the, the news this is the w news lies from compulsory vaccines. the freedom to choose, france makes jobs mandatory for health workers. germany says it will leave it up to people. so this johnson says, for think shot could undermine public trust. also coming up with a fire in iraq, the hospital kills dozens of corona virus. patients ongoing questions mounted over how this could happen. well, the 2nd time this year and the migrant being used as a political poll. the 20th,

foreign minister tells us they have proof that ruth is helping refugees across the board to get back at the use. ah, i'm gonna have f as well come to the program, france and greece introducing mandatory vaccination for health care workers to tackle increasing corona virus infection rates on monday, week prime minister. so talk is ordered, all staff and hospitals and retirement homes to book an appointment before mid august. he says, the country is not going to close down because of the attitude of some people in france. president, my call has announced a september deadline for medical workers to be inoculated. and he said the option of making vaccination, compulsory for every citizen is also on the table. you do live, we must move towards the vaccination of every one in front just because it's the

only way to return to normal life. initially for nursing and nursing staff and retirement homes, clinics in the hospitals establishments for people with disabilities. for volunteers who work in contact with elderly or fragile people, including at home vaccination will be made compulsory without delay. we'll get to our sophomore and that i'm not joined by our parents correspondent lisa louis. lisa, what's your reaction among ordinary french people? for mesa, the friends are in favor of the complete compulsory vaccination for health workers, for those working with the vulnerable not only nursing and assistant nursing staff, assistant nurses and doctors little so you know, cleaning stylist, working at the reception desk and hospitals and in retirement. hence, they will now have until mid september to get the 2 jobs. if they don't,

they will lose their job and they won't receive any money any more to government said. now that will obviously lead to some of them getting vaccinated, as they told me, because they were just hesitant because they want to wait a bit longer and see what kind of effect side effects the box can have on others. but also there will be some of those people working on time and homes and hospitals that will then quit their job because they are just completely opposed to the vaccination. and even the government won't be able to convince them. so this compulsory job for health care well because it's not the only measure. nicole announces it. absolutely. he also announced that all of us age 12 and older will now be a so called planetary path slide is the certificate that says that we even got the 2 jobs or recently recovered from comb with 19 hole that we have a recent negative p c r test and we will need that part from next week or to get

access to cultural venue where there are 50 people gathered or more. and from early august on we will need that certificate to get access to reference and kept faith, and that terraces to shopping centers to train to claims and to long distance buses . basically those that don't get the vaccination will basically be excluded from social lives. it's like a personal lockdown for non vaccinated people. the government said that they now have the choice, not between vaccination and normal life, but between vaccination and normal life, or the locked down. and that's what the government really wants to prevent at all costs, especially as you know the very contagious bryant. the delta ride is on the right in front. so my counsellor amanda torres, explanation for each and everyone could be on the cards to. is that realistic?

well that's a possibility really here in france, you have already 11 vaccinations for other illnesses that are mandatory. however, when you think of possible sanctions, very difficult to figure out what that could be. i mean france can hardly kick out everybody that doesn't get vaccinated. it seems like the government is really trying to crack down on those that are not vaccinate, not by telling them you have to get back to dave. but if you don't, you just don't get access to anything that makes life enjoyable. hearing from lisa louis that. thank you lisa. meanwhile, in berlin, german chancellor glen marco says she sees no need to make vaccination mandatory. following a visit to germany's government agency for disease control and prevention, the chancellor said she believes many more people still want to get vaccinated. back says authorities now have to make both information and vaccines themselves. more accessible is comes as the speed of germany's vaccination campaign is slowing

down again. while the delta vary and has become the dominant strain in the country . that's a listen to what chance michael had to say. well that's, that's august. i wanted to say something to everyone who is still unsure about whether they should get vaccinated. vaccination protects not only you, but also always know if you are close to who are important to you whom you love. vaccination not only protect you from serious illness and pain, but also from the owner of the restrictions of our everyday life. the more who have vaccinated the free of we will be again, the free or we can live again the be does i and the fire can visit or leave political cause. one of them out of the south has been listening to america press conference that so what makes america so confident that her government will not manage to inoculate enough germans without making bark? since compulsory well, trying to learn about america is confident that they read a strong willingness within the population to get vaccinated. and she said that she

