war-tornrn libya, where some creative entrepreneurs are making everydaday struggles easr with a food delivery service. in brazil, r remote communitis are finally gaining access to artificial light at night thanks to solar-powered lamps. but first we head to tibet, which hahanow been u under strt chinese rule for decades. tibet lies secluded between the snow-covered peaks of the

himalayas. in 1913, the mountainous state declared independence from china. the newly-formed nation was governed by monks. at their head, the dalai lama, who became tibet's highest religious and secular leader. but its period of independence proved short-lived. in 1950, chinese troops marched into tibet and tooook over. prprotests sincece he been brutallyly repressed, , and thouousands of tememples and monasteries destroyed. chchina was toto ful assimilate tibet, and is building rail connections between the rest of china and what it calls an autonomous region. it's encouraged chinese to settle there. and all the while, tibetan culture continues to be suppressed. reporter: for years, we weren't alallowed to makake this trip.p. beijing very rarelallows journalilists to travevel overe breathtaking mouountainous terrn to tibet, a a place so dififfet from the rest ofof china. but w? upon aivalal at asa, w we e

ghter jetsts lining the runway. tibet is heavily guarded. the litary harare here i moly directesouthwards towards regional rival india. but it also serves as a domestic derrent. to this y, many titans feel beijing does not trust them. we're a group of five journalis watched arou-the-clocky governme rerepresentativeves. ththeir itinerary for r us iso tight t that we can n neither e freeeely nor speakak to anyone want. nevertrtheless, todaday we leningng morabout t thcurrentt situation tibet thaour minders ululd've led.. and astoundingly, the conversations tend to revolve around the dalai lama, a toooo subjbject r chinina. the dalai lama's former residencnce, potala papalace,s bebeen taken ovever by the newew rulelers. here, the five pillars of the communist party are pictured, from mao, to xi jinping. do you think that in the future

there will be a a new dalai laa liliving here? the museum direcr r says no,nd the gigional gernmnmenofficial chimes in, explaining that the pola p palacis a m musm. a dalai i lama would n not fit. but whatat apparently does fit everywhere, is china's flag. even atop tibet's most holy spot, the jokhang temple. a reminder by china about who is ruling here. for chinese tourists, the temple is mainly regarded as a museum, or a good place to take snapshots of people in traditional outfits. but just next door, the buddhist faithful spin prayer wheels, and pray according to their tradition, by lowering themselves to the ground. for tibetans, such places are more than just museums. and that is at the heart of the conflict here.

we could sense the tension when we met the temple's senior monk. he has learned to be cautious when official monitors are around. he tells us that things have improved and that they don't need a dalai lama. la ba: we practice jokhang temple buddhism, not the buddhism of an 82-year-old dalai lama. reporter: and in the future? la ba: i won't lie to you, i can't predict the future. repopoer: at sera monastery not far from lhahasa, monks discss and debate ancient texts and lessons, just as they have done for hundrereds of years.s. but t theyre walalking on thtn ice. the authororities are sususpics of thehe monks. the monasterery has a party secretary, who doealall the tatalkin and e expins the e les. susuang: the party a thehe ste demandatatriotm fromomll

citizens. that gs for the e monks, too. people can't w work well wititt patriotism.. anyone who threatens the state tererests s to b be nished.. that evening there's a theatre performance, a historical piece set in the seventh century. here we learn about what the beautiful princess wen-cheng has to do with china's claim to power in tibet. the piece of course doesn't mention that just a few years later there wasn't much peace, harmony, or unity between the two entities. at least, chinese tourists have a bit of time to take a few selfies of this strange world, a world that has only been a part of china since mao's troops conquered it in 1951.

visiting the vice governor we are greeted with tibetan scarves. it's a bit of folklore. we were told tibet has always belonged to china. the communists liberated the tibetans from misery. luobu: prior to 1951, farmers still faced serfdom in tibet. life under the dalai lama was very bitter. since the communist party liberarated tibet, all tibetas and han chinese have a very y gd lilife here. reporter: and this is how the good life in lhasa is supposed to look in the future, very modern and very chinese. under r the watchful eye of xi jinping, life herere will soone just like in every other chinese city. luobu: there will be no independence for tibet. not even partial independence or expanded autonomy.

and basically the dalai lama shouldn't even have an exile government abroad, either. reporter: that's why china has been puttiting its mark k on e tibetan mamap for years,s, rebuilding infrastructcture wih new strereets and ililway lis. it wants tibet to have closer links to the rest of china, and also resble it mor when tibetans now visit their sacred sites at lake namtso, some 4000 meters above sea level, they know they are in the minority. the chinese now make up the overwhelming majority in tibet, going by the number of tourists at leastst. tourists who are beg entertaiained withth a folklord traditition that's under threatf disappeariring. host: this week on global ideas, we're off to brazil. for 350 years, slavery was widespspread in the south amerin nation. it was only abolished in 1888.

