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that's it from me and the news team don't go away though well stories is up next week in the stands lots more small website to. follow us on social media as well where on twitter and instagram asked d.-w. news on for how about 1st place to watch. this you know i mean in your mind noticing. what i'm going to miss you know but i'm with what i'm organize you know i'm not going to sit there. because as if to say i say quote i've only said that i caught it going on where they're being funded. by canio and i'm game did you know that 17 trillion landed on the most killed worldwide share so that we can get but it's not just the animals that all suffering
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in school environment we went on a journey to find ways out in the question if you want to know how or when clicked on a priest and the whole just changed me to the 1st listen to our podcast on the green fence. this week old world stories the french revolt against loneliness chinese officials forcing people into espionage but we begin in belgium where 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 retrieve gifts as she receives her 2nd dose of the biotech pfizer vaccine. for months if 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 the 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. kids cuba 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 that could have access well put it. this caregiver is also one sure he prefers to wait because he's heard some rumors. i had yes some production in it that could be used. you can be orbs of from this done because of this production them like it's pure 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 or spreading like wildfire across social media the french speaking part of belgium appears particularly receptive to these ideas. the head of most in home federation from a bell thinks making vaccinations mandatory maybe the only options i do not understand i do not understand the. it was so art for them
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this so a lot of rape of elderly people who died there's 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 to move. back at the nursing home this local doctor is trying his utmost to demonstrate that vaccines are safe. and that's why i tell 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 you repeatedly 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 the suffering from elmsley loneliness and one young woman from struggle 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'm incredibly nervous and cry for the slightest reason i am a lot more short term pert 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 that's all to those most serious and you know me now i want to live. 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 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 the 2
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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 a university before they put on here heidi is glad that her cry for help was heard but she remains realistic visuals that it's a start at least certain student s. stations can offer activities again as some students will come back in the long run though living a one day per week will 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 keisha walks again and help her see the future in a brighter light. minority groups in china like the week is the being of french and the chinese secret service is apparently forcing we give living in exile to spile never half as well by threatening their
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families back in front of. a scene was a shop owner selling imported foods including a lot of products in his hometown of carlo in 2015 when he returned to sin 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 need 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 says spent a month in the tension 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 stay
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in touch with them i didn't have the intention but the term really worked for them . that was an illusion after his release a so you mean regularly met with an agent who introduced himself as a bot. 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 ayso 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 cast with a story. called 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. and that. since then
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many of his relatives have disappeared 5 siblings have been arrested ace's oldest brother was sentenced to 25 years in jail other week has gave him the news since he cannot reach any of his relatives by phone. or i tried 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 in many negative reports. on. the other this is one day i ask obama. so many people have been detained and many disappear every day. so the question is going to end. he answered america did not become america without shedding a lot of blood lot of
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a lot more is going to happen here. and been on the in the stuff. i says waiting for his refugee status to be approved he thinks that he is relatively safe here but he also knows that he could be talked to and. britney is famous for its beautifully manicured gardens but that's about to change if you lord someone like him has anything to say about his mission is a near return to unchanged nature and he has some special help in. their court 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 leighton's secret weapon. their very 1st and you can afford to have quite a pig's. for quite a short time to go to censored to the ground to
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a lot of open space for new seeds and look some of the items the state covers over 20 square kilometers himself lives in the manor house but in the adjacent park all the animals are allowed to roam free a lot of the manor has set apart a 5th of its property and left it completely to nature. the summer late and does eventually slaughter the pigs but it's also their job to ensure greater biodiversity there has been an overgrowth of a specific fern species and the pigs help contain it. in order to. stimulate the soil and to cement the the seabed the floral seabed underneath we need to disrupt brucker. as soon as they have completed their task the pigs 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 some a late in believes that as many people as possible should experience this he'd like to turn the adjacent marshland into nature park for equal to as. much of an collections and stalks and white tailed eagles kind of walking up and down this river valley but still with cattle and with. farming systems but that have to be gentle. but to do that yes to convince its neighbors 1st because free roaming pigs on the property that just do what they want for most famous it is simply a step too far.
