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a debacle with the assist and all get out how to do was tap it and. work defend their fortress and jump to that and the but just me that table. you're watching t.v. news up next we're old stories takes us to istanbul mosco madrid and berlin i'm sorry market for me and all of us here at g.w. news thanks for watching. happiness is for everyone schumann penises are very different from primates pianists we have a totally unpredictable as romanticized view of nature and their favorite and this is climate change brags of sex how do you notice in 3 books you get smarter for free to double your books on. amazon how many portions of loves us turn out in the
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world right now climate change isn't awful story. face is one less thing when form just one week. how much work can really get. we still have time to an ongoing. success. that subscribed for more news like listen. to this week on the world stories. residents are freezing in spanish slums. and working from dizzying heights in turkey plus we begin the journey with the media is reporting new covert 19 deaths every day a new initiative woods. to me good grief more public by reminding the country that
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there are real people behind these numbers. it's the 8th sunday that close john schmidt has come here to send out candles a visual reminder of those who've 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. 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 a much in the 30 because. many people come here to talk about the disturbingly high number of new cases others come because they've lost someone 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
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feeling peacefully like in a cemetery and that's how it should be here. others want to make a statement to show that the coronavirus is a real danger. it's a few lity 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 even this time as me and another coronavirus memorial in berlin ingrid 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 and enter none of his many talents was that he was a lyric baritone and sang in different operas it's always discomforts i think that this. the morial here in this historic square is
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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 i mean every afternoon a candle in the german president's residence bears witness after easter a stigma 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 was or 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
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6 of the county iowa because of the cold many like a family now don't even have water. i don't know that 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 have water we don't know what to do authorities blame the power outage on a search 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 up on hold up intending classes online but just as long as a phone charge and mobile data last.
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when they get upset i try to give them strength i tell them imagine you were sick or he didn't have hands was trying to give them strength i realize 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 a 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. people in all let us be a light fires and when they notice that the fires dwindle and those 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 if they manage on the
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road is the best outcome will meet those several n.g.o.s have condemned the situation here. is how do you know if it might on the back door of your not but 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. all there so say this is. good 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 they'd already have tabled clear solutions. landfill sites in russia are a growing health hazard most garbage is simply thrown away on talks and safety
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levels at the dumping grounds go ignored for many of the people who live close by moving away is just not an option. as this is the election skip it 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 now it's more of a hill and as if the garbage piles up but the locals health problems due to the dump lies just a few. 100 meters from the village of knob. save 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 where often sick video
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saver finally had enough she and her children moved to clean a 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 clean 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 wii fit o.c. family's 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 incinerated if the rest is simply dumped environmentalist who are new lease landfill sites around moscow in particular are a ticking time bomb are rarely conforming to safety standards of
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a commuter the soil the ground water and the air. readings taken by the state civil protection agency show the area surrounding alec's and skip 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 you only have it or see it was mother is another of those affected the 67 year olds 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
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keeps growing and there are plans to expand to the. dream job is cleaning the 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 roof top attached to a thin wire they slowly move forwards. this red rope is where nicely 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.
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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. worked inside a highrise like this at the reception desk for the windows she always admired the cleaners as they scaled down the facade then she asked after 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
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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 hazard pay meaning she earns a 3rd more than the average in turkey just don't drop the sponge.
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