tv World Stories Deutsche Welle February 19, 2023 3:02am-3:16am CET
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ah, this week on world stories, indonesian fights against climate polluters. a dispute over brown bears in poland. but 1st we go to russia where schools are being ordered to run special lessons justifying the war in ukraine. any one daring to object, can expect a police investigation for body. angelica music is the best way to unwind to forget school and trouble with the police. a few months ago, or thirties labeled the 11 year old as problematic. they suspect her family as being anti russian and pro ukrainian ever since that day in october last year. when
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police questioned valia and her mother levels thrush, my push, i was afraid to call the police officer was sitting right across from me because she was tall and she stared at me through her glasses more than i thought, which, what does he want from me? i had never seen her before. it no more. you chore ladder of bread by us. yes. reserve tidily. various alleged crime was that she had refused to attend a new course on patriotism at school in the mandatory class. cold conversations about important things. students are told that the russian invasion of ukraine is just an act of liberation. even worse in the eyes of the authorities, various cellphone profile photo was an image of an alms toting virgin mary displayed in the ukrainian national colors. the school principal suspected subversive behavior. and alerted the police threats, interrogation, and dramatic rate on their apartment,
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followed as of arias. mother yelena recalls. she says it was a nightmare that lasted weeks. i need prosper. they really cause me and my daughter, a lot of pain. the interrogation alone lasted for hours. last offer, we were confronted with strange questions about politics. fighting and about my daughter bodya, and about what kind of a bad child she was a wider equal grandma higher. various story is not an isolated one. shortly after the start of the war, russia passed a law forbidding what they called the discrediting of the russian armed forces. for example, any one who called the war a war rather than a special military operation, as the authorities dictated, risked long sentences. hundreds of russians who openly protested against the war and criticized the kremlin, have been taken to court. some have been imprisoned in the jolly cause apartment. the authorities tried to find evidence that would prove that they had broken. the
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law says very as mother yelena, they found nothing. even so the holy cause remain under police observation. yet anna says her carefree life is over. she no longer feel safe. a short think was another the 3 years ago. i couldn't have imagined anything like this happening and russia. a sophie today, i no longer identify with the russian stay didn't unless it just in the child, the state is causing us too much pain in my children and me. i see it. i don't think we can expect anything good in russia, and the next 20 or 30 years will help when my children will become adults. and that's why various family doesn't want to stay in russia much longer. it's just a matter of time before they move abroad. she says, rodya has ambitions to become a great musician. free of any worries about the police. her
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hurry island in indonesia is a vacationers paradise. with long, sandy beaches, turquoise sea and palm trees, but pari could soon disappear into the ocean. for fishermen are battling to save their home. these roots hold the future for pari island. us money earned her friends are planting mangroves. once mature the trees will serve as a natural barrier to sea water erosion and reduce the risk of flux. on the $42.00 hector island, which was just off the coast of jakarta. yeah. i don't wait until we sink safe, perry island. that is their message and it's a message they have now go to court as money as one of the for residents of pari island who filed a lawsuit against cement, giant, wholesome, in switzerland,
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over its contribution to climate change housing at the minute long. i miss it that it was ada. i'll sim is one of the world's biggest contributor cecia to emissions causing climate change that impacts our island. i mean, they still have declined. the seasons are unpredictable unless it at the sea level is rising. he must hold halston responsible for these consequences of climate change. but of any kind of in this field where the women of the village or planting vegetables is one of the few left that has not been flooded by sea water in recent years of age and wherever you go on the island, the struggle against the encroaching sea is obvious. many houses are flooded at high tide, but are, is put gentle. one of the plaintiffs is determined to stay under the lee l. k. l. a scar since the constant thudding began in 2019. it's been difficult to get teen water. we used to rely on this fresh water well,
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but now it's even unusable for dish washing, admiring. look at them with the latter that the local environmental advocacy group, while he which backs the islanders alongside a swiss and a german and g o is optimistic regarding the lawsuit. a similar environmental case against shall in the netherlands, has recently been one. but they are preparing for a legal battle that could rack on for years. uncle cuddled and get, the whole shim won't go bankrupt. we only demand 3 things come up, mitigation adaptation and lossing damage. and this means that we want to provide corrections to the existing production mode, not to bankrupt it before i, lenders are suing for $14000.00 euros in lawson damages to be shared amongst them a comparatively small amount. but for fishermen must act, fearing it would make a huge difference far herself. so definitely, america went down. yup. that they should be led by their conscience, monica,
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and take responsibility for what they've done. feel they reap so much and profit that they are blinded by it. owns the land, they don't see that we are bearing the brunt of a climate emergency. i don't acting like i thought. but that, that for adam on lying with a rapid reduction in the companies, carbon emissions which the lawsuit demands could make a difference in the long run. the plaintiffs are also demanding better slot defences and more mangrove restoration. the fight against lucy and global injustice on pari has just begun. our last stop is pulling where brown bears are once again living in the forests on the carpathian mountains. animal rights activists are delighted, but forest owners and timber producers are annoyed. through the bears have a future here.
