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but it's not just the animals of all suffering the school environment if you want to know how one click to the priest alcohol just changed us as we take a listen to our podcast on the brain. this week old world story the french revolt against loneliness chinese officials forcing people into espionage but we begin in building with the elderly and their caregivers are receiving the 2nd dose of the coronavirus vaccine but many belgians are afraid of side effects and fake news is making the rounds.
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this is a moment to remember. colleague photographs care home barkha christina retreats as she receives her 2nd dose of the biotech pfizer vaccine. for months and rarely i really hope to encourage my colleagues but also my family and even the country to come and get vaccinated. and like. as vaccination drives in nursing homes like this one in the french speaking part of belgium draw to a close many stuff still opting out. almost half of all care workers and private institutions alone in the region are hesitating even the director of this home is among the more. kissed you rob one of the side effects let's say in 20 years nobody knows today so it's a bit like buying a car you feel like you could be safe but i want to see the crash test results so personally i am a bit skeptical but for the older people clearly it's
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a good thing it was kind of excess well put it a sense of. this caregiver is also one sure he prefers to wait because he's heard some rumors. i had yes some production in it that can be used. you can be orbs of from the stand because of those production them like your knowledge kind of stuff you know and this is just the tip of the ice book false claims that the vaccine causes infertility or even death are spreading like wildfire across social media. the french speaking part of belgium appears particularly receptive to these ideas. the head of nursing home federation fam about things making vaccinations mandatory may be the only options i did not understand i do not understand that it was so for them.
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there's so a lot of rape of elderly people who died there so the loss of life and it's unbelievable or do those people do not understand that they can protect themself it's a big question i think move. back at the nursing home this local doctor is trying his utmost to demonstrate that vaccines are safe is good and that's why child the staff here you need to get vaccinated not 70 percent of you but 100 percent of you all of you in order to win this fight yearly p.t.b. many of christina rodrigo's colleagues are also taking to social media to encourage others. she hopes each photo will make a difference. in
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france as in other european countries universities are closed because of coronavirus students are suffering from mounting loneliness and one young woman from strasbourg can't take it anymore. since the beginning of the pandemic this room has become the center of heidi's supposed life it's where she studies attends online lectures and spends her free time watching movies a daily routine that has taken its toll on the 1000 year old. i lack any kind of enthusiasm i just feel hollow and i don't see any sense in life anymore i mean you credibly nervous and cry for the slightest reason i am a lot more short term purge and have become a control freak regarding anything that i can actually still control i don't feel like going for walks anymore it just costs too much energy with it although i'm
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normally quite a lively person and listen to those most and you know me but we're not allowed. in her despair she published a letter to president on social media asking him to read open the universities she signed the letter heidi support zombie. i had been talking to a few friends about this how sick i was of the situation i had the impression that people had forgotten about us young no one understood what it's like for us even among students it was too boot to talk about it so i wanted to get through to the government but also to other students and why people in general. and she succeeded hundreds of other students contacted her to share their own similar stories across the country thousands of students took to the streets. president personally wrote back to heidi asking her to hold out then he announced new measures of support and
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the 2 young. students have the same needs as workers so they will also be allowed to come back to university for one day per week women are inevitable for the present here heidi is glad that her cry for help was heard but she remains realistic suggest that it's a start at least certain student escalations can offer activities again as some students will come back in the long run though living a one day per week won't be enough and i know that the months to come will be very tough although at least we now feel a bit less invisible. the prospect of the past reopening has given her the energy to go for kasia walks again and help us see the future in a brighter light. minority groups in china like the week is being oppressed and the chinese secret service is apparently forcing week is living in exile to spy on their behalf as well by threatening their
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families back home. they say mean was a shop owner selling imported foods including a lot of products in his hometown of course. in 2015 when he returned to see him john from a business trip to malaysia he was stopped at the airport and brought to a detention center. they brought me into a room. they sat me down at a metal table and they tied my legs and my arms to it. by stating this position for 2 days. we meet a say in an apartment in munich germany he says he was never told what he was accused of his papers say that he was suspected of endangering state security he spent a month in the attention then suddenly he was released but under one condition he had to agree that he would work for chinese state security. i thought i would just
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stay in touch with them i didn't have the intention but the term really worked for their work again. that was an illusion after his release a so you mean regularly met with an agent who introduced himself as bond. he was able to continue traveling abroad he says in the beginning nothing specific had been asked of him and he maintains he never revealed information on anyone but it's impossible to verify these claims about one year later a cell was detained again this time he was freed with a specific request he was told to spy on a young man in turkey he said left for istanbul then he decided not to return to china and went on a web cost with a story. on cold after the show. he told me you decided to appear on this show and talk about you know that your family is here in china or
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a lot of that stuff. since then many of his relatives have disappeared 5 siblings have been arrested ace's oldest brother was said to 25 years in jail other week as gave him the news since he cannot reach any of his relatives by phone. or try to see the place where he used to live an american colleague and i are followed around closely constantly harassed and. you can't just walk around here and interview people there's been many negative reports. on. the other that this is one day i ask you about. so many people have been detained and many disappear every day. so the question is going to end. he answered america not america did not become america without shedding a lot of blood hublot
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a lot more is going to happen here. that can bring on the one step. i say is waiting for his refugee status to be approved he thinks that he is relatively safe here that he also knows that he could be talked to and. britain is famous for its beautifully manicured gardens but that's about to change if you would someone like him has anything to say about his mission is a near return to tames nature and he has some special hopis. they call it large blocks and they're allowed to roam almost anywhere to dig up the ground at summer late in the state in the east of england. they are land owner last summer latents secret weapon. their very 1st and you can afford to have quite a pigs. for quite a short time to go to to the ground to
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a lot of open space for new seeds and look at some of the items the state covers over 20 square kilometers he himself lives in the manor house but in the adjacent park all the animals are allowed to roam free a lot of the man has set apart a 5th of his property and left it completely to nature. some latent does eventually slaughter the pigs but it's also their job to ensure greater biodiversity there has been an overgrowth of a specific foreign species and the pigs help contain it. in order to. stimulate the soil and to cement the the seed brother thrall seabird of the new. we need to disrupt brucker. as soon as they have completed their task the bigs have to get out of the forest. not so late and does not accept the argument that only rich landowners can afford to protect the environment he believes people need to change
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their mindset being in touch with nature not similate and believes that as many people as possible should experience this he'd like to turn the adjacent marshland into a nature park for equal to or is. a much an intelligence and stuart's and white tailed eagles kind of walking up and down this river valley but still with cattle and with. falling systems but that have to be gentle. but to do that yes to convince its neighbors fest because free roaming pigs on the property that just do what they want for most famous that's simply a step too far. 7
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to 900 years of jewish life in germany on earth 20 miles away a journey from berlin to munich to meet culturally leaders in preserving memory means taking creative risks and building community from 1700 years the jewish life in germany marks 20. past. the. mega metropolis it is stamboul it's not a question of if but when it more had the better truth is that it will cost sheila my book what can seismologists and disaster relief officials do now to limit the destruction is stamboul quite a risk. to be 5 minutes w. . the number of olive.
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work people have to say matters to us. that's why we listen to the stories reporter every weekend on d w. sometimes i get the cliches are starting to get on my nerves. i think it's wonderful little this jewishness on whether you're a strict orthodox so dainty even know when russia china is up for all of it's here in germany. and. i decided to stay with this complexity in the now and then.

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