2020 in thailand and no tourists in sight. For locals times are tough. And a devastating image that shocked the world 5 years on alan cordys father speaks about his trot. Around the world refugees endure how rowing journeys in their search for a better life. And old they seek to escape poverty violence and injustice. But the individual stories of refugees rarely get told instead they often become an anonymous abstraction. The number of refugees globally has almost doubled since 2012 to about 80000000 the majority of these people are displaced in their own countries. Very few of their stories ever make it into the public domain. But in the rare cases when it happens they have a. Powerful effect none more so than the fate of 3 year old courtney. The tragic exodus of the courty family ended in this being near the turkish village of. The mother father and their 2 children were trying to reach the greek island of kos in a rubber boat but the boat capsized. Little al and his brother harley and their mother reihana drowned only abdulla cordy survived. The capsized after people stood up. I held my wife sandy. And we had life jackets and tried to keep our children out of the water but it didnt work holly died for us to learn. Ill never forget her words when he said to me papa dont be afraid dont know. The image of Little Islands dead body made headlines around the world the refugees desperation and their fate now symbolized by a tiny corpse 4 years later we set out to make contact with his father during our research we 1st came across an ant team according. To canada for more than 20 years sure remembers the phone call that she had with her brother after the incident all too clearly. The 1st order. In its own life or. Why. Or need to stop. And i said to myself its all my fault and he said to me you know all the best in the world you tried to go. Before there are. Many people who owes on both innocent people were dying but the world were silent and to that image of my nephew and one currency thats when its fools people. Culch 1000000 peoples heart and more then this stand up from their side and they sent enough is enough we need to hope. For the team accordingly said that her brother of do not now lives in her b. M. Any iraqs kurdish region we were unable to travel to iraq because of the coronavirus pandemic on the phone he told us his thoughts about what happened back then. On the us. After the accident i was happy to see how countries open the borders and their hearts to the refugees. And how they gave them a bit of welcome. Unfortunately this warm welcome disappeared after 2 or 3 months. People not to undertake this dangerous journey to germany or to any other country. Kurdish television has also covered up do it according to state and has revealed some good news but dont record he has once again become a father he remarried 3 years ago. Oh yes. I was very surprised when the new baby was born i couldnt believe it it was a shock. I didnt know if i should be happy or sad or if i should cry. I have no idea what happened to me. When you lose your own child and i hope it never happens to you. Its a strange feeling if youve already lost a child and then have a new baby. Thank god im doing better im happy about this new child. But sometime he will send me some big deal of. The baby and sing into the baby and sometime when i open he will be lancome. In the other room because the baby is crying. And he said to me i just cant i just can not hear him crying my sister said maybe it take you to. That woman too when you lost this family and the crying then chanting maybe. You know when youre traumatize its almost surely. For. The new baby is a great gift he has. Grown a virus pandemic has caused devastation around the world millions of people are grieving the loss of their loved ones many more are wondering where their next paycheck will come from. Among this last group are the huge number of people who rely on tourism to survive. Experts estimate that the cove in 1000. 00 Health Crisis will cause 1. 00 trillion dollars in losses to the travel industry. Thats equivalent to the entire annual economic output of mexico especially badly hit by the travel decline jamaica where g. D. P. Could fall by 11 percent this year. Thailand 2 is expected to see a drop of 9 percent. Last year some 40000000 Foreign Tourists visited the country. So what happens next. Thailand looks lovely other never. Do gongs are chilling with no people bothering them. The beach is an hour knocking and elsewhere empty and clean that has to do with the absence of Foreign Tourists. None have come to put the elephant camp since the government barred foreigners from entering the country in march. For a owner such atmosphere that meant business came to a sudden halt he did receive a one off payment from the government but it didnt go very far. He still has to feed his 4 elephants and they each eat up to 200 kilograms a day. Slowly because of the Coronavirus Crisis there are no tourists anymore i havent had any income for months to pay my staff im spending my savings its hard to keep going. Theres nothing going on at the tourist shops near the beach and. Tourism normally accounts for more than 20 percent of thailands g. D. P. 6000000. 