Your children like chocolate. With or without your smartphone. Or to make jokes the supermarket. As we go about our daily lives she would write songs from the last moment one mind the. Invisible hand. One in the twenty First Century starting december second on. Welcome to the week on world stories. North korea reaching out to abducted japanese citizens friends two years on from the bottom line attack but first to colombia and the city of Midian Midian was long a by word for drug cartels and gang wars but the citys image is changing we take a look at video vibrant street art scene. Spraying color instead of bullets is a Welcome Change for kimono thirteen a district of middle east thats been plagued by violence a tour guide. Shows off the new look of the neighborhood. The landscape used to be dominated by armed militias of drug cartels but now graffiti artists are helping transform the image of this community. But i want people from the city to visit our neighborhood so they can overcome their fears and prejudices about coming up thirty in. The name of the coffee tour is to open the district to lots of visitors kimono thirteen has benefited from social reform and city planning in recent years for example escalators were installed to link the neighborhood to the public transport system. That has improved the standard of living for many local residents. The gangs are all gone but many in no longer has the grim status as the worlds most dangerous city between twenty ten and twenty fifteen the murder rate has dropped by about seventy five percent. I used to come to many you know often it was such a dangerous place really frightening but these days its more peaceful thats encouraging george curry theres a lot of tourism i find it all very interesting and safe a little thats a good thing when i watched the story. The town of the tour guide is all too familiar with the violence in married in two thousand and nine his cousin was killed a lot of the cousins nickname is now the name of the organization that runs the graffiti tours hip hop and graffiti workshops are also on offer at casa cannot do this kind of outreach work is a snub to the criminal gangs. My source is potential enemies they want afraid of the police but they were afraid of us because our work gets young people off the streets and out of their reach for any. Social project wage a good fight against the traps and snares of gang life art and music offer a channel for nonviolent expression. Was not the us its about an alternative to hanging out to robbing and killing and causing people pain were inviting visitors and motivating them to become part of our culture. Then. Our invitation to come in at thirteen ends with what else a paint can and an invitation to spray away but you know that. Its long been known that north korea has abducted japanese citizens using them to help train north korean spies. Believes her younger sister was one of them nearly half a century after her disappearance is still trying to reach or. Every day in his tiny tokyo studio thats a little more all put together a very special Radio Program aimed at a select audience some one hundred japanese citizens believed to have been kidnapped by north korea since the one nine hundred seventy s. Presumably to train spies no one knows how many can hear him but hes convinced that for those who can cause a project offers a lifeline of hope. People who have managed to come back told us they werent allowed to speak japanese or sing japanese songs in north korea but some were able to listen to our program and there they heard our language and music that gave them strength to carry on and hope that someday they would come home when you all died when i was listening to these broadcasts in north korea is strictly prohibited but the tomorrow knows some take the risk and tune in anyway in secret and at night. Thats why he invites relatives of the disappeared on to the soul to send personal messages to their loved ones one of these is to margie takeshita her little sister nori called vanished forty four years ago she was just eighteen at the time. My mother wanted to meet her at about noon that day to go shopping. But then someone called and said not rico wasnt going to make it. My mother thought she was probably busy with work so she didnt worry. They havent seen noriko since. The family did all they could to find her but it was years before they heard anything then a crucial tip from a north korean deserted nor to call was alive in north korea hi i know by not going to weeks before she was kidnapped i gave birth to my second child a son we dont even have a photo of the two of them together he was born just when nobody could disappeared so every time his birthday comes around it reminds me how long shes been gone for one year than five and now its been forty four years. Like nordic or most of those who were abducted are still missing little is known about their fate but imagine takesh he hasnt given up hope shes convinced that one day she a norty call will be reunited so she comes here every month to let her sister know she hasnt forgotten. Do you know erica this is your sister tamagotchi how are you do you have enough to eat i hope youre not sick. Its impossible to know whether naughty corps has ever hurt her but to much attack as she told will continue to broadcast her dedication she says she can feel that somewhere out there for a sister is this. President donald trump digs coal and is backing the industry loudly i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh not paris he says but the city