let me look at the. this is deja vu news live from berlin and the united states house is 500000 coronavirus death. each person we've lost largely lived and loved ones are left behind. candles life the white house as president biden leads the nation in mourning but he warns months of suffering are still act. also coming up israel reopens its economy with extra freedoms for the already vaccinated should the so-called green pass the fast track to normal life or is it discrimination to.

western powers step up the pressure on me and march general says protests grow against the military coup and tougher sanctions ward off the rising threat of violence. plus facebook and australia's government struck a deal to end up blackout on newsfeeds but will the social media giant now pay for journalism on its digital platform. i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us the united states has marked another somber milestone in its fight against the coronavirus the country's covert 1000 related deaths crossed the threshold of 500001 monday just over a year after the pandemic claimed its 1st no victim in the u.s. president joe biden led the nation in honoring the death. today remark truly

grew heartbreaking milestone. 500071. dead. that's more americans who died in one year who's pandemic than a world war one. war 2 the vietnam war combined. that's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on earth who has read knowledge the scale of this mass death in america remember each person in the life they live let's talk more about this so with peter chin hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the university of california san francisco peter thank you for joining us let's talk about this tragic milestone 500000 deaths this is one the highest death tolls per capita in

the world there's been many phases of this pandemic but what do you think the u.s. has got wrong in tackling the code 1000. well to me i think there was several things the 1st was that there was no national strategy for most of the year and secondly there was no alignment of science and politics for much of the year we acted like 50 different countries instead of 50 different states of one country because of viruses and no. you know any borders it was very easy exploiting this this synchrony in the way that states handle this virus at the same time if you look at the situation right now the u.s. is one of the leading countries when it comes to vaccinations around 13 percent of people have already received their 1st shot so how is that changing things at the moment on the ground. so there are 2 ease in which this is changing things one concretely it's already affecting the incidence of cases and deaths in

nursing homes where you know more than 80 percent of individuals have already been vaccinated. they have been multiple reports of. this the cline and deaths and this sort of immunity bubble the 2nd way in which is affecting things i think it's metaphorically so that people have hung on to vaccines as a way of a hope in this time of darkness and i think that is really something that really affected everyone on the ground but at the same time people have been frustrated because you know those expectations of waiting for the vaccine have really been matts of people of all been wanting the vaccine as soon as possible because you know of the way that politicians have handled the rollout yet really has been different from state to state hasn't it i mean you talked about the fact that new

virus cases and deaths have also slowed do you think we could say that the country is rounding a corner or are you worried about a possible 3rd wave with virus mutations for example taking hold well sumi i think if we don't have replication you're not going to have mutations so i think that strategy has been to hit hard and have as many people immunized as possible that because with such a large and diverse country it's going it's been very difficult to immunize that quickly in such a efficient manner so i think that you know time is really what we're battlement with right now in terms of the variance we'll leave it there peter chen hong professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the university of california san francisco good to have you want to have you. israel's vaccine rollout has been one of the most successful in the world more than 80 percent of

those eligible have now received at least one shot that is allowed israel to start reopening its economy many shops and services are back in business again but they're not open to everyone some only allow customers who are fully vaccinated but the so-called green pass data is tanya kramer reports that since september classes at this television studio have been held online because of the pandemic now people can attend again and person but only those who hold a green pass the paris issued by israel's ministry of health is given only to vaccinated people of those recovered phone calls at 90 so it's an amazing feeling and everyone these a vaccine a did so there's no fear and it feels slight and. apparently we are broadcasting the classes that are taking place here we are broadcasting them home for people who still did not vaccinate on sunday israel

for the east restrictions after prolonged lockdown most museums and stores have been opened for me but jim so those cultural and sports events would be made accessible to create pass holders of over $4000000.00 people have received at least the 1st try and take pfizer's israel is one of the 1st countries trying to get life back to normal opening up has also opened a debate over a variety of legal and moral questions of limiting personal liberties as they are someone not rushing to get the vaccine we are limiting few people and i believe this is balance we are not doing that for good you can really enjoy a cultural life you enjoy spalt you would enjoy you know going to the gym but in this time only to. broadly based on the show we will let all of people being vaccinated all the coverage for 2 of the green posts it remains unclear where

