A toxic legacy what are locals doing about it. But 1st we learn how the coronavirus pandemic is forcing urbanites to say farewell to their beloved. Freedom of selfdetermination and the opportunity to get ahead for centuries cities have promised all of that even today many people are drawn to urban areas for exactly those reasons ive a half the global population now lives in cities thats more than 4000000000 people and few places have offered greater hopes of success and happiness the new york city now though the pandemic is laying the dreams of many lives there to waste. In a few days time Celine Copland will have left new york she came from paris seemingly a lifetime ago saying goodbye to the city is hard. Make it. Big. Ill be back i just dont know where. To go but theyre very good. And moving searching here its like its. Emotional. She came for love then stayed to build a new life in the city of Limitless Possibilities setting up a successful Public Relations company. Its a great sound your energy was. Here she was amazing you could meet people or from every different background and any day you could. Tell downtown me you know it was not his gallery to a bank to whatever you know the cross fancy musician of culture was really really great now shes packing her life into box and boxes and heading back to paris business has dried up but the bills for brant and health care havent stopped coming. Whats more the city that enticed her seems to have vanished and if you have no restaurant no set way no open no gallery reopen the lake. Go by this see and enjoy good nature you know what i mean make why do you have to meet folks in a box apartment. And do some calls all the. Time square were missing trista moldova and im Steve Tewkesbury for 2 decades they performed some of broadways biggest production in. Kinky boots and phantom of the opera now theyre looking for something new. Im trying to look into industries that are actually hiring right now and perhaps the medical fields you know amazon maybe. U. K. s oh trying to think of anything thats hiring as well as. Trading the bright lights for hospitals on logistics. Roadways theaters will be closed to live least the end of january and possibly longer. Something duction is has been entirely counseled. New yorks world famous entertainment boulevard now im seems like a surreal film sachse. Deserted and unnerving a 3rd of bars and restaurants have gone and his business. Nobodys coming back so its scary its very scary to think of a lot of these buildings you know just for having nobody in them and you start to go down that rabbit hole of the somebody in the buildings is going to be nobody has no terrorist theres no fears that are open and you just need to start to get concerned an actress about it we all may have moved to the city which we love so much to pursue our dreams and to pursue on the Entertainment Industry but you know what if we cant we cant afford branson there is no industry theres really no no reason to stay here and there are. 400000 people have left the big apple since march Office Occupancy has dropped to about 10 percent most large corporations have switched to home office. The Real Estate Market is on the brink of a crash the market for luxury apartments has collapsed by 67 percent. The millions of tourists students and commuters who used to float into the city every day have vanished leading to massive financial losses new yorks Tourism Industry was worth 70000000000 dollars last year money thats sorely missed especially by those whove chosen just to get out. Of. Business honestly right now is 75. 00 votes and they start before dawn on thin walls. Itd be easy when they never see it like this i mean how the 8000 customers a month before the coronavirus struck now its a ranch 200 you have to fire his for stuff and get his son into hell now they only make enough to cover the 7000. 00 a month rand next door a Clearance Sale is under way c. I. Robinson is the last employee standing i am getting. A very small amount. Comparatively to what i would normally be able to do. Not just survive but to live to not be afraid of where my next meal is coming from to make matters worse the contract on her apartment is now expiring she and her partner contre forward to rent a new place in the absolute worst case i would have to leave. Which is the last thing i want to do i worked really hard to be here thousands of businesses ruined dreams shattered hundreds of thousands jobless many come to pay their rent anymore theres a moratorium on addictions but its only temporary leaving sizes terrified of ending up on the streets 200000 eviction suits were filed here even before the coronavirus arrived the city already hans 100000 homeless. New york faces potential catastrophe when the eviction ban draws to a close at the end of the year thats according to Alan Davidson a Legal Aid Society attorney who represents tenants at the moment we have an Eviction Moratorium but when that Eviction Moratorium layoffs. Hundreds of thousands of town im sorry risk losing their homes becoming homeless in we did in unprecedented disaster for the city to city has withstood many. Ochs but Celine Kaplan says this one feels completely different theres just too much coming together at once. To start a month its going to take a bit longer you have a trifecta effect you have a serious thing the. Stylish flu which was a big problem the Great Depression of 1929. And challenge. Its like. How do you survive by trifecta i mean i was sorry like its just hell. Once again in new york faces enormous challenges. And once again it may be time to reinvent itself. Was. For many lebanese the beirut explosion 2 months ago was the ultimate proof that their government and Political Class were failing and had been doing so for decades. Lebanon is made up of various religious groups and sects the maronites several christian groups the druze sunni and Shiite Muslims between 19751990 these groups room boiled in a bloody civil war afterwards the warring parties divided the country up between them. Since the mid 