it's an on going. to. be the arab spring began in 2011. people stood up against corrupt rulers and dictatorship. true more security more freedom more dignity have their hopes been fulfilled. 10 years ago after the arab spring. rebellion starts june 7th w. . this is news and these are our top stories indian scientists have accused the government of ignoring warnings about the new more contagious corona virus variants which have overwhelmed the national health system officials have reported a record number of just under 3700 deaths in the last day some indian states have

had to delay plans to roll out vaccines to millions more adults because of supply shortages. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has arrived in london for the 1st in person meeting of the g 7 group of leading nations in 2 years top of the agenda is developing a rapid response mechanism to counter russian dissin from asian british foreign secretary dominic rob says the west needs like minded allies to work together. for astronauts have returned safely to earth after spending nearly 6 months on board the international space station their dragon capsule touched down off the coast of florida in the 1st nighttime splashdown in half a century it was also the 1st crew mission run by private company space x. on behalf of nasa. this is news from berlin you can find more on our websites d.w.

dot com. all over the world urban migration is speeding up and as people seek jobs and opportunities in our ever growing cities this brings with it huge challenges like how. open centers not only more livable but also sustainable how can we show that cities continue to be habitable for generations to come we've got about all that and more to be hello and welcome to eco india summit that i've heard. let's start in india as i t. how big for the last 2 decades new economic prospects have of course meant more and more migrants making their way to the city but it's also next to a shop be crees and access to the most basic of facilities like water electricity

and cooking gas to name just a few and organization in the city is helping hard to reach families by empowering their women to create this access themselves but to help. the. luxury is familiar with housework she doesn't just care for her family she also works as a domestic helper in bangalore. but it's her 2nd job that changed her life after some training luxury become a clean energy entrepreneur. for the past 3 years she has been selling products like solar lights and cooking appliances in a community an informal settlement in eastern bangalore. outing to list them but a lot of people who have been living in the community for 18 years have always known me but a lot of the new people don't know me and that is when the neighbors started

telling them about mean that i sell clean energy appliances like lamp school course effect the all have my phone number now so the new will forks also calling me saying that they have just moved and they also need appliances for their home care that them or that i am about have met out. me mainly sells solar lambs it means families are no longer dependent on kerosene they need light in the evening for cooking and for their children to do homework. are healthier and more environmentally friendly than kerosene lamps and cheaper in the long run. one lamp costs between 11 and 33 euros depending on whether it is a simple light or if it also has a radio a lot of money for the inhabitants of the slums but achievable with a 5 week interest free payment plan. the idea of low income migrants came from all in aid group

a social enterprise working to address gender equality climate change and poverty alleviation. clean energy is one aspect of an improving situation in the slum the population here is constantly increasing for we're doing 2 years no one has seen a steady rise of interstate migrants arriving and looking for jobs. like shot on them and a family they moved here from the state good bugger district. whatever else the work there is farming work but it's difficult to live on so people would sit at home with a lot of loans to pay we don't have much land as well and had difficulties that's why we came here but living in tents it's difficult to access bathrooms and toilets or getting water for domestic use and sleeping in such a small space is a challenge when children grew up. most of the migrants here live in harsh conditions and small checks often but the water and electricity the multi-ethnic

city of bangalore also known as a bungalow is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. who would really start market and the market is thought dynamic there are. these. low income households or low income people. the only option that they find are. these informal settlements and most of these informal mines are again on certain unused lines and because they are informal. you don't get any other services. a score to settle a man's are found close to construction sites or industrial areas open definition is a common practice in the problem of indoor air pollution is rampant natural lighting and cross ventilation inside homes on and on affordable luxury the hygiene situation in these communities is bad and women who bear the brunt of it.

the men confined to these communities and they do not have the ability to move beyond their communities the fundamental problem starts from the fact that they have no access to and even these basic wages and the men typically don't want to be anything in the family so the. small jobs around please provide for the family now at the moment the access to resources so no then their access to any product that can help improve their living conditions is also. with their approach to. women. so that they can act independently with their job complement a monthly income by 25 to 50 percent depending on how much. it has enabled her to take the 1st step out of poverty moving out of. and into a book a home next to her community. my children have suffered

a lot i have and i had to ask them to wake up. before sunrise but now we have our own toilet in but it's up to us now they can do their daily activities according to the. 900. sales agents in their communities they have improved not only their own living conditions but have also made a significant change for many people living in the slums like. a migrant from district sense she has had a solo lamb. and that of a. children has improved their no longer use kerosene. they may no back at all back to the law on some days we would travel out of curiosity and had to be without life tell we were able to get it again back then we didn't have mobile phones to use us torches we would cook and eat in love and darkness in

