Couples tied the knot in germany alone. But marriage is no longer necessarily the lifelong bond it once was. According to the oecd, the russian divorce rate is one of the worlds highest 4. 5 people in every 1000 split up. While in chile, couples tend to stick it out divorce has only been permitted there since 2004. Chinas divorce rate has risen considerably recently, and the marriage salvage market is booming. The agency in shanghai calls itself the marriage hospital. The team is preparing for a new operation. Ming li is the b boss. Her area o of expertise . Ouststing mistresseses. Most of heher clients are wivs who whove decidedo o take action. At first, wives tend to putt upup with an affair because ina divorce their husbsbands would take at least half their assets. And a separation isnt good for ththe children. And d if the husband were toton even more money in the future, his mistress would get i it. So wives tenend to put up with. Ththe team hea o out for a f ft round of reconaissance. In this case, the mistress owns a restaurant. The Agency Employees have fake ids and biographies to infiltrate the life of the rival the job is a cross between mamarriage counselor and special agent. First, thehe team tries to gan the mistresss trust, then to influence her. Most of them have training in psychology. This s se isnt t too mplicated. D. The mistress has a restaurant, so we have easy access to her. Its harder when the lover is a housewife, or works in an office. Then we have to o figure out hr daily schedule, and how w to bt cross paths with her. Or call her r and pretend we dialed a wrong number. At the restaurant, they act lili ordinary trtrons. Back at the agency, ming li is sitting with the wife. Shes nervous s and upset, and doesnt wish to be identified. She discovered her husbands infidelity using a gps devicie and a hidden camera. He hasas no idea his wife knos about his affair. At first, the wife considered divorce. Then shehe began to woworry at her future alone, and with less money. Thats when she decided to come here. A divorce wouldnt help. Its only when im feeling very angry that i consider it. Deep down, i want to spend the rest of my life with him. I dont want my family to fall apart after 20 years, with all the ups and downs. Meanwhile, the team at the restaurant kicks into gear. Were secretly filming from a nearby table. The e betrayed wifife believese money for the restauntnt comes frfrom her husband. His s lover isis in her early. Yu ruocheng and his team want to strike up a conversation with her. They go over to the bar and say they want to order food for a company banquet. They take care to maintain their disguise. Mistreress were to learn thehe truth, shed be fuheher momotivated to c continue te affair. Its not unusual for wellheeled men in china to take up with a yoyounger lover. R. They rent apartmtments for the, and furnish ththem with luxuxus gifts. The women are knknown as xiaos, or little three. Its said theyre one of the main reasons for chinas rising divorce rate. The agency gives advice regarding all kinds of marital problems. Theyll only try to infiltrate an affair when they think theres a goodod chance theyl succeed. And clients must come with deep pockets the service can cost tens of thousands of euros, with no moneyback guarantee. But business is booming, and theyre planning to expand. Ming li has called a staff meeting. Each case takes roughly three to six months of work. Methods can vary from renting an apartment next to the mistress to getting her a lucrative job in another city. Sometimes, theyll tryry to par her up witith another maman whats calalled a love transf. Sosome of the methods are ethically questionable, but the Agency Claims to have a near perfect track record. The little ththrees aree vulnerable thehey know theye second in line, and are afraid of losing out. Mistresses have to conceal ththeir relationships. Theyre always worried that people will find out. Thats why we try to sow the seeds of doubt do you really want to spend your life as a mistress . This guy will never intrtrodue you to his parents. You have to spend your holidays alone, because he is with his family. For rich people, lovers are just a diversion. Back at the restaurant, everythings going accccordingo plan. The young woman doesnt seem to be suspicious. The team is satisfied, and theyre going to come back within the next few days to take the next step. Yu ruocheng says he avarages about ten cases a year, secretly infiltrating affairs in order to save marriages. He feels pretty confident about tonights case. Well try to arrange a love trtransfer. First we have to establish contntact. Ononce she opens up and starts talking to us, well take it a step further and start givivig advice. Then well h hook her up with se men, mayaybe at a karaokoke pl. It a all has to seem natural. Once they manage to separate the mistress from her lover, theyll quietly vanish into the background as if theyd never even met. Partnership problems are not always about infidelity. Domestic violence affects women of all classes and nationalities. Victims suffer humiliation and physical, sexual or psychological abuse. According to the un, one in three women have been subjected to these kinds of mistreatment usually by their own husband or partner. Among the 10 most dangerous countries for women and girls, pakistan topops the list in 25 there were almost 1000 honour killings in the country, along with numerous other Violent Crimes against women. Behind this wall, women who have survived honor killings have found refuge. They are afraid to show their faces. They fear their families could recognise them, find them and kill them. Sindu has lived at this shelter for two years. Her father felt she disgraced her family by complaining about her husbands affairs. My father wanted to shoot me twice, but he couldnt bring himself to do it. So h he told my thirteenyeaead brother to pull the trigger. My brother wanted to do it, he was just about ready to shoot me dead. But sindu managed to escape. Salmas story is similar. Her family sold her off to marry a man. He wanted to offer her to his boss for paid sexual acts. Salma refused, so he locked her up in their house. His boss raped me there three times. I lost consciousness. When i came to, i heard them saying they wanted to incinerate me. So i played dead, anand when