up to four million africans were trafficked over to brazil and sold as slaves. they worked as servants or on plantations, often suffering horrendous abuse. today, thousands odescendadas of escaped slaves live ireremote communities in c central brazi, some of them in nation parks. most are without electricityty d running wateter. but now, sololar-powered l lampe offeringng a light at t the enf the tutunnel. reporter: : for nely t three nturies, d dozens of setettlemes here in the e brazilian hihinted have beeeen home to ththe kalu, peoplele desnded f from slaves brought to brazil from africa. many of them who worked in the nearby g goldmines escscaped ate point to the mouountains. making up the biggesgrgroup of pele of f rican descent, t kalunga a chose toememain thehe remomote areas, papartly out ofr that slavery might be rereinstat.

adir: we're forgotten peop.. therere's no one w who helps . we don't have streets. we don't have clean water. there's no secondary school, no electricity. we have nothing. reporterer: adir sousasa liven poverty inin sao domingogos. he and around 150 other famieses foununded intereresgroup anan are now ofofficially rececognizs what's calalled a quilomombo community. that t the namgiveven tohe thousands of settlements founded by escaped slaves of african descent. in recent decades, quilolombos were g granted collelective owownership of t their land. brazil was the last countrinin the e world to abobolish slav, 13130 years ago.o. likeke most peoplele here, sous self-sufficient. even tugugh he'sver r 60, still toilils in the fieields r y. the e kalunga assosociation ofo dodomingos campapaigns to impe condnditions in ththe communy. adirir: wehoughtht an associatn

would make i it easier foror uo brbring out imimprovements.. even if ththings don't get bete overnight,t, we ought t th could improve bibit by bit. report: : until centntly, progress proved difficult. even though the village is just 250 kilometers north of the capital brasilia, it's tucked away in the chapada dos veadeiros national park. this unescsco world heriritagee is parart of the cererrado, a , tropical savanna in the het t of brbrazil. many ways, civilization feels ve disistantere. sousa gege home from work at 6:00 in the evening.g. by 7:00, it mimight as well l be middle of f the night. his wife is making dinner. ththe onlyightht com from m a re and lamps th b burn diesel f fu. they emit nonoxious fumes,s, d they are a f fire hazard, , t. adir: life w without electctriy isis unbearable.e. you u can't get ananything do.

you're forced to dnonothin as soon as night falls, you can't work. alyou u can do is wait for t te morning toto arrive, whehen its light again. reporter: things are abo t to provove. the e ngo litro dede luz is plag to bring ligight to the kakalu. the church has been repurposed as a community center where locals are being taught assele s solaramps f fro recycleded plastic botottle. voluntnteers explainin the sts with t the help of a an illustd instruction manual, so eve calsls whoan't r reaand writit are le t to derstand. >> so this is wherththe batty goes.. black to b black and reded to , alright? if you gethat wrong, it could explod adir: posititive to posititive, negative to o negative.

this thing is fantastic. reporter: the lamp illuminates for five h hours and canan e reatattached to ththe solar unid recharged. it c l last upo twtwo ars. the finished product is tested inhe m makesft wororksp. the ngo acires the b basic compmponents from m manufacturet low w rates. it's funded d the initiatitiveh the 25,000 euros in izize mone won i in competititn organinized by the s state bano brbrasil. the ngo spent three mohshs prepeparing this onene-week ser wi the kalalunga. camila: there was an intntensie efeffort to get toto know e commmmunity. wewe got to know evevery single inhabibitant and theheir partir case, so we e were familiaiar h their indidividual needsds

porter: founded in 2014, litro deuz i is thbrazililiawing off the international aid organitionon lit of liligh nce then, , it has broht light to or r 10,000omeses. roughly y a million pepeople ie coununtry live offff-grid. as part of the proctct in sa mingosos, ung peopop are building solar strtreet lamps d ininstalling thehem spots a ad upon by the communy.y. like the new village square, and outside the school. >> we never used to goutut at nigh >> mainly beuse it's's dangerous in the dark.k. ththere's forestst, cobras. if youou step on a c cob, it cn kill you. >> this plplace has alwaways ba ghost t town after 7 7:00 in e evenening. but now atat we have strtreet lamps we can visit o neigighbors, we cacan meet up h frfriends and gogo out. it could c change our lilives.

reporter: for e e timeeing,, there stilisn'n't ch of a night-life herin t theillage. but w thatatousa has light at me, hihievenings are muc longer and busie adirireverything has irovedd now we have sor r lamp forere whad to bfinishedor the day 4:00 0 5:00 inhehe afteteoon. now havave til 6:00 or 8:00 wean startating dier lar, the cldren can do the homerk l lat, and also go to belater. reporter: adirousa sti hopeses that one d, sao dongos w wl bebe lind to t t power grid. bubut til it c ces, the solar lampare ththnext besthing. host: and now we go from brazil to belize for this week's global snack.

