100,00 landmines are still buried there, literal seeds of general mladics crimes. While there are ongoing efforts to clear them, many people have been killed, or like ermeen, have suffered life changing injuries. Reporter participating in sports has helped ermin jusufovic resume his normal life. Hes a paralympic volleyball player. 10 years ago he stepped on a landmine and lost the lower part of his right leg. Ermin jusufovic sitting volleyball has become like a way of life for me. It not only provides an outlet for all the negative energy and thoughts, its also an opportunity for me to meet my friends. And of course it helps me stay fit, so i benefit physically, mentally, and emotionally. Reporter the club, named the sons of bosnia, was set up after the war for those maimed in the fighting or in landmine accidents. Jusufovic has been selected to play for bosniaherzegovinas National Paralympic team. His twin brother armin and the entire Family Support him. They all live together and hav
Out how this could have happened in modernday europe. The gran ghetto near italys Southern City of foggia is home to some 1500 people during harvest time. Although home is hardly the right word. The migrant labourers from africa live here in appalling conditions. They earn up to a maximum of 20 euros a day. Not enough to afford a proper place to live. Three of us sleep here. This is the kitchen where we make food. We have rice. And oil, thats it. Recently the water supply was cut off here. But the migrants stayed anyway. Partly because they arent the only ones who depend on their meagre wages. If i dont work here, whos going to feed my children in africa . Sometimes i send 200 euros home, sometimes 150. If i earn two hundred, i keep hundred and send a hundred back home. In many of southern italys plantations, its day labourers om aica who douch the work. Theyome re ithei thousands. Modernday slaves, exploited by unscrupulous farmers. In the town of nardo in apulia, a Police Video Shows
Government being installed, the country was run by a series of corrupt politicians and autocrats, including the notorious Emperor Bokassa i. Since then, there have been a series of military putsches. The last coup was in 2013. For decades, numerous warlords and rebel groups among them christians and muslims have fought over the countrys commodities, fertile meadowlands, gold, and diamonds. Thousands of people have been killed, while others have fled to neighbouring countries like chad, cameroon, and the democratic republic of congo. According to the uns refugee agency, around 545,500 people have left. And even more, 600,000 people have been internally displaced. From the air, kaga bandoro in the northern part of the Central African republic looks pretty peaceful. But what were seeing is actually a refugee camp housing around 30,000 people, some of them from the city itself. Half of those in the camp are children. Many have been badly traumatized. Like lucie vlachou. Shes 12, from a vil
Rosalind p. Walter, in memory of abby m. Oneill. Barbara hope zuckerberg. Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening, and thanks for joining us. North koreas only ally, china, lectured its neighbor in no Uncertain Terms today to stop its missile and nuclear tests. The stern warning came a day after the United Nations Security Council imposed tough new economic sanctions choking off about a third of north koreas exports. But at a regional summit of 27 Foreign Ministers in manila, Chinese Foreign minister wang yi said he told his north korean counterpart to remain calm, that more tests would only inflame the crisis. Wa
Presentday bosnia and herzegovina. Efforts to clear them have been hampered by floods and landslides shifting the locations of minefields, and by the government breaking promises on funding. Meanwhile, the mines continue to claim the lives of ordinary citizens, or, like ermin, cause them lifechanging injuries. Participating in sports has helped ermin jusufovic resume a normal life. Hes a paralympic volleyball player. 10 years ago, he stepped on a landmine, and lost the lower part of his right leg. Sitting volleyball has become like a way of life for me. It not only provides an outlet for all the negative energy and thoughts, its also an opportunity for me to meet my friends. And of course it helps me stay fit, so i benefit physically, mentally, and emotionally. The club, named the sons of bosnia, was set up after the war for those maimed in the fighting or in landmine accidents. Jusufovic has been selected to play for bosniaherzegovinas National Paralympic team. His twin brother, armin