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mother, queen elizabeth the 2nd britain bid farewell to its longest reigning monarch in an elaborate state funeral. well, the new king now faces the momentous task of leaving the monarchy and preserving his mother's legacy. but the future of the monarchy is uncertain. there are those in great britain who want to abolish it altogether for them it represents social inequality and injustice. it's a sentiment that's also shared in some commonwealth nations. king charles is head of state in 15 of the 56 member states, most of which are former british colonies. while the commonwealth was a great source of pride for the queen, but cannot survive without her. the seniors from bygone days, the queen meeting had sustained some government of the british commonwealth. when catherine 2018 by her side is form apparent. prince charles,
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now king charles the 3rd. the commonwealth was very important to the queen. it remains a great pleasure and honor to serve you as head of the commonwealth and to observe with pride and satisfaction. this is a flourishing network. it is my sincere wish that the commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations carry queen with the symbolic hands of the commonwealth. but many wonder whether her son will be able to follow in her footsteps as leader. that's because some of the 15 commonwealth realms, mostly former colonies, where charles is officially king no longer want the monarchy. nor is britain is explicit leadership role in the commonwealth set in stone. the new king had already prepared for their se, observe as such as david howell along serving commonwealth. thanks. but king charles, he's very well versed in all this. he's been following. it's
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a years he knows most of the country, the love, but certainly the countries of the commonwealth. he understands as various you know, other politicians understand that we do need to make new links and new networks. in november 2021, bombay dos removed the queen as head of state and declared itself a republic within the commonwealth. ah, then prince was invited, but had rather a supporting role that the ceremony the creation of this republic of the new beginning and say will commonwealth of 16 states some of the british crown became 15 and it will likely not. not there. charles, his son william towards the bahamas, belize and jamaica in spring 2022. his father is now formally head of state in all 3,
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but the 3 countries have been recently making moves to change that rather than praise prince william. he was greeted with criticism from the public with a focus on slavery during the british colonial era. during the visit, the jamaican president announced the country's intentions to leave. we're moving on the intent through a short or a little. ringback under the bus to prosperous but for many jamaicans, this isn't enough. they're demanding compensation for the suffering under colonialism. or economic conditions today are a result of colonialism or psychological problems. are a result of colonialism. or lack of development in every sense of the word is a direct consequence of colonialism. the future of the british brown is also being
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debated in australia, the 2nd largest commonwealth country. however, there is support from the younger generation for keeping charles as the nominal king the polling as showed that my generations, actually the most monica generation of the most republican generation in australia is actually the baby boom. um so and on i have plenty of people on the left who aren't necessarily monaco, spirit, they support the system we have because they don't say a better alternative camera. but can charles become a symbol of a new reformed commonwealth? the leadership role of great britain is historical, but no longer contemporary says commonwealth expert howell life has changed and the diplomats have to faces. and they have to get away as of to does the public from this sort of vision of a hub and spoke when i haven't spoken him or when it worked through in
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a partnership, not the crown over them. that is like minded friends. round the world, which we can talk to, and the richer ones can help the poor ones. at the recent commonwealth summit a few months ago, then prince charles spoke of the british colonial era of the suffering it caused so many people. an apology, however, did not pass his lips. if he is to succeed, his mother, charles the 3rd mustn't pave a new path for the royal house. for the one most adept to change is the one that survives europe's looming energy crisis brought tens of thousands to the streets in the czech republic, people are calling on the government to tame soaring energy prices. will the country get almost all of its gas from russia and alternatives are lacking with winter looming, many are worried about the cost of heating their homes. and for some business owners, cutting back on energy consumption is simply not an option. the town of her heart
