> welcome to "global 3000." people all over the world are taking a stand against racism. in g gmany, activists and scholarsearch for lutions to the country's racism problem. the elephants s are coming. in india an alarm system warns villages when the massive mamammals are headed their wa. but firswe go to hg kong , where protesters are using blank pieces of paper to symbolize the end of freedom of expression. the fate of this small corner of china was determined by

opiu it was here in the 19th ceurury that the british manufactured the drug and sold it to china. the chinese emperor trieied to stopop the opium trade, but te british increased pressure, attacked china and occupied hong kong. in the years that followed, treaties were signed that grgranted e brbritish 99 yeaearf rule over hong kong. during those years, it grew into a financial metropolis. in 1997 the leasing agreement expired. the british handed hong kong over, but the so-called administrative region was to remain autonomous for 50 years. but then beijing began to intervene politically, and more and more members of the pro-democracy movement began taking to the stets. in 2019, t the situationon escalated d and mo thahan a million hong kong residentegan tookart t in ptests.s. originally the demonstraonons re a again a prorosed extritition w, andndhen turned intopopposion to o e inueuence chinana communist pay. bunow w a w national securyy

law has silenced the demonstrators. >> a lot has changed in hong kong. you can see it on the streets. it used to be that many cafes and restaurants exexhibited popost-it notes s with pro-dedemocracy sayiyings wrin on them. now the notes are all blank. it's the same for cafe owner dickson. the blank poster is the new form of protest. written policacal statentsts areow too riy. >> the policcoululd t the natial s security law w into effect. just being accused could lead to arrest and imprisonment. >> demonstrators holding up blank signs. over night, political opininios haveve become a a dangerous in g -- become dangerous and hong kong. as soon as the new -- new national security law was instituted, the first arrest

came. a young man with a flag, demanding hong kong's independence. just in the last few weeks, ten people were arrested under the new law. no one knows which political slogans are still allowed. >> you shouldn't be left guessing. although the advantages that people are guessing is that they are more cautious and peperhaps less willing to spek out. that may be what's desired. >> public libraries and school libraries are now being forced to remove books that aren't following the party line. books by democracy activists have already vanished. most teachers are didishearten. but resistance could cost th their job.b. many in n hong kong wowon't exs theieir criticismsms in public..

or even eedodom publicaonon e so s sictly y ohibitednds, controeded by governme. arere aaid thathe cultul revoluon will me back >> the yngerer geratatiohas en especlly invoed in th. pro-mocracy vement.now scod by beijing's so-caed secury la en statents thateachers by beijing's so-caed secury make i in private arare beig monitored. >> they receive the complaints on teachers, on their political opinions, on social reforms. they then ask the school to look into, investigate, or give warning to teachers.

it's a great difference from before. >> the atmosphere at schools has changed, according to these students cake and kfc. they use the nicknamam because they don't wanto b berecogniz. a nkong for a class project.ass chthe song had become a hymn in the e protest movevement in thee past yeaear and viraral hi ♪ >> stududents in schohools d univertieses devoped i it, made a video and then spread it on . it w was often sunung at pro-o-democracy dedemonstrati. ♪ but cake's musiteteache papa a high price fomakiking the song a subct o of the . ♪ she was fired. >> i'm one of the students that presented the song in music class. now i i feel guiltyt.

the teacher r was fired becaue of that song. we never thought it would have such terrible consequences. >> the thing that angersake anankfc the most comed---- kfc e most, the rereason gen f for firing the teacherer was that teachers s shouldn't infnfluee ththeir studentsts. but papatriotic songngs praisg china's commmmunist party y are allolowed inhe s schoo >> the song, without the communist party, there would be no new china, is not defined as a political song. why should glory to hong kong be considered a political song? >> c ce and kfc want t coinue the protestthe 14 d 16 yeaolds can accept how e new lahas alalady changed theiliveves.a frer ists. in the same streets whe a

millioion people mararched o defend theirir rights, insnsecy and d ar are now the new normal. f fortutely, , other ptsts of the world, people can make their voices heard on the street. all around the globe, millions are demonstrating against racism. the dehumanization of people with dark skin has occurred since time immemorial. it was even used as a justification for slavery. for some, it's hard to believe that these prejudices are still so entrenched in peoples' minds. how can we get rid of them? ♪ >> i can't breathe. the last words of george floyd. his death sparked protests

around the world, including in germany. >> sperry d d singacism m ke -- experieing g rasm make you fe powererss. >> even n the term 'rarace' ia historical r relic, discreredd as a biolological concepept. >> being black in germany means having to constantlyly justify your humanity on every level. >> last year there w was a 10% increase iraracist incidenentsn germany.y. 1,176 in tototal. >> for a couount like gegerman, which is fororever boastining t its democratic creredentials, t good enonough. >> examples of everyday racism beinaskeked whe do y you come from, being g addressed inin english h all the timeme not bg recocognized as a a citizen of germanbeing stared at. a steady hum of f hostility tht never goes awaway, that's hahao pinpoint..