reporter: belize in central america. a snack bar on this country road in cayo district. josephph ingram, or jojoe, s everyone c calls him, seservep barbecued pork and chihickenith ri, vegegebles, and tortillas. he g grates fresh h coconut, we hihis wife mariaia cooks the r. maria: my dadad used to grgrow . we knew w all about ririce bece wewe grew in a f farm, righ. whenenever he cut his rice, he lost the rice e off the trasasn then he would takeke it to the marketet in belize c city and l his rice down there. reporter: : the ated c cocut

goes i into the blenender alongh wawater. then it's added to the ree alg wiwith kney bebean rice-and-beans is a staple o the cocountry's cuisisine. most of the e customers jujust hahappen to be p passing by, t ththere are a fefew regulars . >> the bararbecue is excxcell, it's moist a and it's veryry dedelicious, andnd it's also convenntnt becse it't's rit on my way to work. > it really t tastes good d ththey always mamake sure it's's cooked. some plalaces you ululd go a buy barbue a and sometimes the mt would d be r. reporter: jojoe and maa a have be togetheher for 45 years. the snacack bar is doing so wel that these days joe can pay his wife and d daughter a wawag. e: so it's a family y thing. you work, , you need to o get .

soso i d't pride myself and say, ok, werere famy -- n no, ty get paid. reporteritit mighte inin a remote spot, but this family business i is thriving. host: since 2011, libya has been in the grip of civil war. it started during the arab spring when people went out to protest against the country's long-reigning dictator muammar al-gaddafi. soon the dispute ballooned into a military conflict that involved the u.s., france, and britain. there is still no peace today. heavily armed militias continue to fight for power and influence in a divided country. but despite the chaos, in the capital tripoli, some young women are determined to offer people a helping of normality.

reporter: it all started with a few recipes from the internet. suhala salhabis began cooking asian-style food.. at some point, she realized she was pretty good. now, asian food is her specialty. it's not as sweet as usual, and she uses local peppers, but in libya, it's considered exotic. and the 20-year-old has got a whiff of success. she's been offering her dishes online for a while now. now she's about to try her luck with an app. suhala: for libyan girls no matter how independent you are, you're never going to get really independent out of your family unless you get married, basically. but spending-wise, having my own pocket money, my parents totally support that. so that i can be a better grown-up in the future. reporter: eman and aziza are setting up a food service in tripoli. the yummy app is their creation, but it is being launched in a volatile nation. women cook specialty dishes at

home, which are ordered online, and a driver delivers them. a smart service, but it faces some major obstacles. what is actually the biggest challenge in this traffic here? eman: getting on time. really getting there on time. reporter: negotiating the terrible traffic jams and general commuter chaos are not the only risks in tripoli.i. in august, day-long confrontations in the city between armed groups resulted in the death of more than 100 people. seven years after the war, the security situation in libya remains fragile. but people here have learned to carry on despite the difficulties. after a two-hour odyssey, the women arrive at suhaila's place to try out her food. the asian dish with a libyan twist is ready. the question now is, does it taste good?

aziza: yes, i like it. libyans generally only know their own traditional cuisine, and are a bit afraid to try something new. but it tastes a bit like libyan food anyhow. it's really good. reporter: eman and aziza have checked out hundreds of cooks, and offer a diverse menu. the app is ready to go. they won a start-up competition 1.5 years ago. since then, the group has been working non-stop to make the project a reality. money is tight, but they have massive human resources. only onene in four women is employed in a country dominated by men, and marked by war. aziza: you can't let war and destruction get you down.

you have to keep positively looking forward. that's t the only way make a nw start. nothing g in life should get n your way. reporter: islam al-zarouk is making a test delivery. his job is to take suhaila's noodle dish to a family across town. the 30-year-old takes his task seriously. he's been doing various delivery jobs for three years now. he knows his way around, and he likes to drive at top speed through tripoli. islam: you fight with life. you fight with this job. that's the secret. you have to be a warrior to stay with this job. reporter: and you win? islam: yeah. reporter: islam sees the app as a great opportunity, and not just for himself. he delivers the food in sensational time -- 20 minutes. the fathi family are waiting anxiouslsly.

it's the first time they've tried asian food. fauzieh usually cooks for her family.. but she seems to be warmrming o the idea of trying new dishes. fauzieh: i've never eaten this kind of thing. i always found it revolting. but this is s different, it's good. reporter: finally, to cap off the day, aziza and her crew are photograraphing the e latest di, their future best-sellers, sold over an app that should help bring a little more international flavor to life in tripoli. >> i am a global teen. host: today's global teen comes from bulgaria.

ivea: i'm m ivea simeonova. i'm 15 and i come from sofia. yes, i like going to school, but i don't really know why. my mother workrks at the natiol polytechnic museum. i don't know what my father does. my parents are divorced. in my free time i go to a workshop where we learn to sing, act, and dance.

i would like to get a good education, and live near my family. i'd like to be a pediatricicin because i love children. my favorite subjects at school are chemistry and biology. and you need them if you want to become a doctor. i'm afraid of being away from my mother. i'm closer to her than to anyone else, and i love her very much. the biggest problem is environmental pollutution and d air.r.

yes, definitely. today we have so much technology that makes our lives easier. host: : who cares about the flor industry's desestructive impmp? >> i do. host: who cacares about glalal lgbt right >> i do. host: who cares about homeless people livg on thehetreets of l.a.? > i do. host: who supports sustainable farming g in the amazon? >> i d do. hohost: who careres about equay for women in africa? >> i do. >> and that's why i follow dw global society. host: that's all from us today. we're back next week. and in the meantime, please send us your views and comments.

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