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7 to 100 years of jewish life in germany on 220 minute it was a journey from berlin to munich to meet cultural leaders in preserving memory means taking creative risks and building community for. 1700 years of jewish life in germany changing all of that. is there life on mars. a 1000000 american space probe rover has set out to answer this question. just landed on the red planet but it's not all on. it's competing with 2 other missions. everything you need to know about this spectacular race between explorers on mars bar of sedition. in 60 minutes t.w.
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place in a puzzle yourself up i don't know it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about why folks do this because we can't stay on venezuela i know. that. closely global news that matters do you w. made for mines. it's like the cliches are starting to get on my nerves. i think it's wonderful little this jewishness whether you're a strict rule that so dainty even know when russia china all of it's here in germany. i decided to stay with this complexity i will now and then. simply ritual shot back she will.
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be. 1700 years of documented jewish history in germany in this commemorative year we look to the past present and future. a visit to 4 different cities in search of 4 different perspectives on jewish identity. and promise time. being excluded from being merely. because. you are. judaism is a multi-faceted religion in her installation misuzu been the gathering filmmaker you know where you view me to betray
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a vivid and diverse picture of german jews very often people have a very. strange image of jews here in germany sometimes some people think they're all very smart are all very rich very or. and like in any other society there is a big range of. people in that. important for me here in the exhibition to show this variety. where you vini was born and raised in new television the holocaust was part of her family's history grandmother's family was almost completely wiped out where you've seen he has lived in berlin for 15 years she's among the 20 to 30000 israelis who have moved to the german capital. in their there is something very fascinating about berlin because on one hand it's very hip and. contemporary and on the other hand it's very haunted and you can you know they're
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really ghosts everywhere where you moved to germany her parents were horrified for them it was unthinkable to move to the land of the perpetrators but for her it was liberating. somehow being in berlin opened up something for me and suddenly i realized that this is you know this trauma i can deal much better i'm able to deal with it and there was something very liberating about allowing myself to change the perspective to meet the people who weren't allowed to me to hear stories. i wasn't supposed to hear and kind of ask myself how much can i enlarge or broaden my perspective. patni she dealt with that trauma by exploring the previously unknown and to boo subject of her family's history. in her 1st film she follows the trail of a great uncle who was stored dead. great uncle never returned up to being deported
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to book concentration camp through her research yale discovered that her uncle had actually started a new life on enemy land in east germany with a german woman and a german name. it became much easier for me to think about these things when i realize it's not my job to forgive. the ghosts of the past put to rest the director's focus is now turned to her birthplace of israel in her latest film. to trace her own generation of israelis. i'm finally ready to deal with this. which is in a way in my biography much more complex for many young israelis living in
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berlin means creating a free and more experimental space for themselves to explore jewish identity. then you know i would like to break with conventions he stressed his model in a his city and a talent pressure old he challenges to booze in his photography his way of dealing with his background as an ultra orthodox jew. be sure there's a lot of there appreciate you. only. in a way that i know are more than that is my life so. i. myself inside of there. said in a way they are all slaves portrayed. the photographs friends and family members creating provocative images in which queerness meets religion.
