hoped for more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. where does the arab world stand today 10 years after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th on d w. this is news and these are our top stories. india has reported a staggering 400000 in new coronavirus infections in a day setting and other global record several nations have sent medical aid including germany which dispatched an air force plane carrying ventilators and medical experts some regional states had to delay plans to extend india's vaccine rollouts to all adults because of shortages of jobs. in brazil

activists have staged mock burials on rio de janeiro's copacabana beach they were mocking 400000 deaths from covert 19 a national toll exceeded only by the united states many blame the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak for the millions of infections that have ravaged brazil. tens of thousands have turned out for may the 1st international workers day demonstrations across europe paris so violent confrontations between police and protesters demanding stronger employment fronts here in berlin there were clashes during protests spanning rising housing costs germany's immigration policy and opposition to coronavirus restrictions. this is news from berlin you can find much more on our website d.w. dot com.

this week on world stories in russia vaccine tourism becomes a business model what is the price of freedom in sweden during a pandemic but we begin in brazil where just as it has everywhere else the coronavirus pandemic is hitting the poor especially hard many have lost their jobs that are struggling to feed their families. thalia gomez starts her day early she gets up at around 4 am worried about having enough food for her 4 children to have breakfast. i wake up with the feeling of being in agony i jump out of bed in the 1st thing i do is thank god i'm alive i look at my children and think to myself today i'll bring home some food for them i leave the house early to fetch bread there are days when i can't manage to bring them anything but they run out of the night. gomez lives in

a for valor of around 100000 people in south paolo here and across brazil unemployment hit a record high last year this community association helps people living in marginalized areas to find work. we had an 84 percent increase in demand for employment after the government's emergency aid ended and the number of people seeking our help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore and if. in december government aid of around $84.00 euros a month was cut making an already difficult situation for many much worse. the number of people living on less than 36 year is more than doubled many families stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tardelli has been researching the fatherless for 20 years.

noel. full of data shows that the poorer you are the higher the rates of infection . the more on the periphery the person finds themselves in the higher the death rate from coronavirus. brazil has added 2000000 more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical that brazilians have to choose between going hungry or getting the virus it's an ethical. no match. for adults live in the home of sylvia hayes us she's a cook and the only one still to have a job but it's just one day a week she used to cook in other people's homes but they let her go for fear of infection. that this pandemic is difficult it's going to leave all of us starving and that's apart from all the damage it does to your health look at this q we're all in the same boat. but the model melba with

a shortage of vaccines and hospitals overwhelmed it's hard to see a way forward for people in the lowest social groups who are trapped by both poverty and disease. despite a 3rd lockdown france has one of the highest rates of covert infections in europe the government is trying to contain the spread of the virus with a massive vaccination campaign. places like these are the new beacon of hope for the french the star disaster just north of paris is one of more than 100 new huge vaccinations and just across the country all of us can handle a combined effect this is a mega operation we are now able to administer mass vaccinations in this center we will inoculate about $10000.00 people per week them neatly organized which i used

to be a part of a national effort to end this crisis. people here are relief they're finally getting help the stadium is located in france's most destitute departments and sunny which has also been hit hardest by the epidemic with about 800 new infections per 100000 inhabitants each week. that is i really hope to finally see the light at the end of the tunnel it's what we need things has been very worrying for a year now and although we try to make an effort and stay reasonable it's getting very difficult to live without social contacts but since i do put the department of sense and the needs very badly affected by the epidemic the numbers keep skyrocketing it's high time they do this if it's not already too late. a faster vaccination campaign is key to the country's latest strategy to fight cope with 19 the government just decreed a 3rd nationwide lockdown but it's only

a 4 week lockdown light and this time people are even told to spend more time outside this very ologist is not sure that will be enough to bring the epidemic under control you've heard. by good people longer booklet after all when x. you need we will need to vaccinate 10 percent of the french population with 2 jabs for the spread of the virus to start slowing down. now bob. and our infection numbers are very high as we didn't impose a strict lockdown earlier this year like other countries with that said a 4 week lockdown seems rather optimistic. a sightseeing tour of moscow cons with a dose of the russians but by backseat this business model is gaining momentum in

