people clearly have the solutions, the future with the 77 percent, every weekend on d w. m. what secrets lie behind these walls? discover new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating world heritage sites. d w world heritage is 360. get the app now with ah, 12 year old abdul was badly injured in a bomb attack in afghanistan. he lost both hands. somebody a good medical treatment is almost impossible to find in the poverty stricken country. and he and his father a desperate for help. and i was in other hospitals,

but it didn't help me. i'm here because i need help for my hands and those but very few children get the chance for surgery abroad. ah ah abdul and his father are excited. the german aid organization, clayton's doff international, has come to cobble to enable several children to receive medical treatment in germany. this is the 1st meeting. it has been over a year since extremists bombed the mosque in abdul's home town of jalap, at his hands could not be saved. it is almost blind in his left eye. the wounds have still not hailed. we have changed abdul's name for his safety when they were

actually brought to let somebody know that before. sure. oh good. well, to cut out the day for years, claudia pamela has been flying to afghanistan for the aid organization. she and her team carefully examine all the children and decide who may be eligible for treatment. what is the social worker notes that the situation in the country has deteriorated dramatically since the taliban took power last summer? but we've never before seen so many families come here. 5000000 convent is that they were over 2200 families here or it's pretty hot to say you can come now kind of and you later. not knowing if the child will still be live and 6 months on it. so this is task indian him highly af, late to know. the afghan economy has completely collapsed. millions are starving, qualified doctors and most 8 organizations have left the country. if

you haven't swap, i like we have seen badly injured children who would be in intensive care. and jermel landed, been just lying at home without painkillers or dressings for buttons, mickey and fuck to how the lead. and after a short consultation they decide abdul can come. he's lucky but he will come with us that we shall items or is it that there we go. yeah. those are for little shall enter the missouri rules. i will be very happy if my son can get back his hands and treatment for his wound or some to her for her to hold with them at all with us. i will be very happy if he comes back healthy. he'll galum when is, he'll get out of it already. i want him to be able to hold a pen or book with his hands. and the koran having money that was sure that he was hurt because some one hid explosives under his corolla. lucia was, i will go to talk with you. i want him to have an islamic education when he returns my house and serve his country out of his mouth. we'll get ahold of you with all the clara claudia pat. mueller and her colleague from the red crescent,

are still arranging the passports without them and the taliban permission, the children can't leave the country. but everything goes smoothly. as it italian, but taliban all men who belong to it are now involved in every thing. men in our experience has been very positive. yeah. hadn't absolute poor the t. therefore we were amazed that they even asked for help from here from the beaten water. a few months later, abdul and other badly injured children from crisis and war torn regions around the world. a staying in the threatens doff international in germany. it's an emergency community where they can recover at leisure from their operations. oh, time for another wound jack. medical assistant, isabel book shake has been tending abdul since his arrival. i saw him when he came

to us a few months ago. there was still a wound here in his chest. we pulled out several small encapsulated metal pieces in chrome after they were removed, the wound cursed quite well. they won't get up to the gun. abdulla is due for another operation soon, gets not not thought to on. and the surgery should enable abdullah to grasp again as i like it. i'm not scared of the operation yet. i'm glad they're operating. i'm not scared at all. it says that i bill spends the time until his operation playing with his new friends in the frieden store. young patients from around the world become a temporary team fitness quote, i think it's great that the kid show me every day how life is worth living. did they teach you to seized the day to live to data?

or abdul is really the best example days. that's best bashful. he has experienced the worst that can happen to a personal posse and still comes up to you with a smile and a hug. i'll say 2 or 3 weeks later, abdul surgery has finally been genuine. this hospital, in essence, in western germany, specializes in this type of surgery surgeon fritchie of holman wants to see how abdul has come through it. abil even speak a little german? no. how are you feeling? good? oh good. does it hurt? little a little. okay. can you raise your arm? oh, we bandaged it to day under anesthesia. everything looks quite good. i'm pleased. we'll have to do that once or twice more and then we'll take the bandage off and

you will have to start moving. okay. so you can grasp things and move them we're only allowed, we've separated the owner and the radius, so it's no longer a single stump or but like pincers houghton mifflin out of patricia shaver with these pincers, he can grass yellow, kind of, i forgot, right? a bit orange or even hold a spoon. oh, so he can get by without prosthesis which is the whole point of a photo in afghanistan. prostheses are quite difficult to get to me, and i have to be changed often or few of exxon. the doctor's operated on only one arm, so the other remains as long as possible and serves as a support. now, abdul, as to rest, i got all my life and lot one. yet a few weeks later there is no more talk of resting back in the fleet and off. abdul is busy training his new hand to use cutlery. for example,

