in thailand like in chile with in spain in india in many places. 'd seeds that are moved there you will then go produced in low wage countries where labor costs little. next course of call is. this pressure is the reason for the long journey. seen an investigation by the dutch human rights organization a reason. they claim that 16 percent of the workers in the seat business are children under 14 years of age.

for example in the indian state of karnataka the remote villages are among the poorest in the country. the climate in south india is perfect for growing vegetables every year 160000 kilos of tomato seeds are exposed from here. all global play is in the seed markets have a presence in india. b.s.f. do poll a buyer monsanto syngenta and limit. rugby run she works on behalf of reason in this region and fights against the exploitation of child labor. i took these the day before yesterday. around 12000000 children in india work under the worst conditions since 2016 it has

been forbidden for children under 14 to work. out of. my boat in the morning we observe from a distance and count the workers see how big or small they are. ravi says that the seeds of hybrid tomatoes are mostly collected by children. many children were working capital but now the harvest is over. the fields are almost empty. but in a green house we can see human silhouettes. this company works for the multinational corporation syngenta based in switzerland. about 10 women and girls of pruning tomato plants. when the

smallest of the girls sees us another worker signals that she should squat down. how much you were. up to the 5th grade now you don't go to school anymore now. how old are you. she's 17 and you climb 18 why don't you go to school. there are 9 here. only the primary school how long have you been working. for 3 years. but she started before me. is 1st in the market and since when do you work since she left school at 11.

this girl is supposed to be 17 we all find it hard to believe. in gentle purchases that seeds from around 25000 mostly small hold farmers throughout india. we ask the swiss multinational how it feels about child labor. and the answer sounds good but it's nonspecific. syngenta complies with all labor laws this isn't genter fair labor program promotes decent working conditions and opposes child labor. children cheap labor but there's another reason why they are so often used in c. production as the author of the report soiled seen snows to well. double or event practice well lou is an independent researcher and has been

researching child labor in hybrid seed production for 15 years. british an activity is very very delicate it requests a lot of. skills the children are preferred because they can do this if they put the 2 activities really fast or don't. and also. we can see. who children can do the walk off. that is the kind of calculation farmers have. and funds that families depend on child labor because they are poorly paid by the corporations. the farmers are struggling actually to have a. good profit margin or if they how to. live out

on good into the bucket the margin will be. something that would be in the margin for the pharmacy. but not any children are exploited. what is evident in can attack out any women but in the seed producing tomorrow if you. the family man explains this to us on his. face so for him clothes we have 20 to ryan's these. clothes is a subsidiary of lima com the french the producer has hundreds of fans under contract in the region. she's cross pollinating the plans right now. bent 8 hours

a day the women pluck pollen from the flowers with tweezers beneath the scorching sun. but why are there no men working under the model. of their mother could men america spends if we only hire them for cutting and to carry loads they cost $300.00 rupees per day women work for $200.00. a daily wage of less than 2 euro's 50 is illegal even in india. in karnataka the minimum wage in agriculture is $330.00 rupees around 4 years a day. these women only received 60 percent of the legal minimum wage.