itself is doing everything it can to invest in the future and the past. This is the old image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimneys stacks never stop birching smoke and west read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because the smog blocked out the sun but todays reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and High Tech Companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers are employed in the Clean Energy Sector alone in companies such as ever power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania new york and is developing projects in other states too for cofounder and recall of best ski pittsburgh is the Perfect Place for innovative businesses i think its the people you know its great town pool here young people from some of the thats universities in the country. Also from the cultural standpoint you know theres a lot to offer we have three professional teams at the ballet we have to symphony we have the opera so many things that can draw great talent another key factor in the citys formula for success is pittsburghs colleges like Carnegie MellonUniversity Many who started here at cmu have established themselves in the new economy founding startups in the vicinity of the campus and turning them into vibrant enterprises jeanne yang grew up in pittsburgh when it was still a byword for the american rust belt as soon as she finished school she moved away. Like so many other talents and young people at the time and expected never to return now shes back in her hometown and enjoys not only great working conditions but also a new quality of life in her Old Neighborhood these are places where it was pretty sketchy to walk outside there after dark and i would just wait inside for my parents to pick me up i wouldnt go outside on my own and when i came back i realize that while there are all these bars there are now there are restaurants the buildings are outside they still look pretty much the same but whats going on inside really its like night and day so pittsburgh clearly is on the way up again with young people flocking to the city and the prospect of even better times ahead for the next generation. Two years ago a coordinated wave of terrorist attacks ripped through paris one hundred thirty people were killed those affected have had their lives changed forever haunted by the violence and the loss of friends and loved ones. Whenever christopher modahl walks past this place the memories come flooding back what happened here on nov thirteenth two thousand and fifteen changed his life forever ever since that day the battle plan has taken on a new meaning for him im very strongly attached to this place because its in a good way. Its as if the better class had a soul and protected me so i like coming back here because its reassuring. And makes me think and remember what happened this you know whats on the so there. Is stuff barricaded himself into a room behind the stage when the terrorists started shooting that decision saved his life he was at the concert with two friends one of them died during the attack he still finds it difficult talking about what happened and was haunted by what he had experienced for months after whats this going. Posttraumatic stress disorder. I was incredibly tense and every little sound made me jump and. I was plagued by flashbacks and kept seeing images from that night hearing the sounds and smelling those horrible smells. Christophe went to therapy to help him come to terms with his experience instead of shutting himself away at home he went out more so than before he wanted to feel alive face to toos mean that night an event is forever a part of him things are better now and still life for the forty one year old will never be the same again also in a good way now im thinking seize the day. You need to go for things if theres a chance they will make you happy. That. Kristoff things france has stood its ground against the threat of terrorism people are sticking together and not letting themselves be divided even after further attacks yet in one respect he says the terrorists have won france has restricted civil liberties. First by maintaining the state of emergency for so long. And then by enshrining many of those extra Police Powers and. In a way thats a victory for the terrorists because they want to frighten us and make us give up some of our civil rights. To. This office more frightened than he was before frightened that he could lose another friend relative to terrorism even more reason he says to live every minute of every day. For the love the theater. For the devotion to diamonds thanks john long miles thinks in movies. And does choreography for some of the best Dance Companies in the us. An encounter with an exceptional artist. We need torrealba for john lennon. And johnny logan stars close to kim and he goes house of music. This time. With johnny logan. And the. Child with you and youre his man. And rock with cuts. The same. Night gross. With john w. With different languages we fight for Different Things thats fine but we all stick up for Freedom Freedom of speech and freedom of press. Giving freedom of voice global news that matters d. W. Made for minds. Its all about the moments that. Its all about the stuff inside. Its all about George Chance to discover the world from different perspectives. Join us and be inspired by distinctive instagram others. D. W. Story topic each week on instagram. Welcome to arts twenty one this week we have mercy ourselves in the world of dance of choreographer john you know i mire