the international travel could also be linked to the green pounds for now is spend googly on ad poetry remain closed for another 2 weeks to keep virus variants at bay travelling is not yet on the mind of this group if long term friends into recent memory aged between 84 and 95 they had to play their favorite chinese board game on john online for the past year after their vaccinations they feel safe again to meet i feel like at this point i am free i mean just to be able to talk to people you know and it's wonderful very nice to see everybody's ok and remain pretty healthy throughout the year but very lonely and. it really is a wonderful feeling it's a 1st but cautious step back to some kind of normality. that

report from our correspondent tanya kramer and she joins us from jerusalem with more on the story. tell us more about this green past what else can people who have that to do and what is still off limits. it was i mean this is part of the new system of a plan by the government to slowly come out of the lockdown we have seen that as of sunday there have been major restrictions here since for many many weeks and as of sunday shops opened museums opened up malls opened they are open for all but then there are such activities as going to the gym going to swimming pools taking part in cultural events or sporting events that are limited to green pass holders only now has officials are looking here for. the infection rates of course in the

coming weeks the infection rate only started to drop slowly last week that is also a lot of concerns of about very unstable still many seriously ill people in hospitalized many young people also who have not been vaccinated and according to this they will go ahead with a plan to open for example also coffee shops and restaurants but we also expect what's being debated here at the moment is that for for example for the jewish holiday of poor in which we'll start next week there might be some restrictions to really be put back in place because that's people tend to gather and come together and it's to avoid a new outbreak there are ethical questions being asked about allowing some people to resume daily life in other people not so what do israeli people think about this screen pass. well there certainly also

a debate over here but i talked to a lot of people who have been vaccinated and they're all in favor of it as long as it's temporary that is at least the plan for now and if you look at the figures it is a majority of people who go and get the vaccine have 1400000 people who are getting their 1st shot already and we have over 3000000 people now will have gotten their 2nd shot so one week after you get your 2nd shot you can download this at the screen pass and it's valid for 6 months but of course also people who don't want to get back in it to you know say i don't want to do that there are some groups are really anti baxi nation on social media they're very strong but they're also all kind of other reasons religious reasons has reasons and i talked yesterday to someone who just said i just didn't find the time yet to get backs in it to know

who is eligible for vaccinations all people over is 16 so children are not to vaccinate in israel and they make up about 30 percent of the population so we're talking here about a minority but still it is very important to get those people vaccinated that's what has provided the government looking at trying to get people then of course there is a debate over that how to strike the balance between limiting the freedom of some and having this for the better for the rest of the society. kramer reporting from jerusalem good to talk to you. let's get a round up now some other world headlines canada's parliament has passed a non-binding motion saying that china's treatment of weaker muslims in shin jan amounts to genocide prime minister justin trudeau and his cabinet of stained from the vote china has condemned and rejected the motion. the leader of georgia's main opposition party has been arrested nicam aliased detention comes days after the

prime minister resigned amid a debate over whether to take the opposition political edition into custody merely a faces charges of inciting violence during protests in 2019 he dismisses the charges as politically motivated. and authorities in the democratic republic of congo have blamed rwandan hutu rebels for the killing of italy's ambassador he was one of 3 people killed when a convoy from the world food program came under fire the president of the d r c s called the ambush a terrorist attack. me and mars' military regime is facing growing pressure both at home and abroad 3 weeks after it seized power the european union has warned that it is considering sanctions and the u.s. has penalized 2 more generals protests continue to swell and man mar despite the authorities threat to use force against crowds at least 3 protesters have been killed even though the regime insists that police are using minimal force. and

let's bring in journalist dave grusin bomb for more on this story hi dave good to see you so the military warning that protesters could suffer a loss of life if they continue to go out in the streets that seems only have encouraged protests more hasn't. it brought out tremendous numbers of protesters yesterday i mean you saw the mass crowds it was the biggest number of demonstrators we had seen so far as there are some estimates that across the country there may have been a total of a 1000000 people demonstrating and i would not be surprised at all that number was accurate the same time though a lot of these demonstrators they take that threat very seriously some of the protesters yesterday and today they've got on their arms their blood type and the contact information for their next of kin because they know this is a military that in the past has gone down protesters on the streets 20071988 other times so now the question is where is the military's line this time where they would potentially use deadly force again let's talk about the sanctions here dave