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is home to one of europe's oldest glass works companies. the furnace is used to melt glass require massive amounts of energy, putting the company in a fragile situation. within the idyllic mountain range, known as giant mountains lies ha ha. the town popular with winter sports enthusiasts near the check polish border. but it's iconic horror huff ski jump has seen better days. not far from here at a local glass works. things aren't looking promising either. to keep these furnaces running owner frantisha, nova sod needs to pay the equivalent of 4500 euros every day. a year ago, he was paying just $400.00. he says, these expenses have made his business and viable, but he's determined to keep going. there are some of there is not so as you what he,
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i'm an optimist order we're getting by because we're dipping into our savings. it's about it. we'd put some aside for our new furnace, hospital 4 or 500000 euros. that's how much we spend in the 1st half of the year is over with us now are using up even more savings. oh that we can't give our employees a pay, rise them. and we even scrap their bonuses so we can pay our energy bells and algebra me up is a new line that again, it's not hard to imagine how his staff feel about being paid less and facing at an inflation rate of over 16 percent. though they are glad to still have a job and these difficult times check businesses have been ordered to cut back on gas. but glass works don't have that option, says no visit either there furnaces or on or they're not lead them here for the day. you know, people don't care where we get our gas brown at agibbs. they just want reliable energy, especially in winter on august. they don't care if it's from america, russia or china. no. they just want to be able to afford it on check wages. it's a new yearly just came brought to trying to check recently made his way to the
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capital, prague belief estimate, the 70000 people turned up to protest against the rapidly rising cost of energy. they were calling for the government to step down. many of them like fronting check a worried about an unaffordable future. though the protest organizes and parts of the crowd also expressed support for russia and demanded their country, leave nato in the you. so despondent and the extremist form an explosive alliance. the dean of frogs, university of economics, spoke with a protest. his view that economic sanctions against russia must be dropped divides opinion at the university. what could be lossy mas sunset that i will if we impose sanctions that are effective fine for bottom your seats. but when we see, after just a few months, that they're only strengthening the russian economy, economic, that's a serious problem. go ahead. i had trouble loki. good. are the sanctions really so
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ineffective and it's public support for them waning? oh, wow. the dance lessons at the check ukrainian community center. the women come here to forget about the war ukraine. he offered repeal, runs the center. she fled ukraine in february and already speaks check. she says public opinion has changed here since arriving. as a desi marcus, the winter is around the corner, and of course everyone is worried about expenses. i missed them. so i think most people in the check for public support, ukraine, and one of the war to end as soon as possible. there's a thought melba saxon eric lacy luncheon the czech republic has taken in more ukrainian refugees per capita than any other country. ukrainian children attend
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check schools and kindergarten in many ukrainians like ola have found work. she understands why many here worry about the cost of energy and says they to are empathetic. yeah, miss lenses. i then lee, it's not right at the price. the gas is human lives and bloodshed, lisky image of the child. people still remember the year 1968, and the russian occupation for the set of monro at the camilla. now, i think they understand what is happening in the ukraine themselves and how people that feel that. so yeah, i accidentally although many check people show understanding for ukraine, they want authority is to understand their predicament to and so support for the check government is crumbling. back at the glass works. frantisha can oversight insists that the protest in prague was not about criticizing ukraine. check people still support them. he says though