doesn't think that there would be a trust of people. and that this trust could be one through a mandatory vaccine. so she advocates a more gotcha called approach with more dialogue to explain to the population just how a vaccine could have prevent a search of infections or at least a search in serious cases of the coroner virus. it's not impossible, for example, with regard to the german constitution to implement meant actually vaccination, but it is widely unpopular and off the table at the moment. so that's quite a different approach to dot the french president, a manual my call, who will make the vaccine mandatory for medical personnel. but when it comes to, for example, measures such as showing a negative test vaccine pass or approve of recovery to access restaurants, places of socialization or cultural events. while this was always the case here in germany and uncle america said that this would go on for the time being quite,

i wanted, finally, a good supply of vaccines in germany, but the lack of willing to put them into. and now the authorities plan to boost as flagging and compare of bringing the jobs to the people, offering vaccines on the go. let's have a look at him of his stay with us. we'll be talking later what if you could get vaccinated with none of the hassle? no lines, no waiting, leaving your time to enjoy the lazy summer days. germany is scrambling for ideas to get more jobs into arms. so authorities are planning mobile units for people to get vaccinated spontaneously like here at berlin's temples. are faith park after a bit of a slow start to the vaccination campaign, we find we're now almost swimming in back to you. i mean, next nation centers and family doctors have enough. don't see. so what we're seeing now though is a certain amount of explanation, fatigue among the population. i didn't mention around 58 percent of germans have received at least one shot and 42 percent are fully vaccinated. but the campaign

slowing down at the same time. the more infectious delta variant has become the dominant strain in germany. politicians and healthcare officials are looking for answers they believe the answer is to get the vaccines to the people, not the other way around. like here in western germany, shoppers can get the job on the spot and with very little bureaucracy, from 3 to 5 minutes. great, finish up to go shopping, you see it and you say, oh, let's get vaccinated before i didn't even think about it before. i thought i'd wait another 6 months, but even this may not be enough to hold the delta variant. scientists sworn that hurt. immunity can only be reached when a beast, 85 percent of people are vaccinated. for now, it will probably take more than a few parking garages to get their models. so far,

the government has based most decisions in the fight against the pandemic on the number of infections per 100000 inhabitants only. and then after month of criticism, for many experts, that approach could now be changing how it could change the bank of america say that the incidence rate would remain important in assessing the situation. but she also said that we have to take into account the number of serious cases in those new cases and also take into account for example, the efficiency of the vaccine on the disease and especially how it reduces the number of serious cases. and of course, we have to monitor just how efficient the vaccine will be. not told me against the death variant, which is set to be the dominant berry and in the coming months, but also against new mutations, which are highly likely to happen. but here in germany does good ground for hope, with 84000000 doses of those back seen already given and more than 40 percent of the population already fully vaccinated him on that. thank you.

let's not take a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. officials in south africa and say the death toll from looting and protests has risen to 32 soldiers were deployed on monday to curb the unrest which was sparked by the imprisonment of former leader jacob. summa is now serving a 15 year sentence for contempt of court. a convoy carrying 900 tons of aid has arrived in the c o. b as take right region. the u. n. says some 400000 people on the brink of famine, a conflict has been raising their since november to defend for the say they have launched a new assault weeks off the government declared sci fi hotel collapse and eastern china has killed at least 8 people. authorities say several others were pulled alive from the rubble in the city of joe. a large scale rescue operation is now on the way the cause of the collapse on monday afternoon is being investigated. at

least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a fire broke out of the covert, 19 isolation unit in iraq is unclear exactly how the blaze began at the aisle. his same teaching hospital in this southern city of nasiriyah, the prime minister has ordered the suspension and the rest of a number of people, including the hospitals manager. what's left of the corona, virus, isolation ward. more than 60 patients were being treated here. when fire sweat through this unit at our hussein hospital in nasiriyah, taking everything in its path, the front door was burning in the back door was closed, people couldn't get out. but before the fire broke out, some of them managed to get out. and afterwards people were stuck inside and the

ceiling fell on them. we managed to take out some people, but they were suffering, and the rest of them burned and died. and now they are left counting the dead shod belongings. all that's left devastation everywhere. the horrors of what happened. hard to comprehend. it's still on clear how the fire started. some officials claim an oxygen tank exploded while others point to an electrical short circuit. this just the latest disaster to hit iraq is a tragedy, and i'm speechless. it looks like a rock again, have to suffer anguish and calamity as the

