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tv   The Chauras of Bangladesh  Deutsche Welle  November 5, 2023 8:15pm-9:00pm CET

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time, melting glaciers in the himalayas have been feeding countless rivers. they pour out of the mountain range, running like veins throughout the south asian continent. the one of the most powerful is the drama to truck, which travels thousands of kilometers before crossing bangladesh and flowing into the bay of been go. here the river is known as jim the. the juno creates and floods and many islands and its course. in ben gully, these ever shifting islands, sand bars are called chalk, derived from schroeder, which means wondering the 3000000 people who live on the island called themselves
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child us. but we don't migrate. they say the islands do. we just have to wonder, along from june to september, during the months to the rivers tides wash of fertile settlement that produces a bountiful harvest in the dry season. the floods provide both fish and joy to the child the but they also take knowing at the shore line of the old jobs flooding the islands and causing pain. the like no man's. the child has moved from flooded islands to newly emerging ones. but they are used to this. they know the river gives them fertile soil on which they can grow and work again. a
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life of construction, destruction, and reconstruction. the weakness dish is nothing over the last model. no. the what you're saying is told you, oh do you didn't you catch anything? i'm so far careful, careful about it. that's enough for lunch. the
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soon as i have been talking to the 33 year old that i am sure to god isn't actually a fisherman, but a farmer. as together with his wife lea, a be gum, he feeds his 6 person household. besides their 2 children, his younger brother and mother also live with the the raw him and his neighbors live on child early. but up in the middle of the moon, the the monsoons began months ago, and the river is knowing away at the island. but the title waves that usually
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flowed the jobs are not here this year. even in august, the in progress channel rose to be there as low as the coast and the blessing. and here with the moon and mail flows, which i believe her was actually everywhere. they were both schools concrete building and we had every day for 5 minutes and then from the east, the river started pushing and ripping everything away. i was glad to do it because the bride here a chuck could come up again and people could settle again. what's the, what's the use or the find the, the, wherever the village of relief is now, the moon used to float, sort of big ships used to pass by wondering if i saw it myself as
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a child. and the child, at least, uh, has now been stable for 12 years. but it is the exception really, but uh is one of a dozen charge that make up the gum shot a union district. not all the islands in the district have reached such an age every few years. telemundo washes away some of the jobs only to later wash up new settlement elsewhere. the not far from the heem until recently lived showed us among the there only one or can be seen now because you're moving uh has reclaimed the large parts of his former home . jim luna has taken over the shoot us i'm on a farmer,
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lived here with his family for 8 years. it everybody kept over here was my home a piece of field was washed away with the property that kind of worried about me. it was a house over there was a neighbor, there was a not that the yeah was another friend of mine. 7 homes were here. the school that showed us a month son attends, must be demolished. the water is only a few meters away from its foundation. the rubble will be reused. building material is pressure. it's not clear where the school will be rebuilt. for now, it remains closed. yeah, my, my son went to the school. my property is gone and now we are losing the school to
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is the see a problem that they have an appointment or some in the building. you see here we build 66 years ago. so i let them know we have to take it down to think of it before the school was some or else. then we have to take it down due to erosion and rebuild. it has tens of times we have to move at the school by the name of the monsoon season, and erosion go hand in hand. you never know which island of the river will take next nor to port. perhaps the list job is only 4 years old. that doesn't make a particularly powerful impression,
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but farmers who don't have many fields often have no choice, but to settle here. the fellow, your mother, i mean i could tune lives here. she is married and has 2 daughters. her husband, a c, or o dean khalifa is a farmer. unfortunately, some of his fields have flooded and he's no longer able to feed his family from field work alone. he also sells goods at the market, the
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killing of the game. we all have to live in a hot with the animals because we are afraid of thieves or robbers because the river is so closely if there are often river pirates. here we are poor. we have a few animals. if the thieves and robbers take that away from us, how will we survive on the new zillow? and it is it just last time the water was up to here, up to the waist. it was very difficult to live here and the name and then we moved to a neighbor's house for a few days and the flood hit us there too. then we had to build a rack up high to keep the animals away from the water. often we also slept on a boat and there was no gas, the water taxi, but i seems job to leave, but uh, is stable for the moment. the people here are still feels safe from jemina and