reality the solar lights have not only lit up my home but also my life in a very keep in mind. it is unlikely the people here will receive support from a total days in the near future to improve living conditions in the magazine these informal settlements but solar appliances do give them the chance to live a better life without kerosene they're healthier and there's less damage to the environment a step in the right direction at least. we all want those new dreams that pretty top and that stunning jacket fast fashion this addiction nobody every year we buy an estimated $56000000.00 tons of. great consumed in the developed world but it has a devastating impact on the cities of developing countries. like the south indian city is a hub for the clothing industry and industry which is now destroying the region's

once. more you must become a dumping ground before all this for. as long as. humans are interested in reading plots this national exist. for shopping. the only place for textiles in india is to poor no where else do you if your wedding shopping come to to europe or how did our desire to be fashionable this one sleepy town and if they could into a toxic environment be nice. if

you have a one. with a maid and this is probably where it came from. do pool on the banks of that ivanov is a city in southern india up to 90 percent of the country's cotton textile exports and more than half its knitwear exports originate here. the global retailers that's lost clothes i usually large western corporations. as all the major. medical. but there is now all too famous for the state of it's drivel this is one of the it's green these views are bang on this one fake of drivel smells and is soft one of chemicals but if. so how did things turn out like this. just a few decades ago the duple was almost entirely farmland growing primarily cotton

so when small textile factories began to set up here in the late 1970 s. follows gave up their livelihood and joined the trend. like commodity i saw me good runs a garment factory insulted and has seen the city transform. the small village now worth $200.00 were city. district of corpus. employing about more than 1500000 people without a plea any better be any country maybe india with so much of been spoke english and really need to invest because. the textile industry here is what is called a cluster around a house in small to mid-size independent garment factories like that as armies exist alongside dying bleaching and embroidery units together they bring in

a revenue of 250000000000 do please almost 3000000000 euros a year. industrial scale tech setbacks have also been set up but it's the small to mid-size facilities that make up the majority. starter. model me myself. more that. there will be so much of an impact as far as the pollution is concerned are one stage 2 more that really spoiling the in my mind. will be a brain into the it were noel is 180 kilometers in length and has long been considered sacred as a non-issue as the region and sustains at least 2000000 people before draining into the famously. as the oil flows through the growing cities though it gets short with household and plastic waste. but the most harmful

pollutants enter the liver in the industrial cluster. 2020 study found high levels of copper zinc lead and other carcinogenic metals in the water. that could leave long term effects on the land local people and life stuff. this is the water that goes to people fields. people who have been drinking for bathing. and starting. in 2011 the state high court stepped in managing all manufacturers to set up wastewater treatment plants most have complied but activists say many manufacturers who can't afford to clean up their chemical waste continue to dispose of it illegally sometimes under the cover of darkness or in

areas that are 2 or more truck constant monitoring. pit we don't sin it was one of the activists. to convince the court to take action but he says the burden of cleaning up this we count only fall on the little guys. this dying and bleaching doesn't exist in developing countries because they don't want to follow the water if somebody raises the issues of pollution in the europa in north america people very suddenly there will be a knee jerk reaction from the cooperation then they'll say no no no no we're not so thing from your we'll source from by the levees as if everything is fine there have been several sources from we have now our resources from sorry now that i did do this. is not paid to kill. he says that developed countries are outsourcing their pollution and the social consequences of this extend well beyond this city. the

brunt of the impact of the moment of pollution has been fierce debate the farmers and i would have some communities basically lost the fertility of their story their loss they have kept their loss they have grown bored of the sources and the income has gone. and. b. then a few years they lost everything. downriver neal one of the do dams in the know is that the impact of this is most severe. i did a visit to order to buy liam down which has been polluted for decades. does it a porch of over 800000 fish dying you know in just a single. that was over 15 years ago when the flood gates were opened but even today the water is polluted the desert what is blanketed in water hyacinth plants indicators of heavy metal pollution they also took the entire river system below.

