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profound effect not just on the company when the interest you retain thinking if i do something. significant what he did with all the office skills and. you know how it had him. it's a lesson in how humans and nature can co-exist in mutual appreciation. and up next on data news it is world story so just stay with us if you can for that i'm sorry kelly and berlin thank you for watching take care. this week on world stories in russia back seen 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
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coronavirus pandemic is hitting the poor especially hard many have lost their jobs that are struggling to feed their families. fairly or 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 overnight me. goma's lives enough for valor of around a 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
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for employment after the government's imagine c. 8 ended and the number of people seeking our help tripled because so many people didn't have any support anymore and it. up. 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 years more than doubled many families stopped cooking with gas and started using firewood 27000000 brazilians live in extreme poverty renate tom daley has been researching the featherless for 20 years . noel to pull the 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
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more people to the marginalised areas in the past year it's not ethical the 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 modern 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
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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 stud the fast just north of paris is one of more than 100 new huge vaccinations and just across the country all have escalated on a combined effect this is a mega operation we are now able to administer mass vaccinations in the center we will inoculate about $10000.00 people per week them neatly organized be a part of a national effort to end this crisis. people here are relieved 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
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per 100000 inhabitants each week. that as well and 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 rangitoto to live without social contacts that's inside the department of sense and the knee is 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 co 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. by people longer booklet after all when
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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. 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 in moscow comes with a dose of the russian sputnik by taxing this business model is gaining momentum in russia and demand is high especially among german charts which. was a tiny needle prick and a covert 1000 vaccine sputnik v enters heintz get pinker nels bloodstream. it certified as being highly of acacias. pinker know as one of several germans who pay
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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 pull the 4 day trip to moscow. they return at the beginning of may for a 2nd job. then dutch are coming but 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 it. the media are out in force to meet the would be vaccine nees russia's government is happy too it wants sputnik v to be a top export 60 countries have certified it for use the european union is more
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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 at least have work for some of our stuff and generate some revenues we otherwise wouldn't have and for russia that'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 news or the. sun but you move they should come to russia where the best. with them let them have their vaccinations are vaccine is
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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 corona virus 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 various. stages of lockdown over the last year swedes have been skiing shopping dining and drinking restrictions in swedish restaurants mean giving customers space and closing at 8 pm i think we have
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taken away a round hole for the tables so we have one meters per bank 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 here taking it we were a case. just to feel the freedom the architect of this model state epidemiologist anders techno who did basically the same as many other countries we did it sounds like a different way we're all trying to do things we don't have strived maybe a bit more than novices to pinpoint what exactly we do we need to throw stones but technology 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 australia even germany and sweden these them on the $5.00 to $10.00
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countries for at least excess mortality seen 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 nell 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 inc especially minorities you're seeing people who are probably in lower paying jobs service industry jobs must take public transportation their 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
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a possible public health problem if they make it more tighter that everyone should make it should wear a mask that would be very important and maybe we could have spare some life a new emergency law gives the government temporary power to impose a lockdown but it hasn't been used 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 enders ted now he represents the like these different kind of way to handle a 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 i grew blood support isn't likely to fade quickly last year he immortalized the epidemiologist on his epidermis. od.
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back at his eventual korea as a cultural ambassador. march 21. next on d w. gene energy from hydrogen a brilliant idea hydrogen if you disagree times as much energy as petrol does a mission free. bridge using this teen fuel consumes a massive amount of energy is the end of the dreams other green hydrogen powered loves to morrow to dictate the name 60 minutes on d w. in many countries education is still a privilege poverty is one of the main causes some young children work in mind
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trophy stuff going to close and use can attend classes who might have to be finished shooting. millions of children all over the world who can't go to school. we ask why. because education makes the world more just. make up your own mind. w. made for minds. i'm a citizen of the world that's certainly because of my own biography i was led breslau during the bombardment i grew up in a small town and libraries where how i got to know the world of the book i visited north africa as a schoolboy i was always drawn to foreign countries because i had this curiosity
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