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its powerful times. but even they are not completely safe from the floods. is it bound isn't we don't want i'm, that's mine. i agree with that myself. it's growing. well. it dropped out that is that the same, these arises brand new thanks to technical development and we can try new varieties looking at the bottom and the see it and they grow very well. hi. can be used as high on it. so when the, when i was a child, you could only harvest as the feel like this a began from fifties hold on to hold on would be a problem at all. feel free to on monday at $830.00 the, the job. and they came up from the 12 years ago, but well people have become wise, so i'm getting ready go to quite a whole god because somebody planned trees immediately to and get this oil and the
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level one up. you pull in augusta, we definitely have a little and we can eventually sell the trees later. is everybody does business in this foundation we built in 2011 at a ever from after that we had to wait until the settle a mrs. white with the edible doesn't mind when the water comes onto the property here, we have to bring extra soil here, like with the boat. and then we build a hill. and then we put the animals on this hill near that can those heavily blocking and for cooking, you can see the top and of course it gets covered with water, finding police mazda, and then we build a high rock. and on top of this, again, a new stove, we tried to keep the wood dry, and on top of it we sits in cook. i often tell him that maybe we shouldn't move to the mainland, but he doesn't want to leave the chart. kind of he loves the child more than anything the mainland does. that's the question for him. i'm glad that i tell her why didn't you get some money from your parents? why don't you get 500000 tucker to buy
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a plot of land to the but she caught she dreams of a house on the mainland. we just don't have the money. i got a whole night ready to go to the flow that about him and his wife aliya are busy all day like her husband. she's educated, but here on the jobs, there is no opportunity for women to put their schooling to use a lia supports her husband in his work and earns extra money as it seems to the neighbors by their clothes, from her instead of on the mainland, the
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because little harvesting takes place during the monsoons. many showed us live off of fishing during the rainy season. but in recent years, the highly sought after catch has been dwindling. the the. 8 the, there are many different kinds of fish and practiced showed us can even catch them with their bare hands. the look how big it is, the
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former is no longer use the fish solely to feed their families at the port of golden da sheet, they bring their fish to be auctioned off, supplementing their livelihood on going to the. 2 team to sometimes visit the market in golden does nothing to me here. the 400. 6400. 60 anyone? 7400. 7. the 501500. 15515 nobody. then he's gone for $500.00.
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the the heem brings the expensive fish home for supper. the keen can still trust that his land is safe from the rising waters. but not far away. it's a different story to do some on has given up his land and a store in parts of his house and his relatives, the economics of it. yeah. all the individual pieces of a complete hon to go to the end. if you was of another hunt,
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i also put them on top there. how does the say go to the find out how i can buy when we take down no rebuild. uh huh. so it takes a lot of people to that. how does this logistically? it's a big effort that also costs money. what assume it is very tedious. what dollar amount of had to equal some of the buses, but we towers help each other. i mean that if i decide to take down my house today and tell the neighbors they come right away, i mean i want to have decided when, if i hear that enough, a neighbor is relocating whether he tells me, oh no, it's on my board. i go that i'd help take down the hunt, transported away and rebuild it. that's how people tired of newborn car, little showers help each other. the starting, my mom said optimal depth the
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to do some on and his family have to stay with relatives until they find a safe place for a new home. the river is rising. the as unstable as the childs are, the land and farm land on them are still surveyed and entered into the land register. all showed us keep their title deeds in case there flooded land
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reappears. perhaps this time should have some on we'll get lucky and yamuna. we'll give him back the land and took the this is what it looks like before the flood waters arrive. the green grass land is food for cattle. but in order to cultivate the land, the grass has to disappear. usually the flood takes care of, but when it doesn't, the farmers have to destroy the grass with chemicals in order to be able to plant. the cute is a particularly hardy crop, but it can only be grown in the rainy season. the, there's a reason it's called the golden thread of bangladesh. it drives even when flooded
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for the jude water is a friend. it likes stagnant water, the more brackish, the better after harvest thing, the stocks must be left to soften in the water. so the threads can be sold the, the remaining parts of the plant are used as building and burning material. the
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material dude, such as about one year old, the farmer's earned about 4 hundreds of 500 year rose from the harbor. significantly more than the $100.00 to $200.00 euros they would otherwise earn from us. not with products like dude and rice, the cho does have adapted to the rhythm of the dry end during the season. when it comes to electricity, they must also adapt to the rules of nature. solar panels are easy to use and the mobile. until a few years ago, expensive oil was the only source of energy for the child us.