we know that the u.s. p. has penalized 2 more generals right now is considering sanctions as well is that going to force the military generals to change their attitude. you know sanctions from the west that's not going to get the generals to give up on the coup and just go back to the bunker they they knew these were eventually caught when they went forward the coup on february 1st that made those calculations before february 1st look the west needs to do is to get some asian countries on board with pressured pressure the generals to reverse course asian countries that would have influence on the military generals such as china and some southeast asian countries but here's the thing these countries while they said don't gun down protesters releasing some sushi none of them have shown any stomach to say hey reverse the coup that hasn't happened and until that happens international sanctions are going to have a huge impact on the general's calculations what by targeting business interests the european union says it will not cancel special trade privileges that allowed me

in mar tariff free access to the e.u.'s market what do you make of that. well this is an important thing because these trade preferences that mean markets now it allows industries such as textiles and myanmar to get true excuse me terror free access to the emus 450000000 consumers i mean it creates tens of thousands of jobs i've met some people who fill them in a lot of them they come from these remote villages in the countryside and they come to the cities to work in these plants and they send most of their pay pay back home to their families it's a big deal you take away that tariff free access to the e.u. and those jobs are gone and this is a lesson learned from sanctions of the past when the west had really harsh widespread economic sanctions on myanmar during its 50 years of military rule and the people who paid the price during that were not the generals they still found

ways to make millions of dollars but it was the common people who didn't have jobs and were living in poverty in part because of that so that's why now you see the west aiming for targeted sanctions at the generals and military aligned businesses as opposed to widespread sanctions like they had in the past journalist dave thank you for that nonsense. sure thing. now housing is a pressing issue in most big cities around the world germany's capital berlin is not one of the most expensive places to rent an apartment average rental prices are much lower than cities like new york or paris but finding affordable housing here is becoming ever more challenging now one issue is the lack of social housing the stock of cheap rental homes for people in need is highest in the u.k. as you can see here and fall that's followed there by france now it is relatively small here in germany at just 3 percent coupled with other factors like gentrification and an overall lack of residential buildings that makes it hard

especially for families students and single parents to find a home that they can afford in berlin. i'm a teacher and i'm looking for an apartment in berlin but i can't find one finnish kind. pica doesn't want to give her full name she has lived in her burning apartment for 17 years her landlord has recently given her notice he wants to use the apartment himself has spent countless hours looking for an apartment online ever since. this one here would be affordable we're going to move the slopes. hiker is a freelancer and can only pay between $3.40 euros a month but there is stiff competition for such affordable housing. i applied to view around $200.00 apartments i was invited to 2 viewings and i would have loved to have rented either of the apartments unfortunately they didn't work

out. well i wasn't lucky enough to win the lottery or cut him loose for fun to give in. and it is a lottery around $300.00 people apply for each for a can to apartment. there's the issue and it gets so bad that i can't sleep. and when i ask myself where i'll be in 5 years i don't have an answer and i don't know what will happen. right i get. new housing is being built just around the corner from hikers current but they're clearly not building affordable apartments and is now in need and well i don't think i could afford these sort of least condos unfortunately this segment is more expensive than what i'm actually looking for. new and older buildings charge twice as much renters hiker can afford property experts say this an affordable housing

trend is not likely to change anytime soon we need to tenants who don't care how much they pay because that company is paying it or because they've come from abroad and they used to a completely different rental structure or even from a different part of germany where the rent is higher anyway then they almost don't care how much they have to pay in berlin you can see in fast time with. their own urban housing providers to counter this but they cannot keep pace with developers red tape is causing years of delay to government construction projects i can only hope things will improve. instead of fordable housing has to be created in city centers otherwise people with average incomes will no longer be able to live there . who has to go and who can stay for more and more berlin rents has this is become an urgent issue. facebook says it will