medical staff continue to treat the survivors some in a critical condition. the questions are already being asked. this is the 2nd time this year. a fire has killed corona virus patients at an iraq you hospital. the anger is mounting. his people here want on says from politicians blamed for years of mismanagement and neglect. too late, though, for the ones whose last spend nights and for those left behind. well, from on that i'm now joined by a journalist for it and back that for any updates on what has happened there. yeah,

the legacy told me we have a problem with the medical source of the forensic science department in the fall, but be more people still berrydunn, but the cha around a 100 would be started off with around 25. and now that people in the world war are coming out of shock. so any more indications of what exactly may have been the cause there. yeah, that's all that it was that it loads it off the didn't. can it really is the lethal makes with the way electricity cup? what's your time of the year? and faulty wiring all could freebies to the lethal clocked out. we're an explosion just killed many people instantly. we saw a similar fire explosion at

a hospital in april. already have the authorities done anything i'd have done enough to improve safety or spectacles. now will clearly not because i, when that tragedy happened, that, that the prime minister at the time who is currently battled heading before an election in october, really little capitol live on the line. he had order that the time that all buys the electrical go all the safety images across all of the iraq possible. not just the fact that the check on and recently maintained that clearly hasn't happened for a cobra patients to go in and come out. that is really calamity that embodies what's happening in iraq of the tell us briefly, how is the cobra 900 situation in iraq at the moment it's been spiking to get

like majors. i think they've trepidation skepticism regarding the vaccine. there's only one percent that have been fully likely that their country of 40000001 of the biggest countries in the middle east, close to your island that has been ravaged by the corona virus as well. all of that is contributed to around 8000 my 1000 cases, the date. and you've had more than 1400000000 types of the total that can make it stop being iraq is battling with aly infrastructure to help them, especially the let the favorite over many decades of corruption visual happen blank, especially tonight that corona as to with what journalists, so it's very in the back that there for as many things miscellaneous is accusing.

bella russo using migrants from the middle east as political weapons and it's ongoing dispute with the european union. it says many helping thousands of people to illegally cross its border into the u. this year. the 20th foreign minister will fly to iraq. later this week to discuss migration in an attempts to defuse the pressure. he says, bela ruth is trying to crank up was waiting for the fate to be decided. these migrants hoped for a new start in the european union. for now, they're housed in temporary camps, like this one near the bellow, routine border. they've just crossed the body guard service says more than $1500.00 migrants have a legally entered lithuania this year, most in the last month and many from countries in the middle east and africa. some say they flew to the valerie in capital minsk and then paid for help across the

border. but i'm, i think i get somebody to get up there. but to me, to those, i think it was about them, showing me the way told me go from this way, or then i will delisa wayne in government. and critics of the bella ruffian regime, say these migrants are being used as a tool to put pressure on the years. they say the bellow roost authorities helping them legally cross into a territory acuteness to play an attempt at revenge by alexander lucas yankers regime. on lithuania and the whole european union for the support of civil society in ballard to go out. on friday, lithuania started building a razor wire fence along the bell every scene border. the government says this is the 1st stage before they build a board,

a wall. a little in is foreign minister claims that the res offense along the border isn't necessary to counter the hybrid threats, posed by illegal crossings into the u. gabriela son's beggars spoke to the ws brussels bureau, see for like some of them minister, lance burgess in recent weeks. lisa, when you have seen a growing number of migrants from the middle east, from africa, coming into the country from belarus, and you say that location please using migrants as a weapon against the european union. what evidence do you have? we have to take into account that during the last year after the stolen collection, luca shanker has been credibly abusive towards. it is the distance to the point where people are no longer able to wear clothes, white, red, and white. so with that alone, we can a certain we can be certain that that for people to travel from baghdad or

a stumble to 2 minutes, stay several days and minutes and then to travel to the european border while listening and polish latvian without the knowledge of the russian government would be simply impossible. we have evidence, a concrete evidence of beliefs and border gods who facilitate the travel of a group of refugees and even tried to disguise their, their footprints on the ground or their entering their living in territory. so it is rather clear that this is a hybrid weapon of thoughts using used against the european union in order for europe to, to change its policies. and people actually are just as i would say, as a human shield for the regime in order to force its policy on to europe. and those migrants are apparently, as you said, boarding flights to means from iraq from turkey have authorities. there have been turning a blind eye to what's going on. i'm traveling to, to baghdad in, in

