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the, the, the, the is, it is supple is apparently more peaceful than ever on the move worldwide in such a base in life when it tries to get it in cardboard, that's the, that's the image and find out about bailey story. info, migraines, the population of over 1400000000 and young. around 28 years old on average.
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my name is simmons, sony. my name is steve, i'm going to college and i'm $27.00. i live in apartment 25. in india, a new generation is on the rise, the largest population of young people in the world's most populous nation. since prime minister never end, remotely swept to power, he's been looking to take india to the top. is, is this the start of a new indian age? what defines this young population which is charged with securing plenty of future? you can't achieve anything with power. i have many hopes and dreams. they gotta be in boerger. if i'm not reading something, i don't visit with the
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minute i'm assuming my name is, simon saw me. it is by i'm 22 years old to think i'm not kind of i ride my bike from village to village making videos. i'm also, and also i'm in the tv, i've written on many issues in a box, and we're hoping to cover so many lives in the heart, in northeastern india. the name of her village is chand corey, which means deep to the moon. the villages here are poor, even by indian standards. the average income is less than 2 euros a day. that's just below the poverty line. most families here lead traditional
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lives. the girls are usually married by the age of 17. the simon wants to tread a different path really want me to get my house. i got married at the age of 12 and a year over to the wedding. i was to develop their level here in the villages. the goals don't have the freedom they deserve. was my articles, reporting and videos, i want to tell them, well that, that goes should have the right to do is just as freely as boys. but some people that have the same rights as borders get out there. i feel like you're good with that need to have something like they expect today, simon is planning a report for youtube channel about medical care for women in the village up on time . yes. when you say, what can you do this? open up on kind of i said okay, let's do all of us. and as i take some sort of medication and hope it will get better somebody then you go back to why that i yes. awesome. and if you feel really
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bad, then i go to the hospital and most of afford most of a poor is 2 hours away. yeah, brianca quick. simmons reports are funded by a private initiative through a journalist from daily. none of the young women here are making any money. the goal is to promote rule women and portray a diversity of opinion of this. you have to work day of the day in this age and you full a little. what do you do? love it that i take medication and get back to work though and carry on working. yes. so got to get the, you know, your vehicle for some level of death. nissan. local mega, derek, many media don't do the job properly. the more they have one same level of by but say another but or some of them would the highlight, we don't trust the media in a hickey, i will. yeah. they just praise moody's. well then you will have money,
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but based on this, yeah, this is done. that was, i think it was, but will they never christmas? sonia the moody government was give what i named getting it. simon is in a hurry. now. she wants to get the video online by the evening. she's one of many who no longer want to be constrained by indian tradition. the, my name is see the cottage and i d age that the 3. and i'm the see will the founders off on the life sciences by the treatment or team dear. we developed a product in as it is free for sinusitis, 1st of its kind and the verdict now those pre k one for the launch the product in india 1st, then we want to think it was a bonus. you as of the c, m,
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e p g a most jania jeff and his company is still a small start up with 6 employees, sharing office and lab space and hardware, but with other medical and biotech start ups. but he hopes that will soon change petra, but isn't tell him gone on in one of india's wealthy estates. it's regarded as the center for life sciences, biotechnology, medical products, and the pharmaceuticals industry. the goal is to create 400000 new jobs in the sector over the next 5 years. the average income here is already 5 times higher than that of the poor estate har. for cba, the 100 moody has also contributed to this increasing wealth. as prime minister the paid on the follow point them on the corner takes from the research find the field from and from there ship point of view,
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he hadn't done incredible job. the amount of stops which is fine and the number of unicorns which are gone. i don't know if in days is different entry. remarkable. see if i realizes that it could be years before his start up turn to profit evaluated here in food i with this is the sky started and in some odd one of the only non to for this the regular tragic 3 wouldn't be getting into some corporate and job, but i followed a different part of me that is such a being an entrepreneur that's and issues. and i, i want to achieve things as see the end, his business partner and body, many of the young ambitious generation of founders and entrepreneurs in india. we've been doing and just we are to be morgan. this is if i'm not getting something
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i don't visit with the i can make it happen. that's it. the media, a landing page, or human resources available in india, who have kept ability to look at the fundamental research that is in this big different i don't see any country have that positioning from the fundamental research point of view of the weakness would be we need to think that out, we need to think that fundamental disorders, what is happening in india uh, cause of borders and make people aware that this is happening in india causes and brought them into the