reinstate access to australian news pages in the coming days after reaching a compromise with the government facebook's block the pages after the government unveiled new legislation requiring tech giants to pay news outlets for content social media companies have been seriously opposed to the law they say it would create an international precedent similar legislation has been considered in other countries in the compromise austria australia rather will not penalize facebook if the company reaches some deals with local media and this is what the australian government had to say or facebook has read for ended a strike. and destroy you news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with the strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content let's get some perspective on this tom a leader is

a professor of internet studies at curtin university in perth welcome to d.w. so 1st off what do you make of this agreement between the australian government and facebook who if anyone won out here. well i think both sides can claim to have won i think the strain government looks like it's managed to get facebook to pay for use which is a priest entity and i think facebook has held out long enough from played hard enough that while they will pay something it's probably a lot less than may not set a priest and in the same way that people fear ok i'll come back to that question of president quite in a moment but 1st of all if you look at facebook here there's been a lot of talk about you know damage done to its reputation not only in australia but do you think this actually will harm facebook. i think of my how facebook in the short term in astray i think is dragons were surprised at how willing facebook was to use them as a political football especially the callous way that it wasn't just news websites but emergency services health departments and other things that got passed on

intentionally or blocked all the same so i think it was a stark reminder to australians that facebook really doesn't care that much about them and i think that's something that they will not forget readily but at the same time if it's business as usual within a weight it may not be as much of an impact as they say it would have been if it went for a longer ok so given that how do you think this might be a precedent for the way that facebook and other big tech giants and social media giants operate globally. so i think it's a precedent in so much as facebook and google last week have both committed that news is worth something to them it's worth paying for it with paying to keep that on their platform so i think if there is that it mission is made then obviously the country is going to be looking at that admission going well you've got canadian you have got news from other countries as well you're going to pay for that and i think that that jamie has burnt out of the bottle on that front but at the same time i don't think the bargaining hurt is quite the template everyone has high people

because one of the main things that's happened here is the treasurer has agree not to use the bargain encouraging a facebook strike still before the code becomes law is you could look ahead for us how do you see this relationship between social media companies and news outlets playing out. a look at the one of the real challenges here in interest to some extent news producers will become more dependent on the social media giants now because they will become part of their revenue stream i do think that the news a cola g. needs to exist outside of the social media platforms but at the same time it's hard to see what the future is going to look like when advertising will remain predominantly flowing through google and facebook which hold 85 percent of the advertising market you're in australia what role do media companies play a lot has to play here if at all in terms of not having a gauge with users perhaps on some of these social media platforms a little bit earlier before facebook and google started using that content so heavily. so i think that there are new avenues for news

producers i think they have done quite well in this last week of or drawing the audience back to the mind but certainly one of the main news services in a straight into at was the top ad for the android and i was stores last week so it was nice to say that the people around here around the facebook sort of the social media giants in the short term when they continue to do that when it becomes easier to get you back through facebook or not remains to be seen professor thomas lever joining us from per se q very much. and we've got some new images of last week's mars that landing to show you take a look this year was that the u.s. now says mars rover perseverence touched down on the red planet after traveling nearly 500000000 kilometers the robot will look for signs of life on mars let's listen in and taken that spectacular landing we're getting signals

from the moral thing go delta. ok they're. ready to begin picking up and. right now snow and ice have been causing serious suffering for parts of the u.s. in recent days but the big freeze can also bring great beauty parts of the famous niagara falls froze over creating huge abstract ice formations as the main current rush down the falls of span the border between canada and the u.s. and have a vertical drop of more than 50 meters. let's get a quick reminder of our top story u.s. president joe biden has led americans and observing a moment of silence after the country's coronavirus death tolls asked 500000 people biden urged americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic together. coming up next our documentary series close out the bridge of

minor miracles and kenya's capital nairobi for all of us here in berlin thank you for watching.

luby's bridge of mine your new business lifeline for thousands of residents. in 2015 we followed 3 people through their daily lives with his hard ship. now the bridge is in danger of alice in death squads of. close up. next on d. w. .

