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tv   Frag den Lesch  Deutsche Welle  May 6, 2021 1:45pm-2:01pm CEST

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returned earlier than that one quarter sisters have added class divisions to their ice cream parlor and preparation so that they can work without wearing a mask oh yeah. you. ask. i don't know you have covered the song you know we have to work and we want to work that we have to be safe and so do our customers you know what. capri was known for its beautiful waters stunning cove and hidden caves. i fancy has spent countless hours varying visitors around. certain tourist will be back soon thanks to the vaccine was to go. with all of this to the philosophy of our region which is that you have to be a barrel. because it makes more sense when it is empty of what you have bought. their dream island of capri waiting purpose
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a chance to return. everyone in the bosnian capital city of war probably knows him the partisan of bloody me a volatile period he was part of the communist resistance that fought against the germans in the balkans right before the end of world war 2 and he was particularly active in the city of saturday of war after the war of alta became a superhero even in comics. so how it sure once the keeper vaulters memory alive and with it the fascination for comics. evil nazis and heroic partisans every child growing up in the former yugoslavia knew the story while to defend sarajevo as well as a film it was a comic book that had millions of fans around the globe. comics were hugely popular
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in the former yugoslavia and alya shaliach hopes to preserve this tradition he has been a comic enthusiastic childhood he founded design publishing company this courtyard in sarajevo is home to a coffee comics as well as a shop which sells comic books and graphic novels there really it is more of a refuge within the dallas fort worth i do think anyone in bosnia today would enter the comic book trade purely as a business venture the work of a 3 point you need to love comics so aside from the fact that i'm trying to earn my living from it folks this is about my passion for comics in this series of is also an attempt to leave a few traces behind me that to especially to reawaken a lot of comics and kids go through the look of you. children can bring in a comic they've already read and exchange it for another show how it ends nothing from this but he says that's not important he's too busy trying to salvage whatever
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he can his collection of comics is now larger than the one held by boston his national library. in the 1960 s. seventy's and eighty's if everyone in yugoslavia read comics it was organized by the state in the schools supported it or maybe a little less but little compared to today. the print runs were incredible it was the way through the darkness the break of yugoslavia also spelled the end of this comic culture since then sales have been sluggish back in the early seventy's a comic is you could easily sell 800000 copies. today young artists like and it's cheech ish have a tough time living from their work. while you bring to the astar course twaddle is who were there are a couple of enthusiastic to do it because it's their passion or 3 the sunni reason
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for still any type of scene here reporter work over there is comic book authors and illustrators unfortunately look for jobs and side of bosnia and herzegovina valley . chief says the market has been decimated even though the internet is creating new opportunities he says what's missing are publishers like shall each and his publishing company. is doing with a graphic comics so with the publishing house on the comic book store there's a good step towards creating what bosnia lacks or what kind of platform you can work with. as a platform or watch it rog develop a gothic comics has brought out a new edition of wall to defend sarajevo the story has also been republished in german and chinese in china the tale of walter the resistance fighter who took on
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the nazis is well known chinese tourists visiting sarajevo flocked to his memorial there though until the end the nazis never knew who walter was you know who walter is tell me his name at once. i will show him to you. you see the answer to. this is falter. in sarajevo walter is once again a symbol of resistance now against the political corruption that paralyzed bosnia for decades. within those who were the more people are sick of having to just survive on their own. and walters message to fight for others to fight for others' lives and all of us work with the other to make something of our lives here in south review and in bosnia i mean his optimism in the face of all odds is
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reminiscent of walter's message never give up even in times of great resistance we now want to take you to the caspian sea to a region where you can actually find sea monsters and know we're not talking about any last message monster but about a huge metal vessel designed to scare off enemies during the cold war this man played an important role in the project. is a retired engineer and he remembers the time when he used to ride the waves on the caspian sea months. colossal quittin dangerous this monstrous vehicle part ship part airplane is on a beach by the caspian sea in the republic of dagestan. trying to plan or screened later design for military use presumably against the west.
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virginia served as flight engineer on test flights for the winship were grown to think the of course there generically no really this one is called the caspian sea monster. what we get into i operated the propulsion units from here it's a great machine just incredible. the 1st wing ship was designed in the 1960 s. it was meant to guard russia's coastlines and fight enemy ships costing undetected by radar thanks to a slow flight this uses the ground effect here a dynamic interaction with the surface beneath the wings create just enough lift to carry the 380 ton giant a few meters above the water. but it never saw genuine service 14 years after the caspian sea monsters launch the soviet union collapsed and test flights were ended. with only
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a bit of the. good without hardly words. darkie we were so proud of our country at the time for developing such let's call them products unlike what any other country in the world hunt you from what it was written at the natural it wasn't a monster there was a problem or thought. even plans to use their credit plan to carry passengers because it didn't need long runways or airports. up to gleam of stiff 14 years of his life to the plan. he logged a bit more than 500 hours of flight time which she says is not much for a professional test pilot but the flights were anything but easy something always went wrong the prototype had only been built for test flights. 3 was nic do we have various firefighting protocols and event of an accident. if we just want
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to be honest we never once had to use them. with the new rich of us. today the caspian sea monster stands near bent a 2 hour drive from whom. the now retired flight engineer is proud to have been the only dagestani on the team of soviet researchers. hardly any photos remain from this time of them after all it was a top secret soviet military project. but it was the only non party member they took on but they would have gone the other coworkers were communists. when the head of our test pilots division found out about taks he was shocked. at how could a nonparty member have become a crew member. we could push. today party membership means nothing the country allergy of. the soviet union
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is history and the colossal winship is destined to serve as an attraction park a tourist site planned on the caspian sea coast. the woman ok much though. everything is ruined. the work of so many designers and engineers. at least it's still standing here but we will rather that there was talk about dismantling it for scrap the new smaller go buy milk i hope it'll help young people understand what fantastic technology we had and what a great country but what if i tell you and i hope that will help to feel proud of this country and its people not obama's. and soothe the caspian sea monster faces a very different mission in today's russia to bear witness to the one time power in
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greatness the former soviet union. well that's all we have time for today but we'll be back with war stories and reports next week up to see you then take care and then back.
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to. enter the conflict zone the government chose sri lanka has been strongly criticized the un human rights council which move them into gear aging situation in the country i mean greece marginalize ation of minorities my guest this week is john f. column a year such each history lanka's foreign ministry is the only johnson is dumb enough
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a citizen. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. this is the view from berlin in the fight against covert 19 of the world's richest countries finally bowing to pressure after the us backs plans to wage corona virus vaccine the e.u. says let's talk it's being held as a historic moment by the w.h.o. but it's only a 1st step in the push for a more effective vaccine distribution. freedoms for
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