3 farmers who were on their morning walk on the dam approached me and began describing what had happened to the river they grown up beside. the net when i was 15 or so we used to drink this water but it's been dirty for 30 to 35 years now but they say many people have jobs on the other side but what good is that if the water is contaminated. there's a saying in time you know it's like selling your eyes and buying a movie. one of the funnels david invited us back to his home with me he used to live here as a subsistence farmer but over the past 20 years things have changed dramatically here but at the back then there was cotton rice sugar cane corn lots of crops. and. now the ground is so contaminated by the water that we don't have any of those crops anymore now we don't grow anything just coconuts. he says though the

yield of his coconut trees has dropped by at least 30 percent because of the water so now he imports coconuts from other indian states and hires laborers to break and try them before he sells the parts mainly to the coconut oil industry you know in the market. it started with coconut oil became fashionable in markets around the world. but no matter how much business we do we need water that's the main thing. i have money for everything i need now but it's not enough. and what will it be like in the future for our children. it's only getting worse and what is in the bill is in a jumble of. since the court order more than 100 treatment plants have been established some are in individual factories others are common treatment plants

which treat wastewater from several small scale facilities more than 1000000000 liters of water every day the government subsidizes a large part of the operating costs i visited a common treatment plant where $18.00 small dying units send their waste water for treatment. my family in this use was saving the favor at some point. the small dying operations do have to be a part of the treatment and they still need to stay competitive many have seen a steep drop in their profit margins sometimes down by 15 percent. so many of the facilities have moved out of. either to other states or even just beyond the district border where the court doesn't apply. the number. dying units and didn't put has declined from over 700 at its peak around full 100 at the moment the district has taken a financial hit even as the neuer has become somewhat cleaner. i'm

going up to the source a bit of which is in front of predicted what is to say what this looks like it is that it will fall. just a vision the minute drive from the easternmost city on the river the landscape is completely different. i mean it's the same we have of. him i think. but. i wonder what about the future of this river and the many stakeholders involved shouldn't corporations that's sole step products from the area better grade to share of the financial burden of the state to be more vigilant and why don't the good requirements apply across the entire country. they live downstream could one day become some version of this but with the modern falling on the fly number of

people in the long end if this is going to become a case where history repeats itself another bit and in another place. and this is already happening industrial farms are being set up across inviting more small businesses to develop small towns so do i want new clothes yes but after seeing what my claws are doing to business and all the systems of support i wonder if it's not mine and our collective responsibility to make sure that this doesn't result in the destruction of all of this. if you like that story and want to learn more about sustainability our new you tube challenge d.w. planet is just the right please make sure to check it out. now growing cities need to make an important choice really work with nature and be sustainable or will they work against it and be extracted delhi for example. from tokyo

as the world's biggest city by 20 with the population steadily growing towards 40000000 people for cities like new concepts for mobility sustainability and urban planning and sooner rather than later there are already some you know way to ideas for what the cities of the future could look like let's take a look. mushrooming megacities are a global phenomena there are now 3 times as many areas with $10000000.00 plus residents as just a few decades ago. but cities grow so to their problems. that cities are microcosms of society who can observe all the opportunities in. challenges in a very small space like under a looking glass and. the biggest conurbation on the planet is greater

tokyo population 38000000 followed by jakarta with around 34000000 delhi mumbai manila and shanghai each home to more than 20000000 people as are the biggest metropolis is in latin america sao paolo and mexico city. traffic is a major problem in megacities but there are new ideas out there on how to tackle it . we're also used to cars that we can't imagine cities without them anymore but if we were to experience that we wouldn't want to go back to cars at an artist's point. this is how cities might look in future if different kinds of road users were separated one road is for fast moving aleck critically eccles another for pedestrians cyclists and scooters with the 3rd a promise not reserved for pedestrians only. welcome to woven city

a project under development by japanese carmaker toyota a prototype city and living laboratory for cutting edge technologies. here all vehicles will be self driving and run on electric power or hydrogen the mini city itself will be powered by solar and geothermal energy with everything coordinated centrally by ai technology. it's been designed for a population of 2000. people all the kluger that we need at smarter ideas about how people can move around. in a city with 5000000 residents and 3000000 cars that are idle 90 percent of the time you just need to do the math. so that you could probably reduce the number of cars by 80 percent. going with a smart sharing system people could still enjoy the same level of mobility and cinema. meanwhile at the other end of asia in saudi arabia there are plans for a new megalopolis knee arm

a linear city comprising 4 been hubs the pet project of the saudi crown prince is said to cost an estimated 500000000000 euros road and high speed rail transportation are all electric and underground. nicknamed the lie because it's meant to be 170 kilometers in length is designed to be carbon neutral with a 5 g. network driving all manner of applications. right now it's a thinly populated and undeveloped area. we want to create sustainable infrastructures and stimulate economic activity. which will in turn create new kinds of jobs and economic development in saudi arabia. the country is seeking alternatives to its oil based economy neon should also boost tourism and attract startups and media production companies the entire city's