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accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on d w. a huge construction project is underway in kenya's capital nairobi they're widening one of the main freeways. this bridge is due to be torn down it's located in the impoverished district of containing. robey correspondents having a ball and calls that the bridge of mine in their records in 2015 poland reported

on the thriving commerce that takes place on the bridge now she's come back. how has life changed. during that time. for jackie who sells vegetables than being in a man. for sale he wanted to become a journalist or galileo or you know and to felix an apprentice carpenter. to meet people the one. who can e.d.s. runs a small food stand on the bridge his speciality is meat soup. but business has fallen off sharply the because of the corona virus pandemic. he's more concerned

about the virus than he is about the bridge being torn down. here and there you go into the zone it's really dangerous because no one knows where it comes from make you do it here all sorts of rumors but you can catch it at any time whatever whether you put your hand on something then minister touch your nose or mouth you get infected with a little more of a. and there. the 1st cases were reported in kenya last march and the government imposed a series of strict preventative measures people are required to wash their hands often but that can be difficult when running musha isn't short supply. we 1st met magog and his family 5 years ago because food stand on the bridge was a popular attraction back then. we visited him several times to only hear.

this. but people around here don't earn much money and it's tough for them to make ends meet. given about this some of them tell me that they only eat once a day. even to another you know in the soup at my place costs just 10 shillings it is one of the most people can afford that. the same soup with meat costs 20 shillings but the fact is it's a meal that will make you feel good. to place him and i'm going. to take charge is 10 shillings for a bowl of soup that's about $0.08 but inflation has hit kenya hard recently. 5 years ago clearly has told us that he dreamed of buy news and house we asked him how he was getting along now. what's changed in my life

well i'm older as you can see. more than 100 other than that things are pretty much still the same. with the it's getting tougher for my family. the kids are growing older and. my dad you know wanting it and there's more stress. for now but the 3rd thing that while life isn't as comfortable as it used to be called what the wealth and a little bit in the. canadians and his wife now have one more mouth to feed their 5th daughter was born 3 years ago. she ended an older sister often stopped by their father's food stand. they have lots of time on the hand since the schools in nairobi were closed last march because of the pandemic.

the bridge is located on the northern outskirts of the city over a freeway that is often seriously congested. that's why the officials decided to widen it to make room the bridge will have to be torn down. almost all of the trees that used to provide shade here have been cut down. nairobi residents are required to wear a mask whenever they leave the house. in crowded districts like an gave me it's tough to meet social distancing guidelines.

and at one end of the bridge a disinfection tunnel has been set up it was donated by a local businessman. not of people use it especially because it's free of charge services like this are rare in kenya these days. whatever that does it is what it was a bubble who could get up out of this tunnel was a big help in a place because you go through it and it doesn't fix your entire body but only in the saudi not just your hands. at that and that makes it harder for you to catch the virus and i'm with you already got on it was something as i was about one of. them. but shortly after our visit the tunnel was turned down and. city officials decided that the disinfectant that was used there was dangerous.

nearby we meet another friend from 2015. jeconiah boca is still selling vegetables here at the same places 5 years ago. in 2015 there was still shade trees here. jackie started selling vegetables because she had to. bet in a new class i used to be a housewife south that to me it was and my husband worked as a nightwatchman that way but. it was a tough job and it was ruining his life he took of the day so he quit he got to go yet but i had to i ask myself how are we going to get by this isn't gonna we couldn't afford to send the kids to school the sick and sometimes we didn't have enough to eat out as

a possible and so i decided to go into business for myself when i've been here ever since it was like. these days jackie smiles less often than she used to and she looks tired after all she's on her feet from morning till night she only about $300.00 shillings a day that's less than 3 euros. each of their pandemic has really changed everything before we could sell a bag of vegetables and one or 2 days but now it often takes us 3 days to sell everything some of the produce spoils and we have to throw it out it was a bit up on a as up but it is sometimes we don't earn enough to cover our living expenses. with that book again united because. 2015 was a special year in kenya u.s. president barack obama came to visit.