a few days in order to find a solution. and solution can, has to be, to way 2 ways. one thing is that we need governments and use actually support in order to inform people that they are being lied to, their being promised and easy passage to europe. where to free life in, in europe. this is not going to happen. the 2nd thing is we need to find a way for people to come back. it is very important because if the route is not stopped, then not only saying it, but other countries that germany would be, again, facing waves and waves of refugees who i legally traveling to and entering europe. and you country have to close a state of emergency and it's now building away the wire burial and it's border to be loose. it's deb necessary with this will. yes. because we have to take into account that not only this is a hybrid threat to nathaniel european union,

but in few months, lithuania and while european union will be facing a extensive military exercise that will be happening in bel russian territory where russian and bill russian troops will, will have an exercise for form that is called up at 2021. so we consider this is a very dangerous mix, having it regular migration that is forced into europe by, by the regime as well as military exercise. and the mix of that is a very prone to any source of provocation. therefore, we think that increased security of the border barriers military presence. i think there are necessary gabriella alons bagus, miscellaneous foreign ministers. speaking to us that now washington has denied, she was accusation that the us is to blame for an extraordinary wave of protests on the caribbean island. on sunday, people across cuba vented their frustration with the socialist government of food

and medicine shortages and record over 900 infections. president mcguire, the us come out, says us economic sanctions was stoking the unrest. yeah, these are the images, cuban, state tv, broadcast of sundays mass protests. the country is going towards was a comic crisis in decades. they got the 1000, took to the streets of havana and elsewhere, the process food and medicine shortages. cubans, president miguel deals come said it was the work of trouble may cause it. i love it. yesterday. they threw stones at police forces turned over cars on a totally vulgar, indecent, and told him couldn't behavior. have gotten the response of the protests and the scope, almost unprecedented in the history of the communist country. president diaz come l . same us function who,

the unrest you have been carrying out policies that mileage the human rights, someone to tie people for more than 60 years, and you intensify them in the midst of a pandemic. and now you want to present yourself of the big savior. lift the blockade, left 243 measures and we will see how we get along the way. us secretary of state anthony blank and says the cuban regime have no one to blame but itself, it would show that they simply are not hearing the voices and will of the cuban people. people deeply, deeply, deeply tired of the repression that has gone on for far too long. and president joe biden express followed. darcy with the protest of the united states stands firmly with the people, or q as they assert their personal rights. and because the government doesn't

accumulate, refrain from violence or attempt to silence the voice of people or cuba clients return to the streets of havana. on monday, the 4th not free security forces patrol the capital enlarge. number of mobile internet outages were frequent throughout the day. and access to many social media sites was blocked. before we go with some rather unusual images of wealth guy, diving fish, thousands of fish have been dropped from a plane into a lake. then the us states of utah, aerial fish stocking helps to restore populations in lakes where fish no longer naturally reproduce. up to 35000 fish can be loaded into a single flight. small size helps them live for long dive

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news. the news, the news in the leisurely lifestyle. china's tropical island paradise for surfers. but the country dream beaches aren't just about fun and relaxation. young surfers are trainings in the least national program. they're target olympic gold for china .

oh, the news. many right now in the world right now climate conference story. this is life less the way from just one week. how much was going to really go we still have time to go. i'm doing system, scribe or mormon is like the goal was right in front of them. they were all for this one moment. then suddenly, we agreed to postpone the or the games that took your 202021. from off course, during the qualifying ground. not least for sports heroes. actually it was

a slap in the face, but now we just have to fight there, mobilizing superpowers is going. i'm fired up and ready. count down, doing walk down the lucky go to tokyo, georgia july 19 dw, the me ah, the southern chinese island of high non it's home to the countries, new surfing industry used to be just a winter travel destination for retiree. that all changed. surfing offers, laid back lifestyle for some, for others, a chance at international sporting success

in 2007. darcy lee, you moved to high non from her home province and central china. she learned to swim and then took up surfing. it was the best move she'd ever made. a change anything. if it wasn't surfing, i might be leaving a normal life that mary to have kids. in st. louis city. yeah, just a basic knife. ah, but she ended up on a tropical island in the south china sea, 1300 kilometers away from home in the waves. now determined the course of her life. darcy made sports history in china. she was the

