oh no, no, no, no. oh, goodness, hold so me. oh, sure. she knew malta economy has a major influence on the expansion and development of the rail race and vice versa . so in this as you go stitch and the mongolian railway is currently expanding our staff other than the locomotives and real cars are becoming more advanced. so just to food with this, with the real network and the entire real logistics are currently being revamped us on the filter. little freight traffic in particular is increasing chelisa. so the future of our railways looks really promising a 2nd to study for the most rural materials our exposure to neighboring countries. china, however, uses a different gauge of track to mongolia where the network is based on the rush and broad gauge. that means all the wagons must be reloaded on the chinese border,

which is a huge additional cost factor. a lot of the locomotives are also of ration origin. one of the put her i will on this all the books. so there are currently $31.00 of these russian locomotives and mongolia, the older the chickens. but at the longest, we have been using this one since 2010, not the one i was with the chart, the middle polish, which are they both are both on the control up to 5000 tons and it's 2 engines have a total of $7212.00 horsepower engine oil mother. so she went through a long trial period and has proven she can survive the long distances and the hard mongolian winters very well was there without won't. but

ah, the heavy diesel engines and seemingly endless lines of wagons moved effortlessly through the lonely step landscape, day and night. even as darkness falls, the station in church stays very busy. as a vital transport hub, it is growing in parallel with the economy. mongolian history and therefore bass of its railway is closely interwoven with that of its russian neighbour. with the founding of the socialist peoples republic of mongolia . 1921. the soviet union sided with its economically weaker allied engineers and moscow designed the lines and forced labourers was sent from russian

prison cans to reinforce the mongolian tract workers to drive this gigantic project through the 1111 kilometers of track through the most difficult rain, gave mongolia a big boost. it was a great success for the soviets to renewed by the wealth of mineral resources. bass, military considerations also played a major role in the fraternal relief action. the transsmart early and railing from the russian border in the north to china. the south is still the backbone of all rail traffic a mongolia to day because of the enormous distances, many passenger trains run over night. sleeping cars are the best way to weather the long journey times. ter is also on the

roofs of the so called dealer trains. most of the passengers on board, all mongolian merchants on their way to their chinese neighbors. there they buy goods that are late is sold at a profit in their shops back home. a large part of the mongolian population now lives from this trade, including some women from bogan, a city in northern central, mongolia, about baghdad. bob hollins us on the little little hamish, they're older, we're on the train for 4 days to miss all the homes that but if you include all the shopping in beijing or even further away auto home, then you get to a total of at least 10 days on the road you long thing, a budget, although everyone, both retailers and wholesalers takes the train to travel between the 2 countries, hit it on the page the wider. ah, because the train is safe for people and also for the transport of goods. ah. and

you can almost live your life in a trade passengers can sleep and eat, drink and relax on board hov, on they told me many of the mongolian commercial travellers have come from other professions. but i am got of studied mongolian literature in the 1970s. and her husband is an artist. obama little thing. he said, the 1992, there was a political inversion and we moved to a market economy society fin older. and suddenly it was all in. if you drink from their cup, you also have to follow their customs. they big escape. the more the a lot was privatized to roots. and state owned enterprises were broken up into small businesses over so many people, including academics, became unemployed and wages were very low. level since then we become so called saddle baggers, postuma. oh,

saddle bag is an old mongolian term referring to nomadic merchants who used to tie their goods to the saddles of a horses and ride off to sell them. ah, it seems the historical reference makes it a bit easier for present commercial travelers to accept their lives circumstances which are frequently difficult even if it's hardly had dream job. 60 year old badani got off, does not complain. all plenty he, his order ottawa was i have no other option that will catch syllable but, and even if we are only small businesses that we're still importing for society and for our families, our children and our grandchildren. if possible, we pay for college rent and food. i have actually,

yeah. more than half of all mongolians finance their lives through small businesses, off of one of them is me from sanctioned rails station. it takes another 5 hours to reach the chinese buddha . ah. ah, just how much the landscape has changed only becomes apparent in daylight. ah . the rich green stepped landscape has given way to the oak colored infinity of the gobi desert. covering some 1300000 square kilometers.

