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they invade our private lives through surveillance. hidden peak, secretive through what's vague. it doesn't matter. the only criteria is worked. we'll hook people. we shed light on the opaque worlds who's behind her benefits. and why are they a threat to us? all opaque worlds starts january 5th on d w with ah ah, ah, ah, not everything is what it seems. just take these grapes a sweet treat. what's so bad about that?
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but have you ever thought about what goes into producing them? what sprayed on them, where the workers are treated well in the supply chain or even how much the production of transport of your food could contribute to climate change. so is it possible to eat without a guilty conscience, font, or fork greening or food? that's our topic today on made. even the sweetest treat can leave a bitter taste in the mouth when making it involves child labor. for the 1st time in 20 years, the number of child labor as has risen, according to unicef and the international labor organization. the number has gone up to a 160000000 worldwide with most working in agriculture, including in the cocoa harvest, altogether, bar of chocolate into your hands. some companies and producing nations of fighting back. but are they going far enough? christina becker investigates move 10, they're creamy delicious. that's probably the 1st thing that comes to
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mind when you think of chocolate. but what about child labor and the exploitation of cocoa farmers? the chocolate is so delicious, that all too often we tend to forget about that. more than 1600000 children broken cocoa plantations in ghana in the ivory coast. the 2 countries groped 60 percent of the world's cocoa. they also provide beans for the german and european market. the children have to work to help reduce my chocolate bar. it's not out of the question. does that make me criminal if he can chocolate a crime? yes, this journalist turned funded, couldn't. he even turned himself into the police for buying and eating chocolate? i realized that i needed to take my responsibility as a consumer, and after talking to one of touch, finest professors in criminal law,
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i decided to prosecute myself for buying an eating chocolate. in the end, the cord quitted him by the cook and then launched his own chocolate. brent tony's chuckle only aims to produce chocolate without slavery and child labor, not an easy mission. even big chocolate companies have failed so far. mendez what's? i'm happens, situation hasn't really changed much in the last 20 years. and the hug and anger protocol assigned back in 2001. that said industry wide goals to eliminate child labor from the cocoa industry. since then, none of this deadlines have really been matter or had simply left off and child labor is still a very big problem in the industry. with child labor even increased in the last decade. this is not what you would expect in a booming industry. annual a global sales or over $130000000000.00. but why is it so hard to put an end to
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child labor? you may, i had a majority of cocoa farmers live in poverty or even extreme poverty. so farmers rely on their own children as unpaid labor because they can't afford to pay workers . if you want to end the child labor problem, you have to find a solution to the poverty problem. local prices aggravate the issue. only 6 percent of what we spend in germany on a chocolate bar actually goes to the corporate farmers themselves. on average, the $3000000.00 cocoa farmers in garner ivory coast are less than a dollar a day that is under the extreme poverty line. most of the profit goes to chocolate companies and 3 to change but gone ivory coast, they're fighting back. both countries have added a living income premium of $400.00 per ton of cocoa to the price. they charge
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it. we welcome this initiative. as things stand that the governments have done much more for cocoa farmers on the price issue than all the chocolate companies and certifiers combined with whatever ivory coast had to reduce the producers price this year. the higher cost of being scared of some buyers and global demand has also dropped. another challenge in the fight child labor is determining the origin of the cocoa beans it's, i think that there is still the issue of the lack of traceability in the supply chain. every chocolate company wants to know where they coco comes from and we all need to concern ourselves with the problems that exist there on bad run. the good news, there is a growing number of programs to fly child labor. the bad one. they only cover 15 percent of the production process. that leaves me with
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a distinctly bitter aftertaste. blue. one thing you or i can do is to vote with our wallets. the same is happening with meat here in europe. production is sinking as consumers change their eating habits globally. the picture is different. me production as leapt for time since 1961 with over $80000000000.00 animal slaughtered each year to put food on our tables. not everyone has the choice to do without meat and the diets. but for those you have the ethics of killing animals, as well as the massive contribution of meat production to climate change are a serious concern. luckily, there are alternatives. it's no secret. the food industry is a climate killer producing more than a quarter of all c o 2 emissions worldwide. that's more than the emissions of cas planes and ships combined. farming accounts for 70 percent of our consumption of fresh water and 50 percent of all habitable land is used by the agriculture
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industry. we have to, we see our system and our phone environment we're kronos are being produced and consumed. we figure out that there is a need to produce more better with less the meat industry is one of the worst for the climate capital produced methane. it's greenhouse gas, which is $28.00 times more potent than c o 2. but not only the climate, the suffering animal welfare also falls victim tall, craving for meat. that's why the international n g o proven which has made it one of their goals to reduce the consumption of animal products for him, a mere transfer and it's become more and more clear how much these animals, which we call livestock suffer em, but size an acidic monthly, sickly. these are animals that are bred under the worse conditions to the sole purpose of becoming leet on our later telephone billing and the world's population
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is forecast to grow to almost 10000000000 by 2050 and more people means more food. in fact, up to 60 percent more food might be needed. that's not good news for all planet, but there are environmentally friendly alternatives by 5th, 5. for example, that researchers at oxford university calculated that a plant based diet. specifically, they see a 2 footprint of a plant based diet, like it could reduce food emissions by up to 73 percent dr. watson for gom having out of and can and the message seems to be catching on. meet consumption in the global north has been declining for years. one reason is the development of meet alternatives. it's a market that's been growing steadily in western countries. the n d o hopes that by 2040 the consumption of animal products will drop by 50 percent.