1st woman to take part in a professional, international surfing competition. today, she's brought us to her favorite practice spot. but we're not allowed to tell you where it is. i figure it there are no who tells here and no tourists. but it's a long way down to the water. the bays, calm surface is deceptive. there are large rocks below. and if you fall off your board and land on one, you could injure yourself. ah, darcy paddles out quite a way to find a good wave. but the effort is definitely worth it. ah, ah, darcy prefers to use a long board about 3 meters in length. this board allows her to ride smaller waves

for longer periods of time, so she can improve her technique. darcy retired from competitive surfing in 2014, to focus her attention on cleaning up china's polluted coastal areas. but she can't imagine a life without surfing. and this is the perfect place to do it for any are for the you know, you don't want to serve some where those deborah crowded. so this, the no one's out there and what are some of richard's good ways are consistent. so i got a lot of wasting our yeah, that was quite a workout. that evening darcy arrives at a local club where she works as a d. j. the place is packed with young people, both local residents and tourists from the mainland.

the weather is nice and people are made back by now and the students to enjoy life synergies to working. i love it. the in the club is a great place to relax and have fun. darcy introduces us to a young man, joe, who's just moved to high knob, and he's glad he did me. well, there are lots of problems with living in a big city, but there's no stress here. i feel relaxed and happy, all right. by wearing casing, the darcy started her shift at midnight. she's got a long night ahead of her. i like to share my music. here people. i wanted to see what i need to do. my name is dave from be free and come back with ourselves with their own body that day. the doors the wants of the crowd

to get the most out of her music. and to make sure that they do, she has to set the right mood. she calls herself the medicine woman and burns dried, said ruth, to give herself and her audience more energy. the party continued until dawn later that morning. surfers are already chasing the waves that g usa. they include members of china's olympic team, which was founded just a few years ago, a rigorous training program attract young people from all over china. jo washington is from fish, one, a mountain is province in south west china. the provincial government is picking up

the tab for him and several other boys to train here. your thing is and i want to do well, if i work hard, i could win the national championship some day. the. these young people develop their skills here for 6 to 8 hours every day. me and other provinces are also taking part in the training program. when some of these kids arrived here, they didn't even know how to swim, let alone serve i'd say is just 9 years old. but after 2 years of training, he can ride the waves like a pro. joe has also made

a lot of progress. the kids have to learn how to stay ahead of a moving wall of water yet i should just go to, i'm not during practice. you have to deal with lots of different ways in different conditions. you'll see, i mean, that will help you later on in competition because you'll know which waves are the good ones. talk of in the morning practice session is over now. joe and the others have worked up quite an appetite for lunch. there is no ball meat and vegetables coach. whoo. yeah. link says proper nourishment is a key part of the training program. made him out on the last. oh, actually get up at 540 every morning. i'll get to the 6. if the waves, the good, everyone goes we'll go running

at 830 the hold, all the band that has had perhaps these young athletes will one day compete and international surfing tournament, the best of them will join china as olympic team. another member of the 61 team, 11 year old young c cheese has already made the olympic squad is that i want to win the national championship and say, you know, i can say like, i tried last year. but i just wasn't good enough, but i couldn't get the title. there's a lot of young has the kind of determination that chinese sports officials just love to see and their athletes. right now i non is getting ready to host to the national serving championship. china's head

coach ma lie knows that his team will face stiff, international competition. you in other countries have strong staffing programs. we're just getting started. when we put together our 1st olympic staffing team in 2017 and we've still got a lot of work to do. i mean, the job will get better, all know, and we want to qualify for the 2024 limbeck know for oh, you know, we hang out to young athletes like jen and joe are part of china future when it comes to international surfing competition. and the coaches have to scout and develop even more new talent. 4th, officials have been scouring the country for promising candidates. the practice is over for the day. now the athletes will clean their boards and take

care of other maintenance path. most of these kids come from poor families, so surfing may provide them with a more prosperous future. but fish one head coach and leaching says that only the best of them will be allowed. stay at the camp. cleo young people move which is getting started to realize the whole family just didn't make the coffee high off where someone knew all they didn't like the training program. so you so so they let the gen and joe share a room in the dormitory. they say that their coaches are like parents to them. joe says he hadn't seen his mom and dad since he arrived at the camp. it's been 4 years now. do you miss them?