russia and demand is high especially among the german charts which. was a tiny needle prick under covert 1000 vaccine sputnik v enters heinz getting canals bloodstream. it's certified as being highly efficacious. pinker now is one of several germans who pay 2000 euros for a vaccination vacation his wife is also getting a dose of sputnik v. . just as there is. a few great i didn't even feel the job. it also means we can look forward to being able to travel again in future israel has said it will open up to people who've been vaccinated. the 2 departed from frankfurt today go there among the 1st 18 tourists who booked the 4 day trip to moscow. their return at the beginning of may for a 2nd job. then dutch are coming that you can't count on getting

a vaccination in the near future in germany to be honest i think we're being sensible the more people are vaccinated the sooner we recharge immunity to treat it . the media are out in force to meet the would be vaccine knees russia's government is happy to get one sputnik v. to be a top export 60 countries have certified it for use the european union is more hesitant doubts have been raised about its efficacy so the kremlin could see vaccine tourism as good publicity. tour operator world visitor welcomes the business or yeah. sure operator we had leased up work for some of our stuff and generate some revenues we otherwise wouldn't have and for russia it's peor and solves a couple of german problems as well. sputnik the is available to all russian citizens free of charge but only 30 percent of them are interested

a quick straw poll shows many welcome the fact that germans are coming to moscow for their shots. if they've got problems of vaccines in germany they should come here i don't think it's bad. but you know they should come to russia where the best . with them let them have their vaccinations are vaccine is very good. group even though sputnik field isn't even certified yet the next few weeks will see quite a few more vaccine vacationers like pink you know heading to moscow visitors says bookings are surging. sweden has taken a unique approach to the coronavirus pandemic that governments lockdown policy was much lighter than in neighboring countries though the death toll is quite high the approach still has its supporters. sweden seen as the

land of sweet liberty for those cheating against coronavirus closures curfews and mandatory masks while most of europe has been in their. stages of lockdown over the last year swedes have been skiing shopping dining in drinking restrictions in swedish restaurants mean giving customers space and closing at 8 pm i think we have taken away a round hole for the tables so we have one meters per tank gun jimmy head waiter at the concern and restaurant in stockholm says sweden's done it right to it from belgium from prawns from him learn from czech republic they come we're taking you we were occasion. just to feel the freedom of the architect of this model state epidemiologist i understand now we did basically the same as many other countries we did it in a slightly different way we're all trying to do things we destroyed maybe a bit more than notices to pinpoint what exactly we do when you throw stones but

tegan else a different way has seen sweden record a far higher death toll than its closest neighbors finland and norway a comparison he rejects they all flyers sweden compare very much more true belgium or stray even germany and sweden is among the 5 to 10 countries with least excess mortada to see in europe but sweden's care homes in particular were hit hard last year and still now hospitals warn intensive care units are nearly overwhelmed take masks for example understand mel doesn't believe they're very effective so on public transportation writers are urged but not required to mask up during rush hours few appear to do so some feel that's a failure of the government's covert $1000.00 communications strategy at least journalism professor christian christianson says the lax approach to mask wearing

exposes inequalities in swedish society in danger especially minorities you're seeing people who are probably in lower paying jobs service industry jobs must take public transportation there on park trains in the morning day in day out with hundreds of people in a small container i think it's reasonable to ask like you know might that not be a possible public health problem if they make it more tighter that everyone should make it and should wear a mask that would be very important and maybe we could have spent some life a new emergency law gives the government temporary power to impose a lockdown but it hasn't been used well polls show some swedes have lost faith in their country's approach to stuff lloyd blood isn't one of them. he still trusts in anders tech now he represents a like this different kind of way to have lain crisis in the world we did it in a way where people still could have a lot of their freedom and for me freedom is really important agger blood support

