Port too but only in a material sense we visit the nation where happiness is the most important thing. First though we go to the antarctic and talk to the scientists who spend months based in the worlds coldest region. Right or the very south of our planet lies antarctica the continent of snow and ice. In 1911 the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the 1st person ever to reach the south pole the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 195912 nations signed the antarctic treaty pledging to use that region only for peaceful purposes and particularly for scientific research. Today there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic used by 4000 scientists from all over the world. We wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice and so we headed back starting at the airport close to the russian Polar Research station. Sky. Approaching antarctica from the air. On board this aircraft our scientists from 10 different countries. Will be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This year the team from bellaver this is especially large. Billow says would be a program for science earned bill just cause more earned. Joe a few zips and now real building go station. India has also sent a large team. Members will be making their way to the countrys 2 Antarctic Research stations. To study is there build up on because she together what we. Are studying so it does not emerge off we do so on our commission of all the dead but we will be on that trend what is the condition of the. Ice of our example and it is a thing of the glacier. Nearly all of antarctica is covered in ice. Layer need for the lead coke im from russia he works at the nobel last i read today a station close to the airports. Hes a veteran researcher like most of the russians here he started working in the polar regions during the soviet era. My. Look at my daughter. Was 8 months the 1st time. Having been observing the environment for many years the researchers have been able to monitor the changes taking place. One subject of interest involves lunar observations its well known that the moons gravity affects ocean tides but its effect on weather has not yet been well explained. The russian team cooperates with the says molly just said the german my research station. Its 700 kilometers away. A few visitors come here the noir maya station is after all in a very remote location. Youll safina stuck a man and study there are a Magnetic Field and measure the strength of our earth quakes. Theyre not the only ones researchers from several other nations conduct similar work still the Scientists Say theres nowhere near enough exploration underway on antarctica. Antarctica is still a fundamentally unexplored continent thats why there are actually too few stations to collect data. Agrees he heads the noise stations air chemistry observatory hes worried about the rise in the percentage of c o 2 in the antarctic atmosphere hes also concerned that the untouched southern continent could fall victim to economic exploitation. Thats. Its hard to say what will happen and how things will develop especially if some areas become ice free and amazing Raw Materials are nursed. But had to 4 years ago the antarctic treaty was agreed and extended but. I see that as a good sign that it will continue to go in this direction just as indias a victim of why dont you. Go back leads the research team. The work done here is purely scientific anything else would be forbidden in accordance with the antarctic treaty that the International Community create 2 in 1959. There are regular unannounced inspections to take place at the stations. So to this point there havent been any conflicts. But considering World History one can only hope that the intentions remain purely scientific the. One big draw for researchers that is the emperor penguins. The scientists want to examine the animals breeding behavior in order to protect possible threats caused by climate change. The International Researchers share their results with each other. People always talk about the antarctic family all the conflicts that exist elsewhere in the world for by the wayside everyone helps each other and people try to get along at times under truly inhospitable conditions its nice to see that in spite of all the bad news in the world it can really work it does in. Successful collaboration on the most sparsely populated continent on earth. While some research is a busy in the antarctic others focus their energy on happiness asking what people really need to live contented lives money lots of money but there are other important factors stable relationships good Health Educational qualifications and a joke that matches ones skills gap in a sex parents have long been interested in where the happiest people live the u. N. Says World Happiness report sees norway and denmark rating high and finland topping the list for the 2nd year running. Through town and meanwhile features further down but the small nation in the eastern himalayas has its own very special relationship with happiness. Pretty. Good. This is a master class in navigation theres no autopilot no radar just pure flying skill in few bugs in the belly to belly metal really. Good you do not have much more fluid. In the leaves then began it is turning them into its new c. E. O. Like glue for the william. The want to be good. Ill go really good. The pilot tells us that it. Next time to learn to navigate the terrain the pilots orientate themselves using buildings monasteries and the landscape in general a little luck never hurts when flying into bhutan every landing is different but these professionals know what they are doing. Because of this exact thing and in. Their lives it should be. Return is different its the only country in the world