1980 s. The shiite militant Group Hezbollah has also gradually expanded its power in lebanon today its considered a state within a state but in their struggle to maintain influence lebanons regional leaders repeatedly block reforms despite angry public protests. Theres something very special report theres a very special energy everything facet career everything transits through here. Its the heart of the city for me its like. The energy of the movement of people working. You nona i say standing on the roof of her gallery last. Name means harmony conflict. Into old grudges she made her dream come true space for contemporary art. The explosion artist for destroying that dream. On tuesday the gallery is closed and you mama i say wasnt the issue mr clinton to which she owns her life. So its physical damage that set up the dam its going to be repairable but thats not the issue whether its someone who has a restaurant but whether someone a library or to anyone they want to break it they want to break this idea these dreams that you have theyre trying to smash it everything and then you have to. Wait a few and to rethink it and doing a canary wonder how long can one really say. You know be resilient at this point and do and do and we do. Since august 4th anger in beirut has grown every day in the borders behind the harbor no consciousness landscape. Recent years have seen emerge on the scene with International Appeal many saw it as a hopeful renaissance of the old cosmopolitan and liberal now that hope is in loose. The magnificent summersault museum was also badly damaged it was only reopened in 2015 after a long renovation as a place of art for everyone entry is free. The last visitors had just left the building while the rector say not only doc was still in her office miraculously she wasnt injured. As what i was going through really and i was. Like i was shot by a sniper in 78 i was 8 years old i was at the beach since dan i was the incident that killed kids its our generation the war generation who did not want to forget who want to talk invest and who through these structures artistic initial things we have been witnessing the nonresponsibility of the government and of course a Civil Society that is more and more like acting as if it placing the state which we have already been doing for the past 30 years. Although the civil war ended in 1910 years to resume in the quest to dominate the heart of payment for 50 years then came assassinations bombings the economic crash in a state where the government is an absolute we dont have a government but a mafia the brains of the state thats right or at least. Something new of the. Political system that was created off to the people which i call. The system of good and simple. Theres no support in the going on but these fuels orders that these heads of the different shows will see different sixths. The only way for them to govern was to sort of the gods will submit it will leave. The explosion was announcing there was some sizzling. Sport the truth that the british tried to cover rockets with. Its not super funny things with spring coming its a good feel. Good lift used to work. In a hopeless situation you know when you got off to the spirit were going to have to just put it in this. New field that. Those who are beyond the spirit of. Things including this hope. It can be good is it even interesting to see what. The source of museums the real help is coming from all over the world. But just rebuilding from the Old Foundation thats not enough this time says they know im down. To their sixtys im not a kid anymore so today i really need to think about my future. Im committed to the museum im committed but i dont know how long i dont know how long im committed to the pen im committed to my country depending on how it is going to evolve i mean we are ready we are ready to govern this country i am. At the end of the 1980 s. There were almost 800000 foreign soldiers stationed in both parts of germany mainly british french and u. S. Troops in west germany soviet soldiers in east germany following the end of the cold war and german reunification the Occupying Powers would stream most of their troops. They left behind trash and contaminated soils and drinking. Coming late only u. S. Troops is still stationed in large numbers in germany back in spangdahlem by residents are fighting back. Into schneider feels like is david facing an omnipotent god poisoning his environment since 953. 00 american fighter jets have been taking off and landing right oh. My god i think its just the its also unfair moving away from the area is not an option this familys been living here for centuries. The radar thats why for the government at all because we had to change regularly. By the ground and one of those rivers and streams by then and there its a very different picture impressions the water is fine because i dont know if you know. The last contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals known as perfume or an ace of compounds or p. F. Seas they originated this nearby air base on a pollution waterways in the area. The local authorities have warned locals about the problem. As a precaution we would still advise against using the river water for irrigation purposes. Scientific surveys have helped to shed some light onto the matter they detected toxic chemicals a depth of up to 80 meters in the lance around the air base and in concentrations that the e. U. Considers critical. Going to schneider himself used to work for the American Forces and saw soldiers performing firefighting drills for airplane crashes. On board and there was a hole in the room jesus and what they poured few life and all slain us into and then set it alight in the. Unfinished open on it was burning fiercely with. You something wishing agents you know have been our groundwater. And. That phone contained fluorosis or fact its a chemical that is oil and water of talent and resistant to heat its an effective means of fighting jet fuel fires but its practically nonbiodegradable after decades of using the agent the americans banned as in 2011 all be too late to protect the areas water. Yes i do you know mr fairchild doesnt really know how to get off the surface without an agressor into the election its dropped from the air but it was less than 5000000000. 