it is the largest desert in asia. the desert city of same shuns is about 250 kilometers south east of church, along the transmit, early in railway, almost 40 kilometers. further on in the eastern gobi desert, we come to hum our monastery, which the mongolians also call hammering heat. the 19th century complex is an important center for mongolian buddhism. again to marry is a buddhist monk who travels on the night train from milan. bot are several times a month. he says, it's an escape from the confines of the city and that it was only here in this barren and empty expanse that he became aware of the connection between freedom and mongolian identity. if true though, if there were freedom for me,

means responsibility if we have freedom about me, must deal with it responsibly. the left to the house, i'm free. had osama changes, mongo. but instead of thumping my chest to good, i'm trying to remember that the world is more log and gets injured. it is sure i consider myself a mongol, but i don't consider others as foreigners to the thing with a mortgage. and i'm a buddhist monk. i'm huge, so i have responsibility, so figured to withdraw. ah, every autumn, hundreds of pilgrims and believers from all over mongolia meet in homer monastery. a ritual walk through the stony desert around the monastery grounds is said to drive away bad omens and renew the life energy of each individual. ah mongolian buddhists believe the whole earth's energy

pools in this atmospheric place ah the kind of filter it makes its way about 2 kilometers into the desert to a sham bala center. somebody has a holy places that refer to the mythical city of the same name where latin says the accumulated knowledge of buddhism will out last time itself with dan san raphael was a buddhist lama as important mongolia as the current done a lama into bass. he personally chose this place to build

a monastery in 1824. over a 100 years hum r monastery was one of the most important buddhist centers of faith in mongolia. a. in the mid 19 thirties, mongolian communist government turned against buddhism. monks were condemned as anti stalinist elements. thousands were imprisoned, or killed, and monasteries were destroyed. oh, darling, next move. what's in the long run? the 1st arrest, sinned, executions of buddhists took place on september. the 10th 1937 after future generations must learn about it. if it inside would be the that is why on this day we call on the whole world to prevent such evil deeds from happening again. he departed, no person should be excluded. persecuted or murdered because of his or her beliefs or attendees will never be repeated. who would i come?

how did people know the meeting has become part of monk, earliest intangible, cultural heritage. and buddhists. from all over the world celebrate the resurrection of the monastery and their faith in the boundless expanses of the gobi desert. oh, come, our monastery symbolizes a commitment to freedom and independence for all mongolians. the hope is that it story can teach future generations to look ahead with hope. self confidence and self determination. the new. yeah, but when i did the world, my whole life's journey is dedicated to a happy and bright future with how to model. so my train of life is traveling towards optimism for everyone. everywhere. all our

journey through mongolia is joined to a close. there's much more that could be told boss as an old mongolian proverb knows, scene once is better than heard a 1000 times with ah, i as a formula, one world champion, and in his 2nd career as an entrepreneur, niko hall staff always operates at top speed. is mission to start climate change

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but all episodes are available online, and of course you can share and discuss on d, w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now a ah, this is dw news live from berlin. major protests on the streets of sudan. demonstrators are calling for democracy 2 months after a military coup. security forces fired tear gas to disperse the crowds and cut off internet services to try to stop. the protest is also coming up. the pandemic has

once again put the brakes on christmas celebrations. as in fiction, right, serge, some people here in europe are taking advantage of the holidays to get vaccinated and a revolutionary new telescope is launched into space. it's hope the james web telescope will be able to tell us more about the origins of the universe. ah, i'm jarrett ray, thank you very much for your company. we begin to show in sudan where thousands of protest is of taken to the streets of car to him and other cities, demanding a return to civilian rule. now these rallies come 2 months after a military coup. the civilian prime minister, abdullah ham duke has since been reinstated, bought the pro democracy movement. once a government, free of military control. ah,

