Transcripts For DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program 2
DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program October 17, 2017
Turkey where autists is struggling to cope with the increasingly autocratic grip of the government. But first we had to run in Northern Syria where the battle for the city appears to be in its final throes. For several years the iraqi city of mosul and raca in syria were in the hands of the socalled Islamic State then a few months ago the iraqi army managed to liberate mosul. Grackles i remained under the terrorists control i asked plans to make it the capital of their future counterfeits to in june troops from the northern kurdish territories began liberating the city gradually putting an end to the terra tree executions on trip pression hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Syria have been forced to flee the fights to liberate iraq could be over soon partly as a result of u. S. Military support but its being left devastated. You could say this man actually got off lightly he survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i asked troops german trauma surgeon michelle vilks treats the wounded he set up an operating room in a kitchen in an Apartment Building close to the front. Yard with. No incidents of this was clearly caused by an exploding mines the man was hit by many small pieces of shrapnel in the lower body and has several larger ones on his shoulder and head but if you consider that he set off on mine and hes actually doing well. After receiving first aid the wounded man is evacuated the trip to the nearest medical facility will take over two hours on heavily damaged roads there are no functioning hospitals closer to the front. To fight against i as has left a trail of death and destruction the thousands of munitions fired by the u. S. Led coalition and the i ask car bombs and mortar attacks have turned rocka and what wasteland. Guilt has returned to Northern Syria again and again supporting his colleagues from the kurdish red crescent the battle for rocca is in its final stages but danger is a constant presence i asked fire. Yours have been driven out but they mined the city extensively before some days we found a family six people all of them enjoy it too and some of them and those nicks on the bodies but the lakes. I knew offensive against i. A. S. Will soon kick off from here in the northern suburbs a raga filk and his kurdish colleagues are looking for a safe place to bring the inevitable casualties the doctor complains of no one thinks about the People Killed and wounded in the fighting. Bothers me most is that the kurds who are expected to last i ass out of here are sticking out their necks for outside interests for example in the interests of the us but far too little is done for the civilians left holding the bag and too little is done for the fighters themselves you could say these people are being used but whats. This kurdish fighters signals us to stay under cover my ass nighters are still hidden in the ruins of the Jihadist Group self declared capital. There feared by the Syrian Democratic forces the s. D. F. Many of the armed fighters here are young still in their teens. The s. D. F. Is a group of individual arab and kurdish allied militias trained by american forces. They paid a high price in the war against i asked a pick up truck brings more wounded during in advance they fell victim to another i ask booby trap this medic is a volunteer from sweden like many other volunteers he goes by a kurdish pseudonym he doesnt want to reveal his real name and one crucial aspect the fighting here is different than it was in the iraqi city of mosul earlier this year there seem to be no civilians left in rocca. And three days of shooting at the front we dont see a single one. Report said Coalition Airstrikes killed more than four hundred people here in august alone but that hasnt been confirmed now thats not true. I can only say if there were that many casualties they would be a huge amount of bodies being pulled out and since we moved together with the case with the yet again we have seen absolutely know that civilians will likely never know the real story. There are many volunteers in the s. D. F. A fighter calling herself deal and sooty comes from canada the young woman has been battling ah yes alongside the kurds for two years now. We dont want to wait and so they come to our countries and we come and join the. Because they are already in this struggle and theyve been in this struggle for countless years theyve asked the International Community to come and help so because of this we are now coming in the coming to the aid. As we leave rock of the streets everywhere are full of civilians fleeing the conflict these come from day year as our. Guild is heading to a refugee camp near the city as the battle for rocco wraps up the fighting has moved here some days a thousand people arrive at the camp looking for food safety and shelter almost all are arabs not kurds theyre just trying to get out of the conflict zone away from i ask and its fighters who use local women and children as human shields and force the men to fight at the front. The kurdish red crescent runs one of the camps to mobile clinics make vilsack is not just a doctor hes also an activist he doesnt reject ideas expressed by the p. K. K. s militant leader of. That have a major influence on kurdish selfgovernment in the region. Without the curb says bill the arab refugees here would be in serious trouble. Yesterday i was in a newly built Hospital Building i saw it before back in february it will open soon i asked bombs things to bits then the kurds build them back up again thats what gives you hope and in their model men and women have equal rights which is something you dont find anywhere else in this region in other words theres a glimmer of hope in the midst of disaster. Hope well maybe in a limited sense but not hope for an end to the war in syria this man and his family just managed to escape the fighting he thinks is. Will be driven from both rock and day is as or what he doesnt expect things to get much better but this year there will just be new fights between the Free Syrian Army the s. D. F. Or the regime Everyone Wants the country for themselves nobody wants to compromise we wont have peace for a long time to calm. The socalled caliphate proclaimed y. S. Is crumbling and will soon fall