where welfare is measured not in terms of Gross Domestic Product but by Gross National happiness. Anyone who wants to find out more about this should be ready to wear traditional dress and thats how we got into the government quarter in the capital the former monastery in fortress is now government headquarters we were advised to bring a gift for our host a bottle of whiskey properly wrapped perhaps thats another path to happiness sound economics is also important. To heres what we also see is we have to ensure that. When. It does that the. British and if the policy because this. Is back to the idiocy of the Happiness Commission the think tank can be nerve center of the government whatever takes place in these halls of bureaucracy is aimed at achieving one thing collective happiness. According to the constitution at least 60 percent of b. Tans land must be forested be turned absorbs more Carbon Dioxide than it produces the only country in the world to do so. Compared to other countries to turn is poor but well educated a pillar of happiness education is free and standards are high. To outsiders the nation might look like an Outdoor Museum but on the inside its a society that protects and treasures its culture but is everyone in bhutan really happy. You as you go are all different people are you happy. If you look at. If. We have. To sort of when you consider that. Much. Of it. Every few years the Happiness Commission asks the public how happy they are the last poll indicated around 75 percent of these are indeed happy. Today is one of them. We could have 2 rights harvests a year but theres no need once enough we just dont need more were happy with that. They allow that and you know most. Capitalists would despair here maximizing profit is a foreign concept so is stress. Indeed the country has its own rhythm when protege announces that dinner is ready. Many come running 3 generations live under one roof of course people in many parts of the world see togetherness as being important but here it actually happens. Why should we leave this place the house the fields our parents gave all of this to us well pass it on to our own children we have work we have food were all happy since. Her husband likes to chew on a rican not wrapped in a bacon leaf in his garden its a mild stimulant which could also be a factor in happiness. The town is about the size of switzerland with around 800000 inhabitants tourism is sparse that could be in an attempt to control influences from abroad but is that control a good thing in the long run smart phones are everywhere what previously was far away is now locals fingertips and the outside world can be tempting with all it has to offer. Whether young people are happy and whether they will stay will decide the countrys future. Buddhism is still powerful but its believe in the close relationship we have with the universe and astrology. Its like math we calculate and subtract multiply the stars tell us if it will be a good day whether we should do things or leave well enough alone thats how we determine happiness on a scale of one to 10 i rate myself an 8 and thats only because there are some things that we all have to endure like illness and. Given that you didnt care so happiness does have its limits theres also no guidebook to follow on becoming happy not even here in the land of happiness in bhutan. Helping others is another way to boost your happiness levels in this weeks global ideas we meet a young entrepreneur from south africa doing exactly that his aim is to revolutionize the countrys overstretched housing situation in the townships of johannesburg where he grew up poverty is a big problem coupled with an acute shortage of places for people to live. I the township of soweto lies just south of johannesburg formerly a home to miners the region now has around 4000000 residents no one knows the exact number. Most live in corrugated sheet metal shocks and thats just what young entrepreneur london wants to change he wants to have lots of brick houses built 50000 homes and needed in the johannesburg metropolitan area. So most of them to prefer to live in intelligence because its cheaper to live there when youre ready. To move forward. So this creates an opportunity for us to actually create a world where. In a manner or. Many South Africans could never afford to buy a home of their own so they rent shacks in other peoples backyards all crammed together side by side. Is a selftaught brick layer while building and out building in the backyard of his parents home he got an idea to replace corrugated metal shacks with brick houses his customers other people who own the land they pay for the building in monthly installments using the rents they receive from the tenants while the. Tenants themselves get to live in a better home plus the whole thing is more environmentally friendly as the house is a made of special bricks. Theyre more like almost like their book brick so because. Youre sure you. Want to cut your bridge in caused by up to 30 percent. Unsecured sinisterly what youre trying to prove with this brick. Youre going to hear that. I have to put in the roof and. Land lets you know who makes his bricks construction waste so he doesnt need to use sand that also means the bricks dont have to be fired in a kiln which saves on energy because the Building Blocks are interlocking the pressure of their own weight is sufficient to make the wall strong unstable its an unusual way to build but its less of a burden on the environment than traditional masonry. Building metal. Comes to bricks as president tell them that you only use the man to whom. So having to have a pilot this is kind of like. People because they can see. Its now more convincing than for them to be interested in it in which. This man was also interested and happy to learn more so than the c. B. S. Is among the 1st tenants to move into one of the brick houses the 35 year old comic onic has been living in a backyard for 6 years until recently in a metal shock but not anymore now he has a proper home he used to pay about 35. 