Transcripts For DW Kulturzeit 20240711

Regions almost all hospital beds are occupied and the number of cases is rising steadily. One of the cities that has witnessed a rapid increase in corona virus infections is a 1000 kilometers east of moscow the situation is dramatic more and more people are falling sick or dying from coated 19 thats something out of tour can see caves and other undertakers are experiencing firsthand he and his colleagues are working around the clock our reporter met the men at work. With a steady stream of coronavirus dead speed is of the essence at the morgue every morning the team from the Funeral Agency comes here to collect new victims of the pandemic. 29 year old actor kinsey kiev has been working at the funeral home for 12 years but he says hes never had to bury this many bodies. Are in such a difficult time a lot depends on the team we all know exactly what to do we know who picks up the coffin from which side which shoulder to carry it on and that makes a difference how we Work Together matters even more now that we have so much more. Call the relatives to identify the body. This morgan the city of wolf is only for those who died of the corona virus or had contact with an infected person the bodies have to be sealed in plastic the coffins closed. Many russians feel theyre dead should be treated with more respect toward explains. Some of the relatives are often more tense than usual because their dead are handed over to them in plastic body bags they arent allowed to open the barracks tell them thats right away some people cry and demand that we open the backs then i have to explain that they could get infected themselves the virus is no joke. The british. U. T. Cuz love has been in the business for 7 years today hes in charge of the team of undertakers he says that since the 2nd wave of corona virus hit in the fall there have been more than twice as many deaths in the city of. Everyone i know suddenly wants to know more about our work they call me and ask of the release so many funerals are a lot of people dying i tell it to them like it is people dont believe the media maybe they think theyre being lied to so instead they want 1st hand information and they ask. Over a 1000000 people live in new far the capital of the republic of. Government statistics say that only around 80 people in the region have died of the corona virus since the pandemic began but official numbers also show that during that time over 4000. 00 more people died than in the same period last year corona virus infections are spiking across russia but authorities insist the situation is under control. The undertakers arent so sure today unity because love and his team are interring and 92 year old woman she didnt die of the coronavirus that means her relatives can say their final farewell with an open casket which is the tradition in russia. Usually funerals are big Family Affairs in russia people gather at the cemetery and then at home with food and long toasts but the pandemic has changed that. It was a war that. Some people called to express their condolences instead of going to the funeral some people are afraid of getting infected they dont want to take the risk. Of that sort of. Some people are really worried about what is happening but we have to bury people anyway. No matter what happens we do our work. So when you go through the whole reason other than we do. Since the coronavirus some funeral agencies have even started offering live streams from the cemetery business is booming so far no one on yuris team has called covert he can only hope it will stay that way. In russia people say he was excited up there that youll get run over by a street car you wont drone fate his fate if the coronavirus isnt my fate it will pass me by me were very good the next day the team prepares for 4 more funerals i tour and his colleagues hardly have time to worry about their own health at the moment theyre just too busy. Being a fisherman is a tough job youre out on the open water the seas can get rough but abrupt changes of the weather and high waves are not the only lurking dangers in september 18 fisherman from the syrian town of mud that had set out for the rich fishing grounds in the southern mediterranean libya claim sovereignty over this area although it is considered International Waters and thats where the cilia men were arrested by libyan coast guards their families havent received any signs of life from them since then and are desperately calling for their release but this case has not deterred others from risking it all for the big catch. Once again its been a successful fishing trip despite the risks bulk says upon boxes are unloaded from the trawler and carefully registered the men are happy with the catch is specially with this delicacy with. These a famous prime quality red prawns. The mediterranean prawns are in great demand in fine restaurants around the world. Many somebody in good times 550 euros for. The poem quality red. Top 45 euros. They should be double more than the fisherman from those spend weeks out at sea for such a catch sometimes even up to 2 months but theyre taking a big risk the richest fishing grounds in the southern mediterranean are off the libyan coast in International Waters but libya now claims them as territorial waters this has caused repeated conflicts like in the summer of 2018 the libyan navy wanted to stop the italian fishermen and or. The entire crew. In september thats exactly what happened to Marco Maroney his 2 travelers were impounded by libya the ship owner is in despair his 18 crew members have been in a meeting ghazi jail for over 3 months fishermen have never been held the small number the number that not being able to see the ships the men who work for me is awful because like a song that you miss you can no longer hug a boy. Up to a child during that confrontation libyan authorities pursued 9 italian trawlers on the open sea unlike some of his colleagues captains use separate cologne a managed to get away. For of the. Libyans came close wanted to see all the captain outs on the ship papers the controllers were told to follow them but we could flee risking our lives the coast guard is on fire to test. This is a lot of. Their worst. Back in 2018 the fisherman received help italy sent a Naval Helicopter to aid the troll theres the libyan speedboat was forced to back off but now italy no longer provide such protection in the