Born after the war mourning. 3 generations one family on a journey through more recent german history. Starts number 6 on d w. This week on world stories. Planting trees despite opposition in china. Saving penguins in south africa. We begin in germany where people of kurdish descent are concerned about the turkish armys invasion of Northern Syria many of them fear for the lives of their families their. Own weak. Looks forward to soccer training with his club. Like most of the players do you know comes from osama the kurdish autonomous region and Northern Syria. He finds it difficult to concentrate on the game on the conflict in his homeland is still going on. We are worried about our families on the team talks about it. Its not just me that others have wrote its there we support each other. Its always. You know came to germany as a refugee from syria in 2012 he now has german citizenship and is studying to be a social worker his parents still live in Northern Syria. You know is keeping a close eye on the news he said but also angry with the German Government. That germany is providing weapons for this war. And it just tears me apart inside. To talk. English the German Government has condemned the turkish offensive and his band new arms exports to turkey but berlin has not cancelled existing weapons contracts. Germany is the worlds 3rd largest arms exporter so were selling weapons to dictators like air to one and we dont really care what happens with these weapons these in. Arms exports are highly controversial in germany the kurds are strictly opposed to weapon sales to turkey and they take to the streets over it like here in berlin the demonstrators are demanding economic sanctions against ankara and a stop to the fighting and Northern Syria. The west has left the kurds to fend for themselves the kurds and are on their own. Were trying to apply a bit of political pressure including on the German Government on the whole of the. Country no once to demonstrate that the turkish attacks against the kurds in Northern Syria are not forgotten. That. 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in london 2 years ago now a special commission has revealed its initial findings regarding the catastrophe. You know the big. Brand fell tower in flames the fire last an all night people jumped out of the windows in a desperate attempt to feed the blaze joe delaney live in films at all he said the firemen couldnt get in because their key didnt fit and they seemed overwhelmed get one and it was just chaos because. You could just see that they thought they really this was so they all sort of paul did not want us and some of them were in even without breathing apparatus on you know breathing apparatus some of them didnt have helmet saving you see joe delaney provided his video to the inquiry he says he wants to see the people responsible for the safety lapses brought to account that i was. Just getting inside the tower. You know people in handcuffs people in courtrooms people in jail cells. You know people in print where it says what their daughter all because what use is that the inquiry report criticizes the fire brigade for a series of bad decisions on the night of the fire with disastrous consequences but many people blame the local council they say complaints made before the fire were ignored and that they didnt feel safe. When the facts were neglected totally neglected for decades they had intentions to sell it and therefore they were just probably waiting to phase us all out spent minimal money on it and gave it minimal attention because it was of minimal worth to them at the time as well we still occurred in a context of cuts in the context of privatization in the concepts of deregulation and in a context of where residents of social housing will not listen to. Local people hope that there will be real change in the future and they want to see faults like those in grunfeld tower remedied in other buildings to avoid a repeat of the disaster. Despite intense opposition from local authorities a High School Student in the chinese city of green is fighting Climate Change by planting trees. Whenever she can visit the flower market in her home city of quilly with their pocket money she buys tree seedlings to plant in the surrounding areas face is her contribution to the worldwide writings for future protest how we joined the movement 4 months ago chinas 1st climate strife. Planting trees is something thats easy to do and something the. Its possible to promote in china want to offer that inspired by young people around the world how you started demonstrating in front of the local government offices she was soon as quoted away by the police to have serious trouble if she continued. Overkill how are you to keep killing but ive taken a lot of courage so im hesitant about that i dont consider myself especially brave. Turning a back on activism was also out of the question now several times a week shes out planting trees and posting about her divinities on social media groups to convince more Young Chinese to join the movement. University student danis with her today for the 2nd time the Chinese Government has made improving the environment one of its key goals but it keeps a tight lid on discussion how we became concerned about the environment after reading an article about Plastic Waste in the ocean. I dont know i started really worrying that such a big problem wasnt getting enough attention and nobody would take action. I was terrified every time i thought about it sometimes every 10 minutes i couldnt concentrate on anything anymore. Closer to chinas Rapid Development has taken a huge toll on the environment the country is now the worlds biggest emitter of Greenhouse Gases air quality is one of peoples top concerns but eco activism is rare in chinas repressive political system. The 16 year old student has now been striking for 4 months her parents are worried about her future but she has no intention to give in to their pleas to stop skipping classes you are showing you the Climate Crisis is to biggest crisis ever for the existence of mankind. Everybody should do everything they can to prevent it oh youre going to tell and show your boss on. How he has lost a relative to a letter plant the trees on his property in chinas densely populated countryside it is not easy to find uncultivated land the only fama says he understands and supports the young activists. Will be used to start getting cold in september but now that summer has a look over november look at how woman still is. For that. Fall he says she has planted 200 trees in the past 6 weeks but even more important to her has to raise Awareness Among chinas huge. Today its the farmers son she explains what Climate Change is and he can join with young people around the world to stop it. Pink wings are a major tourist attraction in south africa. But due to overfishing they were risk of extinction. Conservationists are trying to save the endangered birds. One last chance to relax together before things start to get uncomfortable. An appointment with dr roberts is not something these penguins seem to be looking forward to so at the moment putting doing is were just checking on the penguins and making sure theyre all ready for release so we each one has his own can cause this is medical records this one he had he was 70 percent oil and he was emaciated he was really underweight the conservationists take in sea birds in peril and try to prepare them to be released back into the wilds thousands of injured animals come here every year some will stay here forever as they would not so wife and their nature will habitats. But these birds might not be here in the long term. They are in danger of extinction its quite possible that one can go extinct in the future and weve had a dramatic declines in one numbers even between the concert last year and this year the numbers of dropped by about 2000 breeding as so we have less than 20000. 00 breeding pairs thats scary love. These penguins 1st have to spend time in a small box but only briefly until they have fully recovered and are ready to return to the why did this. In simons time. One of the few remaining green colonies they are released. Oh. It went really well. So quickly they didnt get confused the crowd was very polite and not too noisy so that didnt scare the penguins and they were they went straight up in the direction they shouldve gone. Already we can see them i think theres one head sticking out over there so now the threats that they face of the same as all the other wild penguins people need to think about the impacts of what theyre doing how they can affect the penguins but all of the sea life and other wildlife that is in danger from human interaction. Still the message seems to have got through to the hundreds of people in the crowd over here we have a lot of folk musicians who are trying to save the oceans and. Get back in but theres a lot more we can do is you must do more to protect them because you see what is happening and see this is not only used to be this last problem in the worst Case Scenario the last african penguin colony will die out in 20 or 30 years but people here definitely want to prevent that from happening. Play. The flame. Play a song from the middle ages play no its being built from the ground up with our modern technology. Dozens of employees and hundreds of volunteers called looking on get to know castle in france the biggest medieval reconstruction project in europe. Why the find out on the up next on the lead. On this subject the 7 percent we talk about the issues that. Africas population is rapidly growing. At least causing a lot of problems politically thats the core issue and. I wonder what do you think. In 60 minutes on d w. Lead. After the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th g w. The. The full. 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