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it was nice when he my didn't know much about him it was just that he could play the violin really well. i know he lived his grandmother's doesn't agree to smoke dope. and i also found out he was in an orphanage some time before that wasn't for him other than from the vice and oscar he's in this. village made a completely normal impression there didn't seem to be anything unusual to begin with i never thought there was something different about him.

to shorten the said though i knew his father was a vietnamese soldier in the french army of the rhine that i didn't know but i just accepted it it was what it was you know so he was an illegitimate child there were a few of those apps i knew before they always said he suspected something of course because sterilizations were always carried out under the semblance of some sort of examination and one would know for a good moment. to doodle bleak but he never said a thing about it. as in e-mail as long as i knew him i didn't know. if you can do was the just in the shift i can still see him beaming with joy and holding his call up papers i'm being drafted. and he did a few more you can see from the pictures that he dead but only for 14 days after he finished training then he was dead if not i was going to offer some talk about diet thought. it was born in

1923 in always kishan he died serving in the german army somewhere in northern italy in 1944 there's not much left of him except for a few fading memories a handful of photographs and some dr vital statistics that was no accident the german state had decided that people like villi band would not be allowed to reproduce he and any memories of him was supposed to disappear along with him the same applied to others who shared his fate he was forcibly sterilized in the summer of 1937 before he had even turned 14 really was one of several 100 children who had a german mother and a father who was a soldier from the french colonies. the whole world collapsed in november 1918 prussia's might and glory were no more it

was all over for kaiser god and fatherland after 4 years of slaughter 10000000 soldiers lay dead on the battlefields and as many people died on the home front as well both in europe and beyond. the moment of the victors had come on june 28th 1919 the allies received a small delegation of diplomats from germany the represented. heads of the german government signed an accord under protest because it was largely imposed without any input from men. in particular the french government led by george clooney also remain staunchly unbending never again was germany to pose a threat to france. the treaty put all german territory west of the rhine under allied occupation for 15 years. allied forces moved into the area

stretching along the river from the city of calle to cologne in january 920 of the 100000 troops in the french army of occupation more than a 5th of came from the french colonies algeria morocco tunisia senegal madagascar or vietnam german troops had encountered them on the battlefields in the eeprom and in the trenches of their done horror stories about the african soldiers savagery made the rounds on the home front as a result the germans were awaiting their french occupiers with no little trepidation during these days many germans saw people of color for the 1st time in their lives let me take this you know what you can well. until just before world war one there was no question of deploying black soldiers in europe then an officer named shall march on wrote a successful and controversial book in 1000 tan called force the black force where he said the senate police rifleman are good soldiers they've proven themselves in

africa why should we deploy them in a war in france it was clear that france was afraid of germany in 1914 germany was a stable rich powerful country with a population of $65000000.00 and there were only $39000000.00 french to stand against them it was a foregone conclusion that the relationship was completely lopsided and that france was doomed to defeat militarily so they needed to find soldiers and sharman job propose that they rely on an immense reservoir of african troops pull through. is one of the got. an empty can of the propaganda during the war they were already publishing propaganda warning that the french colonial troops would cut off the ears of german soldiers and wear them on strings around their necks that they were barbaric and acted like animals and were being ordered to do so by their french the period. stories like this and all these fears were already being whipped up anyway now their focus was simply redirected onto these colonial

troops in the rhineland island and then of course there was also deep seeded racism that wasn't just confined to the germans the idea that troops from north africa senegal and vietnam were now in a position of power over the german civilian population well that was a reversal of the established colonial hierarchy wasn't it that these colonial subjects could now exercise authority over europeans who had once been colonial masters themselves but was perceived as extremely humiliation. to cation of kaiser vilhelm the 2nd whom the conservatives revered as a symbol of national identification on november 9918 nearly compounded the sense of crisis. philip chinaman one of the social democrats leaders rushed to declare the end of the old order. run up or down.