we're sure, but every sunday the coach gives us a cell phone and we do a video chat with our families and evening roll call. the coach analyzes the athletes performance. then everyone heads off to dinner. afterwards. it's time for bed. joe is one of 21 members of team fish. one many parents can't afford to visit their children here, but joe knows that his mom and dad are proud of him. that gives him confidence and keeps him working hard on his surfing skills. now we're going to leave the bay where the surfers practice and visit a different part of hi not this is lee hong young, a retiree,

who lived in beijing. let's spend a lot of time on the island tonight. lee is having dinner with friends. they propose a toast to the joy of living on a tropical island. all of these men are retired and they spend a few months on high non every year. the words for a state own food industry company and can afford to live well in retirement. so can the others here, are you? well, i come down here every once in a blue sky, white cloud, the sea and why you and you know what more kitty ones are especially now during the winter. if you want to live a long life, come to high, now. the food is great and outside the weather is warm. 25 degrees celsius. lee and his friends meet almost every evening. life is good and at least for lee,

it's anything but boring. the next morning he shows us why packing up for a trip to the beach where he'll show us a different kind of surfing. you'll see there are 2 kinds of people, those who wait to dance, authentic defined term. i prefer there's humor in that statement, but also a bit of truth. the wind is up today, so lee and his dog head off for the water lea won't let us take pictures of his apartment. he said people might get jealous the tie nuns, real estate market is booming. a lot of older buildings have been torn down to make room for new residential complexes. 100 square meter apartment on the popular south coast costs the equivalent of 800000 euros. construction companies

are thriving here, lee has traveled widely for business and for pleasure. he's been to europe and the united states. the on one of his trips he saw people kite surfing and decided he wanted to try it. he made his 1st attempt here on high non 5 years ago. lee and his friends can afford these kinds of vacation because they benefited from china. spectacular economic growth over the past several decades. ah conditions today are near perfect air temperature 26 degrees water 25 degrees.

ah, a dung has been waiting patiently for lee to return on their c sharp a year. i feel happy and free. gone, you know like a sailor are no. it's like i'm connected to the sea gardner and either harley or you can, you're just floating over the water was your heart these people are also enjoying the breeze. a lot of seniors like to come to the beach to cool off the but lea once more out of life, the weather report for tomorrow calls for more wind. so he'll be back

the news until just a few years ago about the only people you'd see on the water at whole high bay, where the fishermen now the place is hacked with surface the young day has been here for a decade. don't would you know, joe? when we 1st came here to serve, the villagers were very friendly and they thought we were crazy to go out on the water every day. and they thought that life on the bay was really boring. so they were curious. how did you, how she was now makes his living as a surfing instructor kind of meet on here. he's showing you fun and how to properly

paddle out to the waves and then stand up on the board. afterward he grades her technique, paddling good. standing up to needs improvement. ruth says the best way to keep your balance is to place your feet properly and look straight ahead towards this thing that really when you, when i was a kid, china didn't have extreme like this whole. but that's all changed now. to tivo and, or even have experience thing in the summer. tell. yeah, it gives a trying how the games is the local service community includes children and their grandparents, 6 year old jo, one has just made us 1st we'll do this. you know, it's great for the youngsters around side all day and they get plenty of banks. 7

vacation, so i've got lots of time in the meanwhile, new is working on her technique. instructor woo stays close in case she needs help . the new tries to focus on standing up despite being tossed around by the waves. i know that it is a challenge. this is helping me to overcome any inhibition. you have. the view is proud of the progress that she's made so far. will you tell me clear

your then when you saw learned them, you can things that individual long. that's a whole you're on the more thought to move lightly on the i still make much of mistake, but when you finally stands up on my poor, it's a great feeling good sleep on the face of whole high village has changed since the surfers arise. now there are beach bars and other businesses that cater to young, hip customers, the the serv, tourists are welcome here, provided that they spend lots of money and don't criticize china as communist government. you can see them everywhere. some of the older residents sell beetle not on the sidewalk as they have for years and lots of stores and restaurants are making good money.