southern mediterranean of the libyan coast telling fishermen such operations are too demanding and politically sensitive. Now they fish at their own peril. With all the others just for thought but we need protection so we can fish in these International Waters for the otherwise what happens in the fishermens will happen again. Now. The shipowner has even spent 2 months protesting outside the Italian Parliament in rome calling for his crew and fish trawlers to be released. You know we are all risk of being arrested 74 nautical miles off the coast because libya claims the open sea has its territorial waters. Europe and italy must take action against this because this sea belongs to nobody alone longs to us all if. That includes crew members like mohamed he is one of 6 tunisians who worked on the italian trollers who are now in jail in benghazi mohammeds family is worried about him in the past he was already arrested twice by libya but this time its worse. Than the past we were always in contact but we knew he was doing his own always work. This time weve not heard from him and. We have no idea what is going on even if he is still alive if people talked of. Whenever she can mohammeds daughter noras meets the families of other detained fishermen at the port of missouri. Here they staged protests with ship owner Marco Maroney to give each other hope. But were fighting for 18 italian fisherman include 6 to museums to senegalese to indonesia and. All of them have lived here for many years some of them even before. The families have no choice the hunt for the lucrative red province must go on that is the only thing that makes the fishing industry in the valley profitable in International Waters and that includes of libyas coast. Our next report comes from the greek island of the team its one of more than 200. 00 inhabited islands in greece but its rather small there is no hospital or Police Station just the school which is the pride of the village in fact its the Smallest School in greece 12 year old christmas is the only students on the whole island life there can be a pretty lowly is so here in the future are trying to do something about it. The goats bells act as crystal says a long talk each morning soon after he sets off for school its a kilometer right here on the tiny island of aki in the aegean sea. Just some 40 people live here 12 year old christophes is the youngest president and the only child farm why. When he gets to school his teaching marriotts here letter his waiting for him along with his own you blame the schools. You want to. Miss friends like a play list of course friends who go to school with me and who i could play toss or 4 with. Them and last cared. For her loved the school day begins outside by raising the flag and singing the Greek National anthem even though its just the 2 of them i try to make daily life the same as every other Elementary School increase. One people one teacher one classroom him maria teaches every subject whether its joe graffiti music or money shed love to have more people but so far no more families have been persuaded to move to the island. Yeah i meant more to get the cue ball park i would love to have some fellow teachers also an active part of the situation has brought us together. And ive always been able to offer chris store some variety. Weve visited other schools. And gone to the movies in theaters on other island we have to keep on oscar see but. For now christoph is still spending his breaks along next summer hell move on to a new school and if no new people show up only school will have to close theres little work available on the island handful of people live from fishing and farming like crystal says parents who dont want to speak on camera and a few live from tourism like those who work at the islands to tell them. So longtime residents are skeptical whether the school can remain open or. In my childhood there were almost 20 peoples equally there werent more families but each family had 6 or 7 kids. And we were all taught together only from the 1st grade and as i. Was going 1st its easy to move from here to a bigger island but coming here from a city or a larger island is tough and theres not really. Still maria hopes to say 1st school from closing every evening she sits a computer and tries to find families whod be willing to settle on this beautiful island. Just to persuade businesses to pay for their moving expenses. Borne up on up others the up with the war part of this ive found a greek family and who puts all germany. Yep theyve already been here and seen everything harmonious and manacles horn your policy now im constantly on the phone of Office Writing emails and trying with the help of a t. V. Station. To find someone among the countrys Debt Companies who finance the move and a job. My god im not set out last. Until then this will remain greeces Smallest School and crystals its only student but he too has formed the plan to help his school in future. For us here i want to go to high school and later become a teacher and then i want to come back here and teach if theyre still in you cant say. I want to spend them. But because none of showed up so far christoph sets off for home alone like every afternoon. He says sometimes boys or girls is a chore among the tourists that come to the island he shows them how to catch fish so he takes them to see his horses visiting the horses is always the 1st thing christophe does off to school. Without children like christophes and his Little School the island has no future that is why oakie continue to fight for every people. Over the last years hundreds of thousands of people tried to reach the European Union through the balkan route but only a few make it allegedly a Croatian Border Police are brutally pushing the migrants back to the bosnian town of b. Hatch preventing them from entering the e. U. They are stranded with little help from the government and no supplies for the approaching winter their only hope lies in wasnt volunteers like. The bosnian war left him badly wounded but thats not keeping him from reaching out to those in need. Is lots of it is getting ready to help people in dire need 1st he has to put on his artificial limb. Almost 30 years ago he lost his left leg at the age of 14 in a mortar attack during the bosnian war knows that and insists the loss has when they meet him stronger this month i dont really see myself as disabled on the contrary im with