but the fledgling republic was in danger from the. the outset because what was old and rotten hadn't really disappeared in fact quite the contrary the guardians of the old order became the fellows of the new democracy they rejected the idea of the weimar republic and above all repudiated what they called the shameful versailles treaty and those who in their opinion were responsible for it the german social democrats who signed it. in mansion 1920 general votto fun

little bits led the army in an unsuccessful putsch to overthrow the democratically elected government of chancellor ghost of power. in response french troops and then occupied cities east of the rhine as well moroccan regiments marched into frankfurt on mine on april 6th 1920 there were clashes with demonstrators and the moroccans opened fire killing 9 people and wounding many more the incident in frankfurt was exploited as a welcome opportunity to ignite the smoldering german rage against the french occupiers. from spring 1920 on words nationalists revulsion and racists used every available means of propaganda and disinform ation to orchestrate a campaign against what they dubbed black shame none of the slogans or images used back then could be called innocent the toxins viewed in this campaign continue to

poison our lives until today all delusions in new guises that eat into the heart of our society it started out with fake news reports like this. at around 4 pm on sunday december 7th 1900 a colored french colonial soldier attacked 16 year old factory worker gatorade am from ice collision as she was crossing the dylan oyster shell railway line on her way home. the soldier grabbed the frightened girl by her hands threw her in the ditch and held her mouth closed to prevent her screaming. when i thought back he bit my finger and wouldn't let go. he played into the flesh right down to the bone sucking the blood out so that it ran down from his mouth. in the spring of 1920 it seemed as if overnight an army of african rapists

paedophiles that set out to systematically defy all and dishonor german women girls and boys. the outrage over the allegedly barbaric conduct of the french colonial troops on german soil boiled over into bizarre and festering images. of the world here we can see an african with deformed lips who almost looks like an ape beneath a french helmet and when you turn the coin over you see a german woman found to a martyr stake at the shrine that is the erect penis of a black man topped by a military helmet these were the sexual obsessions of the black shame campaign this piece is a typical example of black change propaganda which was very wide ranging we can't imagine how powerful this propaganda was today but enormous amounts of money were invested in it brochures were translated from english dark swedish french spanish and american english and so on there were post counts illustrations posters

medallions and. even made films about it if you move forward to miss your. levee here plenty of other fun fall on the company when we consider the role though . women and women's bodies in this campaign and it's important to understand that most women who are not really victims of men black men who were colonial soldiers are but the promoters of the campaign in many cases men consciously stylised them into victims beyond vice or white european men needed this spawn they were the authors of brochures the writers of novellas and books who subjected women to their own male fantasies

a violent brutal best year sexual compulsion i mean my decision 6 will intervene most it's not just money but those weren't the lusts of these black soldiers they were the violent sexual fantasies and the men who made up these stories one minute . because she almost died. of course some colonial soldiers did carry out isolated attacks but these assaults had nothing to do with skin color nor were they a problem confined to the colonial troops but it was depicted that way others would honestly. try any europeans already had the concept of black shame in their minds before the 1st colonial soldiers ever set foot in the rhineland the idea that black men are a threat to white women that their sex drive a stronger that they're unable to control their desires and that they come from primitive races those ideas were already widespread.

the protests against the presence of colonial troops on german soil didn't just come from nationalistic or racist circles. my ranking politicians supported that opposition to your can as nish fresh green poor billy triton concert decent ones of its well known for months busy trying concert in few fabrication. flesh to conquer. under the smear justify vendôme far bigger talk media struck. her focus on from the horn guys didn't vote for him but bought on their i'm linda and i her own father on the fair let's on the exit so i will perish at sea believe that's your least sigh of our noite in the very often. rice president. as a decompile your car now you can view this campaign from 2 perspectives one is