>> r racism in germany is very subt.. the effect of micro-aggrsions is verery undeestitimad. every titime a black p person a person of f color leaveses thr home, they'l'll experiencece hundreds o of incidents s of ra. and theyey really add d up. >> s symptoms of a a deeply-rod probm.m. by andnd large racisist attits inermamany a attriribud to indiduals, a aatter of personalal prejuces.s. but in fact there is car evidence of structal racisism across society.. >> it startsts with igrancnce f the existence,or d deces, of blacack germans. we're not t seen as belonging o the e population.. part of gegermany'structctural

raci i is thway wewee made invisie. >> phisosopherhegel l d kant shshaped the agege of enlightet. inin the 19th cecentury, southt afafrica was cololonized by thte german empire its people subjugated. the rarace-based nururemberg l, designeded to protect t german blood , were introducein 1935.5h citizenship law, a citizen was only someone descended from germans. >> i canan imagine that t gers are tired d of havining to keep addressing their history. but t thers nono wayound i it. there has s to be a willllings to dig deeeep into this s very bloody, , murky past. . >> afr the second w world war, mamany afrirican-americanan gis remad in germamany andtartrted filies. itas an oprtunity fo germany become more

dirse sociy. buthese chdren weroften tracizedand manyomen wer forc to giveheir chiren become lesess white.tion. wewhile commununist east gerermy flew in contraract workers frm socialist african countries such as mozambique, only to eventually sent them back. many chapters in its history explain why black people don't feel at home in germany. mainstream culture is white culture, and m mt of the populationon is unaware of its white privilege. >> i call this state of being happyland. middle-class societyty and peoe on the left have uererstood that racism is bad, but th see it as a right-ngng problem theyhinknk they emseselv are anti-risist, andhat't's all ththat cane exexpect. >> there is s now fresh debate ouout how rmanany reflects on its raracist past. b but again, this tacklkles the symptptoms,t

e root causes. simply expunngng the wd rarace from germany's basic l l won't eradicate racism. and white people nd to alize it not just a prlem for blk people, d merely expressingympathy is no wheree near enonough. >> it's vivital that criticismf racism is built into the educatioion system. information n multipliers,s, educatorors, racism and diririminati arere issues that need to be part of their training. weweeed control mechanisms for inststitutions, inindependet controback in >> racis is a problelefor sociy as a wle.. no one can ignore it. >> all persosons shall be e el befofore theaw, , declares article 3 of the german basic law. it's a promise that germany

needs to delivern n oncend for all. >> they need fire wood to cook, fields to harvest food and a place to l live. in i india, 1.3 bibillion peoe need every bit of space eyey can t. in t the last 20 y years, 18,0 square k kilometers ofof fest have been cleared to accommodate the expansion of cities and settlements. but the habitats of many imals have been destyed in e process. in the southern indian state of karnataka that has r resuld in human-wildlife conflict, sometimes with deadly results. >> tirumalappa's morning hasn't got off to a very good start. the coffee farmer is assessing the damage caused by his ununlcome visitors, the elephas.s.

it's's not the firirst time thee pesky papachyderms havave caud damama to his plantation. lucky,nlnly the or w was bken down today. over the yearsrs, the imalals have ruined 7 hehectares of rie fieldsds, as well as many ffee plants and palm trees. >> elephants have a huge impact on our livelihood. leading our daily life has become very difficult. ththe elephants s damage whatr we c cultivate. >> t the latest enencounter, however, wasas different.. message he recieved in time lplped himvert a aajor sasaster on his plantati.. > aeek ago, i got aalalerta elepha in this area. one e ofy labourers was t the

called someo elslse,ho alert heidn't havehim.ho, , so i elepha in this area. e elelepnt was rht there not forhis warng, heaurerwawas. would ha b been tackeded>> hasar timalappa lives, h s some ththlargest populatis ofof wd asian elephas s in iia. they live molyly in e plantations, monoculreres an paddy fielelds around ththe to. conflict witith humans begegao get seriouous around thehe 19, when this didistri, whicich ed to be largely forest, ben n to beme u urbised. the forests nonow highly fragmented, , and largly r repd by human habitions. >> wild elephants have wdedered intoto theillageges malali i d ramenahalli. villags,s, please be v vigilan. please be vigilant. >> thehe forest depapartment t stay on n their toes t to keep

elephants s and humans o out of confnflict. vinod krishnan is part of nc a coervavation organisisation thatat has been woworking in e area sinince 2015 to d develop technolology-led solututions to alalert locals o of elephans prprence, as a gentle way of enriring no ves s are st onn either side. >> in this study area there have been about 39 human deaths in the last ten years, and most of them, more than 60% of the cases , people didn't know there were elephants in that area. probably, , if they hadd informatation, these i incides could d have beeeen avoided. >> in 201717, the ncf lalaunchn early warnrning stem, , thfirst