00 euros a month now he pays 40 he thinks its worth it. Actually i am very very very here p. P. Course if you are staying in the thing that will shake the. Place to be like as a human being actually. You feel confident when everything next. Building rubble is a major environmental problem in the impoverished districts of johannesburg Many Companies just dump their waste in the townships to avoid paying disposal fees nandu sumo c. B. S. Knows this all too well every day dozens of trucks come to her neighborhood to illegally dump building waste for more prosperous areas this bothered her a lot until it inspired her to become an entrepreneur now shes founded a startup the process is waste. So because a lot of people do it ways to move a ways in their college but then we take responsibility with the least and the we have visited roads with their waste we composted we also send it distribute it to organization that make you Service Organizations flight landed to House Building company. To startups plan to work together. To know who could use the plentiful building rubble for his environmentally friendly bricks. Now the 2 are working on ways to crush the waste and transported to the construction sites they hope to get started soon. Though we are working out how we can actually need. And use the rubble as raw material for making bricks with. And then it can be actually more profitable on the side and actually help hire more people because they knew need people were going to make bricks and people going to separate their waste encrusted with. More than 3000000 publicly. Subsidized homes have been built in south africa in the past 25 years even so the government has failed to meet the need for a new housing plan little overall says that many who came to johannesburg hoping for a better life and now living in worse housing them before theyre exactly the people he wants to help and not just by building new homes for them he has many more ideas for the future. With. Most of them over plans to. Live here through them to actually prove to all sorts of so we can replace all the. Skills and also training them to bring their own houses. To areas which one are moving to another one being that in the room of all that is the stuff of the future right now each building is a major financial risk for london and his startup hes only been able to complete 3 homes with environmentally friendly bricks so far 3 more are under construction but hes been inundated with requests for mall 6. Youll find more Inspiring Stories on women our Facebook Page there you can learn about women determined to make a real difference and change the status quo d. W. Women gives a voice to the women of our world. This week in global living rooms we visit a family in columbia. Roy and ask him by name hello welcome my name is lous mary and this is my home please come in and. See if they mean this is our living room and this is our motorbike. The fact standing here because we dont have a garage. You are a yeah i are both of them in balance in the motorbike is really important for our family because its our main mode of transport. That we also use it to transport things to other villages. And we didnt look here are a few photos of momentos in the painting and our beloved virgin of guadalupe. And her figure stands in the living room because our lady is part of our belief but then thats very important to us you also we believe that she protects our home and helps to ensure that everything remains her money ends. Up at the thought that. They dont follow me. Heres the area where we watch t. V. And relax yawn. Eat anymore and here is the hub of our home the kitchen. Area and we drink it and tea form its about to boil the herb spawns have a very calming effect we. Got the name on that and this is our bedroom. We sleep here. But lets go outside now. This is the most important and also the nicest part of our home because its refreshing out here. We sit down here and chat. And eat here and we enjoy the fresh air and being surrounded by trees i mean. Born as. We hang out the washing here because this storm. That there are thanks for the listen i i hope you liked our home come again at any time youre always welcome what about how the air. But im with a bottle that i throw. Next week were in rwanda where heavy rains destroying harvests more and more often resulting in frequent Food Shortages in villages now farmers are learning new methods of growing crops to make their fields less vulnerable to the elements. Thats all from us this week do send us your comments right to global 3000 i d w dot com check us out on facebook women by finale. Go to. The world has a bit less plastic when tableware is edible. And afghan women refugees have jobs and. This is what the drug is doing. Its a project started by students in new delhi. Being sort of the tension in that idea so even for swing votes in india. In 30 minutes on d w. 16 in ruins my rowing. 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Just like everyone else and shes looking for answers thankfully with the help of training expert a few of the 1200s of folks who can speak spoken thank you is not my 1st we know were cut. Together. This is news live from berlin and when is the right time to start easing a coronavirus lockdown as germans enjoy a sunny easter weekend that temps them to break the rules germanys most Prestigious Science academy recommends starting to lift the locked out also coming up helping those least able to help themselves in argentina the country has been