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without affordable gas who have to switch off his furnaces and that more in the war, either she flat, her homeland of iran to escape oppression and oblique future. for women like sonya are like a band life in the islamic republic is a struggle. in recent days, a thousands of women have taken to the streets to protest for their rights after a woman died in police custody. while sonya is grateful for her chance at a new life in germany and she is eager to enter the workforce at a time when german companies are suffering from a lack of skilled personnel. well it's a win win situation for both sides. sonya is training to work for germany's state. well, company deutsche a bon? now she has her eyes set on a career in the fast lane. a commuter rail. debo near stood guard rail car for 3. o 7 o starts rolling out. it's almost 70 meters long with 3200 horsepower in the
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drivers cab is sonya allegra. bon, who fled to germany from iran, about 6 years ago. supp garnished with a fish. yeah, i never imagined that i could do something like this here. never over yet says specic of water, but now things have got better. if finish men, i'm not nervous any more on i'm less stress and i'm excited to be able to try though my am seeing my father can this is a pilot project. currently 14 refugees are learning to become trained driver's sama from iran, like sonya, others from syria and afghanistan. and b. wanted to look when you press there and go to info. you see what's missing. i see it isn't even up to a bar yet to school. the project has also been very new for instructor alex hen. it backed out this whole from this. i was just hoping they be able to
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speak german and were motivated and when so otherwise i didn't think much about it real back to help, but we are lucky, i just let things unfold and i'm actually positively surprised by the whole thing. me. okay, we do our best with the training i was, but in the end it's also up to them. elizabeth lenin, a woman driving a train has become more common in germany. and for sonya, this job is a big step towards equality escaped. then i ran there and no female trained shyness, and not even allowed to do this job. these if the wolf muffin it's one of many things. she disagrees with about iran, but out of fear of the regime. she doesn't want to talk about it. she gave up her job as an english teacher and escaped to germany alone with only her dog chica her family lives in iran, and is proud of sonya's career with deutsch, yvonne i'll explain this. every one is very happy
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that or when i have exams or class work, i write to my father and he says, yes, you can do it like you can do anything. this gonzales this in sonya's class. there are 13 men. she's the only woman who did it was up. it has to stay level go north, it could be that a bridge comes with it, then the current collector comes down to be be looked at. the collector head still has to be level to day. andreas shaunberger is explaining the current collector. this is new material for everyone. then they're given classwork to see what they've learned. every one here had another profession in 2016 when many refugees arrived in germany deutsche. a bon created more than $700.00 apprenticeships for them both tighter. and this has also benefited the company which is facing a serious shortage of skilled workers. the h r director is thrilled that most of the refugees have been so successful. as an
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idle fellow, there are only a few cases of people not making it to the exam. justine as a whole, they're highly motivated and it makes you proud when new employees pass the test wideman and also in a brutal shopping. but for people like sonya, that's not enough. she already has bigger plans, insight, vinnish. if i can drive a local train spots, i'm sure i can drive an into city express, train parish half her new dream driving 300 kilometers an hour on the inner city express. sonya a leg a bond is planning to go the distance. this is hussein's smile, an entrepreneur from bosnia and herzegovina. he was renovating his property when he came across the ruins of an old christian church. hussein decided to rebuild the place of worship on his land. hussein is muslim and that makes his renovation
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project especially remarkable in his country. the southern european nation is deeply divided along ethnic lines with the trauma of the war 30 years ago. still fresh, but with tensions arising ahead of october's general elections. who's saying at once his church and begonia to become a symbol of unity. his church isn't finished yet, but it's getting there. the official opening was at the beginning of august. now hussein smidge says it's time to take a break. winter is coming. plus, he's hoping for more donations, so he can keep building in spring. this church is his life's work. fuller for, for a con. final thought he had makes me very happy. people will see that this is a church of peace, love and respect for every one born mirror over, but it brings people together instead of dividing them, would you never fly on?