he's been given a custom made fork and spoon by your picket. can you put it on yourself? i yes it again was a pinching anyway here. oh, here we are gonna feel here too. yeah. yeah. yeah. go yeah. then let's have you eat this, pretend meals what i said. yeah. yeah. now right now be the 1st advice or get him on the phone. can you bring it to your mouse? perfect. him. good. oh, okay. with good m classes, can you take this big piece? a good man about a 100 and it's great. i can eat and do everything with it. dead for the money but

it took me a $1000000.00 abdul also wants to draw and right again like the out the children he most likes to draw these favorite flower arose but it does itself ganske and it is also very, very important to encourage the children and say it, even if it doesn't look like a normal hand, it's great that you can use it to eat and write that. so he can go back to school with that jacqueline alphabets assure lagoon. time to go home. put on your jackets. check under your seat or not will with needing that. everyone is excited about going home. kamala lana, i went to see my parents and family again, and go back to school. that's one of them then. and then the children say good bye to their temporary caregivers. many where sunglasses they think it's cool.

ah was highlander had i had a great time here because i found new friends to play with sending a quick group photo as a memento before abdul and the other children bold band flights home after a 10 hour flight, the children have landed safely in the them oh, here the red crescent helps to organize their return soon the

children will see their parents again. they've had no contact all this time so that they wouldn't get to homesick. abdul and his father hug among a horse with identical shadow she to that of the 7 months were like 7 years for ash joel gallow it. but now my son is back and i couldn't be happier. did with i wanted to cry, but i stopped myself because i did not want abdul to cries on. mcglochan went to me to ask ellen jody abdul's father wants to see everything right away. look up his asthma medicine, skinny all the wounds on your chest healed. now, booth

he said yes, it's all better now it's all gone. richly, did i have no wounds any more? settle oliver's meal when he laughed. he was hot and in terrible pain wash. hello joe. there now he is better and healthy, much better luck. no will go down with unhappy to see him like this so difficult. i live like a day and so much better now. so much i couldn't do anything at 1st. been i much better all sanders darling? abdul wants to stay in contact with the readings off the next time claudia, pet moolah, is in cobble to select children. he is determined to stop by. he wants to become a doctor to be able to hell. papa's, as others have helped him back. mm.

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on the road to recovery. ah, i've been for sewland, woke up medicinal marijuana is a burgeoning industry. it's recreational use to, especially in parts of europe and north america. asia is lagging. still. the pandemic has proved to be a catalyst for the adoption of cannabis. india saw a boost in usage, locked down, citizens eager to combat anxiety in indian society. this little guy actually dates back 4000 years, then came decades of damaging drug control policies. now, a lot of governments realize they can break in huge tax revenues if the business is fully legalized. competitive prices could wipe out the black market. that will require,

well thought through state regulation thailand has been leading the way in southeast asia, removing cannabis from its list of narcotics last year, effectively lifting its bad on marijuana. but without clear regulations, the legal uncertainty is dampening the thriving wheat business authorities tightened. some rules last month writing stalls, they say we're operating without a license. that's left many wiring about how long the boom could last from sleep boutiques like this to the simplest doors, hundreds of wheat dispenser. he's a sprouting up across bangkok with marijuana. now essentially decriminalized. it is the opportunity to get into the business. you don't need much to open the shaft and i think that encourage one who doesn't have that much copied all. aw, in westman, to be in the,

in the business. this door opened his dispensary off to thailand, legalized marijuana cultivation, and removed cannabis from his list of bandanna cortex in june. a move some criticized as hasty as lawmakers have yet to agree on how to regulate the industry . while the plant can be useful medical purposes, it's recreational use, including smoking in public is still not legal. business owners have stake their future on cannabis once more clarity on their for their you can do it. and then the next day are you no longer can do it and we cannot rely on bad we need, we need a modular massage. we need to see that plan in 5 and 10 years, not my my my the uncertainty due to an ongoing public debate over legalization pro groups pointed to lucrative cannabis market. expected

to be worth over a 1000000000 euros by 2025. but skeptics raised concerns over the social impact of legalized canopies consumption. for many profits to be made. now make it worth the risk. bangkok cityscape is already changing than doris. hopeful that businesses are here to stay. i think they will find a way to put it in the middle, you know, but it's a lot of people use it. and hopefully in the future we just need time to learn to adapt, that it is still new. so businesses will have to keep tiptoeing in this legal gray area until an agreement comes will not on children, is c o and founder of tier of inches, which operates in the medicinal field across se, asia. just a couple years ago, cannabis possession made up to 10 years jail in thailand, and yet this is

a plant that appears in the oldest of temple scrolls tell us more about that. that's absolutely correct, but thank you for having me. it's been a part of our, you say cultural identity medically socially and called religiously as well because it's part of our scores on the temple in terms of the formulation that goes generations of traditional medicine formulations. and finally, you know, since 2019 and the development equalization of, of cannabis has been quite, i'd say, bringing back our heritage. why then has liberalization been such a bumpy road when it comes to rules and regulations there and highlight? there's a lot of fractions, of course i'd say every country faces the same issue,

