Transcripts For DW Focus On Europe - Spotlight On People 201

Transcripts For DW Focus On Europe - Spotlight On People 20180207

Begun to arrive and one record has already been broken with ninety two nations competing bouts more than ever before but the games are overshadowed by the problem of doping with the whole russian team banned and china has for many years also been suspected of engaging in systematic doping but people have been reluctant to speak out fearing tough reprisals now those who were injured in once a leading a lympics sports doctor in china has been talking to our reporters the eighty year old has recently been granted Refugee Status here in germany but still she lives in fear of the chinese authorities. At the age of eighty. Engine has had to begin a whole new life. She fled to germany a few months ago together with her son young way dong and his wife. The move from china to the shores of Lake Constance has meant a huge change for her. But even here she lives in fear of the communist regime in beijing and yet she used to be part of that regime herself. As a sports doctor she was responsible for chinas top athletes during the one nine hundred eighty s. A museum in this back during the one thousand nine hundred eighty limping games i take it wherever i go its my last momento of that time or the only one where. It was the pinnacle of her career but she was soon to fall from grace so none of our friends dared to contact us anymore and our telephone was stout the police were always outside her house. She made herself unpopular by consistently opposing the doping of athletes even when she was the head doctor for the Chinese Olympic Team at the south korea games in one nine hundred eighty eight she refused to keep quiet. Twenty years later when the games were hosted by china it was the same story she accused officials of state doping. Here in rome i got a great recognition for my work but because i actively oppose damping the state took everything away from me thats the ruthless nature of an author a tarion regime. She and her husband came under growing pressure in two thousand and seven her husband got into a fight with an official he fell and hit his head and died from his injuries. Later she herself suffered two strokes but the hospital refused to give her proper treatment that was after she appeared on western t. V. Presenting detailed journals recorded during all the years she worked as a sports doctor documenting the repercussions of doping the sheer folly oh well gymnastics championships in one thousand nine hundred five and eighty seven and the Olympic Games in one thousand eight. Hundred you know react least started coming to me because they were having Health Issues as a result of the day paying what was going to do they would tell me about their worries leaning was one of them fools lightly injured go or through. Leaning is a gymnastics legend in china at the one nine hundred eighty four olympics in los angeles he won three gold medals two silver and one bronze at the next olympics four years later he was under the care of engine. She recorded everything who are ya sure why are you a fifteenth of peppery nine hundred eighty eight that its next than a month since meaning received for testosterone injections from chen chang how they bring all food or. Other at first he felt fine but then he became increasingly thai and sugandha he suffered from dizziness and gained full kilos in weight you dont drop no food. How was juice colleague at the time later he was put in charge of the olympic team they sent out a friend she says so that he could learn how to administer performance enhancing drugs and the results were documented in scientific essays survivors germanys public broadcaster a. R. D. Put those allegations to chen directly should you or try to speak with the Chinese Olympic Committee at the ministry of sports about the doping accusations the request is met at the site thirty and twenty twelve china chinas former editor olympics doctor commented on the use of doping substances the United States the soviet union and france were all using them so we did as well. Judy engine is convinced that china is still doping its athletes continuing the program introduced in the one nine hundred eighty s. Leaning is now a millionaire sports entrepreneur in china for the two thousand and eight games he was brought in for a high wire act during the Opening Ceremony in beijing young way dong says his mother was ostracised because she refused to take part in the doping in the one nine hundred eighty s. Many of those who were athletes at that time are now themselves sports officials in china but they dont you have to ask yourself whether those athletes now regret what happened back down if not then its obvious that the next Olympic Games will also be dealt with when you go to the heart for. Judy engine is convinced she did the right thing even if her fight against doping now means a life in exile in germany. Now she was murdered by her husband because she no longer wanted to face regular beatings burgle is her name and shes one of hundreds of turkish women who are killed each year many by their husbands and other family members womens organizations blame the policies of the ruling conservative islamic a. K. P. Policy for the increase in the violence that they say has become part of womens everyday lives burgos family meanwhile have been mourning her death for months. And their pain is still very real this family is in mourning for be a good. Thirty five year old was murdered in june of twenty seventeen by her husband who had abused her for years shed been afraid to leave him there hague. Always said what will happen to my children if i leave they need a father. And if i come to stay with you it will hurt the whole family we could never have imagined that it would go as far as this her death was the only new york to be a good was married at the age of twenty after the wedding her husband regularly beat her even when she was heavily pregnant her cousin says this went on for fifteen years. One night the situation escalated dramatically her son tells us she left the house in a panic