of its kind in the region, that covers 220 villages in hassan district. it is a free service for which locals can sign up by registering ththeir mobile numr with the organisation. >> thihis is a publilic service announcemement. wild elephanants have e been sighted near the vilillages. we r request you a all to be vigilant at t all times. >> a aone registered routinely reivives ales inin the local languauage kannadada about the possible location of the elephahants, as wellll as additional wnings in thingngs ok e espially riy. thiss done through bulk sms-, voice ssagages as well elephahants, as wellll as asighand led alerert lights.ss >> because o of these interventionons, the averarage human deaths have come down to as low as one, and in ththe lat one year thehere have beenen no human deaths in the study area.

which has never happened in the hihistory of hassan in a long ti.. >> the s state forestt departmement's rapid r response am supportrts ncf's effortrts. this group of 48 people is mostly locals who have been trained by thehe forest department t to physicallyly tk ththelephant herds so that therisis constt anand dated infoation abt theirlocatio. the integreded comnication syst h has bught a aut a broadeder change to o the lalationship peoeople and elephahants share ththere. i would say the most remarkle change that i would see in people is that they've reduced chasing elephants. when we started working here and ifif there were elephants n a coffee estate, they were chased to the next coffee estate. but after repeatedly interacting with them and

tellining them not t to disturb elephants during the day, i think it's played a huge role. because they have changed their attitude. they said that okay we will not disturb the elephants. that has reduced the stress on elephants as well. >> t the warning s system hs helped reducuce conflict i n hassan district. but as morfoforest ld isis set ide for dedevelopment, thehem hs future of f human-elephahans co-existence remains fragile. >> seen from a disnce, it's breathkiking, oublueue plat. ananalthough it has abdance of water, lyly 1% it is suitlele for human consumptn.n.

despite this srcitity,eople are ofn n wastul wititthe prececio resourc ththisombined th risisg temperures is using ma regionto suffesevere drghts. and thats leavinpeople arnd the wld literly siing on d land. >> on the way to an oasis, or rather, what's left of it. halim sbai, who grew up here in southern morocco, wants to show us what climate change looks like in the desert. together with an acquaintance, he's cutting down a dead palm tree to make furniture from the wood. that's because these trees have not borne fruit, like dates, for a long time. thanks to advancing sand dunes, the palms didn't have much of a chance. >> in a way, we are paying our last respects to this pa tree. this is now a graveyard. alall we have left is the remas

of that palm tree. the oasis is sinking into the desert sands. for years, it's been getting hotter and hotter. and while rainfall has been decreasing, sandstorms are on the rise. not so long ago, halim's father planted many palm trees here and lived well from bountiful date harvests. >> why does this c cemetery exi? the answerer is simple. it's a lack of water. and this shortage is c caused y climate change, and its accelerating the desert's expansion. >> for you its the glaciers in the mountains that are disappearing, halim says, for us it is the oases. the villagage of m'hamid el ghizlane, on the edge of the

sahara. onlyly a patchwork of oaoass remain. agriculture is only possible on a few plots of land. the farmer lahbib bahadi cultivates a small vegetable garden here, on what's left of the tillable land. the 61-year old has eleven children, most of whom have long since left the region. farmer bahadi does not know how long his garden will be able to keep blossoming. although he has his own well, he frequently has to dig deeper for water. >> the future? it looks like this. the boys have to look for wowok somewhere else. only my generation, the older generation, stays here. >> the sand dunes are already encroaching on his garden, only

a few palm trees are left to remind him of the former oasis. 7000 people live in m'hamid el ghizlane, and most of the inhabitants have left the village. halim sbai runs a small cafe here, and he also works as a tourist guide. he is fascinated by how the climate is changing his home country. chemist meryem tanarhte is researching this exact subject at the university of casablanca. studies predict that the temperature in north africa will rise twice as fast as the global averagege. >> the hot desert climate e wil be worse in ththe future, and especially in the e summer. the increasese of temperature

will be upup by two degrees, threree degrees. >> two thirds of all oases in morocco have disappeared over the last century. halim and the farmers are hoping to stop the advance of the desert with bushes and trees, but also a new patent from holland. the waterbox is a pot made of bioplastics. this fledgling tree is placed inside, and then planted in the soil. then the waterbox is filled with plenty of water. the hope is that this method will give the new tree a natural water tank, and a better chance of survival. trees and bushes as a barrier. this is one way that the last fertile fields will be defended

against the sahara. >> this is an alarm bell for the rest of the world. soon there will be nothing left here. the desert is quickly taking over our oases. >> not far from the village is the largest sandy desert in morocco. erg chegaga. it's a popular tourist destination. but the mighty sand dunes are also a warning, because their growth is not slowing. the devastation that halim is fighting against continues. ♪ >> that's it for this week's episode of "global 3000."

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