you with the misery ive gone through has changed my perspective on holiday and life. I can empathize much better with the pain and suffering of other people but. Soon after he heads out on emergency call it saved his hometown behind you the border to croatia and the European Union. Turn in his volunteer helpers regularly take care of migrants and refugees who are forced back across the border into bosnia the offer 1st aid to provide necessities for yahoo i want to go. Back. These are like him and have a classic push back. There are a group of 13 to 14 people that are also minor injuries one man has lost consciousness was being. Or. The area where this group of pakistanis is stranded is dangerous only a few meters away there are land mines under the trees left over from the bosnian your peers in these woods are the worst theyve been through was not inflicted by anyone. But by human. Belief got me and he too much hate me too much hate me. And the thing leave your cute i leave my feet dig my nails in real steel base near. Too much blood. This was no isolated incident brutality and illegal deportations along this border are well documented technically everyone who makes it into creation and European Union territory must be treated humanely theyre refugees have a right to request asylum and expect a fair hearing but here International Law is apparently violated people are mishandled to steer off other migrants. To. The croatians told me to burn the food in my backpack i replied that i couldnt reconcile that with my muslim faith then my bruised while men beat me with a stick. On the field. Nevertheless remaining in the impoverished and politically strain is hardly an option for most migrants the few emergency facilities set up by the government and International Organizations in bosnia offer new realistic prospects and a river created. So many of the migrants seek refuge in this old factory building in which he sat down in his helpers are the only ones who check in on the market really stand again and offer support among those living in this misery are children and teenagers they know that if they did leave no not that far their family. I dont love them to die the least you have got to look at it was well did it last what did you have fun movie broke all not over yes rather broad and i thought well big brother got it a good many people are going to go there still. When evening falls the refugee sets off once again in the hopes of reaching a better life they call it again its a clandestine dangerous hike across the masons. And. Nearly all the migrants are teens and end up where they started back in bosnia exhausted true isnt often without shoes. You know. One more. Thing its hard to pass a person who out but most with we talk to them and find out how theyre doing and we give them something to eat for a couple of blankets so they can warm themselves from. The. Team but the item is cheap the money comes partly things that sounds modest disability pension but mainly from private donors and foreign aid initiatives some of them are in germany whatever comes in this distributed. The selfless dedication of this and p. T. War victim is also a message to all those who do nothing. But. Young and mobile reach to help those what im doing really help. Well im doing the best i can to make this terrible world a little better and maybe set an example fathers would you introduce to. Play in everything you tonight only have to treat people as your equals sign says so that everyone can keep their dignity. Thats really the most important thing no matter where on earth you are. Going to get over thats a good run across. Regardless of what you think of donald trump there is no denying that he massively increased peoples interest in american politics his days in the white house may be numbered but he still manages to capture peoples attention the belgian chuckle at the munich press thought wanted to create a trump inspired treat for his customers and so he came up with us which creates and thats combines the president s looks and some of his rather controversial views. A well known bleach product in much of europe is now also the name of a chocolate its the latest creation by chuckle a 2 year dominique pear soon. I was looking at the news and i saw that President Trump was announcing that he should drink bleach water that it will kill the quote on our virus and that i see the disinfectant if not in a minute. And is a way we can do something thats a good joke maybe you can use it as inspiration for a bumble person as the rock star of belgian confectioners and not just because he once created a chocolate shooter for the rolling stones. Fashion house Louis Vuitton and various royal families swear by his original creations but for his trump chocolates he sought help closer to home i asked my wife too because shes a harbor professional spy specialist. A list of these infecting spices. He says the delicate feeling made from Sea Buckthorn berries and honey has cleansing properties. At his small Chocolate Factory in volusia her soon sporty 3 workers have to handle their bosses wild ideas he uses ingredients like soy sauce cider vinegar caviar and bacon for his unusual chocolates thats very soon an entry in the famous Michelin Guide and this is one of my inspirational rooms in my life i have the target at home gives me a lot of inspiration and here in my beer to bar so i have the same thing. He also shoots his wacky promotional videos at home. Or. And you are are honestly it was just a funny joke it has nothing to do with politics i just want to make people laugh in those dark days there is disinfectant chocolate is a hit but due to the recent election its sell by date is fast approaching trump will soon be leaving the white house and also pursuance chocolate shop discount on throw. A belgian chocolate thats likely more to trumps taste than the u. S. Election results. It actually looks quite tasty right well that brings us to the end after they say oh thank you so much for watching ill be back next week with more stories from across europe until then good bye take care. Come. Before the Trump Administration can host the crush of a new sanctions on iran in a bid to topple the regime. But the strategy hasnt worked and the bahraini people have paid the price. For so much as the medical point of the sanctions and who is benefiting. Embargo iran the message. 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