Alone welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us times are already tough in lebanon food prices were rising Power Outages becoming more frequent and coronavirus case numbers climbing now the need to rebuild the countrys largest port following explosion on tuesday threatens to expose just how threadbare the countrys economy really is. A city in ruins. Its gateway to the Global Economy destroyed. Lebanon is scrambling to pick up the pieces of this weeks explosion. But long before the blast levanon to qana mewe was then a death spiral. Rampant inflation in an increasingly worthless currency plunging many lebanese into poverty hunger and despair. All now are sure to get worse. More than 250000 people have lost their homes in beirut. And countless businesses have been destroyed. And we compensate. We lost our houses all shops and a house of my grandfather. Lost my uncles wife and we took out from under the rubble is there anything bigger than this except
The summer of 1905 the war in the pacific was still raging americans were flying Bombing Missions over japan. Children took refuge in caves used as air raid shelters. On august the 9th we stayed in the bomb shelter longer than usual because wed heard of a new kind of the bomb that had just been dropped on hiroshima that. Very few on board the us bombers were aware of the weapons Destructive Force recruited to reclaim. Because federer would not feeling a martyr or want to get rid of. The thing contained plutonium rather than the uranium used in the hiroshima bomb developing it cost billions of dollars. Whats interesting about this is they had an atomic bomb. They had the hiroshima bomb but all this effort was put into the plutonium bomb so do you think all of that effort did not contribute to the use of it and nagasaki. Thats an interesting question. All these people were children back then they are the ones who are still alive and my name was even today they ask why this bomb had to be
People and their herds of reindeer. But 1st we meet the courageous women of sudan they fought hard for more rights and theyre not about to give them up. In december 28 teen protests erupted in sudan the spark was the countrys worsening economy but soon demonstrators began to demand the removal of longtime president Omar Al Bashir the women were on the front lines of the protests and for good reason for years theyve been denied fundamental human rights. Alba shares ouster open the floodgates of change sudanese women gained new freedoms and could lead more selfdetermined lives at least in the big cities. But theres still more work to be done and the brave women who are at the forefront of the revolution arent giving up. By an early is a 21 year old medical student in khartoum in late 2018 she joined the crowds in the streets protesting against the regime thats when she decided to take up thai boxing as a form of self defense. Sit him sit down then sit down is not a safe place for women a
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U. S. Business to microsoft this after the American Government threatens to ban. Im burnt off to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome here in germany its the 1st day back at school for some children and it is happening amid warnings of more and more new corona virus cases across the country today is the 1st time that schools have reopened in the country since their closure back in march when the pandemic began but a return to school is not a return to Health School used to be. Finally back where they wanted to be in the schoolyard with their own affair friends for the 1st time in 5 months these children from John Franklin Primary School and. Rust up can play together without a mask and without daring to social distancing rules. Even hugs are allowed although not recommended. And its best oh my its better now because we are allowed to sit next to each other again and we can see all our friends again where no. One is i i find it great bec