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backend world, the heart and the most of a poor region. the kind of meeting i'm my name is so non debbie submitted by 3 children. 2 boys, one girl has my husband is a 1st class. does that work in the fields or at home to be ready to go to there soon? um is 27 and can't read or write like a quarter of the indian population. and of the women here in the her only half can read in right. she lives a traditional life here, like her mother and grandmother before her. like many others,
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she's found the doors of upward mobility close to her combination fast, but of all it's company that there's not enough work here for us. that's what i need, but they have that's why we can't give our children an education or what's your faith? i'm going to try to get hold of a job because i'm not educated. i don't have a decent job. it's been caught that the kids have been sometimes and we sit down to eat. i don't know, i'm going to manage it all i see now is that the poverty, unlimited opportunities are a huge problem in the heart of the indian states. it's the 3rd largest in terms of population and the most densely populated the average daily income here is less than one euro 70, very little, even by indian standards. the,
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there are many brick works around most of our poor. there are more than 6000 of these brick kilns and bizarre thousands of families live and work here in extremely harsh conditions. a bonded labor and child labor are still the order of the day. but har is regarded as india's least developed state. many tried to leave and find work elsewhere in the country. like most here. sometimes family lives from what they can grow and raised themselves subsides. luckily i have 7 goats and one cow. the goats gave birth. not long ago. outside of that, the fam, the finance guy, the guy, but i use the co done to make because of the car part of the top that has to watch it. and then i use the briquettes for cooking although the cast system has officially been abolished. it's still
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a major feature of everyday life here. so now belongs to the lowest cost, formerly referred to as the untouchables. that said that lives didn't belong to a dallas community. the moment bonzai is the a cited people from lower task. let's work in the fields of the upper cast till their land. we are little thing was the pillow and have not got the ever cast are still discriminated against us and look down and us out of the hedge. i have a look on the tv, the car. so now i would love to be able to give her children a different life. there are admission quotas for dallas at schools and universities, but those are a long way away in the big cities. too far for many children sometimes husband location is often away from months. he earns a bit of money working as a bricklayer on building sites in urban areas. at the moment he's expanding the family home to accommodate his brother who is about to get married and move in
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daily life in the villages here has barely changed in recent decades. sometimes mother and grand mother cooked in clay of it. like this one. the middle of the names because i am 27 years old and i live in the greater noisy area . yes. financially were strong and i thank the gods to be born into a good family, a lot of the problem, but the garden city. i am
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a vicious country though, but it depends on what it is that a bad thought, but i didn't. my 10th and 12th grade exams, the greater annoyed the school about the excel and then i prepare for medical studies for a year and in 2018. i went to study medicine in china so much i am as in love. yeah . because this family made most of its money by selling land incidentally, area wealth is distributed extremely on equally in india to most affluent to 10 percent possessed 80 percent of the wealth because lives with his extended family in a 10 room house built by his father. the
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combined company we, we live together in a large family group by me, my parents, my brothers and their wives, their children. here, we work together all the time for mornings evenings like the semester sounds. okay . how about a, my oldest brother runs a school the way i was quitting cold and i've got it, and one of my brothers has passed away by the and the, just as in most wealthy families here, education is a top priority. one of the cost is nice is studying law, and another has plans to apply to the civil service. as for because he wants to follow in the footsteps of his deceased brother. it set his sights on a career in politics
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would be the without. however, you can't do anything this adulthood because i don't sure you can open a hospital and that's about to see me through the pricing. so in politics that are new limit, machine learning that and to the that's why i want to try and pull up the 1st one with though i want to work for the people come and go to the, the just a few kilometers away. also in noise to new delhi, the proven my name is so many i'm 25 years old or maybe a little less based on what the,
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what these are. i work in the ground to mix project holidays and do cleanings sweeping and washing utensils. how about like the so many lives with her to young daughter is in a slum just across the road from her place of work. she's one of an estimated 40 to 100000000 migrant workers in india who leased their home states, hoping to find a better life in the city. india needs to create millions of jobs. one in every 6 young people is out of work. the highest unemployment rate in 45 years the my husband only used to have our jobs. but not long ago he started driving a water tank or that helps us because now we can get our water delivered here. i
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don't have to go such anymore a button and then they got them. are these doherty's have already torn down her heart 3 times? because like all the others here, it was put up illegally. the family moved here to earn money to repay a loan of around 440 years, cause the when we got married, we had to take out a loan. and so far we haven't been able to repay it. but we've been paying small amounts for about 4 years, but there are other things we have to pay for to fit that on that on a b, it's not that much. it's around $40000.00 rupees, okay. but because of the interest loan amount keeps going up, it's out of funds, even though we're re paying it, the amount we owe goes up. we can't pay more than that. we don't earn that much. now let me bought the phone. soaping the story is a familiar one, many take out loans, for example, for weddings seats or doctors bills. almost 55 percent of the rural populace are in