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when you're hungry schnell, if you look at how fast the market is growing, especially for vegan and plant, please need alternatives than maybe we're not so far away from his goal any more. so we'll amplified vic. many consumers are now giving more thought to what they buy, the paying more attention to the ecological and ethical effects. their choices had . ready but many people still crave the taste of meat and have a hard time giving it up. that's where meet alternatives come in. the traditional german meet processing company is leading by the mueller picked up on the trend early on. the company has been focusing on meet substitutes since 2015 with success ah foot in one at your lee in july for the 1st time we sold more alternative products than meat and sausages. flash of west palm and demand
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seems to be growing all the time. that nancy sh julian and you look at studies and predictions about the world market and the german market. then you see the german market. is that about $215000000.00 euros, jordan oil or the prognosis for 2030 is that will be at almost $30000000000.00 euros by then. i see us with that by yeah. from fast prices 1000000 away. we'll eat . it seems like we may well be in the midst of a food revolution. one of the biggest weakness would of course be the climate but animal welfare and our own health would benefit from a change in diet to the world health organization want in 2015, that processed meat and ret meeks could be linked to certain cancers. but what about these meet substitutes? are they really healthier once again, come on these in these and i've not even those on the whole these products have
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a lot of benefits. studies have shown that red meat is quite problematic, and it appears to be linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer. especially if you eat a lot of it in general, and you need to pay attention to the ingredients used in these alternative products . sometimes they use quite a few additives. stabilizers amal safire's, flavorings, sometimes even flavor enhance as well as hell. is he a home? and i file august mac slash del, gone. so consumers need to take a closer look at the meet alternatives on offer. but we know they're cutting back on meat would bring many benefits to our health animal, welfare and the environment. it's time to rethink the way we eat and change is in our hands. one of my guilty pleasures is she's and it seems a lot of europeans agree. after all, e u residents eat the most cheese in the world. at 9500000 tons in
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2021. followed by the us with just under 6000000. brazil is far behind with around 800000 china, just 430000. but as we've learned where animals are involved in food production, there are carbon emissions to consider, to get to know the industry better. dw chi shaneka had the enviable to ask of becoming a cheese maker for the day. welcome to seize paradise. this is where the magic topping is created. that makes every dish just better. literally, i challenge you to name a dish that it can't improve. mackenzie, she is on the pizza to do and yes, life is on fred. i think loads of it ever since. i tried cutting down on me
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to make cheese, you need milk and to make milk, you need animals. the emit loads of greenhouse gas emissions and use lots and lots of water. i mean, i really love cheese, but we need to talk about it. how hard is this piece of art freely on the environment? do i need to stop eating chief and how the alternative any better? and the best way to find out make some cheese yourself. cheese makers, paul, and you'll have agreed to let me look over their shoulder for the day. paul used to work for large scale dairy operations, but gave it up to create his own cheese. and here comes the milk. we just need a couple of minutes for about 250 leaders. how many liters do you actually need to make one kilogram? and say that depends on the chaise recipe. so it also depends on the composition of the milk where quite lucky here we are working with milk for jessie cares. these cares pretty small,
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but very high solid. so we get much better yields. when we say if we were using holstein, for example, but as a general rule for something like cheddar or gouter, we'd probably be looking at a 10 percent yield. so for every one killer, please need 10 meters. and the amount of mill that is use is actually extremely important because depending on which study you're looking at between 80 and 95 percent of she's a greenhouse gas emissions from the mill. so the more not to use the worse for the planet. more than half of those emissions come from the farming process. because cows and other mil producing animals fart and breathe out methane again, that is $84.00 times more potent than c o. 2 at heating the planet. but milk from different kind of animals have different carbon footprints, cow and buffalo milk have the lowest with 2.8 and 3.4 kilograms of c o 2 per
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kilogram of milk. goat and she milks impact is more than double that with $5.00 and $8.00. point 4 kilograms of c. o 2, herb, o, mega animals, pollute the planet. less per kilogram of milk. that's because cows or buffaloes just produce more milk than a goes of shape, for example. and because all these animals are ruminants and pump out methane, jesus covered footprint is actually bigger than that of poultry and even pork. more emissions than meat that is absolutely insane. but anyway, now that we got the milk, we need to heat it up and at some bacteria, the go to date turning this into a gummy socrates. and let me tell you it's boiling in here. this chase is particularly happy if a room is a little bit too hot for the chief breaker. so if you're having a hard time when you feel like you're in a sauna history isn't going to love it. or i, or i was starting here is