a propaganda campaign directed by the state that is the attempt to overturn the conditions of the versailles peace and influence the setting of further postwar conditions. it was aiming to reestablish international solidarity with germany germany wasn't in the league of nations at this point is that on the one hand would be a classical political historical standpoint but on the other hand the question is why this campaign spread and appeal to so many other people declare war time they see it was viewed as a failure of the military leadership and the monarchy but also a failure of german soldiers although this was not recognized open late these are the black shame campaign didn't want to admit that campania. time so the blame for the defeat was projected onto the participation of african soldiers and it's a classic case of transmission if you wish when

a class issue you were targeting sit on. the leaders of the campaign wanted to publicize reports of mass rapes of german women internationally a few days after the clashes in frankfurt in april 1920 an article appeared in england denouncing the presence of french colonial troops on german soil. the author of the article was the english journalist and labor member of parliament edmund deane mirelle. morrell felt website indecent. in his article more condemning the french occupation on the rhine and its use of black troops. which he described as a horror a terrible situation what's your and he was already in contact with german officials and was getting information from that off day went ahead in 4 months or.

as far as influencing british public opinion about the occupation of the rhineland using black soldiers is concerned a number of english politicians and journalists staying in berlin in the last few months have been granted access to a large number of documents pertaining to the conduct of black troops in the occupied region mirelle has used the material he was given to publish a brochure the horror on the rhine which he has written to great effect it was quite apparent that the horror on the rhine awoke feelings of physical and psychological discussed and everyone. does also i think i'm as into the foreign ministry was always behind the scenes inviting visitors from abroad to come to the rhine land and then go back home and report how horrible things were there before by the thing as a teen. among the foreigners the german government recruited to support the

campaign was ray beverage from the united states beverage was raised in the white american upper class she became one of the most aggressive agitate his spreading the tales of so-called black shame. have the men leaving our countries lost their minds they are blind be throwing our white race our white women into the abyss i appeal to all of the world's women i peel to all men still worthy of the name. help white women white girls and white boys are in danger every day and every hour and this threat will continue as long as a black man is entitled to exercise power over whites in america they hanged each and every black man who molests a white woman these are these racist ideas were widely shared in common as they came from the centers of international and european science and research people went to conferences swedish german italian french and british scientists met at

congresses to discuss these issues and the european population were aware of the importance of being white and stain white. vice to black. yet the nationalists revulsion and racists were unable to prevent one thing after the war people along the rhine found love. the men came from africa the philippines and vietnam the women from germany.

between 19191928 several 100 children fathered by colonial soldiers were born to german women in the german regions along the rhine the precise number isn't known but it could be anywhere from 402-8000 these children and their mothers and their families were socially ostracized from the start. the senior civil servant wrote. unfortunately some of the female population did not know how to defend their morals or uphold the honor of their position and national dignity they need gauged in relations with occupation troops in a disgusting way this fraternization was of course not without consequences in many cases. the position fronts rosenberger went even further. should we silently tolerate this fact that instead of the like songs of white beautiful well bred intellectually superior lively young germans on the banks

of the rhine we will hear the calling sound of dapple grey low brow and wide nosed chorus half animal syphilitic mulatto. or when they speak of the lad is asian there presuming that a lot of women from the rhine region had voluntary relations with colonial true. oops and also bore them children and many nationalist propagandists campaigned against what they called white shame so that's a very massage and mystic anti woman version that says it's bad enough that the french have brought these black soldiers into the country now we've also got all these german women with no sense of honor or patriotism lining up on mass to have sexual relations with these colonial soldiers. d.x. close your the exclusion touched on there of the white woman from the collective of

the german nation is of course racist. the concept is that the german population of the body of the people regenerate some from where they have and that anyone involved in racial the final moment must be excluded from the body of the german. there is naturally also an assumption that if someone has a darker skin color he or she can't really be german there you see a deep rooted belief that being german means having a specific ethnic identity. so your german if you will skins the right color but what about those who have african or asian fathers but at 1st sight don't look like it for example villi barred from. it the impression of him being alien or different and that was basically purely abstractly while he spoke of broad report dialect so that really like i said nobody