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here in the forests of southern poland, bears can still feel at home. retiring old trees offer the beer shelter and protection. but now the forest has become a source of contention. josefina and jakob are conservationists. they take stock of the ancient trees, tall ones like these are marked for felling, which could have serious consequences. animals have a place to hide. at the beginning it may be smaller animals like fox and to later on it can become even bigger and it can become inhabited by burn. the red dot marks the tree for felling a decision made by polish forest authorities. these trees are not standing in a nature reserve. that's a problem for the bears. logging interest take priority here. that limits the spaces where beers can live undisturbed. forest authorities, warren visitors, not to get too close to the animals. but that rarely happens anyway. the department
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has an open air exhibit with an overview of many of the local forest animals except the beer. any special protection for the beers would be unnecessary, says the spokesman for the regional state forest the m as a half decent gibbons as did you something local. we saw the 1st bears here in 1958 with his obesity. if you're going to show them by the 1970 s, there were 20 bears onions, viji, and now we've got 200, hold the hostile, that's quite a big increase. so the last hunter, mush polish forestry authorities are more focused on logging because of russia's war in ukraine. lumber prices are high and fuel is scarce. was now due to a zip code of them sleep, not listeners. it is if a or if from time to time a few of the trees were the protection of the hotel, the ones that could be natural. monuments obviously are cut down density deep in
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the forest far from civilization. a few forest activists have set up a protest camp taking a stand against loggers. not every one is happy with their protests. a car near the camp was attacked and the conflict gets heated. the 4 as active as don't live in this region. but in warsaw or other major cities, yackel josefina and raffo don't intend to back down either the strain album. yeah, keep of them we own. i see the massive destruction going on here for somewhat of a pulled up now and then, and i don't condone it is good enough. those are both or curve. those are starving . sure. i want my daughter to be able to enjoy these old forests in the future. these are butcher wong, starter la sir. some perhaps still see bears to. of course, if all the old trees are chopped down,
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the animals will move somewhere else. they may even enter areas populated by humans, which could be dangerous. but his problem with that new can become a problem in recent decades to ship incidents with bears where humans get hurt or increasingly common. one person even died for the community. so people in animals of the region have one thing in common. their camera shy, many people here work in the timber industry on signs they don't men's words about how they see the activists. there are equal terrorists. but josefina and jacobi believe, many residents don't realize how close the relationship between bears and trees is you can quite easily imagine how a bear that is, the big animal of 200 kilograms, could actually fit inside the 3 inside this 3 knots now. but in the future,
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if you will become hollowed out, i think the whole family of bears. good, good. they've often asked authorities to police old, rotting trees under protection. requests that have almost always been denied. ah, people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away at the border. families playing phone tag with people seeing extreme ground. ross,
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getting 200 people around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. w. made for mines. yes, but see that this is the consequence for, for those flips, i'm to find out a lot with just a will any more just conflict in ukraine, the european war and 10 voices rushes, warrior crane. one year since the invasion began. we take a look back and into the future in the human flow green in february on d w.
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