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a process called fermentation. the bacteria feast on the sugar that's in the milk and break it down. after a while, we add a liquid called rennet. this is what turns our concoction into cheese as it restructures the case in it, a protein that can only be found in animals, milt. and yes, it really works. our milk is suddenly solid. just for me to cut it into pieces again. and lori alyssa, 200 leaders of milk in the quite heavy screw. now we have to work quickly. the current needs to go into these molds while it's still warm and be flipped after a couple of minutes, it'll cost you $20.00 arrows for pressure is on. so basically after another 2 or 3 hours, all of these molds go into the ripening room and she's makers, treasure chamber. they are all sorts of cheeses compared to these that me to age
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for longer periods of time from one or 2 months to even up to 3 years like the famous parmesan, the processing accounts for between 2 to 18 percent of cheeses, final c o. 2 emissions, but of course the longer you need to keep it at a certain temperature and humidity for it to become really tasty. the more energy it uses. so to a certain extent, it's better for the planet to eat lots a rela, instead of parmesan. but there are other plays on the market that can further reduce your carbon footprint vegan cheeses, but they might not be as environmentally friendly as you think. new day, another cheese maker. but today we are producing the vague, in our tentative and here cashews are the main ingredient. yes, that's the wonderful thing about cash. yes, we can make a nice mill from them if we soak them, clean them and crush them. yeah, this produces a smooth milk that can be processed into cheese alternatives. the way animal milk
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would be for normal cheese production, either for arbiter to that and can. and after i've ground down, all these cashews bacteria cultures will be added to start the fermentation process . just like you would when making cheese from animal milk, they are all thought of ingredient forces alternative. su helman. oh, boy. and even olive oil and even on the radio, abundance of different recipes might have to calculate the greenhouse gas and legacy hotel. legal jesus are fairly new, so there aren't a lot of studies on their environmental impact yet, which is why we can only compare what it takes to grow the most popular ingredients . cash use almonds and the new kid on the block codes. the dutch national institute for public health and the environment compare different environmental impacts. other studies claim different impacts, but for easy comparison,
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i'm sticking to this one. making cheese emits way more c o 2 than reagan alternatives. one is the bacteria have started their work during the fermentation process. the herbs and spices are added to this version is what the company called chuck calico to become as delicious as possible. it goes through a similar ripening process as real cheese, where the bacteria continue their work. looking at the science though, it takes quite a lot of water to grow cashews. the dutch study found water consumption to be as high as 2000 liters per kilogram of cashews. but it's not just the number that's important. the impact depends a lot on the region where the cash use are ground. does it rain a lot or is it a waters cast region, for example, in vietnam? cashews, i'm mainly grown in areas with relatively little of water stress, but the opposite is generally true for brazil or book enough fossil. alrighty. and
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now i'm really curious how that is going to taste. oh yeah, it has years mail and tastes a lot of herbs. the consistency is actually pretty similar to like cream cheese. what with her pin star as really read. all right, all right. all right. that was pretty good. even 14 love a but if you want to go full out and saving the planet, go for oh based options, but they are just starting to hit the supermarket shelves now. real cheese will always be my number one, but i'll try to switch it up with some tasty alternatives. thing we can to start paying him and cheese now. now if you've found a fly in your super restaurant, you might send it back except these days it could be the garnish. 2000000000 people
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already eat insects regularly. after all, they're a great source of protein and have a low carbon footprint compared to meet. there are already insect farms in europe, though most of them have produced for the animal feed market. but the e u recently approved locusts, crickets, and meal worms for human consumption too. and business is booming. it could be so easy. breeding harmless little flies to laying eggs which turn into maggots with a voracious appetite for food waste. and the larvae can be turned into tasty, high protein. burger's good for the climate and the environment, though it's not quite that straightforward yet. but 1st things 1st. welcome to the love shack of the black soldier, fly a creature by the name her media. in lupin's heinrich cans