but for the people of the region peace and security are still a very distant dream. Since the civil war began in neighboring syria turkey has taken in around three million refugees and impressive humanitarian achievement and yet turkeys own political system is becoming increasingly autocratic since the attempted coup against president and oman and the fifteenth of july two thousand and sixteen more than fifty thousand people have been arrested and multum one hundred fifty thousand have been forced out of their jobs more than one hundred thirty newspapers publishes and broadcasters have been shut down as have more than one thousand nongovernmental organizations fear hangs heavy over the countrys seen two bringing its own consequences. Here in the by a low district of istanbul its Opening Night for a new exhibition at the mass gallery. Ok now rangy is nervous because in addition to being the gallery owner shell be presenting her own art alongside that of three other artists her video installations address the subject of war and expulsion. Its not just people who migrate their songs and instruments move with them as ive shown my film its about a whole culture looking for a new place to settle. Pay now is originally from the other side of the country from the town of vanity iraqi border and studied architecture over the years the art she produced tended to focus on urban transformation but more recently she has turned her attention to war and migration the latter is something many artists in turkey can relate to. The growing violence and pressure in society have inevitably had an impact on us artists in the last two years and especially in the last six months that pressure has prompted a lot of artists to leave and not just artists but also curators authors musicians and other colleagues from the art scene. To talk of the famous. A lot of those artists have come to is me on the west coast the third biggest city in turkey and considered the secular stronghold in the country since the one nine hundred seventy s. Is near has been run by politicians from left wing nonreligious parties and over the past year also izmir has seen its reputation as a refuge for artists and intellectuals grow musicianship yanick came here from istanbul six months ago. He finds life and the people here far more relaxed also works as a Communications Expert for the Turkish Pirate Party he says censorship has increased considerably since the state of emergency was declared in july twenty sixth. A range of theaters and Cultural Centers have been closed down film festivals have been cancelled and theres been a major clampdown on winning the situation in the used of the country censorship is really bad but selfcensorship is worse. Parents telling their kids what they could or couldnt say now we started to do it by ourselves and that dangerous. Ship that takes us out to meet some friends at a cafe. Is a documentary filmmaker. Mehmet is an actor both men have recently experienced censorship at first hand minutes theater was shot down by decree of the authorities with no recourse to the courts. A nationally they said it was a temporary closure for twenty days but the theater remained shut and were still waiting for answers to the question of why. Theres a lot of intimidation at the moment. As an artist you wonder what did i do i did nothing wrong its plain and just. Because im was arrested in april while filming protests against the controversial referendum that would give president new powers once in Police Custody he was suddenly charged with insulting the president a criminal offense after three months in detention he was released but will soon have to stand trial. Yeah no one in our country where the rule of law applies youre expect me to be acquitted but were living in a time where you cant predict anything especially not when the courts are involved. Despite the problems leaving turkey is not really an option for most of the artists. I dont want to go abroad we love our country and want to stay here. I only want to go to germany if its part of a theatre tour it is much to the credit the work i want to do is connected to this country although if conditions get even tougher i might have to think about emigrating. To someone of the cinema that im back in istanbul we accompany pinata the istanbul buy a two month showcase for of the fifty contemporary artists from turkey and abroad this years event faced International Criticism the organizers and the more a Good Neighbor were accused of being too timid and a political peanut sees things differently. Shes just happy that the biennial is taking place at all. One of the biggest problems we have at the moment is that foreigners no longer want to come to istanbul that includes people from the art scene who used to work with a lot. And them staying away has left a hole so were really looking forward to seeing our friends from abroad but the biennial. Russians. Make is that. Its at times when it is under pressure says that its role becomes all the more important. We know were going through difficult times at the moment and that our scope for movement is limited but we will continue to try and keep istanbuls cultural. By doing all we can. Out. Of a Perfect Pitch i will go to. The news whats your opinion will that ever be peace and democracy in the islamic world. We have more about human rights and freedom of speech on our Facebook Page d w global society. Write to us and dont forget to follow us to. This week our reporters went on the hunt again for tasty snacks and struck gold in sweden. Stockholm is built on water the certainly no shortage of fish here herring in particular and its not just the sea eagles which find them tasty for thirty years now the aftermath family has been running a fast food store here though they have north african roots they serve up typical swedish food here if you dont like they dont always homemade and its always fresh still in the morning. First the herring is frightened. Until its golden brown. Irony is that with this in the family this meal that they always like the you know. Only dishes them up when theyre really crispy is basically that the real weapon is not has been garnished with hosley. And. Red onions. And homemade cole slaw looks really nice with it if theres crisp bread to go with it another very swedish but. Ever since i was a child love been here. I love the states i read the i really didnt like fish