right? because cannabis has been stigmatized since it's criminalization, you know, back in a long time ago, right. at the same time as everybody else in the world. but especially now there's a lot of actions from not only from the politics side or from the doctors, the clinicians who are from the modern medicine side. but of course, traditional medicine doctors have been proactive or supportive this, this movement also on the social aspect. because there's obvious new benefits this plan is not just on the medical side, but on the tourism side was highland is, is it's quite strong in our choice industry. right. and we're pushing very, very hard on the medical tourism, which is, you know, there's a sense that the fact that the data, so the new years, there's been a record,

a number of tourists come into talent and kind of hopefully can be a part of that experience but how do you overcome the stigma and at the same time, remind younger people of the health hazards, especially teams whose brains are still developing. honestly, it's a, it's quite difficult because it's something that it used to be grown. know in the back yards of a farmers, you know, any families i'm, you know, they use it to, to put it in their suits as part of the food and beverage right or whatnot. but it's very difficult to do so. i mean, the government has tried their best to, to limit, you know, you know, the usage is with, for example, under 20 or, or moms or pregnant women as well. for breast feeders, you know,

these are, these are, it makes it kind of what they're trying their best. and so how much does legalization are hinge on upcoming elections when it comes to the political level? you can see it's quite or it's going to be a big campaign for sure because the current coalition and the party that wish the decriminalized ation of cannabis and asked campaign that seems to be in a very strong position and with the upcoming elections very soon. it seems like a lot of the discussions that we're having now and the questions that you asked earlier on that you know that it's, that's the uncertainty for sure. you know, because we all leave couple months until the, the reelections and

a lot of it's definitely not that. and i don't just one more question. can this plan to bring calm to a region fearing war? subjectively, i believe it can our approach as a country for it to be but assembly but as a part of the experience, you know, with our food and beverage, i believe it can definitely bring com. it's just a matter of perspective objectively, with regards to the business, medicinal side, i think there's going to be different sections. you know, i was arguments from both sides concerts or whatnot, but, you know, i mean, let's see arguments that you can see with it. the kind of industry is we always compare ourselves to the alcohol industry or, or cigarettes late the cost and benefits of, of, of those,

of alcohol and cigarettes and can relax manner. and i believe it can that for us, you know, there's a very progressive mindset and i believe that you know, with prohibition, there will always be people not following the rules. so, so if we do it right, and for the right reasons, i'm sure we can use the herb in a much more on how you said tactical manner here director and entrepreneur dawn chen church of n. sorry. thank you very much for being on d. w. 's. asia, thank you. lou will heroin addiction is skyrocketing and kashmir. the government says it's trying to intervene, but frontline services struggling to cope behind the rise is

a complex mix of factors. one of them being the pandemic which saw the alyssa drug crossing borders undetected. mental health is also a reason, and we're talking about a country racked by violence in one of the world's most militarized zones. addicts sir said to be rich, poor employed unemployed and mostly young. but june, i am his arms bear the marks of his heroin addiction. he's from india controlled kashmir where heroine use has showed up 2000 percent over the past 5 years. according to vocal reports. or this is then malone lab work. getting heroine is very easy. name. it used to be quite difficult to get heroine. but now after cove, it 19th, it's widely available in you can get it anywhere easily. meneva, facing an explosion of drug use. the kaufman has set up rehabilitation facilities to treat patients free of charge. but the census a working of their limit, kashmir,

main drug rehab clinic now sees 200 patients daily up from for patients every day. 5 years ago. doctor said there's also an increase in female patients and addicted children as young as 10 gazette rider ritual link between mental health and substance use. so annoying diag, we are had go undergone some social political instruments from past few years. phosphorus de goods in fact, saw there have been mental health issues and i know vision and that collective sense of trauma mate worse by the pandemic, and resulting economic fall out. authorities in the region seized over 80 killers of heroine in 2020. but experts say this is only the tip of the iceberg. and when it comes to addiction, it's to few rather than the many who are on the road to recovery, lot love probably because of my addiction. my family suffered, my parents fell ill and they had no one but me to take care of them. i thought i'm,

if i remain like this, no one will help them. so i decided to quit, come back whenever he says there are only 2 paths ahead for alex, death or rehab, and he's chosen the path though heart that's keeping him alive. small stories go to d, w dot com slash asia, or our facebook page or twitter feed, i'm painful, and he same time tomorrow of i oh, they all share a belief in peaceful coexistence, nbc st. george, near paris. this is nothing unusual. each of the world's major religions has its own place of worship it. it's a unique place of exchange hosting many inter religious services. i

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