also that year islamist militants killed $147.00 people at a university in northern kenya most of the victims were students. and there was a big fire on the freeway bridge in nairobi 200 people lost their businesses but they soon rebuilt everything by themselves it was one of the many mine miracles that we've seen here. at the time. expanded his food stand into a low budget sports bar complete with t.v. it was a new source of income for him. the us is a total bust in 2020 because of condemning he had to shut down a sports bar. at the same time several new businesses opened across the street

including a furniture shop i. mean this is felix one birth and 2015 he was still living in the countryside in moved to nairobi 2 years ago to look for work for the past 3 month. he's been building beds . before that he worked as a driver and a security guard. felix has no experience with company but he's a fine example of learning by doing. he landed this job purely by chance. for him why he believes global nearly on the bridge is an important place for us that brings us customers what makes this in our video. and we can buy lots of different goods here in our model but i want to get both of you know what life would be a lot harder without this bridge whether he was a billionaire you might view and everybody uses it and that's good for business.

you will not ever want to give it. another minor miracle you can fit the component parts of this bed on a motorcycle. but what will happen to these businesses when the bridges to down. the buildings is a meeting ever closer and when they get here the shops will disappear. last summer kenya's president kenyatta announced that some of the coronal restrictions would be used for example residents of nairobi would be allowed to travel outside the city and the start of the curfew would be pushed back by 2 hours to 9 pm perhaps another minor miracle but clearly doesn't things are. you know we are not to have be because. the government is the very good the more.

you know us would have been so it's not the youth of the world. so we are not very how do but but that is that is live. life on the bridge was never easy even to. for the pandemic heavy rain often shouted the roads and power outages were common. sadia down a student who was one of the people we interviewed back in 2015 life in his neighborhood was difficult. saidee showed us the shack where he lived. and had to study by candlelight.

saidee dreamed of becoming a radio reporter. but he saw this as a way to help improve living conditions in kenya. i understand that journalism is the only bridge between this i said to him and the community so. if journalist weapon. but improving society think i'll be ok. and never mind the miracle saeed he was the 1st in his family which includes 11 siblings to graduate from university. his goal was to move out of the slum and make something of himself. as i don't see that i'm going to get out of them you know much opposition getting out there if i get any means of getting out of there it would be quite good for me so that because i was doing that as student but now i

think i'm good you did the other side of the of the of the community yeah the graduates so i sure as are doing them and whatever they're doing and yeah there's some more important things later. in 2020 we managed to track down safety he's now working his family small found in western kenya. says. because he couldn't find work as a journalist in nairobi. to . actually when i came back.

yeah they were disappointed to know there's been so much on me and they were looking forward for maybe some good fruits but here i was coming and heroes saying that i'm prepared to do farming on their their farm they were disappointed but for me. i just took it as normal because. i looked because when i was just living in a rugby i spend for about close to one year without i job and you can imagine all the hassles all the events and everything so i just decided to park and come back just to do. some activities. sadie's mother had even sold a count to help pay for her son's education that was a fortune for her and she had high hopes that her son would be successful product might also ma elastomer after your son finishes his studies

he's got to make an effort and find a job come phones i helped raise the money so that he could go to college and now i expect him to take care of me to buy me new clothes and so forth. and he's graduated now. so if i need soap or sugar or if i get sick it's his responsibility to take care of these things about because. this is often how kenya's social security system works adult children are expected to provide for their parents. but we asked if you still claim to become a reporter. is it because it is a tradition that has come. on mailings on this train to. to look for some ways to survive and also hoping that i. get at least

a clock so that i can start walking. on earth coming up the extended family can live quite well on this farm they have enough to eat and they can sell some of the surplus projects at the local market. and. if they say he told us that he doesn't plan to return to nairobi any time soon. this if he doesn't pick up the garbage in the slums that can gain it so the people

who live then have to dispose of it themselves. felix member of the apprentice carpenter still believes that he can make a go of it in the big city. thing. felix and his girlfriend sylvia have been living together since last spring they can to get married one day. she doesn't have a job right now so his income supports them both. as the pandemic wore on they had to sell a bed frame to pay their rent. to buy food. but the last thing they plan to sell is

the t.v. . it's their link to the outside world. in the way. someone you want to talk to you would. get. if you think positively. things we just have to be patient i came here i have no house there's a time i slept also. outside. and i myself thinking positive i told myself i'm not going back home. every few days jokingly i broke at least nairobi and drive to a rented farm field to harvest vegetables. and she doesn't want to work like this forever. and you can bet your body that i could if i went back to my home village