ty went out to fetch petrol and fire starters, i fled. But not to the police. Instead, salalma fled to this privatelyfunded shelter. Its mission is to help women who have been terrorised by their own families and have nowhere else to go. Unfortunately, these women cannot trust the police. If they want to press charges, they are often further humiliated at the police station. There are no strict laws against domestic abuse. We simply live in a maledominated society, and thats the problem. The mururder of internet str Qandeel Baloch made the headlines in pakistan. Her brother disapproved of her videos so he strangled her. In response, pakistan tightened its sentencing reference to family honor in murder cases no longer counts as a mitigating circumstance. This might seem like a matter of course. But a survey taken among men in a conservative neighbourhood of karachi reveals their shocking attitude towards women. Qandeels brother did the right thing. According to our belief, a man cant let his sister be looked at lustfully by just anyone. But first of all, he cant allow her to post lewd videos of herself. No man with a any sense of dhis familyly to defile his h hr like that. Of course a man can also foive hihis wife o or sister. But if s she truly misbehaves, then h he can exercise h harsr measures. This is the main office of the organisation that protects pursued women. Its staff are mostly accomplished lawyers and idealists. They know that only a fraction of the women needing protection actually make it to them. More than a thousand fall victim to socalled honor killings each year. The organisations director says the term is misleading. A girl just came to us, whose brother had sexually abused her and wanted to cover it up by killing her and having it seem like an honor killing. What does that have to do o wih honor . It should be called murder. The victims are left with nothing they have no training, and no money. Some flee with their children, and are focussed on raising them. Or they take care of other children living at the shelter. Some, like 18yearold tajwar, are completely traumatised. She was forced to marry three different men, who each abused her, and then cast her off. Her family felt dishonoured, and pressed her to commit suicide. I slit my wrists, but not well enough to be fatal. My family told me i should try again. They said, we will be happy when you die. Their future prospects look grim. How can they live dignified lives in a society focused on family . The shelter is trying to help them. I dont know how my life will continue. The directors here are my parents, they will make decisions for me, just as my own parents used to make decisions for me. Despite their brutal experiences with men, most here hope that the shelter will find them a husband. One who will protect them from their most dangerous enemy their family. A and now for o our global s series whehen we meet pepeoe dedidicated to prereserving thee planets natural life. E. Today, we head to the country of guatemala a word in the mayan language that means land of the trees. But its rainforests are in danger. Our reporter katja losch headed to the eastern part of the small Central American country, where communities are involved in reforestation and are even changing the way they eat to save the woodlands. Its the childrens job to fetch water in santa rosa balandra, a village in eastern guatemala. At least these kids dont have a long way to go. Deyner, keyli, lecci und deyli jimenez live close to the stream. All six kids in the family help with the chores well, almost all. And there is a lot to do. Which is good. There is always something to harvest on the familys plot of land, and they have enough to eat. It wasnt always that way. All we used to think about was growing corn. Unfortunately, the soil here is not really suited to that. Now we grow a range of crops. And thank god it has been going well. Heydi garcia has been helping the jimenez and other families here diversify their crops. She works for an ngo called defensores de la naturaleza defenders of nature. Malnutrition is a major problem in guatemala its one reason the Child Mortality rate is so high. We try to do two things. One bring back vegetables and plants that were once part of traditional farming here, but that have now fallen out of favor. And two introduce new varieties that are more nutritious, but that nobody here has ever eaten before. The idea is for each family to eventually grow a whole lot of Different Things on their plot. But isnt that obvious . Here beside the rain forest, where everything just grows and grows . Apart from corn, that is. Its not that it was never like that. But over the course of time, that traditional way of farming somehow got lost. People here have a very close relationship to the earth and to corn. So we have to work hard to persuade them to diversify. But the effort is paying off. The jimenez family has been harvesting their pinapples. Next will be the malanga, a potatolike root crop. And chaya tree spinach. Our favorite meal is chaya with stuffed plantain. We really love that. Before people learn to love a new food, they have to try it. Petrocinia jimenez teaches a cookery class for the women of the village, and prepares dishes with the various new plants. One dish goes down very well indeed. Cocoa beans cooked with spices and sugar, then dried on a banana leaf. Cocoa has been a traditional foodstuff here for centuries. More cacao trees are being planted to try to protect the rain forests. The name guatemala is derived from the mayan word for land of many trees. But today, two thirds of the countrys forests have been destroyed. Corn fields are taking over, and along the shores of lake izabal there are palm plantations. Palm oil has become a huge business. Things are different in santa rosa balandra. Here theyre planting new trees. And in their shade, the jimenez family is growing cacao. The strategy is called agroforestry. It involves growing crops among trees. Agroforestry systems are good for the environment, and they bring economic advantages as well. Families dont have to encroach on the forest to plant crops, and that helps protect the forest. Bees are also helping to protect the forest. Deyner jimenez is thirteen, and the youngest beekeeper in the area. But he still has time to do his schoolwork. I like these