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debt. often they're exploited by local lenders because they can't read or write. moving to a city can seem like the only way to earn money. there's no power or running water here and no toilets or sewage systems every day from 9 to 11 in the morning and 4 to 6 in the afternoon. so if any goes over to the residential complex to clean, she gets paid $4000.00 rupees per month. the equivalent of just under $45.00 zero's . when she's at work neighbors watch out for her children. in reference to the, the i got the
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back to see the, the successful pharma start up founder. and hydra bought the, this is my favorite picture. so on and me, my wife, because i didn't ask my father the age of 3. he's my dad. so he took care of me and my entire educational work lot, every day, every part of me is taken care of by humor and have families. everything for me, with the family, nothing, nothing. i'm fine with nothing but the cfo lives with his mother.
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like almost 80 percent of all young people in india, cities, his cousin and his cousins wife also live here in the evening. he enjoys talking to other relatives who live further away or the evening has been sometime and i haven't been able to infringe what i, what do i spend the time? i would like to spend my time with my family completing things. 24 hours is not sufficient. to spend with my family and all of us, we can see enjoying the new new variable. we use the 11th of course, and so all of us being the same in keeping with tradition, his wife is spending the 1st few months after the birth with her parents. that's
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why during the week he can only see his 5 month old son on his smartphone screen. of course i visited the marriage was arranged like more than 90 percent of all marriages in india. the sonata engine, matt, it's been the mentally shared our thoughts on what, what family is meant to us. and then it happened like if it means i believe, the youngest on each end and the address back thing to that one. what i don't see a was she understands what i am doing and she should respect that. so, but me an answer for not on being a scientist is, is not in a convention. i'm the,
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i don't like to be in the own in your thoughts is okay. and as a bundled family, i and i want to be with the family on demand. what happens? what me smart you, you, your family or you know, the products are but that my family knows a little bit of the name, but i think they know a little bit. but they don't say anything about that in front of the. they have a feeling and i think they ignore it even though they know is it? they can then while that may then um it's an hey i'm doing this is i have both. and then k zane knows what it means to break with family tradition in india. he meets us in
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secret, at the home of a friend who's also cut off from her family by lo, several of the paul, my brothers are married and live together with our families. ma'am, i mean the, i live with my mother. so, but my father died 12 years ago, but 2 areas. i live up under that. so yeah. for some societal pressure, unclear people is often too much to bear. a little was people say marry him off and then he'll be normal like that a stranger is come to my house, talk to my mother and try to influence her that american on the course of the day. although homosexuality is no longer a crime in india, it's still the case that gave people are often ostracized. and there are no laws banning discrimination problem. you see the problem is that this society doesn't
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accept it. is that government to preserve the family reputation? they don't want these things talked about is and accepted. is a give me it will of name to take this. i've gotten like a not zane can only meet his partner in secret a long way from his neighborhood. he's always afraid he'll be recognized. he'd prefer not to have to hide like this. imagine good thing, k. i imagine that if i was a trans woman, i could have a house or a family home in mary my boyfriend's phone, give me the her as a when they go to the family. oh, the boyfriends a matter to get their hospitals that carry out gender reassignment and a 3rd gender is officially recognized here. but in everyday life, trans people are marginalized, ridiculed, and even a tact. let me tell i sometimes i think i shouldn't need warranty. i don't think i
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need to make an outside india. i wouldn't have these problem. i'm saying you can lead a free life there as, as they get these. i think i should go somewhere else that in life would be better . a tele, using the you, i'm at the, the manager in the most populous state of which our connect dash one and a half hours north of delhi. my name is, my name is mohammed. i'm on. i will be sleeping, doing this work for almost 20 years now. this used to be a small street fluid store and it's always sort of, i'm not since i've been working here. it's a proper restaurant place in, but right now i don't offer pedestrian pedestrian with his fish. i know with our specialty he was the leading via the on the it's made with me and, and it's a very famous was up to say was how much family makes to be
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a jani. just the way his grandmother used to rice, spices and meat simmered for several hours. the recipe for this yellow de leon sauce is a well kept secret. he sells more than 160 portions of the jani every day, as well as can bobs and other north indian specialties. he now has a staff of 18. the restaurant is open from noon to 10 pm every day. and we are a single lester and we have one restaurant, but we'd like to expand and have a few branches. and this, i'm, anybody you know, fast food style, with self servicing for an automatic painting put down the for the being for the nice thing is that we're also planning to renovate the restaurant in the nation fee for the next generation fee for my children who are you for muslims like mohammed hearing merit. the situation is tense. like large parts of the country. merit is governed by moody's can do nationalist party. the b j. p.