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and then to it worked. then you know i grew up in an ultra orthodox suburb of tel aviv in a deeply religious household with 10 siblings but he wanted to become an artist and break free from this insular world. there are trying to save me and i think the comment was for me. and a way to frame my life again in in a way that i can now have a kind of woods of my woods with all the books weren't that i was born to i grew up getting to become in my daily life today. he also uses religion to
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explore his homosexuality playing with gay aesthetics in some photos the tefilin prayer belt becomes a bondage belt in berlin the past has caught up with benjamin because he he live side by side with the 3rd generation of perpetrators and increasingly also the descendants of the victims with german and jewish friends he performs a kind of artistic exorcism of evil nazi symbolism. ok we're into symbols it was. when i came to germany. to see the cd of evil. i found peace. but he also feels that anti-semitism is on the rise here. some of his friends witnessed the attack on the synagogue in holland that took place on the jewish holiday of young kapoor in october 29th tain the perpetrator
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didn't manage to break through the synagogue door but he did kill 2 passes by benjamin and i took a series of portraits of the survivors which he called hala. after . baby some of them have to deal with fear to. their trust. in germany. and that's of course it's natural for. the synagogue and hala in february 2021 in its courtyard is the door that saved the lives of so many on yom kapoor in 2019. today it's a memorial the names of the 2 people killed in the far right anti-semitic attack bear silent witness. diana mattoo to listen hala and has jewish roots at
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the time of the attack she was an oxford researching yiddish music she was deeply shaken by the shooting. i was always one of those who said it's really important that the jewish community be welcoming. and this transparent is possible . to had but time disabuse me of that nation's business but it. for many years the city of khaled paid little heed to its jewish history which dates back close to a millennium in communist east germany it was a taboo topic. which is why diana believes it's more important than ever to remember this heritage. in the wall of this protestant community center she's discovered a jewish gravestone from the middle ages. the jewish mediæval cemetery has already dissolved in the 16th century. very possible
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that this study was found somewhere in the rubble. and construction and then incorporated. we can see that there's a name engraved here. and behind it stands back and that's when she was growing up to tread all the jewish classics on her parents' bookshelves she studied western the dialect originally spoken by jews in western europe and delved into their songs developing a passion for this music. it's always fascinated me that these weren't just the texts and the music of the synagogue of the hebrew liturgy but that these were the songs that everybody knew and that everybody sang at. yeah i was just saying. these last cultural
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gems were widely popular in their time and are now being rediscovered. through her music and research diana has become an expert on judaism in holland she regularly gives guided tours such as this one of the historical jewish cemetery it's a witness to halas jewish history that's it just this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery as you can see hey all say the number one engraved very large so that dates it to the end of the 17th century the time when the jews were allowed back into holiday and resettled. ordinances he had to and he did and this is not so much a sign of tolerance but more of the need for people especially those with deep pockets to rebuild the region in the wake of war and pestilence. jewish history and a long and turbulent history that culminated in the holocaust the memorial to the
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destruction of jewish culture under the nazis was only erected in the late 1980 s. in communist east germany's final decade. diana mattoo welcomes the fact that hollis jewish community despite the renewed attack in 2019 has become more open and that jewish life here no longer belongs only to the past. preserving the pasta and keeping its memory alive the sensual tasco of every jewish museum. frankfurt is home to germany's oldest one last fall it reopened after a 5 year reconstruction phase. and extension has been added the new building serves as the entrance for visitors. while the new permanent exhibition is housed in rothschild pele once home to the
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famous jewish banking family whose economic and social significance is visually documented here. director mary invincibly is convinced today a jewish museum must take a much broader view of the notion of remember it's the old museum concepts are no longer timely. and were reminders of german jewish life before the shoah you know and these symbols of remembrance led to museums being kinds of memorials and they presented jews more as dead people and jewish culture is a relic of the past and forgotten and. the greetings from frankfurt's jewish residents right at the start of the exhibition send a clear message jewish culture is alive and well here and its diverse. well known faces and personalities tell us about it.
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spies for sure. i think this exhibition lives from that lives from the question who does history belong to us she where of the opinion history belongs to those who lived through it and those who tell it and here we provide them with a space in which to tell it. and the museum manages to do that in a moving way visually to. thank you as for. how precious how product from. the museum relates the darkest chapter in jewish history the show featuring images from german jewish expressionist painter.
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frank ritz best known jewish resident is undoubtedly and frank the young girl whose diary was published posthumously in $947.00 it's still a bestseller and often taught in schools. at the end frank educational center young people and school classes can visit a learning lab and find out more about her life in doing so they discover what connects the girl who died at 15 in the bag and bells in concentration camp to young people currently suffering from discrimination and persecution here you remember ensues always linked to events that young people are witnesses to to.
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