We spoke to two to find out more about the hurdles they face in acclimating to their new home. Habibe from afghanistan has a secret. I cant write my first or last name. Paiman also barely knows how to read and write. I went to school for two years. Then i worked as a hairdresser, and then i was a housewife. Habibe and paiman are among the female refugees who have an especially hard time integrating into life in germany. Paiman is a 23yearold iraqi kurd. She married at 14. Now she, her husband, and their three schoolage children are living in a refugee hostel in cologne. They mainly keep to themselves. I dont have any german friends. I only know one person, from spain. Id like to make german friends, but ive never had the chance. Habibe also has little contact with germans. Shes only got to know one german woman at the refugee hostel. Weveeen iendwith her r a ar. When we haverobls or get letterfromhe authorities, she helps us. Then we make an appointment, my daughter meets her and bring
More and more people are deserting rural areas for life in cities looking for jobs, educational opportunities, and inspiration. All want a decent place to live and thats the problem. Good locations are in high demand, and prices are steep. Germanys most expensive city is munich. Apartments in the center fetch over 9200 euros a square meter. And in other countries, prices are even higher. In new york, for example, apartments can cost a whopping 11,000 a square meter. The three most expensive cities are london, at over 15,000 euros a square meter. Singapore, which is even pricier. And hong kong tops the list. Flats there can cost an astronomical 21,700 euros per square meter, which leads to harsh Living Conditions for the poor. Reporter their home is a cage seven men live in a single room in bitter poverty. They often dont have enough money for three meals a day. Mr. Leung shows us where hes been living for years. He gets about 500 euros in welfare every month nearly half of which he spe
Perfectly . By moving in shoals, fish are less likely to be eaten by predators. But are there other reasons too . And how do monarch butterflies always know to migrate to the same region in mexico every year even though theyve never been there before . Nature is full of mysteries like these. And there are so many questions still to be answered. Our reporter Jurgen Schneider visited zambias Kasanka National Park to witness the worlds greatest mammal migration. Jurgen it gets busy in october in zambias Kasanka National Park. Thats when the fruit bats arrive. The bats come from the drc, but also other colonies in zambia. They come here because this time of the year the fruits are ready theyre ripened. Mainly, theyre feeding on local masuku fruits and waterberries, but also other fruit they just have in the villages like mango and bananas any fruit they can find. Every time i see it its amazing. I mean, its funny, at the start of the bat season when the bats first started arriving, we deci
And thats where masoud aqil comes in. He was captured and tortured by socalled islamist state in syria. But he managed to escape to germany. Now he wants to use that traumatic experience to help the country that has taken him in. Masoud aqil, a kurdish refugee from syria, is an important informant in the fight against is terrorists in europe. Even germanys capital, berlin, is not safe from islamist terrorism. Last december, a terrorist murdered 12 people at a Christmas Market in the name of the Islamic State, the same organization that masoud aqil fled from. What they want to do when they do terrorist attacks in berlin, in germany in general in all europe, in syria, in my home land in kurdistan. All these attacks, their target is to make us weaker, to make us get afraid. But when we feel the opposite, when we get stronger. I think this is the inner thing to show isis they are nothing. Masoud aqil defies is by openly showing his face and revealing the information he brought with him whe
To change that, the government has sent out an army of tax inspectors to shake things up by visiting businesses unannounced. Our reporter oliver sallet went along with two of them. Reporter when night falls in athens, tina papoiti and nikos tsepenekos start their patrol through the amusement district of plaka. The two inspectors are on the lookout for tax dodgers. Their suspicions are aroused in this cocktail bar. There are no bills on the tables. Reporter it looks as if the owner is selling his drinks off the books. Good evening. We are tax fraud inspectors. Could you please give me a bill for ten cents . Reporter each bill lists how many receipts were issued that day, an important clue for the inspectors. Many guests dont ask for a bill. And with vat at 24 , the temptation is great to pocket the cash. No, thats not a bill. Just an order. Just 32 bills for the entire day . Lets have a closer look around. Reporter this is the second time the owner of this bar has been caught out. His f