i'd have to start all over again my life there is still easier than in the city we're staying in nairobi just to raise our kids and earn money for their education . but when they finish up at a level have no reason to stay will just go back home but hopefully with some money that we've saved the. bad. nothing much has changed here in the last 5 years. let up the family. and. jackie will not be able to return home for a few 1000000 is she still pushing her 3 children 3 schools and to have to keep working like this and tell a finish. jackie is the family's and really source of income her husband doesn't have a job. this

is one of the robi's privately owned mini buses that service taxis. called metallic tubes. but the pandemic has cut the number of passengers to about half a ticket prices have doubled. in. some people who work on the bridge that felix still hopes for a better life. others like jackie a simply trying to tough it out. some people experience mine americans others struggle to get by and when the bridge is torn down the lines will become even more difficult. kenya's rainy season begins in october.

the bulldozers have already torn down some of the shops on the bridge but some people keep trying to turn back the. in 2015 crews repaired the roadway over the bridge as the city prepared to welcome a special guest. pope francis. some tried to take advantage of the pontiff to visit. i want the pope to bless this water so that as many people as possible can buy a. if you drink as well they want to that but they are going to take his blessing when yeah. because god

francis made a point of visiting recounting a district odd was last. at one stop the pontiff told the crowd that he was well aware of the difficulties that the people of kenya face on a daily basis and he denounced the injustices that they suffered. yeah. that's only well and good but how would francis propose to actually make life better here. any improvements are made by the people themselves without much help from the government or the catholic church. by the way here's how that route freshly paved in 2015 looks today. at.

the nearby construction workers not affected gawkers food stand very much. this afternoon he's preparing homemade sausages a populous snack for people who are on their way home from work. to sit in gura has lived in this neighborhood for yes. he was here when the bridge was built back in the 1970 s. . easy to do it development. buildings we'd have to come down another big board up there was no bridge saw a new thing when it came to us now i hear ideas going to be demolished how it is going to be about here i can with tale cause of noise in them up. but one thing is clear these people will have to move to small businesses. because food stand. jacking and events to bills. and the family to shop with fields for x.

but when exactly will is happening. throughout the bowmen emerging well if the bridge disappears i finished. i depend on this location where the bottom of it will be hard to find a new place and new customers siddha the city official should have told us a lot earlier what they plan to do it and we'd have had time to prepare. but now it looks like they're just going to come in here in terre del and will be stuck. there when my mother does of over. her. birth. we need felix again he loves football and he comes to this field every weekend to cheer his favorite team. and one. then he meets up with some friends 1st of all they say

a prayer together. saw it all but work most of the people here have lost their jobs because of the pandemic they formed a self-help group to deal with a situation. where they pay what little money they have into a joint fund that pays for their health and unemployment insurance and pension contributions when it's all recorded in this log book. yes it was a. war it's going to go to just as everybody this gathering. is all about togetherness supporting each other uplifting your brother. remembering those who have more about opportunity or getting jobs or else they have jobs but it is not always paying jobs it is all about assisting each other. coming together and putting each other there at the same level. jackie belongs to a similar group made up of other women who sell vegetables. they have to stick

together to survive. the will of this certainly not going to get any financial help from the government a little bit earlier but right now jackie is particularly concerned about her children she's afraid that while they're away from school her son will turn to drugs or her daughter will get pregnant. to non-o. that are now. i can't protect them when they're running around the neighborhood amid all the sikhs and i leave the house at 6 in the morning and don't get home till 7 or 8 at night and i was i'm being a muslim or. i have no idea what they do during the day and i i don't know who they meet but i try to talk to them in the evening and warn them about getting into trouble. and that's a real miracle these people manage to overcome enormous difficulties on a daily basis and they do it without complaining they simply get on and do the job

at hand but. there are no buildings this today so techie can keep selling here vegetables. but the but he didn't mob a job i say sure our livelihood depends on the bridge but if they tear it down it's not the end of the world as well just set up shop somewhere else and then i set. out and when they rebuild it will come back just like before. but that they did they. said here nairobi life goes on at the bridge of mine american school a place where ordinary people make the best of their lives despite overwhelming all routes. for.

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