t gas and water cannon against a growing movement, angry at military roll sedans, capital cartoon was once again the scene of mass pro democracy protests. a military crew in october through the countries transition to democracy into disarray. and the reinstatement of the military and civilian government a month later, failed to ease anger at the armies power grab when we are here. and we still believe in the 3 nose, no legitimacy, no bargaining, no partnership with the military, military does not rule us and we demand the hand over a full power to civilians. we demand civilian democratic rule, the more robbing maddening, almost 50 people have been killed and hundreds injured in crackdowns on anti cru protests since october. and there have been allegations of security forces raping

women protesters. in the lead up to saturdays rally the authorities, blocked roads and bridges. internet and phone lines were cut off, but the pro democracy movement is still finding ways to stand together against military rule. and earlier we spoke to d. w correspondent, felix marengo, who is following these events in sudan for us from nairobi. and we asked him how likely it was that the protest is demand for our return to democracy would be met. it is very unlikely that the military will actually stepped down or back down, and based on the resent development caused a lake earlier today, the internet was cut off. so people are not able to communicate amongst themselves . and so they were not able to mobilize as enough, but a protest i talked to this particular evening said that the military seems to be, i tired, been getting tired with air,

what the protest as i continuously doing to mount pressure on them. but it is very unlikely because even their prime minister was reinstated thiel has his powers clipped by this same military that people lay expecting to bog down. so whether the military will back down, it's very highly unlikely, especially are following that is and developments that was felix marina. they're speaking to us from my robi, well christians around the world have been marking christmas day, but in many parts of europe, the celebrations have been scaled back because of a huge surgeon cove. at 19 cases, thousands of people in britain have taken the opportunity to get vaccinated. daily infections in the u. k jumped above 100000 this week for the 1st time. it's not something you can find wrapped under the tree. but the gift of health is what thousands of brits are looking for this christmas. this vaccination center is one

of many open during the holidays. with the goal of the filling the prime minister's promise to offer every adult a job before the end of the year. or was totally unimaginable, unfathomable, by anybody that we could have a christmas or even the whole year like this that this has been primarily a forwarded vaccination, ariana so unprecedented lives. the u. k. is grappling with its latest surgeon cases fueled by the army. kron variant hospitals are bracing for another massive wave of cove it. in this hospital in france, one of the country's biggest healthcare work is fear. they may soon run out of beds for new patients. france reached another record high number of infections on saturday, registering more than 104000 cases. most of the patients spending christmas day in this. i see you are on vaccinated trip. who go that route?

i thought a lot about the fact that i refused to be vaccinated if i had been vaccinated, i would not have needed this level of intensive care. ward little muscle who go back to that. so the vaccine is not a danger. he was, it is a possibility of escaping to show something more serious in the netherlands. the decorations are up, but no one's around to enjoy them. people here is spending another christmas in lockdown. we hope the next is going to be rather was, is like we thought her 2 years ago and all the core all over again. okay. first christmas book, another years going to be both of these actually with here and around the world. people are hoping that next year santa's gift will be ameria christmas. ok, let's get a round up of some of

a headlines now. at least 16 migrants have drowned off to their boat capsized india, g and c of the great island of arrows. dozens more survived. the disaster and were taken to the island. it's not clear why the boat overturned it's the 3rd deadly incident in less than a week. the saudi led coalition has launched a large scale air strikes on rebel held areas in yemen, killing several people in the countries northwest. that's in response to deadly me, solid tax by who the rebels on saudi arabia really 400000 people have died during safe in years of war. the suicide bomber has killed at least 5 people in the eastern city of benny in the democratic republic of congo. the explosion went off in a busy restaurant in the city's downtown. no group has claimed responsibility bought . the city has regularly seen clashes between the army and islamist groups.

and locals have been ordered to stay out of the water at morrow bay on california central coast. after a shock killed the surface of the city's beach, another 1st saw the victim floating, floating face down in the water. he couldn't be resuscitated. the man's identity hasn't been released or some good news scientists are celebrating. the launch of the most powerful telescope ever built, the james web space telecom telescope lifted off a border rocket from the european space agency based in french guiana. it's hope that it will provide new insights about the origins of the universe and possibly extra terrestrial life. and store a, a new era of space exploration takes off on board the biggest and most advanced