annoys kitchen could clearly work out his origins from his speech. if his language defined him as a long established local and that was always what mattered for us when. the 1920 children used to sing who's afraid of the black man and answer themselves . nobody. but it wasn't the same for adults. these are forgotten kin go born then indeed in the afro german children born from these relationships were in a tough position and the other no they were a reminder of the defeat in the war. and the present songs much they were a reminder of the french occupation forces. and they reminded people of the inability of german men to protect their women from

a legit rapists. so that means that the authorities already had these children in their sights by the mid 19th twenties. they were perceived as a potential threat and importance here. bargain on one local politician had a radical solution the maturing of half breeds who will soon be capable of reproducing is causing great concern in the founts so i'm asking you to listen to what's being said at the rhine ministry and the national health authorities to see if we can do something to ensure the race remains pure from colored blood in the occupied territories the privy council of dr due to me has indicated that the sterilization of mixed race children could be carried out in an entirely painless procedure it is clear that such a procedure would be inadmissible under current law that's a small conflict and that side of this conflict goes back to before world war one

the question was what is the status of legitimate so called mixed race children in the colonies did they inherit their father's german citizenship the racists naturally didn't want that initially this approach didn't take all that but i think there was a point when the nazis broke through for example and very clearly made citizenship a matter of race for the so called rhineland bastards it had a huge impact on their lives and. physical safety i feel a couple tired you have to see the modern weimar republic and an obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine baker was well in berlin orleans's with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some of thirties went as far as to consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about

greg or bards who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. robots. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it or even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 lived in a staunch we catholics are scientists where religion was dominant then it was far more shocking. here's. this is catarina kyra craig was mother this is a mere cry and my mother she was born in 1914 and i think was about 11 or 12 in

this picture and that's an acquirer those were the 3 sisters that's my grandfather yourself kyra and here we have kind of a you know kyra my grandmother and this is great go on here ok or. mission because of like i said it was a scandal normally it would have meant total loss. criticism from the village community but it never came to that of. course of my grandfather and our family. my grandfather was one of the founders of the social democratic party heir. and he was a really strong individual. from the. us and he didn't usually do other people's bidding and also played a role in the village eventually accepting him off and then in 1927 catarina kyra married petabytes a man shown here. she made sure she got away from my grandfather the minute she

legally became an adult it seems the 2 really didn't get a lot of the back of the talk to mr turton. the family and village community protected grego as long as they could but they couldn't shield him from all injustice and persecution greg or survived the war and was accepted in the community as an adult but he would never have his own family. adult hitler had personally made sure of that when the national socialist seized power a sea change in german demographic policy brought people like greg under increased scrutiny the nazis relied on concepts of racial anthropology that had emerged a long time before to support their position the father of racial anthropology in germany was the zoologist and eugenicist and heckle. indeed there's no incident you

know. the end of the 19th century when many publications were looking into the exotic and the wild people visited museum collections to see glass cases full of skeletons and skulls and asked themselves for are we all really one unified human race how do we differ from each other they had already started cataloguing these exhibits and now they began to categorise them in the 1st phillip genetic trees that haykel introduced in the 860000 showed an established categorize ation and hierarchy to be better worse higher or lower that in base. who media in the smuts and that became clear when tabular overviews of categories based on data about skulls hair color and structure and eye color were published for the 1st time they noted the course hair of the papuans or hottentot and rank them at the lower end of the table. then came the mediterraneans the

europeans and then later on the caucasians on top. and in meditative on and in spirit and in her cause you know understood the kaiser vilhelm institute for anthropology was founded in berlin dull him in 1927 during the nazi period he became the center for research in eugenics and racial hygiene its director was anthropologist oig and fisher fisher also became the intellectual father of the draft law that the national socialists aim to use to implement their racial hygiene policies it laid down that anyone posing a threat to the help of the german race should not be permitted to reproduce this is the slogan on the sets of you don't know who exist for this was called the law for the prevention of oss bring with hereditary diseases of july 14th 1933 published by one of the s.s. his favorite publishing houses in 1934.