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is a superstar among fly farmers. he'd love to expand his farm and be part of the insect protein revolution. and the larvae are up to the job. they have a racial appetite and gobble up everything from food waste to animal excrement. and true glutton fashion. their body weight increases 6000 fold and just 3 weeks. the problem is you regulations for been the farmer from feeding them food waste. when, when last snowiest mark, if you're a pioneer doing something new, more than that, you're going to really enjoy what you're doing and be enthusiastic about it. but often you do bumping the challenges in a lot, especially in the case of disruptive innovation, as you might find yourself facing regulatory hurdles, alec friends in europe, we say, if it's not permitted, it's prohibited a kind of a prudence principle before whenever you do something truly new, you know, it'll be prohibited done for mark. like for warden. the you is concerned about the sanitary conditions of the larvae which live in their own feed and theses
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in 6 live in, in their feet. they live in their own feet. so you have to make sure that there is no risk of contamination between the feet in which day if and the insect protein, which is the final product at which will be consumed. this is why they're currently fed on pink feed. was they all dish this up here is kara, which is great for our young larvae, or cora is a byproduct of tow for production for yesterday. this is and less but there are more efficient solutions available, like in kenya or hindley. he can't says also set up a fly farm with indoor plumbing a rarity in many poorer districts. a startup has set a portable lavatories in selected places. the excrement is later collected and mixed with food waste a blend that's perfectly suited to the black soldier. fly larvae he lost and
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found on july. the larvae are then fed to pigs and chickens life, that we've had the system up and running for a couple of years now with 0 problems and no cases of animals getting sick. i didn't even office michelle tom despite its concerns. the you says it wants to promote larvae farming, which could be a sustainable source of protein and a meat substitute. nearly 100 percent of the maggots can be consumed, either by livestock or humans. there is far less waste than when pig chickens or cows are on the dinner plate with plants, the maggots shelf can be used as a fertilizer or for making cosmetic products and even medications. you know that you've been u. s. a. dr. an action plan for a circular economy, and we have adopted the for the farm to for strategy where we want to develop resilient and sustainable food supply chains. and one of the things which are being
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assessed there is whether you feed substrates for insects are focused on former food stamps, could be considered as a source of future. so these reflections ongoing. meanwhile, the e is dragging its heels on the certification front. before waste can be used this way, the e wants proof that as a safe product as his own sklar that we know that we need to deliver empirical evidence that it safely congress and passes with the field. but the e. u is basically making that impossible because they won't grant us an exemptions normally can naming your greek. so we're being asked to provide evidence while being denied the means to do so. it was the community college game. we can only hope that will be granted exemptions at the local level, and that the you doesn't put a spanner in the works. you can discuss a college. for now. i know chances ground fly larvae can only be
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fan to dogs and fish, but it all goes well. larvae could be the next big thing in the food industry. so everything we eat has an impact, but it's clear, there are plenty of alternatives. that's all for this edition of made thanks for watching. and so you can see ah ah, with
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unparalleled beauty. ah, a special look at a special country. he loan from above. starts december 27th on d, w. a. ah ah, this is, do you have any news ly, from berlin, preparing for the worst, with the rapid spread of the arm across variance across europe, germany becomes the latest country to tighten corona virus restrictions, chance the olaf shorts the doubles down on vaccines and urge its caution announcing new measures that will come into effect over the new year,
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holidays and fighting off famine in yemen. the un that food agency sounds the alarm over one of the most malnourished countries in the world. it's forced to cut life saving 8 because of a cash shot. ah, and let our thank you so much for joining us. germany is racing for a rapid spread of the army kron corona. virus variant. germany's infectious diseases. he says armor crohn will be dominates within weeks. the government is responding. i stepping up its vaccination efforts and introducing new restrictions . tight limits on social contacts will come into effect. but not until after christmas. palmer crown is on the advance in germany, and the politicians say it's time to react. after their meeting,
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chancellor schultz and the state premiers said private gatherings would be limited to just 10 people if they're vaccinated or of recovered from cove. it fully unvaccinated socializing will be even harder. they will only be able to meet to other people. the moves are prompted by fear. the virus could spread over the holidays. can even get a fished in denise, i can understand every one. and each of you who doesn't want to hear any more about corona, about mutations and new virus variance that we cannot and must not close our eyes to this next way. that's beginning to loom over us corona's not taking a christmas break. despite that most of those buying last minute gifts will be able to hand them over in person on christmas day. the new restrictions will only be compulsory from the 28th of december. new year is said to be unusually quiet with sports events played in empty stadiums and dance menus closed as,