me. some people here are still making a living by catching fish. their boats are tied up in a lagoon not far from whole high bay. today we'll meet one of those fishermen. one shall buy the one that he and his wife and son live on their fishing boat. the. the family can't afford to buy a house on land, they don't make enough money from fishing to qualify for a mortgage. so they've been living on this boat for more than a decade. we set off across the lagoon and we have to stay there because it's too windy right now on the open sea. it's

a lot of work to keep the boat in good shape. one's wife is mending some nets. they'll try their luck at fishing in the lagoon without him. and we're not making any money. so we have to borrow from friends and relatives the lesson plan when dies down. we'll start fishing again and pay them back and get the now they're hauling the nets back on board. long sun want to pump is helping out. he's 17 and as finished school, the family didn't catch many fish today. life for these people is hard and want to pung says he doesn't think much of the local surfer community. i've never talked to any of them. if they stay here,

prices will go up and that will cause problems in my me, surfers on one side of the lagoon golfers, on the other hand between them. the fishing boat with these groups seem to have nothing in common. all that one knows is that it's tough right now for him to make and meet the guy must all the more and more people from the mainland coming here to spend the winter thinking what it is specially people from the northeast. like what the control when i envy them and what we do is work hard every day. i mean that, and they come down here and eat in restaurants and have a good time and hulu, but the family has enough to eat and overall their life on the fishing boat is okay . and as soon as the winds on the open sea died down,

they'll go back out and do some real fishing mega. kept them at long said that if he had more money, he'd like to provide a better education for his son. but for now, the 3 of them will stay on the boat and hope for a change in the weather. me. meanwhile, darcy new has lots of new business ideas. she's building a skateboard track here and also rent surfboard, the tourist. she plans to open a cafe as well. darcy is working with her friend, lee ging to try to get young people to eat healthy foods like vegetable smoothies and organic ob condos. she thinks the idea will catch on leaving the lifestyle i have is very healthy and very keening and very empowering. i would love to have anyone that who come there and serve and to officer out these

not just sending the circular, it would be like, how would you travel you? good flight. he asked darcy to call her mom back home in jose province. what does she think of her daughter's new life? if you live there, now you don't want to live like we do. what can we do? what i mean, we don't understand, you know, somehow we do it today. yeah. darcy's parents would like her to get married and have children, but her rejection of that lifestyle is reflected in these paintings in her cafe. darcy says that surfing has broadened her horizon. it's like you're in town or that you can see life. but was there showed you see the light them? i made a light house, i had a direction what i want to go, what i want to come, please. darcy says that the skills she learned from surfing have helped her to

navigate the twists and turns of everyday life. me. young feet from the olympic team is a little nervous right now. she's made it to the finals of the under 15 competition for the national championship. young will have to serve as many waves as possible to stay on the board for as long as she can and successfully perform a number of turning maneuvers. and she has to do all that over 20 minutes, but she's confident that she can win again. i don't feel good about my chances done. yeah. you know, the next stage of the competition will get underway soon. ah,

the finals for the under 18 group at the age of just 11 young managers to come out on top young teammates here as the way they're sore today. every hour practice that she's put in over the past 2 years has paid off the whole she owes a lot of her success to her coach meal. and john on the weekend, he well, the coaches, i call the same, we discuss things. and then you go back out. i've been training non stop for 2 years now. and i'm thrilled to it today. and now it's time for some food. and for the 1st time in days, young doesn't have to deal with the pressure of competition. the later we talk with

team high non coach michael weaver, he's one of several foreigners hired to turn chinese surfers into champion. weaver is optimistic about china. the chance that with the average of the government is putting in the amount of money being invested, the quality of waves here. i think by the time the next lympics comes around, i think china will be ready to compete in the world class level. now it's time for the national service championship awards ceremony young as the star of the fish one team. she took part in 3 competitions, one them all and earned 3 gold medals for her efforts. joe and jen are in the audience with their tea. me. joe didn't win a metal this year, but that makes them want to train even harder. the saturday morning i'll have to

give it everything i've got. so we can win next year. the head coach is proud of her team, but young says that winning the national title is just the 1st step in her career. the others i want to be the best in china and compete in the olympics. and then join your professional team goes, ah, these young athletes plan to take the surfing world by storm. and that's just what the government wants them to do. china has discovered surfing both as a competitive force and as a way of life. me

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