♪ >> this week in global 3000 we head to the united states where we meet the ever-prepared preppers. in the guatemalan rainforest we learn what food and woodland conservation have e in common but first we go to china, where divorce rates are rising and paving the way for new business ideas. the big day! around the world, weddings are pretty much always an excuse to celebrate in style. in 2015, more than 400,000

couples tied the knot in germany alone. but marriage is no longer necessarily the life-long bond it once was. according to the oecd, the russian divorce rate is one of the world's highest - 4.5 people in every 1000 split up. while in chile, couples tend to stick it out - divorce has only been permitted there since 2004. china's divorce rate has risen considerably recently, and the "marriage salvage" market is booming. >> the agency in shanghai calls itself "the marriage hospital. the team is preparing for a new operation. ming li i is the boss. her area of expertise? ouousting mistresses. most of her clients are wives who o who've decided to take action. >> at first, wives tend to put up with an affair because in a divorce their husbands would take at least half their assets. and a separaration isn't't goodr

the children. and if thehe husband were e to n even more money in the future, his mistress would get it. so wives tend to put up with it. the team h heads out for a a fit round of reconaissance. in this case, the mistress owns a restaurant. the agency employees have fake ids and biographies to infiltrate the life of the rival: the job is a cross between marriage counselor and special agent. first, the team tries to gain the mistress's trust, then to influence her. most of them have training in psychologygy. >> this case isn't too complicated. the mistress has a restaurant, so we have easy access to her. it's harder when the lover is a housewife, or works in an office. then we have to figurere out her dadaily schedudule, and how w tt cross paths with her. or call her and pretend we dialed a wrong number. >> at the restaurant, they act

like ordinary y patrons. back at the agency, ming li is sitting with the wife. she's nervous and upset, and doesn't wish to be identified. she discovered her husband's infidelity using a gps device and a hidden camera. he has no idea his wife knows about his affair. at first, the wife considered divorce. then she began to worry about her future: alone, and with less money. that's when she decided to come here. >> a divorce wouldn't help. it's only when i'm feeling very angry that i consider it. deep down, i want to spend the rest of my life with him. i don't want my family to fall apart after 20 years, with all the ups and downs. >> meanwhile, the team at the restaurant kicks into gear. we're secretly filming from a nearby t table. the betrayed wife e believes the money for r threrestaunt c comes

from her husband. hihis lover is in her early 30s. yu ruocheng and his team want to strike up a conversation with her. they go over to the bar and say they want to order food for a company banquet. they take care to maintain their disguise. the agency fears that if the mistress were to learn the truth, she'd'd be further motivated to continue the affair. it's not unusual for well-heeled men in chihina to take u up wita younger lover. they rent apartments for them, and fufurnish them with luxurios gifts. the e women are knknown as xiao, or "little three. it's said they're one of the main reasons for china's rising divorce rate. the agency gives advice regarding all kinds of marital problems. they'll only try to infiltrate an affair when they think succeed.d.good chance they'll and clients must come with deep

pockets -- the service can cost tens of thousands of euros, with no money-back guarantee. but business is booming, and they're planning to expand. ming li has called a staff meeting. each case takes roughly three to six months of work. methods can vary from renting an apartment next to the mistress to getting her a lucrative job in anothther city. sometimemes, they'll tryry to pr her up w with anotheher man -- what's called a "love e transfe. some of the methods are ethically questionable, but the agency claims to have a near perfect track record. the "littltle threes" are vulnerable - they know they're second in line, and are afraid of losing out. >> mistresses have to conceal their relationships. they're always worried that people will find out. that's why we try to sow the seeds of doubt: do you really want to spend your life as a mistress? this guy will never introduce you to his parents. you have to spend your holidays alone, because he is with his family.

for rich people, lovers are just a diversion. >> back at the restataurant, everything's g going according o plan. the young woman doesn't seem to be suspicious. the team is satisfied, and they're going to come back within the next few days to take the next step. yu ruocheng says he avarages about ten cases a year, secretly infiltrating affairs in order to save marriages. he feels pretty confident about tonight's case. >> we'll try to arrange a love transferer. first we have to establish contact. once she opens up and starts talking to us, we'll take it a step fururther and startrt givig advice. then we'll hook her up with some men, mayaybe at a karaoke placa. it all has to seseem natural. >> once they manage to separate

the mistress from her lover, they'll quietly vanish into the background -- as if they'd never even met. >> partnership problems are not always about infidelity. domestic violence affects women of all classes and nationalities. victims suffer humiliation and physical, sexual or psychological abuse. according to the un, one in three women have been subjected to these kinds of mistreatment - usually by their own husband or partner. among the 10 most dangerous countries for women and girls, pakistan tops the list - i in 25 there were almost 1000 honour killings in the country, along with numerous other violent crimes against women. >> behind this wall, women who have survived honor killings have found refuge. they are afraid to show their faces. they fear their families could recognise them, find them and kill them.