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as to so this is not the time for parties and social evenings in large groups of goals. overlander, the government is putting hopes on continuing the high rate of vaccination through the christmas period. they hoped to deliver millions more jet by the end of the year and $30000000.00 in january. in berlin, many people seem unfazed by the prospect of tougher measures. said it and i hadn't planned anything big anyway, just a small family gathering. very bafford ran as a teen loiter and we had 10 people and of course we would like to celebrate christmas together. yeah, those are all boosted that and i get a pcr test every other day. so we feel we are on the safe side. who should be on the right to me personally, us will get together with friends. unfortunately, without family there in stuttgart. immunity, we don't want to get on the train and driving too stressful, so we'll visit them next year. there's no hard underneath. the chancellor says
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though infections are currently falling. it's only a matter of time before the grown is the dominant cove. it variant in germany, corona has not stolen christmas, but the strain it is putting on the public and the politicians is not over yet. i'd like to welcome and now we're paula. p shorter. she's a member of parliament for the green party and a radiologist herself. thank you for your time. germany appears to be ahead of the micron, very, especially a compared to countries like denmark. for now at least, why is the government putting off measures for another week? we are not truly putting them off. i mean, what we agreed on now is one of the most potent non pharmaceutical measures against co it meaning contact restrictions to 10 people. and the holidays themselves. they are kind of a natural covert breaker because schools are closed university closed,
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a lot of businesses are closed. so we are thinking that for now, this is quite an adequate response. but it is important to say the co with, as always, nothing is off the table and we are going to evaluate the situation constantly. do you fear that this might send or send a wrong mess signal this delay, i mean lulling people into a false sense of security over the gravity of alma crohn. i think if you, if you see all the communication at a stand right now, i think that no one can say that we are not alarmed and that we are not communicating that the situation with on the, on the quad to be. and i think also looking at those people from berlin you just showed one minute ago. i think most people, the majority of people, the majority of gems have understood that can, is quite an important threat that we have to deal with from now. and can you give
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us the lay of the land? how confident are you that critical infrastructure in this country can continue to function? if in the unfortunate event, many people get some simultaneously? i think they are quite some critical things. we have to keep them keep in mind and have to keep an eye on that is a bolstering the functionality of those structures. for example, making sure that the staff is adequacy staffed, etc. but it's also important. we can reduce the spread of on the can, even if not perfectly, we can reduce it by boost doing as many people as possible. and that's why we are pushing so hard for the vaccination campaign, especially for boosters. and we want to achieve 80 percent explanation raid by january. and that's when you go the german ethics council, we understand is now backing,
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extending the vaccine mandate beyond health care workers to all adults. is that the way forward? i think when you compare the different measures that could be taken now against the 4th and 5th possible covert wave, i think it would be the mildest solution to have a general explanation. men die because it is just not sustainable for society to have to refuse to have their contact restrictions because the restrictions over and over again for more than 2 you. however, if we lucky enough and i going to have very potent medical opportunities like back living in the future, they might be able to give us the opportunity to not have to think about facts and mandates. but i think that is still unclear. nothing right now. the mildest opportunity for getting control over it is a vixen mandate, and jimmy p shot a member of parliament for the green party and also
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a radiologist. thank you very much for your time. thanks for hattie. when as i now by the other stories in the headlines around the world, the european commission says it's taking legal action against poland for undermining you law and the independence of its national judiciary. move comes amid an ongoing spot between brussels and war, saw over the rule of law that began when paul is ruling nationalist and your skeptic law and justice party to power in 2015 live his long awaited presidential election has been cancelled. a parliamentary committee said, holding the vote, scheduled for this friday would be quote, impossible levies. election board has proposed postponing the pole to the 24th of january. the election was part of the you and let proc process to bring peace to the country. prosecutors in the netherlands have demanded life sentences for 4