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violence regularly flowers out between hindus and whose limbs in merit. most recently in 2023. and there are often fatalities the new rendered. moody has been accused of promoting policies that stoke division between hindus and muslims. for most one communities, the situation is a burden. mohammed tells us he closes his restaurant on major hand, do holidays as a precautionary measure. he's afraid that agitated crowds might vandalized or set fire to his restaurant the it's important to him to maintain good relations with the local police,
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the bottom little ones, the ones that when they come, we host them with lots of respect because they each year and we give them special discounts, we have any homes and you said it's not like they say they're from the police and don't want to pay. but yeah, we have, it's out of respect that we give the police and government workers, a special discount. i didn't look at all this long, but if i did a local activist mohammed a rece believes that the many different religions in india can live in peace as a social worker. he tries to raise awareness about the problems faced by muslims and provide support to the families of victims of violence during most of the muslims are afraid if they can't trust this government and feel like 2nd class citizens decision. the situation for most of them says deteriorated since this government took power to help and not just their economic situation. i'd say there's a climate of fear now. i'm on with the lens and other minorities,
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nothing's going on. and the majority population also has a sense of fear in their day to day lie of the why one or the most new skin that's it's not an easy situation for the nearly 200000000 muslims in india. there's a country's largest religious minority. and the indian constitution is explicitly secular and hasn't tried equal rights for all religious groups here. the in the near daily, after going to the fitness studio and having breakfast because is praying at his home trying. although he's a member of the hindu majorities at moody intends to mobilize in his favor because
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is not a fan of bodies politics. line religious i was born in do, but i don't celebrate my face in public. after waking up in the morning, everyone in the family offers up their prayers. children, my sister in law thinking that doesn't mean we should put on a public demonstration of our fe, new account almost every day because and his team drive around visiting villages in the region. the contacts he makes in these places could be important for his political career. the current government doesn't do anything for us. so what used to cost 300 rupees, no cost of 570, to evaluate things, or no one's thinking about the farmers on their income hasn't gone out this auto
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group i think so didn't get this. government isn't taken care of the issues that concern us here. to but in, in, for me i don't been right, know, gone during the election and is going away. we're attempting openings that we're constantly out on the ruins of a lot of the company. we've gone down there and can do is we want a new government that takes care of bodies. the young people saving almost gray. that's something here in the villages of northern india, it's the men who have this say they make decisions together. for example, concerning the distribution of water, or who's allowed to marry whom the village elders wield great authority. because tries to gauge the mood in the village, the men are unhappy with their current political representation by motives b. j. p. was in 2027 because wants to stand
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as a local candidate for the sum swati party moody's competition. and for that he needs their votes. even though i mean not how many people are funded weren't given a jo, are going to be given a who's supporting you there are other issues. the g. p. candidates promise new roads in the last election campaigns have. they've been built because hopes to capitalize on the general sense of dissatisfaction the, there were the voters were the youth. exactly. so i do see that we can become number one in the world of young people weren't card for it. we can do that any boss of anything as possible samples. so it is how
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things can because promises to come back soon. he has big plans for himself, but also for his country. today in soonest village near most of a poor, the women have gathered their learning to read and write as part of the government initiative to reduce the countries high literacy rate age. samsung means chicken in my lack of the this is important for us women. 15 gauntlet life in the village as hard. housework the work in the fields. i'm here because i have no education get total funding. if i learn something, maybe i could have been a teacher or civil servant,
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a job in the city. i could have lived somewhere else and everything's just so hard here helping because put that out. alonzo says load this up and i have many hopes and dreams. corners to com. go to say i'd love to have decent work on the 1st thing that has been both me and my husband would like to improve ourselves . but because we're poor, we're stuck out of money and i'd like our children to be educated so they can have a good career. we couldn't get an education ourselves, but we want our children to be able to the summer and some other run to small kiosk where simon helps out. it's the main source of income for the entire family. it's enough for life, you're in the village. but simon, once more, my, my daughter, well, the same life as my mother, i don't want to get married