00 people across the country who depend on the industry for their livelihood face losing their jobs. Some families have already been left with nothing. In 2 weeks out visit this village to deliver rice eggs and canned fish. She started collecting donations in april and now helps about 50 families. Fishermen can no longer sell many fish now that restaurants are closed Hotel Workers have nothing to do souvenir sellers have no customers. Whos a lawyer says the state cant help everybody. Wants to give up their life believe that brother we need to help them so when i think of them like its. Stopping dont have anything to it so i have that. Group and then trying to ask my friends to help. How many tourist boats will we Enter Service after the pandemic is anybodys guess last year some were saying there are too many tourists this year it looks like theyre going to be 70 percent fewer. The other non cliff crabby resort is still closed like all the other hotels but the staff are preparing to reopen. General manager for bear and his team of placing tables far apart to enable social distancing because he says its important to win the trust of returning guests. And guys please make sure you pinpoint the digital menu to begin because. Giving menus and. When reopening occurs that may still be no or few foreign guests so hotels are hoping to welcome thai holiday makers to tide them over the big hope is that by autumn the foreigners will be back. Thank you very much with all the measures we have put in place not only as business as in years but also at the government level you can feel safe to come to the country the country has managed the outbreak better than many others and in many respects so its a. New National TourismMarketing Campaign is set to replace the well known slogan amazing thailand with amazing trusted thailand. The thinking is that visitors will only come if they have good reason to feel safe. Amid all the tragedy and heartbreak the coronavirus has caused there have also been occasional glimmers of hope one of the positive Development Concerns how we get around. Over the past few months travel around to a standstill. In traffic disappear from the roads. Lockdowns have been good for the climate. This is prompted some cities including the french capital paris to rethink mobility. Experiencing around the cones isnt easy especially if youre a beginner. Thats not enough. But now the christine has a good reason to keep practicing. I want to be able to ride uphill with my son. But i did im not going to give up and also because of the coronavirus i need to stick with it and stop taking the train. And then ill take the bike. Let me parisians are using that pandemic as an opportunity to learn how to ride a bike less confident riders are glad not to have to learn on busy roads my sister im worried about the traffic its fine here but its a different story in the city center with all the cars and buses. Reversing bicycle use in the french capital has also been seemed like an uphill battle but with the coronavirus the tide seems to be turning the french government has pledged 60000000. 00 euros to promote cycling the funds will be spent on biplanes as well as on Training Programme of. Efforts to make the city more environmentally friendly have been. Ongoing for years authorities had a ready vehicles plus road along the river stan. Now in the era of a pandemic theyve gone a step further and ban cars from the who does evil leave a busy thoroughfare. Unfortunately such moves have ignited the ire of drivers. Fault its a passionate cyclist who owns a bike repair shop also if we feel under attack from car drivers because our numbers are growing the more space we take up the more we get that. Is among those benefiting from the governments investment in cycling for every bike his workshop prepares the state contributes 50 euros in the 3 weeks since the scheme began some 60000 bikes have been fixed. Over these days i start at 9 am and finish at midnight. Or guy who runs the workshop for me has finally managed to take the day off it was the 1st time in 3 weeks so i was almost a month in public on. The move away from cars in favor of bikes this certainly good news for the environment during lock down road and air traffic grind to a standstill in the 1st 3 days alone harmful nitrogen dioxide emissions fell by a 3rd. Beatrice welcomes the trend shes hoping shell soon be confident enough to cycle with her son. To. The cycling is good for your health and the environment everyone wins again you. Have a new role julia is proud up its mother. And literally its good to keep active and ill soon be able to go on bike trips with my mum. And that would be cool it was just trading 4 wheels for 2 paris an increasing number of people are happy to make this which. Lets leave france now and head to brazil where well discover a very special snack. In the city of manassas located on the banks of the rio negro in northwestern brazil the snack bar and grill Jose Clemente has been going for 15 years among the items on the menu is. A traditional Brazilian Energy drink made from the seeds of the same name. Is the owner. And see whether or not drinks are a specialty and also a specialty associated with our region amazon mouse were talking about beverages that leave you feeling energized these drinks help you stay awake and as well as that they actually reduce your appetite. Maybe thats just the reason why so many people here choose to drink them on a regular basis. Model bottom half the energizing effects of the plant have been known for years the Indigenous People in amazonas used to take it while hunting to stop them from tiring out. 30 different mixes on the menu her favorite the house special of course a mere walk out the ingredients i use our avocado peanuts cashews the powder. Quite enough syrup and lots of ice because it all gets thrown into a blender the shop sells 302400 water in our drinks every day a single concoction will set you back 10 brazillian. Every morning i have a teaspoon of natural. With milk quo. It gives you energy. Some people describe as an effort easier insert gives you that kind of energy. It also helps if you are trying to lose weight. My best if anybody gives you the power you need to get through the day with your. People in mind i was also live longer than people in other parts of brazil maybe it has to do with the love of what i not drinks. Now to our global ideas series this time were in bangalore a mega city thats known today as indias Silicon Valley its green areas once home to some 280. 