little animals and how you can work with them. I want to go to college. I can n rn money w with the be. I sell their honeyey, and that will pay for my education. But the bees only make honey if they can find enough nectar in the forest. Around santa rosa balandra, stretches of land are being reforested. And there are 95 hectares of pristine rain forest that the villagers protect from illegal logging or burning. All kinds of plants and animals live among the trees there. The forest soil also fulfils an important waterstorage function. The trees stretch down to the wetlands on the shores of lake izabal where herons live, and howler monkeysys. Are efforts to help people and to protect the environment compatible and sustainanabl . The jimenez family is just happy to be selfsufficient now. Its like a child learning to walk. It takes a few steps and falls over. Eventually it gets the hang of it. Everytything we have learned, l our effort and determination have not been in vain. We have achieved something. And in the future we shall carry on on our own. The knowledge and skills are shared throughout the community. How to plant and tend seeds and saplings, for example. People here already knows how precious the forest is. Whenever something important comes up, the 27 families of the village meet at a holy site in the forest for a ritual called mayejak, at which they call for the blessing of the spirits especially at harvest time and after planting. The families of santa rosa balandra have already done their part to make their gardens grow. Natural disasters, terror attacks, war, social unrest. Many people believe the world around them m is falling apartt the seams. And so they want to be ready for the worst. These preppers, as theyre known, are prepared for all eventualities, and selfsufficiency is at the top of their agenda. Dropouts, social critics what kind of people are they . The Survivalist Movement is going strong, particularly in the us. Its magnificent. Chris walch explains the attraction of this remote area. Its all national forest, all public landsds. Thousands s of square miles of wilderness. Walch comes from detroit. A few years ago he moved to idaho. Up here in the sparsely populated northwest of the us, he feels more secure and more independent. Walch hahas founded a nenetworo advise people who think like him. Itits called prepper for people who want to be prepared for any potential l catastroph. He says this area has defensibility. It has privacy. 200 or 300 feet of trees and your cabin is 50 feet or 500 feet up on the s side of a mountain. We meet in a remote area in the mountains were not allowed to say where. We need help to find the cabin owned by glen martin and his girlfriend jean. They produce their own electricity with solar panels. For security reasons, they dont want to show us their cache of stored food, but say its enough for several years. The outhouse i is a real challee in minus 25 degree weather. But they accept that as the price for complete independence. What if something happens, what about the next disaster or economic collapse . Or whatever. How do we take care of ourselves . We cant really count on government taking care of us. Glen and jean lead a spartan lifestyle based on selfsufficiency. Theyre nostalgic for the pioneering days when the United States was a fledgling country. Days when people turned to the family or the church for help, not the government. Weve become a society where so many people are relying on Government Programs instead of learning and getting back to taking care of themselves. I think people deserve a helping hand, and if its training they need you know,w,e need to help them up, but we dont need to carry them. Glen sasays, that ovever the course of two years, his w webse radio has grown from 50,0 listeners to a quarter of f a million each month. From Natural Medicine to gardening glen broadcasts survival information. The former interior designer is glad he now lives in idaho. Even if something should, you know, hit close to home, because of our lifestyle here ill be more likely to pass through it with less incident than most. Im a prepper, im prerepared. In a small town about 30 kilometers away, we meet warren campbell. He fled california with his family to escape what he calls the tyranny of a a leftwing welfarestate. The former pastor has opened a Survival Gear shop. One of our good sellers, or continual best seller in the store, would be our minor surgical kit. And i have a demonstration one here. This is, of course, for minor surgery but you can do surgeries with it. Warren fears a major islamist terror attack on the us. But he also hopes President Donald Trump will take drastic measures to prevent it. In the nomansland on the border between Washington State and idaho matthew is learning to chop wood survival training. The levalleys recently moved to the northwest from arizona. They too are looking for a more free, more secure life. But for them, idaho is just a stop on the joururney to alask. As you know, alaska is extremly harsh conditions. We d do not wawant to go up te unprepared. We want to have as much preparation as possible. In alaska, the levalleys want to live completely on their own in a house in the wilderness. To do that, they have to learn how to make fire, filter water, and hunt for food. Matthew is cold. Still, his parents dream of a life free from dependence on a government they say does nothing for the people. A small replica of the statue of liberty stands on the edge of lake pend oreille. For some who move here, idaho is one the few regions in the United States where they feel they can be safe. And free. And thats all from us. Dont forget you can watch us online any time. Do drop us a line at global3000 dw. Com and follow us on facebook dw global society. Bye for now 09 15 17 09 15 17 [captioning made possible by democracy now ] amy from pacifica, this is democracy now this is very tragic. It is very sad. Many of us have loved ones in assisted living facilities, and we expect that care to be there for those people. We immediately started a criminal investigation into this matter and made for everyone was evacuated. We took control of the entire building immediately thereafter. Amy a tragedy in florida. Eight elderly residents are found dead after they languished without air conditioning in sweltering conditidu