after her husband became violent dollops my father pulled a gun from the cabinet and loaded it i stood in his way and said please father dont do this dont ruin our lives me to hit me and use the weapon to push me aside and then he left the house. So to get this sort of kicked. Outside on the streets of an istanbul suburb he shot and killed his wife later he told the police that she had defended his honor. Those that. Is a lawyer representing bugles family she says violence against women is on the rise in turkey. If a man knows that he could get away with. Killing a woman or. Hurting a woman it could get away with getting a bad various laws. It just it just more to a gender based discrimination by itself past set limits to increasing off while its against all of. This video garnered a lot of attention and the Turkish Press a man hits a woman riding the bus because of her outfit which in his opinion was not modest enough such incidents are becoming increasingly common in turkey according to these women which is why theyve set up what theyre calling a womens parliament. The aim is to provide support and also to draw attention to the growing violence has to be kept coming giving them like almost every woman in turkey ive been harris to on the way to the bus all the train to this method like you guys and men who do this drill strength from the government entirely tragically tells them go ahead you have a right to do this and i was given this thing and. The organization is called a protest rally in the evening theyre angry about government plans to water down a law that offers women some protection from by alliance. Women here fear that the governing partys focus on religion will come at the cost of womens rights. Abuse cousin safety has joined the demonstration before her cousin was murdered she probably wouldnt. Have taken to the streets to make herself heard in this way. He she i wish we didnt have a reason to demonstrate i wish i didnt have to be here today but our loss is so great and the trial hasnt even begun yet here are some of the beaner to be a good husband doesnt custody but six months after the crime theres been no date set for a trial turkeys Justice System is overwhelmed her family continues to hope that justice will be served. And that justice will surely remain elusive as long as president continues to insist that equality between men and women is as he sees it against creation. Well more than fifty percent of all russians it seems believe in supernatural powers like black magic and religious miracles what appears to have happened is that magicians astrologists and fortunetellers have stepped into the huge spiritual vacuum that followed the collapse of the soviet union indeed it said that russia now has fewer doctors than faith healers going out at site has been exploring this world of superstition and mysticism. The out time mountains this is where russia borders mongolia kazakhstan and china. Its a destination for generations of pilgrims who come from miles around seeking spiritual guidance. Legend has it that this is a place to embark on a path of inner change. By the within that go right out in the locals always say that if you think out loud then your thoughts come true its important to remind yourself of that in spiritual places like these. Nice to see you start by going to those who come here call themselves modern pilgrims theyre interested in yoga healing rituals and self discovery yelena go mind your own acts as their spiritual guide she regularly leads groups of stressed city dwellers to the altai mountains you know thats what i thought that i was here a year ago. And all my wishes were fulfilled because the lady in the canyon of the she so i came to relax but also to find miracles out over. My own directs the visitors to the healing icons of the village monastery. And the confluence of the two rivers is the place to wish for a spouse. Youre gonna thought you were here when i see i think we russians in particular always on a quest for meaning and they think thats the way we are with and i remember being a small child in the soviet union and one of my relatives went to a healer that kind of thing was normal i knew the reason couple of days he needed my kitty. Weve come to a village in southwestern russia to visit the home of niger. She says women like her used to be burned at the stake nowadays doctors refer their patients to or shes known as the barber shop the village matriarch not just offers treatments with water wax and prayers but she only treats people whove been baptized. More to new year wishful what it might be can be you go you were really scared but now the fear has almost gone. Them say. Everyone comes to me rich poor even healthy people. A good school if people are afraid i can heal him he will hold a key i can help fight against the evil eye sore throats bad skin inflammation knots of things and who. The. Hundreds of kilometers away from knowledge as village is another place where people arrive from moscow and beyond hoping for miracles. When you do and i was diagnosed with cancer i want to be treated here maybe ill be cured. We need you to suck to be honest i came because i was interested in how to deal with my husbands alcohol problems. Because i think alcohol is the number one problem in russia. In the former soviet union and belief in the supernatural was widespread. Who claimed to have psychic powers conducted psychokinetic experiments in the one nine hundred sixty s. Under the watchful eye of government intelligence agencies. Shortly before the soviet union collapsed a self professed psychic named and utterly kushti atrocity appeared on t. V. To conduct mass faith healing sessions to millions throughout the soviet bloc. And the faith healer journey debbie tash really the said to have helped soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and later president Boris Yeltsin slightly nearly thirty years later countless Healing Services are now Available Online the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church considers president Vladimir Putins rise to power a miracle of god he also foresees an impending apocalypse. Its not