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suspects, accused of shooting down malaysia airlines flight mh 17 over ukraine in 2014, almost 300 people died when rushing back separatist down the aircraft over the disputed dumbass region. most of the victims were dutch. the world food program has issued a dire warning to the international community. millions of people in war ravaged, yemen could be pushed into starvation because the program has been forced to reduce food rations for 8000000 people starting january. the u. an agency says donors have failed to step up and provide funding to feed the desperately hungry it's meal time for this yamini mother and had 3 daughters. the families village was destroyed by air strikes. now they live in a camp for internally displaced people relying on i'd from the world food program
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7 years of fighting between hootie rebels and sadie back government forces has created what many consider the world's worst humanitarian crisis. food and medical shortages are causing millions to suffer, including many children in the children's ward of the also been hospital and center . the suffering is plain to say dangerously malnourished. their bodies bay, the marks of war. and this is happening even with the current levels of food assistance provided by n g o's. soon families will start getting barely half of the world trade programs. daily minimum ration you in agencies including the world food program, received only about 2 thirds of nearly $4000000000.00 requested from donors this year and food prices of more than doubled in yemen. currency to valuation and hyperinflation. a driving economy to near collapse. that's as
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fighting continues to force families to flee their homes for camps like this one. if don't countries don't step up soon, these people would know where to go. we'll be left with nothing to 8. we turn our attention to the united kingdom now and when the abernathy hope family lost their son billy in a motorcycle accident 3 years ago, they decided to start a project to ease their pain and keep his memory alive. they created a new local currency billy chips to help homeless people. the bill chips can be used by the homeless to purchase food and hot drinks and in the u. k. homelessness is on the rise, where charities, estimating that up to 8000 people don't have a roof above their heads. did ever use brigitte mass reports from the southwestern english city of bristol. not simply to walk on by, but to help others. that's one thing meghan abernathy hope learned from her brother bitty right. is there anything that i can get you guys she often stops in bristol
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city center to talk to homeless people like laura. i think you need a bit of courage and a bit of humanity because it's just like having a chat with anybody. arrows, and i think that fair and worry of approaching people is what stops that love and that transaction. and i'm having for megan and her father, john, it's the way of channeling their love for billy to all this who needed he was only 20 when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. but he was already concerned about those with no were to called home billy said, why don't they just him been a token that you could buy and then exchange for food and drink. and i think he saw that that would reduce the barriers because people would know it was a safe, secure thing to do. and then people would also, you know, communicate more with homeless people. after billy died,
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john and megan decided to go ahead with a project creating tokens which can be exchanged and cafes for food and drink for the homeless. the chips with q r code on a window sticker is while dozens of outlets in and around bristol, have joined the scheme using the tokens known as billy chips. they cost 2 pounds each enough for a hot drink with an awful have changed unless i and, and, and i think it though something about the reassurance of how it will respond, which is good as well. you are, i might of the over charity say the number of homeless people in england has doubled in recent years. many of them in bristol have come across megan and john and billy chips. yeah, they're really good. what do you like about them? getting free coffee? is absolutely vital to have a warm drink through the cold night if you're on
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a visa. mm hm. phenom, why would you even though the economy, those people will still give money? but john and megan hope the billy chips will reassure homeless people that they to are part of the community. we poured our love that was our grief. we could no longer pour into billions and we put it into the billy chip. we created a legacy. we've in a way, immortalized the key values that billy had as a human being his father and sister know that if billy was still alive, he would be proud of his scheme named after him. one of the best preserved dinosaur embryo as ever seen has been discovered inside a fossilized egg in southern china, the at least 66000000 year old specimen which belongs to a toothless birdlike thereupon, dinosaur has been called babying. the ag scientists say the embryo was in
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a tucking position, and this has long been thought unique to birds, but now appears to be present and non bird dinosaurs. fascinating stuff. with the pandemic restricting travel this christmas organizers in moscow have come up with an idea to bring an international flare to festivities. designers, musicians, and even ballet dancers have been commissioned to adorn christmas trees, with themes representing cities from around the world. and that does it for us to thank you so much for watching stick here at d. w because of businesses up coming up next nazi at the top of the art with oh, does it.

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