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a woman to get. the love and banning the way. i live in other words my own good and everyone was laid of all in every step getting you ready to meet the germans then join me right just do it under. the more. this week on the world stories. residents are freezing in spanish slums. and forking from dizzying heights in turkey butts we begin in germany where the media is reporting new covert 19 deaths every day a new initiative 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
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candles a visual reminder of those who have died from covert 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. i'm not us but yes the 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. under much anybody 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 far from a fog or it's just a question of 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. others want to make
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a statement to show that the corona virus is a real danger. and they stink it's the fuel of the there are so many people who just deny the whole thing we should all just hold back at cheaper distance so that this pandemic ends and not so many people have to die it is a few toward an even which time isn't at another coronavirus memorial in berlin in good johnson is mourning robert mann sorry a friend from new york he died of covert at the age of 72 she says he was a man of many talents einstein's atalanta father none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas and always discounts but said so i think that this memorial here in this historic square is a beautiful place for him especially because so many wonderful concerts have taken
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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 state no more oil 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 user allegedly topping power lines the 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 off moroccan or roma origin most live in poverty conditions how worst in sectors 5 and 6 of the county other. because of the cold many like
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a family now don't even have water. i don't know what this is how would normally wash our clothes and then wilhelm our hands by the fire . we don't have electricity we don't have water we don't know what to do authorities blame the power outage on the surge thought to be caused by illegal wiretaps to power cannabis grow operations in 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 strong 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
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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 in all let us be very light fires and when they notice that the fire is dwindling 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 a minus a lot of the best outcome will meet those several n.g.o.s have condemned the
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situation here. is how to feed my own back door right here not like i know that in 2017 the authorities signed a regional agreement ensuring dignified living conditions for the residents of the county are that we are. going through all this. this is 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 feel forgotten i think that if authorities were serious about helping would already have tables clear solutions. landfill sites in russia are a growing health hazard most garbage is simply thrown away on talks and safety levels at the dumping grounds go ignored for many of the people who live close by
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moving away is just not an option. this is a lexus capades it's as big as 45 soccer fields and is just one of dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow residents say just a few years ago with the paper was still deep in the ground and now it's more of a hill and as if the 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 this smell from the side was so bad she couldn't even open the windows and the kids. were often sick video seaver finally had enough she and her children moved to clean a city several kilometers away. the little ones were constantly sick
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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 family's fate is no isolated incident. is one of russia's most pressing concerns only 6 percent of the country's cabbage is either processed or incinerate that if the rest is simply dumped environmentalist who are in these landfill sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb are rarely conforming to safety standards that they pull you to the soil the ground water and the air. greetings taken by the state civil
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protection agency show the area surrounding alec's inskip it is also contaminated 3 years ago after it is found to that hydrogen sulfide levels were $25.00 times of the acceptable amount. but nothing has been done to protect a local residence uli if it o.c. it was 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 $190.00 euros per month but i'd have to pay $130.00 euros for one room apartment. meanwhile the mountain of rubbish keeps growing and to their app lands to expand to the. dream job is cleaning the
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facade 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. it 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
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a wonderful feeling i really feel free i'm not dependent on anything apart from my road. users 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'll notice 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 the mood after that 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.
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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 who live it's 161 skyscrapers has been totally transformed in the last 20 years. for cleaning up here in wind and weather muskets has a pay meaning she earns a 3rd more than the average in turkey just don't drop the sponge.
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