sindu has lived at this shelter for two years. her father felt she disgraced her family by complaining about her husband's affairs. >> my father wanted to shoot me twice, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. so he told m my thirteen-year-od brother to pull the trigger. my brothther wanted to do it, he was just about ready to shoot me dead. >> but sindu managed to escape. salma's story is similar. her family sold her off to marry a a man. he wanted to offer her to his boss for paid sexual acts. salma refused, so he locked her up in their house. >> his boss raped me there three times. i lost consciousness. when i came to, i heard them saying they wanted to incinerate me.

so i played dead, and when they went out to fetch petrol and fire starters, i fled. >> but not to the police. instead, salma fled to this privately-funded shelter. its mission is to help women who have been terrorised by their own families and have nowhere else to go. >> unfortunately, these women cannot trust the police. if they want to press charges, they are often further humiliated at the police station. there are no strict laws against domestic abuse. we simply live in a male-dominated society, and that's the problem. >> the murder of internet star qandeel baloch made the headlines in pakistan. her brother disapproved of her videos - so he strangled her. in response, pakistan tightened its sentencing: reference to family honor in murder cases no longer counts as a mitigating circumstance.

this might seem like a matter of course. but a survey taken among men in a conservative neighbourhood of karachi reveals their shocking attitude towards women. >> qandeel's brother did the right thing. according to our belief, a man can't let his sister be looked at lustfully by just anyone. but first of all, he can't allow her to post lewd videos of herself. > no man with any sense of dedecency woululd allow w any wn his family to o defile his honor like that. >> of course a m man can also forgive his wife or sisterer. but if she trulyly misbehaves, then he can exercise harsher measures. >> this is the main office of the organisation that protects pursued women. its staff are mostly accomplished lawyers - and idealists. they know that only a fraction of the women needing protection actually make it to them.

more than a thousand fall victim to so-called honor killings each year. the organisation's director says the term is misleading. >> a girl just came to us, whose brother had sexually abused her and wanted to cover it up by killing her and having it seem like an honor killing. what does thatat have to do with honor? it should be called murder. >> the victims are left with nothing: they have no training, and no money. some flee with their children, and are focussed on raising them. or they take care of other children living at the shelter. some, like 18-year-old tajwar, are completely traumatised. she was forced to marry three different men, who each abused her, and then cast her off. her family felt dishonoured, and pressed her to commit suicide. >> i slit my wrists, but not well enough to be fatal. my family told me i should try again.

they said, we will be happy when you die. >> their future prospects look grim. how can they live dignified lives in a society focused on "family"? the shelter is trying to help them. >> i don't know how my life will continue. the directors here are my parents, they will make decisions for me, just as my own parents used to make decisions for me. >> despite their brutal experiences with men, most here hope that the shelter will find them a husband. one who will protect them from their most dangerous enemy: their family. >> a and now for o our global is series - whehen we meet pepeople dedidicated to prereserving thee planet's's natural life. toda we head to the country of guatemala -- a word in the mayan language that means "land of the trees". but its rainforests are in danger. our reporter katja losch headed

to the eastern part of the small central american country, where communities are involved in reforestation - and are even changing the way they eat to save the woodlands. >> it's the children's job to fetch water in santa rosa balandra, a village in eastern guatemala. at least these kids don't have a long way to go. deyner, keyli, lecci und deyli jimenez live close to the stream. all six kids in the family help with the chores -- well, almost all. and there is a lot to do. which is good. there is always something to harvest on the family's plot of land, and they have enough to

eat. it wasn't always that way. >> all we used to think about was growing corn. unfortunately, the soil here is not really suited to that. now we grow a range of crops. and thank god it has been gogoig well. heydi garcia has been helping the jimenez and other families here diversify their crops. she works for an ngo called defensores de la naturaleza -- defenders of nature. malnutrition is a major problem in guatemala -- it's one reason the child mortality rate is so high. >> we try to do two things. one: bring back vegetables and plants that were once part of

traditional farming here, but that have now fallen out of favovor. and two: i introduce new variets that are more nutritious, but that nobody here has ever eaten before. the idea is for each family to eventually grow a whole lot of different things on their plot. but isn't that obvious? here beside the rain forest, where everything just grows and grows? apart from corn, that is. >> it's not that it was never like that. but over the course of time, that traditional way of farming somehow got lost. people here have a very close relationship to the earth -- and to corn. so we have to work hard to persuade them to diversify. >> but the effort is paying off.

the jimenez family has been harvesting their pinapples. next will be the malanga, a potato-like root crop. and chaya -- tree spinach. >> our favorite meal is chaya with stuffed plantain. we really love that. >> before people learn to love a new food, they have to try it. petrocinia jimenez teaches a cookery class for the women of the village, and prepares dishes with the various new plants. one dish goes down very well indeed. cocoa beans cooked with spices and sugar, then dried on a

banana leaf. cocoa has been a traditional foodstuff here for centuries. more cacao trees are being planted to try to protect the rain forests. the name guatemala is derived from the mayan word for "land of many trees". but today, two thirds of the country's forests have been destroyed. corn fields are taking over, and along the shores of lake izabal there are palm plantations. palm oil has become a huge business. things are different in santa rosa balandra. here they're planting new trees. and in their shade, the jimenez family is growing cacao. the strategy is called agroforestry. it involves growing crops among trees. >> agroforestry systems are good for the environment, and they bring economic advantages as well. families don't have to encroach on the forest to plant crops, and that helps protect the forest.

