tv Tomorrow Today Deutsche Welle April 16, 2021 10:30am-11:00am CEST
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the former gangsters finding god in brazil. the average number. is 6 per 100000 citizens. in brazil. after. they've they've for the. country. when it comes to when it comes to much of it gang led the military and police regularly move in on the areas and shootings a commonplace yet many young men joining a gang as their only chance of a future and leaving is notorious. this even in the. us of
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a drugs gang. he seeks to make amends for his sins and was. wrong when he speaks gangsters listen. i can't forget forget the sound of the kalashnikovs. he lives in rio de janeiro but nowhere near the beach. norman just lose his wife always prays for his safe return. in a dangerous neighborhood. and ended up making lots of money through crime. in 15 years up want to steal all they see. fortunately i did bad things. kill people. that's why today my mission is to. be.
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it'll be the 1st time he attends one since the pandemic hits me. while gangsters patrol the streets with automatic weapons dimitri on my chains prepares to deliver a sermon. evangelical christianity is booming among the poor this is one of the many churches in the favelas. options. on a wheelchair. the church's pastor is get the service going. but this brand of christianity there are a lot of young people in the congregation. dimitrios
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asks anyone to come forward who has a friend or relative in a drugs gang. that's what his time as a gangster he can do they are they are. part of life that i lead i had money and power but i had to hide every night because i couldn't trust anybody. not even my friends. he. later back at his home he told us he never got a good night's sleep as a gangster but he had had high expectations when he joined up as a poor boy from the slums he saw it as a chance to be somebody. let me see what i was i. started to take drugs and got in with a bunch of criminals and we would attack other guys. as i rose up through the ranks
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since then dimitri a has been paralyzed from the waist down nowadays he spends his days going around the favelas preaching. to reform. the story is well known a bad man who found god in the path of virtue many people here find it moving all of those places. often talks to the dealers hanging out on street corners here. except him and they pray together. even those who carry a hand grenade with them just in case. you are shock it will be a baby the government needs to create opportunities for the kids here so they don't just make the obvious choice to become dealers or lose their freedom or even their lives what about going to be that are going to. do with number. wagner jody vega. he got his
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1st revolver when he was just 15. and was grazed by a bush. presidency . helps people. saw all i have left from my former life or bad memories and scars i sleep much more peacefully than i did back then. to divide little me by. the. drainage ditch it and clearing roach it and clearing roads they plan to tarmac this one. when dimitriy omar chines the preacher does
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manage to sway it during a prayer meeting it's quite standard around here for dealing. with. is moved to get up and tell his story of redemption. i was 14 years in prison 14 years in prison the then i found god and then i was released now i shall. the other convict. comes forward to receive the blessings that he got the association the association to outsiders it might seem very odd that drug dealers can be. here everybody must know in his heart. i want to give up drugs. used dimitri on march
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a good example seems to be a healing influence helping others like himself to escape a life. in may 2020 a tropical cyclone hit the coast of coast of bangladesh millions of people had to flee for their lives the storms in the bay of bengal often drive seawater fall in land damming. this. area's of land experts believe that climate change will. the. company increasingly heavy. they also fear that by the end of the century sea levels sea levels around bangladesh could rise by $1.00 to $1.00 and a half meters large areas of the low lying country would then be submerged under water. in southern bangladesh the monsoon rains are getting
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heavier year by year and that means ever more extensive flooding. nowadays overdone manas fields are not just under water during monsoon season but for a full 8 months of the year so he's turned to growing vegetables on floating beds the water here is fresh not salty. farming pioneered by reviving a technique that dates back many. years ago. bob i got to. do a few plants on the water but he didn't do it systematic i have one we've developed the technique further we don't really have any other option if we don't want to starve. my. mother has got used to spending much of his life in and on board the venture is proving very successful
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the goods are growing fast they're almost ready to harvest. amounted up as a high. grown on water taste better and contain more bitterman. we don't need any chemical fertilisers that are the. seedlings have already been planted on the adjacent bed the roots store new tree. the beds are made up of the highest since decayed organic. to. get. there's almost no current here. of it all mother has become something of a star in his village his income is now 3 times the local average the whole family works on the farm. his daughter is embedding good seeds in bowls of compost they will then be planted on
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a floating bed samas in bangladesh are innovating their methods in response to climate change. my fathers are all the time talking it's getting hotter and hotter here and mosquitoes. that's terrible because he is the only one in the family who earns any money so we get very. rich. the timber is former hernando some a day. it's. like . it takes him 6 hours to build a boat by hand business is great he could sell a lot more than he can build. all of our you guys
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were very busy right now it's not time of year you know the farmers have to take to the water or porter. garden. but we still offer the farmers a good price or. more and then do some addenda goes to the boat market every friday he may be 70 but he paddles the 5 kilometers there comfortably . hundreds of rivers flow through bangladesh and they have tens of thousands of trivia trace and low lying coastal regions. so rivers flow more sluggishly towards the. foot boat building it means more work.
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for the self or the equivalent of 40 years they are a bust and can carry. it all depends on the skill of the boat builder experience i have a boat so people like me. but i've had to work very hard to get to where i am now i don't follow. that at all. don roy has come to visit he's an agricultural engineer with the district of thora cheese and stops by regularly the government is keen to promote floating farms all kinds of crops can be grown on them spinach tomatoes cauliflowers as well as gawd's climate change could mean that a 3rd of the country will end up under water the question is if floating firms like
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here in bury sell could be developed across the country. we don't have an obvious safe food food free of toxins and contaminants. on the water. and also seedlings to other farmers. that much less work but switching to farming on water has proved to be much more profitable. so i don't know what. we might do the seedlings grown on land are weaker ours are more robust and look fresher i'm going to. sell more than lamb farmers and. mother water seedlings are greater
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in the water and in the water it's just you and the water and you feel a sense of connection that nothing you can ever experience on land when you connect into nature on that level everything just sort of disappears and you just realize how amazing and connected nature is to you. i like to learn but i don't know. how schools are organized so i feel like you consume consume. getting good grades 6 that are instead of just. and i.
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different beliefs. to the same thing. as we look at the told farming takes on. mexico more sustainable. it's daybreak and head to. a mountain in. the reserve in southern mexico. legend legend. away from the mountain will never return home. slopes or trout it in all. their widespread deforestation and many of the other mt.
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farmers keep their cattle in the forests that remain. off to protect the woodland. went back in the world cup with every now and a cop out to cut. everything. they run around the forest and it rains and slides. hectic. he used to have many more but he got rid of half of them. livestock is bad for the environment. grandfather switched from growing corn and beans to livestock farming farming because it was more profitable. 3 years ago hector during the project deal possumus which promotes cattle farming that's assuming that sustainable and doesn't destroy diversity his income is starting to
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increase and the environment is gradually recovering. but it's been a difficult few years. when most of all leave the article if i argued with my father that was the 1st obstacle i had to overcome where i wasn't being easy but i asked him to give me a chance. but the moment of weight if you think that well i took the risk by small farm i went through some hard times very hard times i milked my cows constantly but the yields were low. with a lead. indigenous farmers traditionally let their livestock graze in forest pastures and also grew vegetables their methods were sustainable their expertise had largely been lost now their descendants are looking to revive rust. jose antonio.
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