energy requirements are to be supplied from renewable sources. have a huge amount of sunlight and ideal wind conditions so our energy system will run exclusively on primary energy. grids energy will then also be used for desalination . because water is a big problem here. is an acronym for a new future the plan is to create a city for 1000000 people in just 10 years but is that really feasible. to combine them if the 2 projects have something in common it's that they're not what was originally hoped for blueprints and reality are miles apart the projects assume a managerial perspective which ignores the fact that cities are more than just infrastructure. what draws people to living is not something you can plan just like that i. know who city and me on 2 visions of eco

friendly high tech cities where people can actually enjoy life but will they actually get off the ground to. cities like the land they're built on our finite in need to like we just saw new innovations which make sure our cities thrive sustainably are the need of the hour what i hope to be is short give you some perspective on the burden on our cities and what we can do to reduce it that's all we have for today i'll see you again next week with a brand new episode of equal india for what entire team in india and germany good buy.

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we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. corner chip. hot spot for some. and some great cultural memorials to boot. hello and welcome to in good shape let's break it to boot and let's talk about sex and oh you don't want to talk about sex. come on i know we do live in the hyper

sexualized world but nobody wants to talk about it especially in japan. there's something out of the ordinary on today's curriculum at tokyo's corner and middle school sex education in a country where modesty is a major virtue the approach to teaching young people about weak production is on the conservative side. pull those sexualized manga comics and love hotels are very prevalent here sex education is largely a to been subject you know nothing i can't talk about it at home i don't have any older siblings either and. there are certain topics that they don't discuss in-depth at school. on the internet to put on the internet there are lots of sites with age restrictions that we manage to get around so we can look at. our. sexuality birth control and abortion topics that people are reluctant to talk about

. paradox sickly the name of sex education in japan seems to be to explain as little as possible. people who are afraid that too much knowledge about sex will lead to a rise in teen pregnancies but many girls get pregnant because of misinformation. as long as sexuality is not being discussed in the family i think it's the job of schools to educate kids about it. but if schooling on the subject is limited young people will remain ignorant about birth control and abortion and vulnerable to sexual exploitation and sexually transmitted diseases. that's why these mothers are attending now may know workshop. she gets right to the point when advising parents on how to cope with their pew best and children's interest in sex and graffiti in a country where many

a too embarrassed to talk about it. that's a lot of mothers have problems talking about the subject they never learned about themselves when they were young but they were this. the former nurse helps workshop attendees reduce their inhibitions and gain confidence the 1st step is to make them uncomfortable with the issue in what is a calm and make back the sphere. that i didn't know anything when i got my 1st period i thought it would happen just once and then it would be over my family cook traditional red rose for the occasion i had no idea what was going on. thanks to the workshop and an educational card game asako she finds it much easier to teach her daughter about sex so that she is now better prepared for the transition from childhood to adulthood.

that's right we don't cover it in school. but i now understand that it's better to learn about it because if i know how babies are made then i know how i can have a baby. she's now received the orientation that so many 10 year olds in japan have not and yet it's a fundamental aspect of life. and i will now meet. their members of the group safely in the house and in the times of the novel coronavirus it's very important to protect yourself not only during sex but during a talk on the inside so i'm going to wear a mask because i'm treating patients with the coronavirus that would protect myself and protect the us.

our motto is knowledge is sexy the more i know about sex the more a know what i want and what i don't want paul things for having me today so let's talk about sex. tell me something about your work so what are you doing in berlin very group of like 35 to 50 people and we go to class 4 of us all 5 if we are in a class for 4 or 5 hours without the teachers so it's a peer to peer concept like our 1st time is not that much time ago like the teachers ones maybe. we're just going to be there for one day so just think about different cultures if you take a look to japan they are afraid that if they have very much 6 education that there will be an increased number of unwanted pregnancies in germany we want to have

a lot of sex education to prevent the pregnancy so what's true we think that education is better and we think. when we do the sexual education we're trying to provide safety for the kids. with them about sexual health and pregnancy prevention. i think that is a lot better not doing it at all can you. give me some questions you were asked to use 60 declensions often the question this hour asked. if you can get pregnant when you have anal sex we try to like use questions like this to 1st say you can't get pregnant why do you have a not enough sex. because there is no connection between the anus and literals so you can't get pregnant so it's