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who seen a muslim is building a catholic church to reconcile his torn country. it's now been 30 years since war broke out in bosnia unleashing a blood bath between serbs, croats and bosnians. hundreds of thousands of people died. the war left deep williams. today there are still bullet holes in many houses whose souls to a still scarred by the war. hussein says that he and his family remained here in his hometown of google, you know, throughout the war. but that's all. he says. the room is clear. no. i don't talk about the war, i don't want to talk about it. and i remember for me, it's in the past for a toy, and honestly, i don't like to remember it is co my role in the future. but others do like to talk
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about it, especially now ahead of the elections. a whole class of politicians benefits from the fact that bosnia is still divided for it, secure was their power. the leader of the bosnian serbs has been holding military parades while both ian and corporation, politicians are quarrelling over voting rights. and i support report. i'm really surprised that there is such tension between bosnians and cro. at sylvan, surely there's always been compromise, and they've always worked together. but this time, i don't know, talk ok. lawyers 0 most my dream in life is that the situation in bosnia changes said that we're all better off. and young people no longer leave the country than alone. love none. these laws, you know it. lucy domino erupt. zeiler, russia, the war is long over there, but nothing has changed to be. instead, the situation is escalating low shall the door esc escalade, who same as the people of bosnia are tired of the nationalistic rhetoric of the
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politicians by all additions of thought arthur, we see what they're up to. all of them people are true. they want to divide us to spread unrest among the people major, i'm so sick of it. yes. here's a repurchase filled out. after all, says husein different religions have been living together in bosnia for centuries. and these stones are evidence of this. he discovered them by chance when he wanted to start building on his property. instead of making a foundation, he discovered one, the foundation of a church from the middle ages will never from him will appear to honor with my wasn't disappointed when we discovered these walls. but what the laughter all there, the foundation of a medieval church knows i'm, i knew it was treasure, little glass. with the help of scientists is he continued digging at his own expense. and finally came across something sensational. the tomb of the bosnian
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queen yelena where la de la boyce normal. she ruled the country from 139521398 as the queen of every wonder, bosnians and hertz had given him his serbs am crowe at z, sorta by colorado, he erected a monument in her honor, uniting all the people's. if basil is what inspired him, that's why he's rebuilding a church where he's received support from all over the country. old for this church was billed by all of us. a stone by stone. i can't count all the donors, serbs, muslims, crowds were, all just human beings were you will be our lady of the angels is the name of the new church. and despite all the nationalistic rhetoric in the election, it represents a new symbol of peace. 30 years after the war in bosnia meet does, he'd come at during the day. he's a farmer, it's a job that he loves,
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and one that he was born into. at night he hangs up his pitchfork and suits up to perform in a cabaret show stage on his farm in france. it's an unlikely business model, one that allows the v to stay afloat financially, villagers and getting near to lose. we're skeptical at 1st, but davida has performers are winning them over one step at a time. awe here in rural france. preparations are underway for an extraordinary evening. i show time. ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ah. and here's the man behind it all that be to commit. what he's talking about. you can shoot me over the venue as booked out by the doctor. every one has come to
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enjoy a professional cabaret show with all the trimmings with . yeah. oh yeah. they can give you that when they saw it was starting a cabaret show, the elderly villagers came to my grandfather and said to when your grandchild is losing his way, you, cabaret is about drugs and prostitution. that's what they thought that the thesis did. buffy. oh, oh, defend is a professional musician who performs here 4 times a week. oh, ah . audiences are a namor and surprise. i think that's been done. you being
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a performance like this out here in the countryside. a way for me to know as a crazy product. lassie scott, this is such a friendly place in your out in the countryside, which is wonderful near anemia as you arrive here at the end of the day. you see all the hills and valleys. oh and johnny, it's a different world when you give are normally good dog. go now you have the the next morning. the comment is that his other work after a short night sleep at 7 am and he's already in the stables. emotionalism because i feel happy when i'm with a cow, you can raise my job, but here is my passion. but working 2 jobs is exhausting. record that images talking to my accountant says i should stop pending to the cows not to see victor cabaret in the farm shop to see if i can have weekends off. can
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we even go on holiday? but with the front state help a small business like mine. i think it prefers huge 1000 heck their farms with a 1000 cows. we don't want to be part of that agriculture, but you will come to the ve took over his father's farm with $100.00 cows and $700.00 chickens. jimmy, normally what does he think of his son's cabaret business? so crazy. it's got nothing to do with farming, you know, but we thought he'd keep the farm running like before you do good and then he did that. good, but these days farming isn't all that lucrative any more? no, no, no, no audio too many people want a piece of the pie, the shuttle middleman have too much power to what is in dumb and yeah, it's just not profitable any more, you know, price up in france, 27 farms give up every day. you know, talk about the bill. yes,
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