00 away used to be a pattern that there is now in the c. S. Rep log an. Assessment that nobody seems willing to take responsibility for. At the air base a request for an interview were ignored. On the german side the people to talk to at the federal real estate agency. But they refused to talk on camera. Instead sending us a statement that assigned responsibility to the american military. We had better look after approaching the Regional EnvironmentalProtection Authority who did talk to us. Previously how to just imagine by we know with what holland has a little soviet a reserve 400. 00 this was in feels like an already set and all sources are going to end airborne compounds were off base and there are certain there as well as with get any attempt will mean theres a lot of energy in those little bit bigger chunk is very. Good now in the. Among those details is the fact that there are still places in and around the air base where perf you are in a ship compounds are seeping into the ground water kingdom up because millions of euros assuming anyone is willing to foot the bill which is the political issue. Of his and he wont leave when the decision underselling the last that i knew was that something could be solved because living here mention in the American Government comes into play on. Those negotiations could take years and in the meantime the status quo remains. That. Is a professor i want to be closer to. And bob baer of. The most important either established. The new could. But theres growing opposition to the american air base going to schneiders not fighting on his own. Saying i think against the americans used to be completely i want to kind of gunmen bomb a kind of intrigue which i hear injuring our prosperity really fortunate to have thats changed a bit of such. In that residence an environmental activist became more optimistic in the summer when President Trump announced plans to withdraw all the fighter jets from spawn dhanam day at least would have no problem with the americans leaving town all together. And now its time for global i. D. s to sleep off a p. C. Head to head for 2 years to get revisited and head. If on the in the gun that hes now i think it was under threat due to increasing the hobbyists but there was a solution and we retired to see how things have developed. Saplings in full bloom. Some of the pods are old ready nearly right. Orlandos one who is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. Were. Going to miss the car runs very fast. Like what we used to. Who would take the old coco seeds for years to bear fruit but with only 2 years. Thats really fast for us and. I means we can all enjoy it when i make money earlier. That. It wasnt always like this 2 years ago the trees were hit by a disease called swollen shoot virus which left harvests ruined. Heres how orlando described the situation back then. And why and why this is a part of put out your word but didnt because of the disease. Because. Its no good for harvest it spoiled young number not by. Radical action was needed or a bundle of money by some experts and so history it wasnt an easy decision. To walk around america never seems to me i wasnt sure about what they told me but i thought about it and cut down on the hop acres out of the 14 i. Want to have its been 2 years now and im very happy. To see you know for a menagerie. But 6 trees werent his only problem he also had to look on while part of his land was cleared to make way for a path. So were all of this is part of the farm planted planting cocoa and making here just like in the other markets but the timber contractors and i didnt give me as a link. Or white. To deal with the problem of illegal felling locals across the district are being trained up to work as forest monitors. But they use an app to report their findings. It only takes a couple of taps and its. Not there i think. If its in the box identify then we make a report on it then with thick accent to get i would for the commission to address the problem. Farmers in the be a district know how important their trees are for the climate and keep the soil healthy. Trees leads to drier conditions that in turn leaves the trees more vulnerable to past like these ants. Who. Is dealing with an infestation but he has a trick. No end to the end and so they die and so. Simple and effective. But just as things were starting to look up for him and his family the coronavirus struck reason theories about how the disease will impact his business. So. Its becoming a problem what. Does. It feel like if i say it wasnt id be lying. In a small amounts if you got. Back about it but i was doing a car you have no choice but to live out worrying about it really suffering. When a day. You know why or what its not. Farmers like or a lot of the often have trouble accessing loans because their holdings are too small to use as collateral now a local Savings Initiative has been established to help out just farmers in weathering the pandemic. Orlando was among those who attended a Training Session on financial manager out no doubt after. They knew when to get their funds about 3 years or more before their farms start 14. But it was to link up the fund i sensed and to see how. What it promised to happen before the food starts. Orlandos hoping to use the loan to expand and develop his plantation. He wants to be ready for what happens after the pandemic. The improved prospects had even prompted his son adama fusilli to consider quitting his job as a teacher to give farming a go himself. To the family. Song for don thats one from dave comes one comes from want to harm your. New generation and a good harvest in sight for a land or small new things are looking up. Thats all from global 3000 this week thanks for joining us and dont forget to send us your views you can write global 3