>> bees are also helping to protect the forest. deyner jimenez is thirteen, and the youngest beekeeper in the area. but he still has time to do his schoolwork. >> i like these little animals and how you can work with them. i want to go to college. i can earn money with the bees. i sell their honey, and that will pay for my education. >> but the bees only make honey if they can find enough nectar in the forest. around santa rosa balandra, stretches of land are being reforested. and there are 95 hectares of pristine rain forest that the villagers protect from illegal logging or burning. all kinds of plants and animals live among the trees there.

the forest soil also fulfils an important water-storage function. the trees stretch down to the wetlands on the shores of lake izabal where herons live, and howler monkeys. are efforts to help people and to protect the environment compatible -- and sustainable? the jimenez family is just happy to be self-sufficient now. >> it's like a child learning to walk. it takes a few steps and falls over. eventually it gets the hang of it. everything we have learned, all our effort and determination have not been in vain. we have achieved s something. and in the future we shall carry on -- on our own. >> the knowledge and skills are

shared throughout the community. how to plant and tend seeds and saplings, for example. people here already knows how precious the forest is. whenever something important comes up, the 27 families of the village meet at a holy site in the forest for a ritual called mayejak, at which they call for the blessing of the spirits -- especially at harvest time and after planting. the e families of f santa rosa balandra have already done their part to make their gardens grow. natural disasters, terror attacks, war, social unrest. manyny people believe the world around them is falling apart at the seams. and so they want to be ready for the worst. these "preppers", as they're known, are prepared for all eventualities, and self-sufficiency is at the top of their agenda. drop-outs, social critics -- what kind of people are they? the survivalist movement is going strong, particularly in the us.

>> it's magnificent. >> chris walch explains the attraction of this remote area. it's all national forest, all public lands. thousands of square miles of wilderness. walch comes from detroit. a few years ago he moved to idaho. up here in the sparsely popupulated northwest of the u , he feels more secure and more independent. walch has founded a network to advise people who think like him. it's called "prepper" -- for people who want to be prepared for any potential catastrophe. he says this a area has defensibility. it has privacy. 200 or 300 feet of trees and your cabin is 50 feet or 500 feet up on the side of a mountain. we meet in a remote area in thte mountains - we're not allowed to say where. we need help to find the cabin owned by glen martin and his girlfriend jean. they produce their own electricity with solar panels.

for security reasons, they don't want to show us their cache of stored food, but say it's enough for several years. the outhouse is a real challenge in minus 25 degree weaeather. but they accept that as the price for complete indepenenden. >> what if something happens, what about the next disaster or economic collapse? or whatever. how do we take care of ourselves? we can't really count on government taking care of us. >> glen and jean lead a spartan lifestyle based on self-sufficiency. they're nostalgic for the pioneering days when the united states was a fledgling country. days when people turned to the family or the church for help, not the government. >> we've become a society where so many people are relyingng on government programs instead of learning and getting back to taking care of themselves.

>> i think people deserve a helping hand, and if it's training they need you know, we need to help them up, but we don't t need to carry them. >> glelen says, that over the course of two years, his website radio has grown from 50,000 listeners to a quarter of a million each month. from natural medicine to gardening - glen broadcasts survival information.the former interior designer is glad he now lives in idaho. >> even if s sething shohould, u know, hit close to home, because of our lifestyle here i'll be more likely to pass through it with less incident than most. i'm a prepper, i'm prepared. in a small town about 30 kilometers away, we meet warren campbell.

he fled california with his family to escape what he calls the tyranny of a left-wing welfare-state. the former pastor has opened a survival gear shop. >> one of our good sellers, or continual best seller in the store, would be our minor surgical kit. and i have a demonstration one here. this is, of course, for minor surgery but you can do surgeries with it. warren fears a major islamist terror attack on the us. but he also hopes president donald trump will take drastic measures to prevent it. in the no-man's-land on the border between washington state and idaho: matthew is learning to chop wood - survival training. the levalleys recently moved to the northwest from arizona. they too are looking for a more free, more secure life. but for them, idaho is just a stop on the journey to alaska. >> as you know, alaska is

extremly harsh conditions. we do not want to go up there unprepared. we want to have as much preparation as possible. in alaska, the levalleys want to live completely on their own in a house in the wilderness. to do that, they have to learn how to make fire, filter water, and hunt for food. matthew is cold. still, his parents dream of a life free from dependence on a government they say does nothing for the people. a small replica of the statue of liberty stands on the edge of lake pend oreille. for some who move here, idaho is one the few regions in the united states where they feel they can be safe. and free. >> and that's all from us. don't forget: you can watch us online any time. do drop us a line at global3000@dw.com and follow us on facebook: dw global society.

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