astronomical observatory ever launched. the james web space telescope will help solve mysteries about the formation of stars and scan exit planets for signs of life celebrations back on earth that the european space agencies base in french tiana. scientists are ecstatic about the discoveries to come. wept missions who understand excell planets i think goes really to some of the core of our humanity. these fundamental questions of are we alone in the universe? where do we come from? where do we go? the universe is so huge. and i had think that out there somewhere there will be life, but we don't know. we have to build large instruments to tell. and rep will make a big leap in that direction. it took some 3 decades of work and almost $10000000000.00 to build the giant telescope. teens from european canadian and us space agencies collaborated on the development. the masses gold plated mirror and

it's tennis court sized sun shield, were designed to fold up into the launch rocket at its core, a powerful infrared lens which can penetrate clouds of gas and dust deep into parts of time and space never before observed. and we had had some infrared telescopes in the past, but they been much, much smaller than wet. so there will be many powerful tools that this telescope will have that just were had not been available to us in the past. so it's going to be that's why it's revolutionary, why we're all excited about it. the james web telescope is now traveling to its final destination more than 4 times further than the moon. it will be 6 months before it can collect scientific data. a long wait for scientists, the barely a blip in the soon to be revealed time span of the universe.

let's go to baltimore in the us now and bringing macarena garcia, mary. and she's a member of the european space agencies science and operations team for the james web space telescope. welcome to d w. firstly, congratulations on this launch. this must be a really big relief for you and your colleagues. thank you so much for having me. yeah, it's been such a good day and you know, lunch is always an a delicate moment. he will. so seeing that everything was now me now the trajectory was perfect, that i suspected them. then seeing that telescope actually going into space on the plane, the solar panel, it was really incredible. yeah. they're very happy. that's great. where do we go from here? well from here the telescope has to travel about one half 1000000 kilometers to it's or wait it's, it's a tunnel with around the point called like ranch to and it will take about

a month. and so in that month they will do all the employment and a mirror this and she'll the secondary mirror and then start to slowly starting to cool down and get the instruments ready to the science. so it's gonna take a few months to to get there. okay, so, so a few months, this is a $10000000000.00 project of, of multiple space agencies. what to scientists expect to see with the telescope. there are a few big themes. so the, the 1st one, which was one of the things that a special for a bit of scope was to observe the very 1st, the stars and galaxies. we're talking about that 3500000000 years ago. so we will send those very 1st galaxies in a star, and then from there we will have more close my galaxy at the, at the look on next to understand how that x is eval on how they form and generate

levels of service. a life cycle of stars, the birth of the price, i see steps and also the survey shows effects of planets by x a plan. this maintenance plan is that outside of the sort of system with the objective of finding indications of life in those planets. ok. so that's the big question, is it? is it likely to pick up signs of life in out of space? depending on how we defined that i mean picking science so life for way it will mean a step in the atmosphere of the sexual planet and finding components that indicate life. for instance, you need genetic picking, you need what are the carbon dioxide, methane. so all those components when they are shown together in the 2nd ratio, it may indicate the presence of life and the planet. very interesting. not liking it is it is really. yeah, very interesting. exciting times ahead. that's macarena garcia. moderate in from the european space agency and the bolt in baltimore in the u. s. thank you very

much for your time. thank you. well, german president, frank fighter stein maya has given his annual televised christmas address. the pandemic featured heavily in his message this year stein maya said, individual responsibility is key in the fight against corona virus. and he also called on germans to stick together during days challenging times. this proven we signed by her for 2 years. frustration is growing. irritability as widespread, we're increasingly seeing alienation and regrettably open aggression is true that in a democracy we do not all have to be of the same opinion. but i appeal to you to remember this. we are one country on the pandemic is over. we need still to be able to look one another in the eye. and when the pandemic is over, we still want to live with each other enough the upon the me not commit another leave. and of course us not only people on earth that

a celebrating the holidays the astronauts on the international space station of also taken a bit of a break. the crew of expedition $66.00, including for nasa astronaut and one from the european space agency, dressed out for the occasion. merry christmas grizzly. very good. happy holidays. happy new year from all of expedition. 66 and you're up to date coming up next is al corona special. don't go with global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect habitants? we can make a difference.