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today children grow up with solar energy as the norm for 6 year old chic. it's common place the the that he was brother on the chicago even runs his laptop off the panels. the computer is connected to the internet through his mobile phone. when you are done here, could you please wait the patty for you? okay. i have to go to a meeting or go away and when you when you want to i guess my brother graduated
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well from school event. the timing is his great passion and he didn't want to do anything else. sure. when the plumbing device that i want to work as a web designer from home who are doing the brother supports me to learn as professional again, with to buy all this equipment. so this is supposed to be financially, so you know, the visual video gosh, and what else is she knows here, covers it out to them a little way this i guess we've done one thing that we don't love economically. we started to go to honey. i don't have any training and web design, so i followed the work of professional web designers in the country and even the internationally known months of video. i read that books the phone of the applause g cheap the most. i me, the, the kind of the needed to see the board been hi. event. i think the young people on the charles a very small now that if i can get them together, i would like to start the company is to provide services like this online, but it's always been a the
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unusually late in early september. the title floods have finally come. normally the child does expect 3 title waves between june and the end of august. but this time, the rising water is come only wants. here to climate change is evident the within a few days, the flooded water is reached dangerous levels. as the river takes its toll, no one's thinking about the fertile settlement. it breaks. even though the floods will ensure to a mountable harvest for the child us in the coming dry season,
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the money you do with the one you especially in the water, has been standing here in the field for 3 days or 7 days ago. it started to rise. first, the river was swollen and then in the last 3 days the water ended from here. if the water just continues to rise folder rice will be lost on what it is a good. i figured it was the, i don't know if i'm lucky enough to save this right. scrub each crying so beautiful in the bottle. here at the finish. me see find the water is close to l ya. now move when the children play here, they could fall into a hole. it's dangerous. i want to take
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a bath papa hyphen because you know, you just had a shower when a good day, you don't want it. well, that's how it is a life for you in a few days ago, we will being on this pause, everything was to drive it off and now we're walking in the water. sometimes the water comes up to a chest for over a head. sometimes there is even a current to you will die come to grow, he seems relaxed about the flooding. aliya is more concerned. the ground near their home is still dry. but if the water enters the yard every day, life will become much more difficult.
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as evidenced than this footage from the past quarter century, the child us have had to develop extraordinary survival skills to adapt to the flood floods which the child us they are increasingly worse due only in part to nature. a bridge was built here 25 years ago. forcing the once 14 kilometer wide river and to a narrower channel, the child se then until the bridge was built, the floods we're not as dramatic as they are today. the,
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the, this time there was only one tidal wave in the monsoon season. it left behind huge amounts of fertile soil that had to be till the dry season has long since begun. now, 5 months later, its harvest time, the the but uh, she, uh, jo mode. it goes to a to me uh they could, but uh she uh, not to be long done that the hard. no, but sheila, i'm not gonna gone on monday. i had the bus to
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come back from you mentioned that he was not lucky with his rice field. the water destroyed the crop but he was able to save his other fields of the the, the landscape. which until now was a disaster area. suddenly looks very different,
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it now gives the impression one can live well here. it is a different world, but distances that could be covered quickly by boat or water taxi in the monsoon season. now take much longer. the in the monsoon season, the water is overwhelming. now it is scarce, let farmers and desperately need it to irrigate their fields.