at the beginning but when i tried this one i love it so it up a little love with this place and i decided to work. And again my my my expertise and my my experience of the plates until i got the place from my father and business is brisk thanks also to his stand Central Location now it sells over a thousand meals on sunny summer days and for sweden its also very reasonably priced just seventy five swedish kronor or just under eighty euros. Over the years the stand has built up a regular clientele many here appreciate the stones local food. They are open all we are all year long enough to i really go for it to eat it when its a good warm role so id still like a summer off to gnomeo its a good time. Till today i have many customers that come to me and say i have been to this place twenty years ago and they still taste the same and the same concept because we dont change the reason it has been the same this is for over two three decades and still ongoing and we are not fighting to change anything in. Syria now miss south americas smallest nation and its ninety percent to rain forest too unlike any other country on the planet but deforestation is on the rise and sloths in particular are at risk. Are reported bettina toma met a woman dedicating her life to protecting these and make matic treat well as. Were heading to a slough sanctuary yes its the only one in surrey numb for. Unusual mammals. Easer and her fellow sloss are being cared for by a team of conservationists the youngest president is just eighteen months old. Monique poole runs the slaughter rescue operations who fails and. Another emergency call the third this week the caller has found a slot in her garden and shes hoping someone can help her fast. People know that they can call somewhere to do because normally they called as soon previously. The sioux didnt take the animals night at the Animal Protection society but needed to recall and pick up the animal. The capital para maryborough is an hours drive away its also the tiny south american countries only major city moniques commitment to the sloss was so strong that she decided to give up her profession as a translator. Every day is different and unique never knows quite what to expect. She started working with the animals twelve years ago and has gained a lot of experience. Ok ok very aggressive extremely aggressive in what used to be. The man suspects that neighbors had been keeping their three toed sloth as a pet. Normally the animals are very peaceful they only hit or scratch when theyre frightened. For the next. Time for the next rescue operation. This time the animal is a lot more easy going there. Oh yeah the market. Each visit as an opportunity to educate people people now know that they are protected species and they want to help to protect them sometimes people are so helpful that they take them off the road and bring them to us where we could have put them in the forest increasingly the activist finds herself collecting disoriented or injured animals where strayed into the city. One of the biggest problems is forest clearance. This used to be rain forest now there are plans to build new Housing Estates covering several hundred square kilometers and thats just one construction project among many but the capital is expanding destroying the sloss natural habitats. In the century the animals are tended to by volunteers. The project is financed entirely from donations. The team sets off in the Early Morning to collect leaves while theyre still crisp and fresh. The sauce are highly specialized browsers feeding almost exclusively on sick leaves invites. These lives are something the slots like a lot its from a tree so. This disturbed or first they will come first and they grow very fast and they have a very high protein content not only the leaves but also. The fruits as well. Feeding sloss is an art and itself. The animals have very delicate digestive systems. The volunteers have to know exactly how much feed to give each one otherwise they can get sick. The really young ones get easily digestible goats milk. Need a lot of time to digest their meals theyre extremely slow metabolism is also the reason why the creature moves at such a language pace. Monique is worried about christine and has sent for the vet. Her claws were cut when she was in captivity and she seems very apathetic. The animals cant hold on to anything without claws or scratch themselves part of their daily routine we should be very careful with what to treat and how to treat them but for example. We cannot give that to regularly because its it could be harmful for them. Instead of helping them the animals in many ways remain a mystery even for scientists. Isa has been living with monique since her birth the animal has become so used to her that its no longer possible to set her free in the wild. Theyre very special animals. Quite amazing. Very laid back as you can see theyre very intelligent. And curious you see. Into acting also with us. There and theyre just amazing to watch theyre relaxed maybe there are a lot of things im not so thats also home fascinated by them monique doesnt get much time to relax. The house the animals have to be returned to the wild as quickly as possible. The rainforest is just behind the sanctuary the animals feel safe there. Form uneek and the team this is always a very special moment. For. Us its always the best part of the whole process you know getting them from a garden. At the end goal its just the way this is who the buell you can see the roof hes climbing who couldnt. The teams hard work has paid off. This sloth will hopefully find a new home in the treetops and could live to be at least twenty years old. Yes. Thats old from global street thousand this week thanks for coming along with us. Take care and see you soon. Uganda august two thousand and one. Four thousand people in the region are vick did buy the army in order to make way for a plantation run by a major german coffee trader. The villagers have been fighting ever since for their rights and for justice. The move to coffee plantations and the bitter taste of eviction fifty. Weeks. In so. Its all about your chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us. Fired by distinctive instagram or others. W. Story is the topic of each week on instagram. And then for you to get up we speak your language to talk about the best. 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