00 lakes are clogged with waste a result of the citys rapid population growth. Ringback we paid a visit before the coronavirus struck to find out what residents are doing about the situation. In the heart of bangalore garbage is festering everywhere this neighborhood is literally drowning in it. Illegal dumping sites are more than just an eyesore residents complain of a fell all day long several cases of dengue have been reported in the area. Bangalow municipality has hired socalled marshals to crack down on those littering or dumping trash the marshal makes the offender pick up the bag he just threw away. This guy whos throwing his waste here he hasnt separated it this isnt a dumping ground the garbage truck went to his house but he missed it because he woke up too late. To be found. Its 200. 00 rupees just under 3 euros for dumping household trash. Citys infrastructure is failing to cope with the Unchecked Development and growth once known as the garden city bangalore now has a new nickname garbage city. Some have had enough. Every morning. Inspects the trash pick up in the neighborhood of court among. Residents are meant to put their kitchen waste in the green been without linus its the end directly into the truck. But a chemistry teacher takes it upon himself to educate residents. Pretty. Good. But he cant put. To me that that is the only problem i think. If i lie i need to be you feet but. You know. Its a very dangerous to have. You just because it really long with your food and then you need the same. Not everyone follows the rules here all the trash has gone into one bin boys my blood because. We have been and its not rocket science. Just separated and how hard is that. Entrepreneurs some not only on encounters new dumping sites they will spark this. Painting them up making but then again it goes up of the. Environmental engineer has come up with his own solution to reduce the citys waste hes joined forces with machinery ballroom to set up a bio gas facility. I think theyre following instructions very well looking so full featured that you feel gannett waste from padma shri ballrooms neighborhood which would normally go to a landfill is instead brought here as a rule material. The trash has to come in well suited otherwise it means high operational costs and less bio gas. Today if its payoff it wasnt as good. This is merely a 100 percent right. That needs to strip the floor was an alert with which i mean but then i would read this extremely good i mean this is no good enough by. The facility process has about 600 kilograms of local kitchen waste a day turning it into. The actual plant is further away built in refurbished shipping containers on land provided by the local authorities. There is also a Business Model. The go by a gas is purified here and then stored in a tank. The resulting gas brand named carbon lights is sold. What were producing as an end product is about 9294 percent of meet him which means its much better than natural gas it can displace any fossil fuel. So at the end of the day were creating a. A clean Clean Renewable Energy right here in. The biggest buy is a neighboring restaurant the gas is piped in from just 200 meters away. The restaurant is hugely popular the kitchen uses about 70 kilograms of bio gas a day which is also cheaper than conventional cooking gas. Demonstrated your pipe for those up the river and all your old. You go to the stocks and in those you own up to christmas you know its Cost Effective its good really and were doing something pretty and right where. The bulk of bangalores waste is driven 40 to 50 kilometers outside the city there are no official dumps within the city anymore for the 5000. 00 tons of garbage bangalore generates every single day. Some not only on has scaled up his operations to help keep more waste out of landfills and make his business. About 13 tons of food waste arrive at this plant north of bangalore every day from i. T. Parks and corporate campuses. About 7000. 00 jobs have been created here at the bio gas plant. Unlike the facility in the city it also compresses the gas its then bottled into senators that can be shipped to customers across bangalore. Our dream is to have this across india with on too close coming into this business running their own micro in it its a win win for the country as well as creating more jobs and creating energy security. Something that i and has already expanded into 2 moves states he plans to continue growing the waste to fuel Business Model could be a viable way for famu indian cities to clean up their act. And that wraps up today show thanks for watching if youd like to get in touch email us at global 3000 and d w dot com or check out our facebook page. Until next time bye bye. India. How can a countrys economy grow harmony with its people violent when there are do look at the Bigger Picture india a country that faces many challenges and those people are striving to create a Sustainable Future clever projects from europe and india to. The a 30 minute spot w. Street. The french claim of korea a thing of the cost to young people in the age of 19. 00 faced unprecedented uncertainty. And one can they look forward to what everythings changing so fast good generation move lock down play made injured. Leg 90 minutes on t w. Every day counts for us and for our clash. Of the ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation play how do we make see the stream earth how can we protect habitats what to do with all our waste. We can make a difference by choosing Smaller Solutions overstrained said in our waste play good morning to those who implemented a series of game blumenthals and to double the long lead. By dusty very muddy tires and drones we deliver urgent life saving boxes we give our everything to reach those who need us the most every box feeding their futures. Boxes for the fall out of life saving food and or so much more down the road with no names we feel asleep to live a relentless in our promise to make every delivery special. Not just next day but every day. 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