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the soil is still wet in some places and good for planting. rice, rice can be grown all year. what must be harvested before the floods come the
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it's not just the rice that grows here. throughout the dry season, the child as are busy harvesting one field after another at ground knots, mays, sweet potatoes, mustard, and cory. end or keep it that he busy. the agent number bobby, that's literally what i'm doing. i actually think there is a river here all these floods and like a blessing for us. i'm one of the because the more often the flood comes, the better it is for our farm. and i want the more we can grow, substituted with both the go to a level 5 working more. this is just a router. when the monsoons come was that when it's all about, this is outbound land that these fields only lie on plants. if the 2 or 3 mountain don't over the just where they are flooded up. i mean, peggy, only during this time can we not told you that the ticket then when everything is verbal, when they put it, that's why i think we live in the river. but it doesn't seem like the november move
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data key on the part of the endo soil here has a big advantage. we don't necessarily always need the plants. sometimes you just say send to the bar example here. this to the see how the peanuts a thriving problem is, but you can see how drive the soil is good by the front of your business. and that is who can i go? the that he was neighbor showed us, i'm on, has been lucky, but i just port island has reappeared from the river. he owns a plot of land on it. the soil is nice and high and it seems to be protected from the erosion that cost him hudson fields during the last month soon. now he's building the foundations for his new home. here it will need to be high enough to stay afloat during the next flood. we're
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taking the course in boxes. now we are moving from the east and to the west and science style about the problems we can actually make a good living from farming or dine core content from it. but this erosion in the pro body body that will just say kind of model, by example, this house that i have to rebuild here. it will cost me almost a $1000.00 euros altogether. i could have saved this money. i think that i'm forced to spend it a little problem with that's the problem for us. the child really have to do it every 3 or 4 years. the river needs to weigh my property body. i cannot keep my savings that about in some sort of talk about the the,
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even though there are no trees here yet to fortify the island. the new plot looks promising. the river is a safe distance away. i should have some on plan to move ahead of time and all the neighbors are pitching in the things are looking good for sort of some on at the moment. but no one knows when juno will get hungry again and start knowing on the shore line. the
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most of the told us are developed muslims praying 5 times a day, however, is something very few do. but no farmer wants to miss the spiritual chancing at one of his time in late february the let me be to school as the teacher. what did he say? he said i should study hard. i invited him to our house. to did you see the house? i think so, but check because of the the you go abroad by playing the broad. that's right. and what's that, that to you alone you look see these are off to you. yeah. do you know what that's
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made? oh, well banana trees, right? whatever. and what did they put on this roster? that was it, that she and that would do and to look at the go. that's the boys just the see how sketchy is. she's afraid of falling into the water. finding a way to like, uh, yeah, but i'm not afraid of the water. the, the child of northwood has also survived the monsoon, but now there was a lot to do in the fields. i mean, those husband associated with dean can take care of their younger daughter. she doesn't have to travel far to work. this means i mean, i can take care of the older daughter schooling and have more time for house work. the
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other girl said that my father was a capital trader, as a child who used to take me with him. and i watched him and learned how the business works, that i didn't finish school. so i have to and my money as a salesman. i managed a little bit until the 7th grade and then my parents married me off so i couldn't get in. you know, that's a lot of people that are so the we are poor child on the with the know do the girls get married off quite early, but at the end when you're married, you can't go to the 1st because then you have to work at home but that's all i would have had a good chance to finish school. my parents made an effort, but i blew i to the room. so probably one of those are the states like you are
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blind even though your eyes are healthy. the people who have education or they can see properly, they can understand everything and do a lot of things with their lives. everything is much easier for the that and those who have no education at all, they are like blind people with healthy. ah, that's how it is. there are even people who can't write their own name. is that the pipe? i can home educate my children up to great stuff. i never know, but it just depends on the i don't think another bundle. no, no, no, no, no, that's enough. one more. wait until next time. here i want to take one more minute that's enough. and i want another one. you wouldn't make it. i well the,
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the dry season has brought a good harvest and some security. the rice dogs are a precious commodity because they feed the most important thing of all the animals . they have to be stored outside so that the floods won't reach the papa. look, look what i have here. my goodness, so much. where do i put it? bring it here please. for 6 year old chic life on the child is still an adventure. he doesn't know what's in store for the family. the monsoons, even with it, a time of uncertainty, will begin again the even though the family knows how to deal with the rhythm of nature, there is no secure foundation for an easy life. aliyah knows that
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the move you have to cross the river here every time to bring in the harvest. that's going to be hard again. is gus that is the 7 digit growth pops the last you know, even further away and i think that was very exhausting. yeah, we're down to now and we wanted to keep up and while i don't know yet how to make it to see it, are you coming home? is that? no, i don't want to. why not do what i didn't? okay. did you foster vote? why didn't you get some help of the, the, the of, of them we've gotta pay more lower. you know, the women who work in the fields carry a huge stacks of pain on the, when the used to it. so what i've never done that was up in the diamond bible. why shouldn't you you can try it sometime. they look at
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a got a home. no, i don't want to. i'm supposed to do everything myself or what, who else? when i haven't been doing the building, i was hoping that's at some point we would live on the main them so that the children could go to school. you could do, you have assets there on the mainland, a nice. i look for your thought. well, you don't want to give up your fields here. you also couldn't your job in the city just to plow on the charles all the time. but that's not enough for a lot today. no for that. we'll see when we're actually, i guess you want me to toil a line in town and send you money so you can have a good life to sort of then keep digging into sam's. you don't need a job, but i tell that to your sons because they should make money on the mainland and due to life the. i'll stay here on the job. many child us think like that here. they may never give up this land, but to constance, remain the child shifting nature and the child us desire for security.
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