a very scientific point of view but i can imagine that there's a lot of glue inside the classes where absolutely we often laugh too and obviously the kids are like oh no they're going to talk about sex but then usually at some point they're like oh yeah i have this question and i really want to answer it but sometimes kids are just not interested and we always say ok if you want to take part in this you can but you don't have to now that's ok too yeah ok so it's not a typical classroom situation then exactly what about is to do 6 elections maybe diseases it's an issue to us there's sometimes the question if you can get hiv for example if you kill somebody if it's hiv positive and we always respond with no you can drink out of the same glass as somebody that has hiv you can kiss that person to get actually the viral viral load for

hiv that's going to possibly infect you you know you would need to drink a whole bath tub full of spit or it's kind of disgusting you know we also use those to like working against off being a positive person there's always some people that are asking oh can you get pregnant or can you get hiv if you swim in a pool that somebody ejaculate in for example and know you care and the same. as you can get pregnant from having oral sex for example whether a lot of myths around the topic of sex so let's 1st have to look at this man's. penis size. is there a correlation between the length of a man's penis and other body parts say his nose. or feet. scientists check that out and know there's no correlation between shoe size and

penis length. does masturbation make you sick it's an astonishingly pervasive myth but researchers say there's nothing to it. during sex and masturbation our bodies increase the production of indoor friends and oxytocin these hormones are natural mood boosters and relieve stress. and regular ejaculation may reduce man's risk of prostate cancer. so when it comes to masturbation there's yet another health benefit. his homosexuality a disease current research shows that homosexuality is not a lifestyle choice and certainly not a disease. the sexual orientation is complex but science suggests that homosexuality has a strong genetic component. one large study found a handful of genetic variants that appear to be linked to same sex behavior.

and those genetic variants could even be important for the survival of the human species. at least one study has suggested that one of the genes linked to male homosexuality is also linked to higher fertility in women. so preserving that gene within a population would make good sense from an evolutionary perspective. so let's talk about contraceptives the situation with the penis inside. vagina what can you use for contraception so there's different ways you can use the ones but give you a parry are for example the condom for males are the female condom well i think everybody's familiar with the use of a condom for men but what about a female condom one of the. the fee might come this fall person have a vagina and your clothes are pushing down part to bather and.

yes so this is inside the vagina yeah and why is it better than the it's better because you can decide for soft or not you don't have to depend on the other part. so what else can you use while you can use condoms and a female condom also prevent s.t.i. it's then you have diaphragm this it's on top of the uterus basically and holds back the sperm and then you have. hormonal contraception so the pill for example or a hormonal implant. or the vaginal ring all of that while this is implanted usually in the arm and then the vaginal ring are inserted and it emits hormones and then you also have

a copper coil the copper coil sits inside the uterus so this is going to be implanted by your doctor and it keeps you relatively safe for about 5 years. for many women worldwide the 1st time puts them under a lot of pressure in many cultures women are expected to enter marriage as a virgin. this so-called time and it's often used as proof. if it's intact let's take a look at the truth behind this thin layer of mystery. isn't this talent untouched woman is may need to find virginal membrane in. her cherry unpicked wow what an innocent piece of skin people say this is the sign of a version. than them. along comes the man. armed with his knife. the white innocence the virginal membrane is destroyed

gone forever up bloody long. wake up because this is total nonsense. in real life you never know if you're high and this is liable strands she is a gynecologist. it doesn't even have to be broken because it's not a close man breaking that covers but china. think about it how could girls even bleed once a month of this was totally closed. the hymen lives somewhere around here at the entrance to the vagina. to how human it's more like carrying a very berry elastic if you have no penetrative sex or you must obey that then it's going to be stretched and if it's not stretched for

a while then it's going to go back to the original shape. it might look like a band of tissue across the center ring shaped like you see or like a crescent to name just a few possibilities. there are few girls though that do have a hymen that's close to. it's not so typical or it doesn't happen so often a close tie in one can make problems when men straight because then the blood can go out from the trial but that's not a big problem you just should think a doctor who is going to open it a little bit and then everything going to be fine. what's important here it's perfectly natural and normal that you're home in a household and your home is always there you don't lose it it just stretches but it stays where it is. so it's total nonsense when people talk about breaking the

hymen or popping the cherry that subtly absurd forget about that but just a big lie no one can tell from your home if you're a virgin or not that's just not possible because it can also be a stretch with other things like for example with sport. but still there are these very expensive surgical options to reconstruct the hymen. they say they glue are so your membrane back together. these surgeries are nonsense there's not something like the one shape of the heinemann so if nothing has to be broken why should we remove something. some girls also put capsules of artificial blood into their vagina to simulate bleeding. you don't know what's in these rarely quits so they were trying there's a very daily carrot and complex system i don't think it's like. to tough it with

things which could be toxic. so why do so.