unusual for a Police Officer to ask a priest to bless a location where numerous Car Accidents have occurred christ has become an antidote for misfortune. Sociologists point to depression anxiety and a disoriented society as an explanation for the rising belief in the supernatural. A source for part of their living will have no idea whats going to happen in the near future that will they plan their lives for one paycheck to the next of the maybe a few months at most or from somewhere different commutes to put it back in the time mountains yelena go my own insists healers are more than a rural phenomenon she says her. Clients from moscow couldnt get by without people like her. The way i think the fair thing my clients work with psychics energy therapists fortune tellers maybe a good psychologist or me young. Women are part of. This interest in the supernatural appears to be a step back into the past as a strategy to cope with an uncertain future. And were going to europes a set of snow to albania which hopes one day to join the European Union the countrys leaders warn that without the support of the e. U. Many young albanians could turn to radical islam like the more than one hundred young men from just one small area in the east of the country who travel to iraq and syria to fight for Islamic State most were recruited by a group of hate preachers trained in saudi arabia our teams spoke to one of these fanatical jihadists responsible for the radicalization. Is a village just like any other here in eastern albania but with one difference dozens of young men left this traditional Farming Community to go to syria and fight for the socalled Islamic State. This womans son abis was one of them her family blames the man who persuaded him to go. Dotsie called me from syria and told me airbus was killed by a bomb ready for dont mention his name in this house he was a criminal and a murderer. For they are a son got mixed up in this interim and they destroyed my son they were to muskets three or four days he became a fanatic. Abas went to syria in twenty twelve a local imaam named near death he persuaded him to go he recruited young men from the village to join i. A. S. Many of those men died in syria he was also killed it was in this mosque that he first preached to the young men since then many believe the mosque is cursed this man tells us the jihadists polluted islam with their propaganda you can visit there on the basis people dont come to the mosque anymore this is a large mosque with space for up to one hundred people. To do even for friday prayers the most important day only two or three people come here and you have the irish priest. All together this area around lake ohrid saw over one hundred young men leave to join Islamic State nine of the self appointed the moms who persuaded them to go are now in a high security prison in full. They were convicted of recruiting for a terrorist organization. After months of trying were finally able to speak to one of them he Still Believes he did the right thing he only has one regret. Not being quick i made a mistake back then i should have been the first to go and save our muslim sisters from being raped. But instead i was busy advising my brothers to go and save the people. That was from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen. Back then it wasnt illegal to go to syria you could get a flight directly from tarana. Diary very happy. He and eight other i. A. S. Recruiters went on trial in twenty sixteen altogether they were sentenced to one hundred and twenty six years in prison of the young albanians that they persuaded to go to syria and iraq over half are now dead or missing. At the local pub unless nitsa the subject of Islamic State is taboo the men get upset when we try to ask questions they say they have more important things to worry about. Our biggest problem is that we dont have jobs theres very much the local mayor admits the economy is a problem but he doesnt believe that was what persuaded so many to join ins. And you should get near they were good young man we were all shocked when we heard theyd gone to syria or city of course its true that the Economic Situation is very bad here but that wasnt just the case for them but for everyone who lives here. One albanian analyst who has studied this phenomenon tells us the young muslims were specifically targeted to be radicalized he says the trail leads back to saudi arabia and other countries in the region so what happened was that most of the markets in the car used to pursue their. Obviously in those cars and they can but not have been obeying an old tradition. Funny point of view but they came back with whom political. Religious ideology. For the farmers of the nation itself its had devastating consequences not only are they mourning their dead they still live in fear of the radically moms now in prison they say theyre continuing to sow hatred in albania even from behind bars. Dogs are great i love them there is one little problem though the dog dirties pavements pathways and parks it many european cities and towns but now the spanish city of malaga has introduced a scheme that uses a doggie d. N. A. Database to crack down on dog owners who dont remove their pets canine excrement is it working is the question lets find out. These dog owners have no idea that they were about to get a visit from the Police Environmental offices and carrying out a new and previously unheard of tusk to make sure all these dunks have been d. N. A. Tested. From january fifteenth theres been a fine right now were just passing on the information but next time itll be an actual fine. Before and i wont. Say terry and jackie deposited one of these on the ground how can you know who it was in parks and residential areas there are untold numbers of unpleasant surprises like this but not any longer owners who fail to scoop the paint will now face a five hundred your a fine and thats reasonable say many monica residents. And i agree with that but the fines have to be a deterrent so the owners clean up the. The fines have to be really high. That maybe t

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