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a young age. my mother supposed to be in that support. the people in the village tell my family that i should be married, don't think, but my mother says i was married at 12 and all the stuff that a lot about why should my daughter also stuff and that way. can anybody be lazy after marrying? the woman still usually moves in with her husband's family to look after the home and the children. women's participation in india is labor force has risen by over 10 percent in recent years. but still, around 2 thirds of all women are not in paid work for simon, that's out of the question. would it be? so i want to be a teacher. i believe that the women in the villages shouldn't have such a life full of suffering. and i didn't want to stand on my own 2 feet. i don't want to about down to any one. that's the one that i want to on my own money and decide what i spend to don't want the man. i don't want to have to ask anyone for money when it gets this amount and then i put it of the summer and is hoping to get
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a scholarship to attend university. her work as a journalist, as a 1st step out need. it was no, it's important electricity. delete that in moving here. ok. so it gives you 30 gardner in the city the but our lease is up in the navy. opposite the india can become a developed country, maybe under a lot of things will improve for goes for women to have it the low gabby before man . i'm the way home. yeah. like, yeah, like it's everyone works together. this can become a developed country. miguel new this school will. this was a big it was august. then in the evening, simmons father comes home. he's
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a rickshaw driver and is a huge supporter of his daughter and her dreams for the future the the muscles. but the, i think the report is really easy, but she's addressing the problems that face poor people and asking questions to see if a media helps others understand the worries of poor people. they'll try to find out more about the issues that i wasn't able to achieve. this but my daughter has and that makes me very happy the in the evening. so been a returns to the slum from her cleaning job. now she has to cook before it gets too dark. there are no lights or electricity here, the
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outlines of wrong. i pray and ask god to keep me well, to provide us money and a good house that we can live a comfortable life. i want my children to live a good life, that wherever they and they have a good, secure and easy life. but they can make something of themselves in the future that they find good work. i'm going to add to the a few blocks away. in the evenings the upper classes flocked to one of the many malls here. prizes here are similar to those in europe.
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like because this family, anyone earning more than 37000 zeros a year, belongs to the upper class. a group that's tripled to 90000000 over the last decade . the name of the lights that you see here, that you're filming with your camera. if you looked at it from the point of view of a person who lives in poverty, it just looks like a waste of money, like money for an adult, and they have a bunch of disability, rich people, middle class, people who come here for enjoyment, not india is the fastest growing consumer market in the world versus the hey, i thought having money is great, of course that you're born into a rich family and lead a happy life as best i had come to me that can change overnight in terms of us to,
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to day you might have money tomorrow, you could be poor. i mean, i'm going to have to, above all, i see myself as a human being just an up in san. anyone can become written john or anything as possible, but 1st you have to be human one. but if you do a diamond and someone who's born with a silver spoon in their most, i don't they don't care about the poor. yeah. do. and there is also a good person in my development center to know which and also 2nd the case of the lease agreement. everyone has a dream. mine is that one day all become prime minister, even though the near most of the poor people also come together in the evening to the middle of the
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local fair. the soon i'm is here with her husband and the children the he does. oh, that's all. yeah. it's a wonderful to be here. when you come here, you can leave your problems at home, set them aside, and be happy, and babb was disappear. you know, that would be a big news . all i want is to live in happiness and peace. that's also what i want for my children. we've been thinking about making a change and it's not possible right now, but we'll keep on trying the young generation in india,
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they are living in a society that's still defined by contrasts and inequality. but they are on holding onto big dreams, if not for themselves, then at least for their children the this week around 370000000 people in the 27 countries of the you will be bouncing in the european parliament election. and it's complex. i'm found in brussels as being plenty of notice tension among keep politicians. we talk to 2 of these elections, so they'll have a decides to follow the solving of a conflict. in 30 minutes, on the w, the will tell you
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